Tag: mobile
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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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Telecom Carriers Discuss Innovation Needs With Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs
Everyone is aware of the carriers' dilemma: To meet the exponential growth in data traffic, mobile carriers must spend ever more money to finance the build out of their wireless networks (both access and backhaul). Yet this spending and plant upgrade must be done while carrier data revenues are growing much more slowly (estimated at…
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Viodi View – 08/18/10
Next Sponsorship Opportunity with WSTA Fall Conference With school starting (in some cases having already started), summer feels like it is over. The tradition of Labor Day marking the end of summer has gone by the wayside in most places, with the school year being the mark against which I measure. August has become the…
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Conundrum Continues: Mobile video drives mobile traffic but for how long?
Overview With the success of smart phones, tablet PCs and game players, video continues to be the dominant form of mobile data traffic on wireless networks. Cisco Systems predicts that mobile video will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 131% between 2009 and 2014. Yet we constantly hear and read user complaints about poor video quality, stalling/…
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Wireless Network Nearly Maxed Out-More spectrum the answer?
That was the title of a terrific San Jose Mercury News article, Sunday June 27th by columnist Chris O'Brien. The online version title is: We're not ready for the mobile revolution O'Brien writes, "We are reaching capacity on our wireless networks. The gadgets we use have caused such a dramatic surge in mobile data that…
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IEEE ComSocSCV Workshop on Mobile Apps, 6/24/10
June 24 Workshop on Mobile Apps, Microsoft Campus in Mt View, CA IEEE ComSocSCV and TiE-SV Wireless SIG have recruited many top notch speakers, moderators and panelists for this very timely workshop: "New Platforms and Infrastructure for Mobile Apps" to be held on June 24, 2010 from 3:30- 9:00 p.m. at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain…