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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The US, UK and Canada have announced today that they will not be signing the ITU’s Internet Treaty in its current form. According to the BBC, the US said signing such a treaty would allow for government regulation of the Internet. "It's with a heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunities that the US must communicate that it's not able to sign the agreement in the current form," explained the US Ambassador to the World...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online At the beginning of the month, ambassadors from the United Nations headed to Dubai for the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). This conference has been taking place since December 3 and will continue on till December 14. Here, these ambassadors and representatives to the nations will be discussing the future of the Internet: Who pays for it, how it should be connected, and perhaps most importantly,...
Enid Burns for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Ahead of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)'s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this December, the U.S. is bracing for a call to revise internet treaties to spread control to nations other than the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to support ITU, unanimously voting (414-0) that the "Internet doesn't need new international regulations," according to a report by PC World....
PISCATAWAY, N.J., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Helping to define industry standards that shape today's communications technology development has been a hallmark of Applied Communication Sciences dating back to its days as part of Telcordia and -- before that -- Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Two recent standards-related announcements from ATIS and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) once again highlight the company's involvement and leadership in influencing the...
HONG KONG, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile Asia Congress -- The GSMA's Mobile Energy Efficiency Benchmarking methodology has been recognised in a global standard by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The GSMA's methodology, which benchmarks the energy efficiency of mobile networks, is included in the ITU's standard ITU-T L.1410 'Methodology for Environmental Impact Assessment of ICT Goods, Networks and Services'. The GSMA developed its methodology as part of the Mobile...
Seven products have now passed the new Broadband Forum G-PON ONU Certification Program and achieved full Certification, speeding the arrival of superfast broadband on a global scale News Highlights: -- Seven products from seven vendors have achieved certification against the Broadband Forum's G-PON ONU Certification Program, with more expected shortly -- Enrollment in the certification program is now open(1) to G-PON ONU products with Ethernet interfaces and is based on the Broadband...
SUZHOU, China, July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Centec Networks, a leading innovator of carrier-grade IP/Ethernet switching silicon and advanced ODM/OEM system solutions, today announced the industry leading hardware based MPLS-TP OAM solution, supporting both BFD extension for MPLS-TP and GACH + Y.1731 (ITU-T G.8113.1 or IEFT BHH draft) standards. The solution enables telecommunication equipment vendors to build standard based MPLS-TP systems that are compatible to both IETF and ITU-T...
LOS ANGELES, June 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MEL today announced an appointment of its chief marketing officer (CMO), Dr. Donald P. Yu, a former top executive at the Hanjin Information System and Telecommunication in Korea and now doing research at the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California at Irvine as a visiting scholar. "Dr. Yu comes with a broad-based experience in computer communications with senior management positions with various...
MUNICH and NEUBIBERG, Germany, Jan. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lantiq, a leading supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, today introduced a chip family supporting the ITU-T G.hn global standard for next generation wired home networks. Lantiq XWAY(TM) HNX devices provide manufacturers of consumer, computing and smart home electronics with the foundation for in-home networks that can be connected using any combination of phone, power and cable wiring. (Logo:...
ESPOO, Finland, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Remember dial-up? How did you spend your time waiting for old-fashioned modem-based Internet connections to download content? That is how today's Internet connections will appear, when you switch to next-generation PON solution (passive optical networking). Users can share high-definition videos in a fraction of the time. In fact, SARDANA will offer more capacity to a single user than many companies are using today. The European Union funded...
