Category: Wireless
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Highlights of Sprint Developers Conference: Oct 26-28, 2010 Santa Clara, CA
Disclaimer: Unlike all other Viodi View articles, this one will refrain from the analysis, insight, inferences and comments that this author is noted for. Instead, that content is being provided exclusively on the IEEE ComSocSCV Discussion mail list. Instructions for IEEE members to join are at the bottom of www.comsocscv.org. We will not offer opinions here or…
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Motion Pictures at 4G World
The last half of the 1800s brought pictures "to life" with the zoopraxiscope, kinetoscope, and the vitascope. These were the early days of moving pictures and Cinematographe. The "Wheel of Life" Zoopraxiscope PD Image from Wikipedia – view synchronization by Roger Although simple and presumably unrelated, the photo flip book below made me realize how…
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Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Equipment Predicted to Spike in 2010 and Continue Growing (Infonetics and ABI Research)
Introduction: Mobile backhaul refers to the link(s) between the base station and the network carrier point of presence (POP). This can include a variety of Radio Access Networks (RANs), microwave, fiber or even bonded copper subnetworks. With bandwidth increasing exponentially to support many more mobile users and mobile broadband apps, the need for carriers to…
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The Tablet and Smart Phone as an Input Screen and as a Product Finder
M2M could be a big driver for LTE networks, as shown in Alan Weissberger's latest article and as evidenced by a conversation I had with one network provider last week at CTIA . Although I never made it to the CTIA showfloor, I did see some interesting exhibits at a pre-CTIA press event. Two items…
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Exponential Growth in M2M Market Dependent on Important Network Enhancements
Introduction IEEE ComSocSCV and NATEA held a very successful workshop on M2M and Smart Grids at SCU on Sept 25th. Attendees heard presentations about standards for Smart Devices, open M2M platforms from AT&T and Sprint, and mitigating noise in the "connected home" network (the new end point of residential M2M connections that extends beyond "the last mile"). …
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Still No Nationwide Public Safety Network- Why Not Use LTE To Build One?
The NY TImes [1] has called attention to the lack of a U.S. public safety network, nine years after 9/11 and despite $7 billion in federal grants and other spending over the last seven years to improve the ability of public safety departments to communicate with one another. The article states that many of the…