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Los operadores esperan que la nueva temporada de resultados impulse el avance del mercado y se extiendan las operaciones corporativas.Los operadores esperan que la nueva temporada de resultados impulse el avance del... more
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Its 2.5-inch lightRadios could replace some 200-foot behemoths
Almost everything electronic—modems, PCs, cellphones—becomes dramatically smaller and more powerful each year. Not cell towers. They're still big, ugly, and expensive. Most were designed with the simple goal of transmitting plain old phone calls, so towers are easily overwhelmed by smartphone users who now want to not only call grandma but also upload photos and stream TV shows. The current solution to network congestion is "building bigger and bigger cell towers in more places," says the president of Alcatel-Lucent's wireless division, Wim Sweldens. That's cost-prohibitive in vast rural expanses and pretty much impossible in dense urban areas. "It's no longer sustainable," he says.
On Feb. 7, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) introduced a Rubik's cube-sized device called lightRadio that could help bring an end to the bigger-is-better approach. Most of today's cell towers are 200-foot monsters topped with an unsightly gangle of antennae. Each lightRadio unit measures 2.5 inches across and weighs just 10.5 oz. That compact package contains radios and antennae for each of the major cellular technologies—2G, 3G, and LTE. Carriers can plop them wherever they need more coverage, so long as an electrical source is available—on telephone poles, building rooftops, and bus stop shelters. "This will dramatically change the way mobile networks are built," says Sweldens.
Smartphone users won't be able to download Top Chef via these modules just yet. While carriers say they are very interested in the technology, none have committed to testing it yet, let alone buying it. And while the first versions of the lightRadio devices could help quickly plug holes in coverage, they'll still need to be wired to a cellular base station, the cabinet-sized rack of gear usually housed in a basement or shed at the bottom of a cell tower. (Base stations convert mobile, analog signals into digital ones and send them across a carrier's underground broadband cables.) By 2014, Alcatel-Lucent hopes to integrate all of the bulky base-station technology into lightRadio units as well.
Carriers are scrambling to cope with a steep rise in mobile traffic, which is increasing by 26 percent a year, according to Cisco Systems (CSCO), the world's largest networking gear supplier. The economics of the Internet make keeping up difficult. Though consumers are downloading more movies and apps on their phones, wireless carriers don't generally make extra revenue from these "data hogs," as some call them. "The economics are getting worse," says Sweldens. LightRadio devices, he claims, could lower the cost of new cellular investments by as much as 50 percent. One big expense that lightRadio minimizes: the price of winning approval from the not-in-my-backyard types who fight proposed cell towers. "Site acquisition is the Achilles' heel of every wireless carrier," says Jeffrey M. Thompson, chief executive officer of Towerstream, which offers high-speed cellular service in 11 U.S. cities, including New York. He says it often takes a year to win approval to build a new tower.
Carriers have lately been trying to alleviate network strain by keeping people from using the cell network at all. For several years they've offered consumers the option to buy "femtocells," small gadgets for the home that intercept a mobile user's phone calls and data requests and send them over cable and DSL lines instead of airwaves. It's a tough sell: Carriers are essentially asking customers to pay for a device whose only function is to make their cell service tolerable. (In some cases they give femtocells to subscribers for free.) About a million people have taken them up on the offer, according to Dell'Oro Group, a market research firm.
LightRadio is the first major attempt to rethink the cell tower itself, says Michael Howard, co-founder of research firm Infonetics Research. Asked if any other networking company is working on something like lightRadio, Howard says "If they weren't, they are now."
The bottom line: Alcatel-Lucent hopes its compact lightRadio module will change the economics of upgrading congested cellular networks.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_10/b4218035917830.htmIts 2.5-inch lightRadios could replace some 200-foot behemoths
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Según el analista de Sala de Inversión América, los papeles de la compañía estadounidense podrían volver a subir en el mediano plazo y alcanzar los 24,50 dólares.Según el analista de Sala de Inversión América, los papeles de la... more
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The Dutch Company Than Pays A Royalty.That Irish/Bermudan holding company sublicenses the IP to a Dutch company, which in turn sublicenses the IP back to another Irish company, which is an operating company wholly owned by the Irish/Bermudan holding company.The Dutch Company Than Pays A Royalty.That Irish/Bermudan holding company sublicenses... more
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Latest News Updates Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) Chief Executive Mr John Chambers warned of slower revenue growth as some of the company's key customers continue to clamp down on spending.Latest News Updates Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) Chief Executive Mr John Chambers warned... more
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Mountain View California // Friday 13th 2010 >>
Google's California Headquarters was the target of a protest against Google's controversial proposal with made Verizon to alter how data and is treated over the internet. The protest was attended by national and international news media and press. The protest was organized by an association of groups supporting "Network Neutrality". The protestors were well armed with boxes filled with OVER 300,000 PETITIONS supporting "a free and open internet". And warned Goolgle and others with similar thoughts, that this was only a sample of the overwhelming support of an open and free internet and Net-Neutrality." The Groups spokesman: James Rucker (co-founder of ColorofChange.org) staged the protest at Google's HQ, in a targeted attempt to make Google "re-think" their bold and controversial proposal made with Verizon and presented to the FCC.
The Petitions presented by the protestors to Google were cordially accepted by Google's representatives.
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Let the wild and rampant speculation begin! Apparently some on the Internet have become all worked up over a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing by Cisco Systems. The filing covers a remote control, produced by Foxconn, which doesn’t match any current Cisco offerings, but seems to tie in nicely to an existing productLet the wild and rampant speculation begin! Apparently some on the Internet have... more
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Apple has filed a formal opposition to NYC's GreeNYC campaign over its new logo, saying that the city's looped apple infringes its own trademark. While Steve's mob says the eco-logo will "seriously injure the reputation with which [Apple] has established for its goods and services." New York's response? "The city believes that Apple's claims have no merit and that no consumer is likely to be confused."
The NYC logo which, ironically enough, seems to be an apple drawn from an infinite loop, (ha!) has been appearing on bus shelters, hybrid taxis and shopping bags from Whole Foods. The Cupertino gang's claim for trademark infringement is, however, hard to prove with a logo, as its key issue is likelihood of confusion or dilution, according to an SF lawyer specializing in trademarks.
This dispute is the third time Apple has been involved in trademark infringement claims—remember its battle with the Beatles' Apple Corps, and Cisco Systems about who had the right to use the iPhone name?Apple has filed a formal opposition to NYC's GreeNYC campaign over its new logo,... more
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