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The Ethernet Alliance announced the formation of the Small Form Factor Pluggable Module/Electronic Dispersion Compensation (SFP+/EDC) subcommittee, formerly known as the 10GBASE-LRM subcommittee. The mission of the SFP+/EDC subcommittee is to promote 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) by providing information and education on the new SFP+ form factor and associated...

Rohde & Schwarz UK has provided Brunel University’s Wireless Network & Communications Group (WNCG) with a 40 GHz R&S®ZVA vector network analyzer, a 6 GHz vector signal generator, and a 6 GHz spectrum analyzer to start important work on mesh network applications in accordance with IEEE 802.15.3 Task Group...

Astrium Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS Astrium, has opened a new teleport in Toulouse, thereby adding a satellite infrastructure network in France to the existing networks the company already has in the United Kingdom and Germany. With the new teleport, the company can now offer its government...

NATS, the UK’s leading provider of air traffic services, has awarded Indra a contract worth € 67 million, whereby the two companies will work together on a complex and technically demanding project to build the next generation of flight data processing equipment. The project is designed to operate within...

Whether or not the business case is attractive for prospective WiMAX operators is dependent on a number of different factors. These include: the amount of spectrum available; the spectrum frequency on offer; cost of end-user devices; interconnect fees with other operators; broadband penetration levels; and scope for network sharing....

Broadband use in Latin America is one of the lowest in the world. According to Yankee Group's Latin America Consumer Market Adoption Monitor & Forecast, only 3.3% of the general Latin American population has a broadband connection. This lack of connectivity is drawing more attention from governments, non-governmental organizations...

If the multitudes bidding billions of dollars in the ongoing FCC spectrum auction don’t provide enough evidence that 700 MHz spectrum is a coveted commodity, the WiMAX Forum has emphasized the point with high priority plans to develop a 700 MHz specification/certification road map. The Forum, which in the...

Digital commerce specialist Valista wanted to know what people were talking about during the first day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, so it did a little “snap poll” of about 100 delegates. The answers it got were surprising. Eighteen percent of respondents suggested the biggest buzz would...

It has always been highly likely that Sprint and Clearwire would return to the altar after breaking off their engagement last fall. It now that seems set to happen sooner rather than later, as Sprint’s new CEO Dan Hesse looks for quick action to revive some confidence in his...

There is little doubt that the prospect of Mobile WiMAX providing an alternative mobile broadband platform to those of the 3GPP and 3GPP2 has accelerated the competitive development of LTE. LTE and Mobile WiMAX may be technologically quite similar, indeed many vendors support both platforms, but there remain deep-seated...