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Delivering High-Speed Wireless Commercial Services With Canopy Cable

Wireless commercial services present tremendous opportunities for cable operators to increase revenues while building long-term bonds with business customers. Cable operators often face the fundamental challenge of offering broadband services to commercial customers when plant construction costs make the Return-On-Investment ROI unattractive. Construction costs to access the potential customer across...

Tags: Broadband Service, Cable Company, Canopy Cable, Cable, Roi/Tco, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Networking

White papers 2008-12-16

A Review of Spectrum Requirements for Mobile WiMAX Equipment to Support Wireless Personal Broadband Services

Wireless Personal Broadband provides a new category of services that are enabled by the availability of affordable broadband connectivity at home, at work and on the go. Today, fueled by the widespread adoption of affordable broadband connectivity to the home, everyone is seeing new media rich applications emerging such as...

Tags: Broadband Service, Mobile, Broadband, Wireless, Wireless Personal Broadband, Broadband Connectivity, WiMAX, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

White papers 2007-09-01

Broadband over powerlines: It may take awhile

Broadband over powerline technology may be coming to your home, but first electric companies need to read your meter in real time. Thats the takeaway from a roundtable that focused Current Communications, a startup that is selling electric utilities on the...

Tags: General, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Broadband

Blog posts 2007-02-23

NetZero launches broadband service

NetZero launches broadband serviceNet Zero Broadband......sounds like a good idea. But will Verizon play well with others? Not w/o govt regulation, i fear.

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, NetZero, broadband service

Discussion threads 2006-11-16

The Enterprise: A High-Value Market for Broadband Services

Broadband and Managed Communication Services MCS for enterprises represent a high-value market as enterprises demand more and more advanced communication services. Service providers from high-growth economies need to capture this growing opportunity and define differentiated service offers for each business segment: an affordable entry package for the small office/home office;...

Tags: Broadband Service, Broadband, Alcatel, Enterprise, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Business Services, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2006-09-01

DNS could slow broadband service

DNS could slow broadband serviceGraphics card?Here's a clue - when it comes to browsing the web, I would *certainly* put DNS response time *far* above how fast your graphics card is able to render an image in the scheme of things that make a perceptible speed difference.That has to be...

Tags: Domain names, Servers, broadband service, broadband, Roadrunner, server, DNS server, DNS

Discussion threads 2006-08-17

Boeing to close broadband service, take charges

Boeing to close broadband service, take chargesA good idea, good people, no market...Having known many of Boeing's bright and industrious Connexion staffers in the Irvine, CA offices... I was impressed with the overall idea, the technology basis, and the quality with which it was being applied... But I was saddened...

Tags: Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband service, Boeing Co., Connexion, broadband

Discussion threads 2006-08-17

Local officials sound off on municipal wireless

Local officials sound off on municipal wirelessIf the city pays comercial providers to install the network, why not???So the city should not be allowed to put in public streets either. No sir, only comercial streets with tolls. Really, if the city can put in a system that results in substantial...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Government, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Philadelphia Mayor John Street, wireless, broadband, cable, cable company, DSL, broadband service

Discussion threads 2005-05-03

Nextel to test '4G' broadband service

Nextel to test '4G' broadband serviceYeah I'llsecond that emotion. - just talking.1.5 meg down means about 100kb a secondIf you are lucky, but then again the internet is very, very over-rated...InterestingThis all sounds very interesting but the question remains. Is this going to do the average user any good? I...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, 4G, broadband service, NASCAR, Nextel Communications Inc., NASCAR Fans, broadband

Discussion threads 2004-02-06

Danish Utility Company TRE-FOR Launches Its New Broadband Service in Only 180 Days

TRE-FOR, a privately owned Danish multi-utility company, decided to launch a broadband subsidiary capable of delivering a comprehensive range of services to its 300,000 home and business customers. Using the Unisys Service Enablement Framework, based on 3D Visible Enterprise (3D-VE) Methodology, TRE-FOR was able to get its service into the...

Tags: Broadband Service, Unisys Corp., Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking

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In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's ambitious push into cloud computing -- and the enterprise. Ubuntu is best known for its Linux desktop and there are several desktop improvements in this upgrade -- including a faster boot and login and enhanced audio and and 3G broadband connectivity. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-29

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October

Today Canonical announces the upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution. Ubuntu 9.10 will be available for free download on Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose - to...

Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you

wow bravo again encore bravowhat what a introduction ... Come on Doug bring some more .... If this is the type of blog that you are planing ill by hook like a addict .... give us more dammit .Goverment should nationalize the infrastructure...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

News to know: Nook; Yahoo; Sun; Net Neutrality; Apple; Windows 7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Burnette: Meet Nook: Barnes and Noble's sexy new book reader Matthew Miller: B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-10-21

AT&T encourages employees to speak out against net neutrality

AT&T's top policy exec - aka lobbyist - has turned to AT&T employees for a last-chance campaign to flood the FCC with anti-net neutrality messages. In a memo that's starting to circulate around the Internet, Senior Executive VP Jim Cicconi tells encourages the employees, their friends and family to "join...

Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Cicconi, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Web powerhouses to FCC: We support open Internet

The Internet's big guns have signed their names to a letter of support for a continued open Internet, sending it to the FCC this morning, just days before the agency is slated to vote on network neutrality rules. The letter is actually from the Open Internet Coalition,...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Web, Net Neutrality, Internet, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Will the Sidekick data issue affect the future of mobile phone cloud services?

Hopefully it will encourage service providers to consider cloud architecturinstead of just simple services, and mobile broadband providers to insist upon them. It'd also be nice if all devices started coming with something like Live Mesh...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Wireless and Mobility, mobile, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-15