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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mushroom Networks, Inc., innovators of Broadband Bonding(TM) technology, announced today that New York-based real estate broker Houlihan Lawrence has implemented Mushroom Networks' Truffle appliances to interconnect its 25 branch offices and corporate headquarters. Since it began using Truffle, Houlihan Lawrence has cut its telecom costs in half and its wide area network (WAN) speeds are about 75 times faster than before. The broker also has...
KENT, England and SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VeloComms Limited has signed an agreement with Mushroom Networks Inc., to bring its Broadband Bonding solutions to the United Kingdom (UK). These solutions will enable VeloComms customers to enjoy high-speed connectivity to the Internet and between branch offices at a fraction of the cost of 'traditional' leased lines. Payback can be as little as six months. "By bonding between 2 and 12 broadband connections together, high...
New LB-600B, LBX2600 and LBX5500 models address current and future market needs for business continuity and bandwidth management. Montreal, Quebec (PRWEB) February 18, 2013 Elfiq Networks has announced the release of the company’s three new models, the LB-600b, designed for the SMB market, the LBX2600, designed for medium to large organizations, and the LBX5500, designed for global organizations and large datacenters. The Elfiq LB-600B Link Balancer is an attractive option for the small...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Telecom operators' investments in network coverage expansion, along with intense domestic competition resulting in lower prices and bundled service offerings, have lent momentum to the broadband services market in Latin America. The stable political and economic environment, as well as the low penetration of broadband signifies added potential for broadband service adoption in the region. New analysis from Frost &...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Whilst many commercials feature the all too subtle disclaimer, “actual results may vary,” when it comes to advertised broadband speeds consumers are getting what was promised and sometimes more. Moreover, as consumers migrate to faster speeds, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are continuing to deliver the speeds they advertise. According to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) newly published “Measuring Broadband...
CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Exede Satellite Internet service from ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) became the first satellite provider ever to be included in the annual Federal Communications Commission (FCC) benchmarking study of broadband speeds, and it debuted in the top spot for exceeding advertised speeds. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091216/VIASATLOGO) Today, the FCC released the 2013 Measuring Broadband America: A Report on Consumer Wireline...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Communications Commission on Friday (Feb. 15) issued the results of its "Measuring Broadband America February 2013" broadband speed and reliability testing for residential broadband service. This is the third broadband report issued by the FCC in conjunction with SamKnows, an independent company that tests broadband performance. The study, based on tests conducted last September, measured the speed and performance of 14 of the...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Americans continue to complain about the quality of roads and highways and according to the Report Card for America’s Infrastructure pertaining to the automotive superhighway rated D- in 2009, the most recent report on public opinion on that aspect of American infrastructure. Opinion for the information superhighway however scored much higher according to a new report by a Washington D.C.-based think tank, which found the broadband...
Fibre Broadband access in South Africa is expected to grow at an unprecedented rate in South Africa over 2013. CipherWave, a niche specialist IT company based in Midrand, South Africa, is introducing Fibre Broadband connectivity to the premises (FTTP) with the lowest contentions and prices currently available on the local market. (PRWEB) February 11, 2013 Complete virtualisation is at the top of the agenda for many CIOs and IT Executives in 2013. Cloud computing is set to quadruple from...
HOD HASHARON, Israel, February 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Allot Communications Ltd. [http://www.allot.com ] (NASDAQ, TASE: ALLT), a leading supplier of service optimization and revenue generation solutions for fixed and mobile broadband service providers worldwide, announced today that it has been awarded an approximately $6 million project from a Tier 1 operator which will be implemented in phases over several years. The project is based on Allot Service Gateway Parental...
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Image Caption: Schematic showing how DSL works. Credit: Jhbdel/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) The term DSL or ADSL (a higher speed connection) is the technology of delivering an Internet connection over wires using a local telephone network. A filter is used to block high frequency interference, enabling the user to have access to the Internet as well as use of the phone simultaneously. The rate of data transfer usually ranges from 256 kbps to 40 Mbps downstream (to the customer) and the data...
Image Caption: Phone connector with female socket, used for dial-up Internet access. Credit: Shaddack/Wikipedia Dial-up access is a connection to the Internet using telephone company lines to connect to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The user connects to an internal or external modem that decodes the data and displays it onto the computer, laptop, or similar device. Often this choice of connection is used where other forms of connections are not available, such as in remote or...
Image Caption: Three 155 Mbps dishes on top of the Oil & Gas Commerce Building, Fort Worth TX. Credit: RockyDallas/Wikipedia Wireless broadband is a technology that gives users a high speed internet connection or a connection to a computer network covering a wide area without the use of a wired connection. Broadband is instant access to the Internet or a network at data rates greater than 1.5 Mbps. Originally wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) could only be accessed in...
An internet service provider or ISP is an organization or company that provides access to the internet through copper wires, phone lines, wireless, or fiber-optic cables. There are two types of ISPs, hosting and transit. The hosting ISP is like a co-location center where it will lease server space to people and smaller businesses. The transit ISP provides a large amount of bandwidth to connect hosting ISPs to access ISPs. The ISP can be community owned providing the service as non-profit...
