Ericsson is one of the biggest backers of LTE, and notably sceptical about both WiMax and femtocells. ZDNet spoke to John Cunliffe, Ericsson’s chief technology officer for the UK.
Q: LTE is the main thing we should talk about. We are now being told that it has fought off the challenge from mobile WiMax — unless […]
Continue...I heard of this via our friend Steve Epstein and this sounds like a pretty clever way to bring green values into daily life, and using location-based info of the phone. The idea is that this new service, Carbon Diem,…
Continue...D-Link, primarily known as a consumer WiFi vendor, is also the developer of the VoiceCenter phone system, a VoIP solution. Today D-Link announced a partnership with Cbeyond, a voice and broadband Internet provider to serve small businesses with IP voice solutions.
The D-Link VoiceCenter is suited for small businesses requiring up to 50 phones. Their […]
A recent decision by India’s Department of Telecommunications to allocate and auction WiMAX spectrum at 2.3 and 2.5 GHz, will enable India to connect over one billion new customers, proclaimed WiMAX Forum president Ron Resnick this week.
The WiMAX Forum today highlighted activity in the burgeoning Indian market. They project the Indian WiMAX market, including devices, […]
This post is a question, rather than an opinion.There seem to be two clear trends:- An increasing % of PCs will have 3G radios, either with internal modules or external dongles- A small number of PCs now have integral WiMAX and there are also dongles e…
Continue...Less than one month ago, a 16GB iPhone was sent to me for development purposes. We have some clients interested in porting their web applications to iPhone devices so I needed the Apple device to test applications.
After one month testing I can say that I’m totally disappointed with the iPhone as mobile device and today I’ve turned back to my Nokia N95.
Continue...Engadget and Gizmodo cover today’s Apple MacBook Event.
A redesigned MacBook and MacBook Pro are all but assured, says C/Net, but there are likely to be some other surprises too. Will Apple opt for Nvidia chipsets? Will there finally be a Mac sold for less than $1,000? Stay tuned.
The new MacBook Pros feature two graphic […]
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4th International FOKUS IMS Workshop 2008
“Challenges and Opportunities in a Converged Services World -
an Update on IMS, IPTV, SDPs, SOA and Web X.0″
Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Berlin, Germany, November 6-7, 2008
About this Year’s Event
The many questions around IMS are no doubt primarily based on the inherent complexity of a converging network world, the emerging role of open service delivery platforms and the uncertainty about future business models and value chains.
Therefore we want to discuss at our upcoming IMS event the following questions:
• what has operators family driven to deploy IMS regardless the many uncertainties about the business case;
• how many standards and to which extend must an IMS system support, and how these are exploited for emerging Triple Play and IPTV service offers;
• how does an IMS integrate with service delivery platforms and how will such an environment be controlled and managed and most importantly how does IMS relate to SOA and Web 2.0 principles; and finally
• what are the future directions in IMS developments and what role will IMS as standard NGN and related open testbeds play in face of the future internet research activities?
Based on the many positive comments about the last events, we want to maintain the basic size and structure of this event to maintain the appreciated “open family atmosphere” and stimulate the discussions among the participants.
On Thursday morning two parallel tutorials about the IMS Basics and Standards as well the Open Source IMS Core System will enable newcomers to the topic and our family to get up to speed and prepared for the remaining workshop.
Thursday afternoon we have four parallel interactive workshops, which will feature stimulus presentations and then allow the participants to present their ideas and to start a vivid discussion about the specific subject matters.
Again we will prepare an interesting evening event which allows continuing the potentially hot debates of the afternoon in a more relaxed atmosphere.
The following conference day (Friday) will address the workshop topics from an industry perspective, where mainly operators are presenting their views in presentations, and vendors will add their views in corresponding session panels.
Alongside the workshops and the conference we will have again a vendor exhibition showing the state of the art of IMS technology and applications, as well as now service demonstrations from the FOKUS Playground, such as converged media applications as well as Telco-enriched Web 2.0 applications.
Link: www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ims-event
Contact: ims-event@fokus.fraunhofer.de
Quantenna, a Silicon Valley startup announced the world’s first fully integrated 802.11n chipsets with 4×4 MIMO and transmit (Tx) beamforming. It’s designed to deliver guaranteed wireless bandwidth within homes.
Quantenna says they uniquely combine a 4×4 radio transceiver/antenna, concurrent dual band mode, mesh networking and transmit (Tx) beamforming – in a single chipset.
“Our unique […]
Sprint’s 4G Xohm WiMax: How fast is it?: To see just what WiMax is, how it works and what it’s actually capable of, I went to Baltimore, the first U.S. city to offer WiMax service commercially, to try it out. Called Xohm, the new network is a joint venture of Sprint and Clearwire. So far, Xohm has spent about $3.2 billion to develop, test and roll out WiMax in a few places, according to Sprint CEO Dan Hesse. “It’s just the start. Another $5 billion will be required to create a national network,” he explains. Google, Intel and several cable companies have invested an additional $3 billion in the project.
Continue...Officials for Tyco Electronics M/A-COM last week told New York’s statewide wireless network advisory council that the company has remedied 17 of the 19 deficiencies identified by the state in the first phase of the network, a situation that has put the vendor’s $2 billion contract in jeopardy, reports Urgent Communications.
“We are very pleased […]
Continue...none other than our own Wireless Broadband Book. Many thanks to IEEE Communications Society for giving us the honor. They are also offering 25% discount (best available thus far) on the book.
Continue...HTC May Be Bringing Out Its First Smartphone with WiMAX: Sprint’s XOHM service is starting to roll out, but so far this WiMAX service is only usable with laptops and other PCs. Many are wondering where the WiMAX-enabled smartphones are. According to several sources online, HTC is working on just the sort of thing these people are looking for: a Windows Mobile device with this 4G service.
Continue...TELUS jumping on the high-speed data bus; 2010 launch: High-speed hungry Canadians will soon have a new option when seeking out a wireless carrier. This morning, TELUS officially announced its plans to get rolling on an HSPA network with a target launch sometime in early 2010 with a full-on 4G network to follow. That’s right people, our pals north of the border will probably be feasting on 4G data ar while we’re still angry that all the iPhone 3Gs out there are dropping throughput to EDGE-like speeds.
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