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Record Data Transfer Rate Exceeds 186 Gigabits per Second

During the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference, which was held in Seattle, Washington this mid-November, experts were able to use a wide-area network circuit to transfer data from one location to another at a combined rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps). The international team that developed the new capability ...

13 December 2011
08:59 GMT

Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada Without Communications

The Anik F2 telecommunications satellite suffered a significant glitch on Thursday, October 6, which left thousands of people living in the northern parts of Canada without access to communications. Press reports in the country indicate that dozens of aircraft have been grounded, since their satellite navigation ...

7 October 2011
06:47 GMT

Americans Find Missing, Newly-Launched Russian Satellite

Two days ago, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) launched a new telecommunications satellite. Shortly after reaching orbit, the spacecraft and its upper stage disappeared from radar. The US Space Surveillance Network found it yesterday, in an entirely different orbit. The Express-AM4 satellite is a state-of...

20 August 2011
04:37 GMT

Largest European Telecommunications Satellite Takes Shape

Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce that the organization's largest telecommunications satellite ever is finally beginning to take shape in Toulouse, France.At this point, engineering teams managing its construction are working tirelessly on assembling the spacecraft into its fli...

17 March 2011
11:28 GMT

Rogue Satellite Is Back Under Control

A few days ago, a communications satellite that was drifting in orbit since earlier this year, reset itself and started accepting commands from its control center.The Galaxy 15 communications satellite launched on October 13, 2005, on a European Ariane rocket, and lost contact with its flight control center on April ...

30 December 2010
03:39 GMT

Hylas Satellite Completes Milestone Test

Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that their telecommunications satellite Hylas has just successfully completed a new battery of tests. The assessments were of critical importance for the mission, given that satellite is scheduled for launch later this year. Only a few final overviews remain to be...

5 June 2010
06:12 GMT

Motorola Reaffirms Its Commitment to LTE Development

Motorola, Inc. recently talked about the progress it managed to make on Time Division Duplex Long-Term Evolution (TD-LTE) commercialization. The company announced collaborations with operators on TD-LTE trials that would be conducted during the ongoing year. The trials are meant to demonstrate the company's comm...

25 February 2009
11:23 GMT

Mobile WiMAX Fit for Developing Countries Only

Cantab Wireless published an analysis according to which Mobile WiMAX may have only small chances of spreading widely on the mature mobile broadband markets. Still, the same analysis says that the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries, mainly India, will adopt WiMAX technology in the future. According to ...

4 July 2008
04:05 GMT

Entangled Light Stored in Cooled Atoms

For the first time, researchers report to have succeeded in creating an entangled-light atomic memory by combining quantum entanglement with the ability of bringing light to a complete halt, inside an ultracold atomic cloud. The entangled light was captured, stored for a short amount of time, then released back into ...

11 March 2008
09:27 GMT

ATC Introduces Two Heatsinks for OCTEON Processors

Advanced Thermal Solutions has unveiled two new heatsink solutions, designed to work with Cavium Networks' OCTEON Plus CN56XX, OCTEON CN38XX and CN36XX multi-core MIPS64 processors. These heatsinks address especially the telecommunications and embedded computing environments. The products, named ATS-691 and ATS...

20 December 2007
05:45 GMT


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