Russia sees a dramatic 42% increase in FTTH subscriptions, Europe reports “steady” 15% growth, where Lithuania and Sweden lead the way. European fiber to the home (FTTH) deployment continues to grow steadily, but the ...
If LED lighting is fully adopted in Taiwan, the country can reduce its electricity consumption by 12.78%, an equivalent to the combined capacity of two of its existing nuclear power plants, according to industry observers. The observers ...
Altera has teamed up with Flexibilis of Finland to make it easy to implement an FPGA-based Ethernet switch. Combining Altera FPGAs with the Flexibilis Redundant Switch (FRS) IP provides ‘an easy and cost-effective way to implement ...
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Altera has introduced an FPGA-based reference design for smart grid substation automation equipment. Developed jointly with wireless networks firm Flexibilis Oy, the IEC 62439-3-compliant reference design includes Flexibilis Redundant ...
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Fibre deployment for homes in Western Europe continues to grow steadily but lags behind other countries. The FTTH Council Europe announced at a conference in London that Eastern Europe and Scandinavian countries have reinforced their ...
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Electric vehicle owners in Oakville, Ont., are now able to charge their cars while enjoying a Tim Hortons coffee, as the restaurant chain installed its first EV charging stations as part of a new pilot project. Charging stations are now ...
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) is a balanced high-speed communication standard that is widely used around the world. Until recently, the majority of its applications were in non-hostile environments. New applications in industrial control and smart ...
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February 6, 2013 - IEEE Globecom, an international event dedicated to driving innovation in the telecom field, has initiated a Call for Papers for its 56th annual conference, being held December 9-13, 2013, in Atlanta, Ga. Detailed ...
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February 6, 2013 - EBMag was there as the second annual Electric Vehicle & Infrastructure Summit gathered in Toronto, Ont., this week to discuss the next steps in encouraging consumer adoption, promoting sustainable electric vehicle (EV) ...
Power-One and Panasonic have formed a partnership to develop and manufacture energy storage systems for the residential and non-residential markets based on Power-One inverters and Panasonic lithium-ion batteries. The companies will ...
Power distribution and transmission executives are faced with a range of new technologies at the moment that need to be integrated and understood, says Michael Ropp, President and Principal Engineer, Northern Plains Power Technologies. ...
Tags: Power distribution, Power transmission, Modeling tools
New Brunswick Premier David Alward, NB Power CEO Gaetan Thomas and Siemens Canada president and CEO Robert Hardt were among those in attendance today at the official opening of Siemens’ newest home in Fredericton. The location will ...
Upbeat housing forecasts, including a projected 22-percent increase in single-family housing starts for 2013, made for a giddy International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Our editors and analysts were among the 60,000 or so attendees there ...
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The Phoenix-RTOS has been ported to EnSilica’s eSi-RISC family of soft processor cores providing an embedded RTOS capable of utilising eSi-RISC’s hardware MMU with memory protection and security features such as data execution ...
A consortium led by eCamion—along with Toronto Hydro, the University of Toronto, and Dow Kokam—has unveiled what it says is the first energy storage system installed directly into an urban community. Located at the Roding Arena ...