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  • Multicore Magic

    New Electronics - 11 Nov 2008Freescale’s recent decision to sell its wireless chipset arm and bolster its remaining businesses through acquisitions has been backed with action. In October, the company acquired Intoto, a security software specialist for ...
  • New Electronics: edit calender Aug - Oct 2008

      Topic DateStatus  FPGAs for datacom and telecom Aug 26 Written Packet processing Sept 9  Written Optical integration for next-gen comms Oct 14 Written Freescale QorIQ processors Oct 28 Written   ...
  • Mine Host

    Total Telecom - November 2008Enterprise storage requirements are growing swiftly, but at the same time businesses expect to keep control of rising costs. Managed service providers face mounting challenges to keep on top of their storage requirements. Simp...
  • Boosting Bandwidth

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  • Lines of Defence

    Total Telecom - Mobile Security - Oct 2008The threat to mobile security has not been as prevalent as for fixed devices, but as software downloads increase on handhelds things could get worse. ...
  • Driving down the cost per bit

     Fibre Systems Europe - Sept 2008      ...
  • In search of a Nokia

    ECOC Forum magazine - Sept 2008 Having survived the telecom boom and bust, Europe’s optical component firms now face their biggest challenge: growing their businesses in a fast-changing industry. ...
  • High-tech in Israel

    Basis of an article that appeared in the Economist Intelligence Unit - July 2008 The CEO of Microsoft spent several hours in Israel in late May. Steve Ballmer’s brief visit was to open an R&D centre, Microsoft’s second in the country. ...
  • Fast and Flexible

    New Electronics - High speed I/O FPGAs boost telecom design - Sept 8th 2008The latest fpga families present equipment makers with a wealth of options. In addition to vast amounts of programmable logic and megabits of memory, the devices support processor ...
  • Europe and FTTx

    ECOC Forum magazine - Sept 2008 Europe ranks highly in terms of the percentage of households that have broadband. But when it comes to optical access, the Far East and North America are leaps ahead. ...
  • Mixed Blessings

    Total Telecom - Mobile device management July/August 2008 IssueOne of the biggest headaches of enterprises moving to mobile applications is how to manage the devices across different divisions and regions. ...
  • Speedy InP chips look to boost optical network capacities

    Compound Semiconductor - Sept 2008The internet is creaking under the strain of rocketing traffic, but help is now on its way in the form of faster transceiver chips that can operate within existing optical networks, reports Roy Rubenstein....
  • Making a Packet

    New Electronics - Sept 23, 2008Changes in metropolitan area (metro) networks have led to significant design activity among telecom equipment makers.They are either adapting existing platforms or developing ones that support emerging operator requirements....
  • Femtocells

    Total Telecom - September 2008 Femtocells excite operators with their potential. But the business case still needs to be sorted. Femtocells promise to be an economic way to open up new mobile voice and data services in the home. The added bonus is that th...
  • Seeing the light

    New Electronics June 6th 2008IBM transceiver and polymer waveguide technologies Data centres – and the telecom infrastructure that connects them to end users –consume some 9% of global energy production, according to a study by ADVA Optical Networking...
  • PON Life

    Total Telecom; May 2008. Optical broadband access As operators’ network capacity starts to run out they are turning to faster Gigabit PON standards, but regulation could put things on hold....
  • Carriers debate merits of packet optical technology

    Fibre Systems Europe - May 2008 A new class of optical transport equipment combines the functionality of packet systems with WDM, giving carriers more choices than ever before on how to build their next-generation networks. Roy Rubenstein investigates th...
  • Future proofing

    Total Telecom - OSS April 2008 Analysts say operators are taking a short-term view by continuing to rely on legacy operations support systems for their future services needs.Carriers are being forced to upgrade their operations support systems as they ev...
  • Core Competency

    New Electronics - April 2008Cisco Systems has done much thinking since it began designing its latest network processor (npu) chipset. In 2003, the company didn’t know then that the design would include a 40 processor core ic. Nor did it know the chipset...
  • Silicon carves out its niche as an optical material

    FibreSystems Europe - 16 March 2009     ...

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