Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced volume production of its lithium niobate (LiNbO3) polarization-multiplexed quad Mach-Zehnder (PM-QMZ) modulators, ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 31 March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA - which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets - has ...
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Japanese electronics firm Fujitsu has granted JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA its 2015 Distinguished Partner Award at its recent supplier event in Tokyo, Japan (which included more than 600 attendees). JDSU was the only optical solutions vendor ...
Tags: network architectures, Electrical
TOKYO — Murata Manufacturing and TDK apparently enjoyed large jumps in April-June profit on increased demand for smartphone and car parts and by expanding their client base beyond Samsung. Murata likely saw operating profit rise 45% ...
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Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today announced that it has been selected by Preem AB to modernize one of Europe's largest refineries – Preemraf Lysekil – with Honeywell's Enhanced High Performance Process Manager (EHPM) industrial process ...
Computerworld - Starbucks has dropped AT&T as its in-store Wi-Fi provider, teaming up instead with Google and Level 3 Communications to offer 10 times faster network speeds. The coffee shop chain said the changeover will start in August ...
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Faster network speeds are better, right? LTE cis coming soon to the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, offering double the downlink speeds of LTE (Long Term Evolution). But U.S. carriers still have to upgrade LTE networks to operate with LTE ...
Tags: LTE Smartphone, Smartphone
The spread of smartphones, powered by fast 3G and LTE networks used to watch ever more video content, are pushing up the volume of mobile data traffic. The challenge for operators will be to turn that into more revenue, as users prefer ...
Tags: LTE, Smartphone, Mobile Traffic
Mobile users can probably look forward to being automatically transferred from cellular to Wi-Fi networks in the near future, but going back and forth for the best possible performance is another matter. Software in the works will use ...
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today. "Beards, Birkenstocks, blue jeans, T-shirts," Metcalfe said earlier ...
Tags: Ethernet, Computer Products, Startup
A laptop and desktop from Vizio—the Vizio CT15T-B1 Ultrabook and the Vizio CA24T-B0, respectively—are the first computers into our labs with the latest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ac. Though it's up and running, it's still an emerging ...
Tags: Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Computers
Today, CTIA-The Wireless Association released its semi-annual survey, which showed U.S. wireless providers increased their annual network investments from $25.3 billion in 2011 to $30.1 billion in 2012 (up 19 percent). The $30.1 billion is ...
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New 802.11ac routers launching at International CES promise users gigabit-speeds and better performance when streaming video. Since last year's CES, 802.11ac -- which is the latest in IEEE's family of WLAN standards -- has gone from a new ...
Tags: 802.11ac routers, CES, streaming video
IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators. The companies said the deal would ...
Tags: Softbank, telecom operators, network, network speeds
Intel is working on LTE network support for its Medfield system-on-chips, which may finally open the door for Intel-powered smartphones in the United States. Sumeet Syal, Intel’s director of product marketing, told TechCrunch that ...
Tags: Dual core processor, Intel, LTE, Motorola, Qualcomm, smartphone, TechCrunch