Oct 26

Nokia Siemens Networks sees 825Mbps over traditional copper, Phantom DSL claims ‘the future’

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Look, it’s not easy nor cheap to lay an entirely new network infrastructure — just ask Verizon. Regardless of how badly we all want a fiber optic cable ran directly into our closet, it’s probably in our best interest if companies like Nokia Siemens Networks continue to improve existing services. Since we’re on the topic, it’s probably prudent to point out a new discovery surrounding existing copper wires — one that involves data transmissions at up to 825Mbps. As the story goes, NSN is testing new technology (let’s call it Phantom DSL) that could dramatically increase capacity of conventional copper wires, with the aforesaid data point coming on a trial transfer across 400 meters of wire; when stretched to 500 meters, it still held steady at 750Mbps. We’re told that Phantom DSL promises a bandwidth increase of 50 to 75 percent over existing bonded copper lines, but mum’s the word on when ISPs will actually have access. Yesterday, please?

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Oct 05

Orange and T-Mobile complete UK network merger

Posted in: merger, network, official, t-mobile, Today's Chili

There you have it, boys and girls. Exactly as promised, Orange and T-Mobile have flipped the switch in the UK, allowing subscribers to one carrier to roam onto the network of the other for free. This really is the most important consumer-facing aspect of the Everything Everywhere merger, at least until they figure out how to mix orange and magenta without charring our eyes with the resulting shade of crazy. Don’t forget to let us know how your newly expanded network affects your phone’s utility — better, worse, no difference?

[Thanks, Lewis]

Orange and T-Mobile complete UK network merger originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 27

EPFL develops Linux-based swarming micro air vehicles

Posted in: Linux, network, networking, robot, Today's Chili, video
The kids at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (or EPFL) have been cooking up quite a bit lately, as this video demonstrates. Not only have they put together a scalable system that will let any flying robot perch in a tree or similar structure, but now they’ve gone and developed a platform for swarming air vehicles (with Linux, nonetheless). Said to be the largest network of its kind, the ten SMAVNET swarm members control their own altitude, airspeed, and turn rate based on input from the onboard gyroscope and pressure sensors. The goal is to develop low cost devices that can be deployed in disaster areas to creat ad hoc communications networks, although we can’t help but think this would make the best Christmas present ever. See for yourself after the break.

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EPFL develops Linux-based swarming micro air vehicles originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 19

BT offering British broadband users free fiber upgrade — when the rollout reaches them

Posted in: free, network, Today's Chili, uk, united kingdom, UnitedKingdom, upgrade

Well now, isn’t this nice? British Telecom has come out with a sweet and loving promise to subscribers who partake in its current broadband and landline telephony bundles — stick with us, says BT, and we’ll upgrade you to our fiber (or fibre, as the Brits call it) optic network free of charge. Of course, this wouldn’t be BT if there weren’t some gnarly details to the bargain, which include 40GB a month usage limits and £25 setup fees for users on the cheapest monthly bundles. Still, at least the upgrade to 40Mbit is something to look forward to and BT’s saying you won’t have to pay any additional levies for it on a monthly basis. See its press release after the break or check out the map below to see when the rollout might be hitting your particular corner of the Queen’s home isles.

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BT offering British broadband users free fiber upgrade — when the rollout reaches them originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 16

AT&T expanding HSPA+ rollout this year, launching LTE in mid-2011

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It’s a good day for next-gen network news, apparently — first Verizon promised to bring its 4G network to 30 NFL cities by the end of the year, and now AT&T’s John Stankey says its LTE network will arrive by mid-2011. Trials are already underway in Baltimore and Dallas, and Ma Bell’s pulled some $700 million out of the kitty to fund the buildout, with investment scheduled to go “far beyond that” next year. On top of that, AT&T is also working to upgrade its backhaul connections for its current HSPA 7.2 3G sites to Gigabit Ethernet, and it’s planning to upgrade the vast majority of its 3G sites to HSPA+ for real-world 7Mbps 3G download speeds sometime this year — a seemingly big expansion from the “certain locations” we’d been promised earlier. Why the change? We don’t know exactly, but AT&T is quick to point out that LTE customers will fall back to 3G quite often in the early days, and that Verizon isn’t investing in 3G speeds at all anymore — an interesting claim and potentially a major differentiator if the HSPA+ rollout is completed quickly, but one that won’t matter if Verizon’s network offers sufficient coverage. We’ll see — looks like the next year is going to be mighty interesting.

AT&T expanding HSPA+ rollout this year, launching LTE in mid-2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 14

Auto-tune nabs new lease on life, kills phase noise in long-haul fiber transmissions

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It’s probably advisable to not mention this to T-Pain or anyone even closely related to him, but it looks as if auto-tune may have finally found a legitimate use. You know — aside from crafting one of the most hilarious Bud Light commercials in the history of Bud Light commercials. An EU-funded team has crafted a prototype device that uses a technology similar to auto-tune in order to nix cross-talk on signals that travel down fiber optic cabling. Currently, the clean up process on phase noise ends up decimating the total capacity available to travel, so far less information actually gets through the end than what you started with. Now, this here device is claiming to spit shine the noisy signals and “re-transmit them with fuller capacity.” Periklis Petropoulos, a researcher on the project from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre, summed it up as such: “With this demonstration we’ve shown that it is possible to use the capabilities of the optical fiber to the full without being restricted by the capabilities of the electronics; you could say that in its final functionality, it is like auto-tune.” Obligatory video demonstration is after the break.

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Sep 02

WSJ: iPhone 4 to be offered by Vodafone and O2 in Germany as T-Mobile loses exclusivity

Posted in: Apple, carrier, germany, iPhone, network, o2, t-mobile, Today's Chili, vodafone

The last bastion of Applephone exclusivity in Europe is about to be toppled, according to the Wall Street Journal, as Deutsche Telekom is said to be preparing for the loss of its iPhone 4 monopoly ahead of this year’s holiday shopping season. Citing separate sources familiar with the matter, this report suggests that Vodafone and O2’s German arms are earnestly reaching out for Apple’s latest and greatest, and while distribution deals haven’t yet been finalized, negotiations have reached an “advanced stage.” Much as with O2’s UK exclusivity deal, Apple looks to have opted against extending its arrangement with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile in an effort to reach the widest possible consumer base. Makes a lot of sense to us, now how about doing the same back home?

WSJ: iPhone 4 to be offered by Vodafone and O2 in Germany as T-Mobile loses exclusivity originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 23

Demon aims to please British gamers with ‘very low latency,’ traffic-prioritizing broadband service

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You could well be a pro at getting virtual headshots, but without a decent internet connection, your shooting is just as good as a baby weeing aimlessly at the ceiling. As such, Demon — which may or may not be a hint about the operator — reckons some obsessed gamers wouldn’t mind switching over to its £21.99 ($34.19) per month Game Pro service, in return for a low latency ADSL2+ broadband connection of up to 20Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream. Sure, this is hardly a bargain compared to other 20Mbps offerings, but with traffic prioritization, a static IP address, and 24-hour support all in the box, you might actually start winning for a change.

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Aug 02

Inside AT&T’s National Disaster Recovery Batcave: Who AT&T Calls When the Death Star Explodes [At&t]

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When the World Trade Center collapsed, it took out a critical AT&T switch, crippling service. It was restored in 52 hours—including the time to drive a caravan of eighteen-wheelers from Atlanta to a lot in Jersey City. More »

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Jul 27

Free Network Scanner

Posted in: Freeware, network, Software, Today's Chili, Windows

This article was written on May 14, 2010 by CyberNet.

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I love coming across useful network-related tools, and SoftPerfect Network Scanner is pretty cool for both system administrators and geeky home users. With it you can scan an entire range of IP addresses and retrieve things like their host name, MAC address, response times, and much more.

When I ran this the first time I was very surprised to see that it at least recognized all of the machines active on my network, but it wasn’t able to grab some details such as the MAC address for those devices not running Windows. It was, however, able to fetch and make browsable my shared folders on both my Mac and Windows machines when using a specific user account that I was able to specify in the settings. This actually helped me find a shared folder that I was no longer using, and had thought I removed some time ago.

Here are some of the other things that the app is capable of (including Wake-On-LAN):

  • Pings computers.
  • Does not require administrative privileges.
  • Detects hardware (MAC) addresses even across routers.
  • Detects hidden shared folders (normally invisible on the network) and write accessible shares.
  • Detects your internal and external IP addresses.
  • Scans for listening TCP ports and SNMP services.
  • Retrieves currently logged-on users.
  • You can mount and explore network resources.
  • Can launch external third party applications.
  • Exports results to HTML, XML, CSV and TXT.
  • Supports Wake-On-LAN, remote shutdown and sending network messages.
  • Retrieves potentially any information via WMI.
  • Retrieves information from remote registry.

Give this free app a try if you like to know what’s happening with your network, or if you just want to pretend like you know. Sometimes pretending is half the battle. :)

SoftPerfect Network Scanner (Windows only; 32-bit/64-bit; Freeware/Portable)

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