Tag: Modern Media

March 31, 2017

With predictions of billions of new devices that will have wireless connectivity over the coming years, the “Internet of Things” is expected to have a major influence on multiple verticals and consumers’ everyday lives. And it turns out that already, […]

March 31, 2017

Ethernet has dominated wired computer-networking technology for decades, evidenced by its wide adoption in office, business, data-center, and home applications. Only more recently, though, has industry discovered the benefits of Ethernet. The industrial arena uses include factory automation, process control, […]

March 30, 2017

Google Capital is joining private equity firm TPG Capital in the buyout of Texas cable operator Grande Communications and RCN Telecom Services. RCN operates cable and fiber networks in major metro areas including New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and […]

March 30, 2017

The Verizon Wireless homepage on Monday was dedicated to a countdown timer, which, at 10:30 a.m. Central Standard Time, gave way to the headline: “50% faster peak speeds. More than 450 cities. Coast to coast. Introducing Verizon LTE Advanced, the […]

March 30, 2017

For more than 40 years Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) has helped various industries to monitor and manage their industrial applications and processes, helping to boost the efficiency of operations and reduce costs. Yet with technological advances expanding the […]

March 29, 2017

A smart building is any structure that uses automated processes to automatically control the building’s operations including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security and other systems. A smart building uses sensors, actuators and micro-chips, in order to collect data and […]

March 29, 2017

Verizon Communications has become well versed in the ongoing telecom revolution across its wireless and wireline operations. While talk of its move towards “5G” is hot on the wireless side, the company’s move away from copper and towards fiber on […]

March 29, 2017

Sometimes wider market forces have a greater effect than purely technical or cost developments. Rich Lee, CEO of iPosi, believes we are about to witness the dawn of a new era, driven by the wider and larger needs of smartphones […]

March 29, 2017

The global aviation industry is growing rapidly. Traffic volumes have increased by around 6% per year for many years, which equates to a doubling of traffic every 12 years. New airlines; cheaper tickets; improved passenger experiences both on and off […]

March 28, 2017

Invented by Ericsson in the early 1990s and initially standardized in 1999, most people associate Bluetooth with connectivity between a handset and an earpiece or mobile speaker. But Bluetooth, which operates in the 2.4 GHz band using frequency hopping spread […]

March 28, 2017

If you live on the wrong side of the tracks, you may also be on the wrong side of the “mobile divide,” where poor cell phone service may limit your economic opportunities. Cornell researchers have mapped cell-phone signal strength across […]

March 27, 2017

The search for commercial 5G use cases was some sort of a catchphrase at this week’s 5G World conference in London. 5G promises a sea of change in the area of network architecture and connected services but well-defined use cases, […]

March 27, 2017

In today’s market, physically constructing a network is an ongoing effort. We have passed though wire, cable, microware, fiber optic, and wireless transmission facilities. The change from creating hardware and writing software has changed to writing software and producing hardware […]

March 27, 2017

IP phones are important components in unified communications deployments, so optimizing their provisioning and management is critical. In that context, an organization must clearly understand the distinction between the two. IP phone provisioning certainly isn’t rocket science. Using Dynamic Host […]

March 27, 2017

The telecoms industry has always been open to innovation and new ideas. The industry spends money and resources, encouraging incubators and innovators to develop new ideas in digital innovation. This innovation has seen incredible leaps forward since the advent of […]

March 24, 2017

Windstream filed a cable TV franchise agreement with the North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State to bring its Kinetic IPTV television service to over 50,000 homes, challenging cable MSO Charter Communications in 13 of the state’s communities. Offering TV is […]

March 24, 2017

Meeting in person with just one individual can be expensive and time consuming, and even more so when you are trying to get a whole room full of people together to discuss something important. Instead of factoring in commutes and […]

March 24, 2017

The bit error ratio (BER) is defined as the probability that a bit is received in error when, between transmission and reception, one or more bits are changed (e.g., a binary 0 is transmitted and a binary 1 is received). […]

March 23, 2017

Back in June of this year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ran a story about Sprint’s use of “sidewalk utility poles” as a core element of their efforts to improve the Sprint network while reducing ongoing network operating expenditures. The […]

March 23, 2017

Two test-focused companies are expanding their “Internet of Things” portfolios with IoT acquisitions, although each has a different focus. MTS is buying PCB Group, a sensor production company, for $580 million. MTS plans to combine PCB with its own sensors business with an […]