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ETSI has published the first Technical Specification (TS 102 939-1) on DECT ULE (Ultra Low Energy), a low power consumption radio technology intended for home automation and other Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. Sophia Antipolis, France (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 DECT ULE is based on the very popular and highly successful Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT™) standard, which was developed by ETSI. The main characteristics of DECT ULE are ultra low power consumption, good...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google has just announced they’ll be shining their Gigabit glow on Shawnee, Kansas as they bring Fiber to another town just outside of Kansas City. Shawnee is the fifth city in Johnson county to be promised Google Fiber and now joins eight other cities awaiting Fiber to be laid and run into their homes. According to the Kansas City Star, the Shawnee city council announced a special meeting Thursday evening to “consider an...
Thousands are eligible for company's new high-speed fiber network pilot OMAHA, Neb., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) today announced it is connecting 48,000 Omaha homes and businesses with its new high-speed fiber network pilot that will deliver Internet speeds of up to one Gigabit per second (Gbps) - 100 times faster than average broadband speeds. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090602/DA26511LOGO) CenturyLink is upgrading its existing fiber...
DUBLIN, Ireland, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "FTTH/B European Panorama - Focus on FTTx in the UK" [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/nbssd7/ftthb_european ] report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 ) This insight provides a complete summary of the status of FTTH/B rollouts in the EU-39 region with a characterisation of each project by: Organisation...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Traffic on the highways in Japan often moves along at a snail’s pace most of the day and is total gridlock at rush hour. However, the country does know a thing or two about moving along at high speeds. Japan’s Skinkansen – or bullet train – remains one of the fastest in the world and last year the island nation’s Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) unveiled a prototype of what promises to deliver even faster train service to...
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Entone, Inc., a leading provider of Hybrid TV and Connected Home solutions, today announced that United Services, Inc., a subsidiary of United Electric Cooperative (UECI), has selected its FusionTV solutions to power the delivery of advanced video services under its "United Fiber" brand. United Electric Cooperative is building a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in rural Missouri, offering access to one of the most advanced...
SECAUCUS, N.J., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America today introduced three new DECT 6.0 Plus telephone models for the 2013 lineup of consumer telephones. Designed for ease-of-use, the KX-TG684x , KX-TG787x and KX-TG422x series of models offer an array of new features including enhanced Link2Cell® functions, simplified handset and base layouts, noise reduction capabilities, advanced answering machine options and a USB port for charging...
STOCKHOLM, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Affarsverken, a utility company in southern Sweden operating several City networks, is now expanding the use of their BECS Network Management System to include even ADSL customers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120906/559389 ) Affarsverken recently acquired Karlskrona Nat, an ADSL network with 2500 connections. Affarsverken has incorporated Karlskrona Nat in the existing PacketFront Software's BECS system...
LONDON, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Andorra Telecom, SFR, Eircom, KPN Netherlands, Telefonica Europe, CYTA, OTE and Deutsche Telekom to headline the operator-led speaker line-up in Berlin The FTTx Summit Europe is set to explore the advances in deployment and implementation of fibre networks throughout the EMEA region. The issue of ensuring maximum customer take-rate has never been more important as the FTTx market becomes fiercely competitive....
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Americans have never been known to turn down anything claiming to be fast. This is, after all, the land of fast food, fast cars and Amazon next-day shipping. Though this is a commonly understood trait of the American people, one Time Warner Cable executive doesn’t believe their customers really want the super-fast connection speeds of Gigabit fiber. During a Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, Irene Esteves, Time Warner’s...
