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The Whacky World of Wireless Leads to Antenna-Gate

Posted Friday, July 30, 2010 9:48 AM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
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By now, we are sure you are well aware of the challenges that Apple has experienced with their new iPhone 4 and the issues with the antenna. (If you've been living under a rock these past few weeks, you can catch up here .) This is not about whether Read More...

Top Security Breaches of 2010 (so far)

Posted Friday, July 30, 2010 9:39 AM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
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It just never ceases to amaze us how many security breaches that occur. (You can always get a data loss list or a chronological list on line.) If we just look at what has occurred so far just this year, it has already been far from quiet. This list of Read More...

IEEE approves 40/100Gbps standard

Posted Monday, June 21, 2010 8:01 PM by msteinberg :: 1 Comments
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With businesses and carriers discovering the benefits of MetroEthernet solutions, it was on the radar to update the standards to enable Gigabit Ethernet throughput beyond the current 10Gbps standards. We report in our May Newsletter that 40/100 Gbps Ethernet Read More...

The Future of VOD?

Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:25 PM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
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What might Video on Demand be like in the not too distant future? Perhaps this will provide some insight if you are curious. Read More...

Will the FCC succeed in regulating broadband?

Posted Thursday, May 06, 2010 6:07 AM by msteinberg :: 1 Comments
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With the release of our May newsletter , there are new reports that the Chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski, will announce today (May 6th) an attempt by the Commission to reverse a court ruling in favor of Comcast and restore a "free and open Read More...

Google's Broadband Plans are 100 times faster

Posted Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:23 PM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
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Google announced on its blog today that it plans to build out a series of experimental high-speed networks in select locations that will provide connectivity at speeds 100 times faster than today's typical user connectivity. This rapidly hit the blogsphere Read More...

WiMAX 2.0 is coming

Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 9:01 AM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
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For those that have been waiting patiently for ISP Clearwire to roll out WiMAX , aka 802.16e to your neighborhood, you may want to wait a tad longer. It looks like there is an upgrade about to be approved by the IEEE this year, with product trials in Read More...

The Future of Mobile Computing

Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:39 AM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
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There was a fascinating article in Business Week on how the battle between Apple and Google is shaping up. Here are two companies that together have won the hearts and minds of users in recent years. They have recently imitated each other, and were so Read More...

Cox ends a successful LTE Trial

Posted Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:09 PM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Cox Communications has announced that it has successfully completed another 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial in the Phoenix and San Diego areas. The tests were focused on delivering Read More...

Are the rules of Net Neutrality about to be rewritten?

Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 9:05 PM by msteinberg :: 1 Comments
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In a recent Washington Post article , that suggests we may be at a critical turning point with regard to just how far we may see the FCC extend its reach in to the often contentious net neutrality debate. This stems from a hearing by an appeals court Read More...

tHAWT Episode #173: Net neutrality rules

Posted Saturday, October 03, 2009 3:43 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT), Dave and I made sure we would not lose one side of the conversation by having our discussion in the conference room. That wasn't the main reason but it makes for a good opening :-) So Read More...

tHAWT Episode #172: Provider bridging

Posted Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:56 AM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this week's episode, Dave keeps up his stellar solo effort. In addition to covering a number of new items identified below, he continues the theme he started last week on carrier Ethernet and raps up this week with a podsnack on provider bridging. Read More...

tHAWT Episode #171: Carrier Ethernet

Posted Sunday, September 13, 2009 4:45 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT) Dave is running solo. As usual he covers a number of the items within the telecom world that have caught our collective eye and are tagged on Delicious. This week we are also continuing with Read More...

tHAWT Episode #170: Wireless evolution requires handset evolution

Posted Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:50 AM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT), Dave and Mark are your hosts. The items they discuss at the start of the episode are linked below. These items seem to have a wireless theme. We have been talking about the evolution to 4G Read More...

tHAWT Episode #169: Long term evolution

Posted Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:58 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In case you haven't noticed, we are combining our tHAWT episodes and podsnacks, trying to add a little extra to the news each week. For this week's episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT), Mark takes us through some of the news Read More...
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