UM gets only US lab for WiMAX next generation wireless apps May 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The University of Maryland will be the home to North America's first, and the world's second, laboratory endorsed by the WiMAX Forum and dedicated to creating applications for WiMAX, a next generation technology for Web and ... | |
High-definition television to go April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
New video compression technology and transmission/reception equipment means Europe is ready for commercially deploying multi-channel HDTV over terrestrial, satellite, cable or IPTV digital links. | |
Get mobile, get promoted April 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Without that five minutes chat by the watercooler, the open-ended lunch break, or a boss's beckoning door, homeworkers can often feel isolated from colleagues and the opportunities for informal networking and mentoring that ... | |
![]() Tourist information wherever you are April 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Would you like instant access to information on the buildings and scenery you see on your travels? A novel mobile phone programme, able to provide information on what you see when you see it, was a regional ... | |
![]() Hook Your Car Up to the Internet March 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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If the thought of a long road trip without full Internet access makes you jittery, a new in-car Internet connection could fulfill your high-speed needs. | |
NTT DoCoMo Achieves 250Mbps Downlink in Super 3G Field Experiment March 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has recorded a downlink transmission rate of 250Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test of an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications. | |
Motorola Introduces Industry’s First Tri-Radio 802.11n Access Point March 12, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Motorola, Inc. today announced its AP-7131, the industry’s first tri-radio 802.11n access point (AP) featuring Motorola’s new adaptive AP architecture. The unique tri-radio design integrates three 802.11n radios that simultaneously ... | |
![]() Swiss researchers test high-speed WLAN network March 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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According to the communication theory, only a limited amount of data can be transmitted within a given bandwidth for wireless communication. Ever since these limits were revealed 60 years ago, we have been ... | |
Wireless networks that build themselves March 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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From traffic lights to mobile phones, small computers are all around us. Enabling these ‘embedded systems’ to create wireless communications networks automatically will have profound effects in areas from emergency management ... | |
Ubiquitous broadband, more than optical illusion February 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Better access to ultra-fast broadband networks in Europe is driving development of a host of new web services, promising everything from video conferencing to internet protocol (IP) television. But “ultra-broadband” like ... | |
Alcatel-Lucent, Samsung debut first solution for seamless WiMAX-GSM/EDGE dual-mode services February 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Today Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung unveiled at Mobile World Congress an optimized device-plus-infrastructure solution that will enable end-users to have seamless access to their voice and data services when switching between ... | |
WLAN leads the way February 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Wireless radio networks not only provide convenient access to the Internet; they also help pedestrians to reliably navigate through narrow city streets or buildings. Fraunhofer researchers and partners are currently demonstrating ... | |
Separate signals through optical fibres for ultrafast home network January 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Dutch-sponsored researcher Christos Tsekrekos has investigated how a small network for at home or in a company can function optimally. His research analyses the MGDM technique (Mode Group Diversity Multiplexing) of the Eindhoven ... | |
Optical fibre: secure in all the chaos January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Secure messages hidden in chaotic waveforms, transmitted at up to 10 gigabits per second, is the vision behind a group of dedicated European researchers. Now they are prototyping the equipment that could make the vision a ... | |
![]() The leading 'edge': plastic fibre slashes network costs January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf ... | |
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