September 2008
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CfP: ICC 2009
The IEEE Communications Society invites the world’s leading researchers and engineers from academia, industry and government to exchange their ideas at the IEEE ICC 2009 conference in Dresden, Germany in June 2009. More…
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CfP: VTC2009-Spring
The 2009 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference will be held 26–29 April 2009 in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Barcelona, Spain. The conference will bring together individuals from academia, industry and government to discuss and exchange ideas in the fields of mobile, wireless and vehicular technology. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, panel sessions,...
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Nortel announces ``its intention to explore a...
The Nortel (NYSE: NT) announcement states that “with a sustained and expanding economic downturn, the Company is experiencing significant pressure as Carrier customers cut back their capital expenditures further than previously expected and certain Enterprise and Metro Ethernet customers defer new IT and optical investments.”
Om Malik comments on the announcement and points out that...
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Advanced WiMAX Adapter to Serve Adaptive...
by Tuomas Nissilä, Kostas Pentikousis, Ilkka Harjula, Jyrki Huusko, and Marcos Katz
Abstract—This research presents an advanced model of WiMAX Adapter. The proposed Adapter architecture can serve multiple adaptive applications and processes by utilising a convergence mechanism to differentiate the conversations with each utilised vendor equipment. This paper presents the Adapter...
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Maemo release 5 to include cellular connectivity...
Ari Jaaksi reveals that the Maemo “5th release will include cellular connectivity for the High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) data.” This means that the future Maemo MIDs will have integrated support for four wireless access network types (wireless PAN, LAN, MAN and cellular) using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and HSPA. I wonder if they will also have support for IEEE 802.21 and some advanced...
CfP: Eighth International Conference on Networks
We solicit both academic, research , and industrial contributions. ICN 2009 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels, and exhibition opportunities. The ICN 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Best papers will be forwarded for consideration in a special issue of a journal.
Topics of special interest include: Wireless communications, Next...
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FICORA: More than 300,000 [mobile] broadband...
Finns have taken to wireless Internet connection in a big way this year. According to a report by the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA), there were more than 300,000 broadband connections in Finland operating on a USB modem in June this year. This is twice as many as there were at the end of 2007. During six months, the total number of all different types of broadband...
Forrester: 43% of large global companies have cut...
The challenges facing tech companies are now spreading outside the US and all along the technology chain. Demand in Europe and Asian emerging markets that had partly offset US weakness is slowing. Corporate and domestic customers are both being squeezed. Forrester’s survey found nearly half of financial services companies, their balance sheets creaking, have trimmed IT spending. Ciena...
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Broadband deployment, left to market forces, makes...
Cisco sees Finland’s low standing as a cause for concern; at the beginning of the decade, Finland was “right at the top” in broadband services. In Sweden, state and local authorities have taken on a much stronger role in setting up Internet connections than those in Finland have. Hundreds of millions of euros in public funds were invested in 2001-2007 to extend the high-speed fibre optic cable...
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Mobility scenarios for the Future Internet: The... →
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Would information-centric networking consume less... →
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