Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has introduced its CPRV422XA family of Class 40 high-bandwidth OIF Micro-ICR receivers. The new family of 64 Gbaud capable receivers, in the ...
Tags: Finisar, Coherent receiver, CPRV422XA
The open-access paper The role of photonics in energy, authored by a team including Zakya Kafafi of Lehigh University, editor of the Journal of Photonics for Energy, traces the development of the science of light from the Arab scholar Ibn ...
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications) has expanded its portfolio of Wi-Fi products to include new front-end ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has expanded its portfolio of RF switches with a suite of analog control ICs for a variety of Internet of Things applications including ...
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IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
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The technology employs the high-frequency modulation capabilities of light-emitting diode (LED) engines used in commercial lighting. It achieves throughputs of up to 10Mb/s at a range of three meters, suitable for HD video streaming or ...
Tags: Li-Fi Prototype, LED lamps, Leti
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced the ability to double capacity on a ...
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In recent months I have attended seminars where the same theme has come up time and again - namely, the exponential growth of data transmission in telecoms networks, and in particular, its effect on mobile networks. The recent launch by EE ...
Tags: 4G spectrum, 4G service, 4G network, UK
As the latest iPhone went on sale Friday, with T-Mobile USA once again left out of the party, the fourth-place U.S. carrier started turning on a network that is designed to offer high data rates on unlocked iPhones. On Friday, T-Mobile ...
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According to a recent report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), some 19 million Americans live in rural areas where broadband Internet access is either unavailable or delivered at speeds that fall well below targeted goals. ...
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For fiscal second-quarter 2013 (ended 28 October 2012), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp, of Sunnyvale, Ca, USA, a global technology leader for subsystems and components for fiber-optic communications, ...
Wi-Fi offloading helps network operators cope with rapidly increasing data traffic from mobile devices,writes Adrian Schumacher from Rohde&Schwarz. Smart devices make it convenient to access the Internet from virtually anywhere because ...
Tags: Wi-Fi, smart devices.MNOs, ANDSF
ROG Maximus V Extreme includes five PCI Express 3.0 slots ASUS has introduced a new motherboard, ROG Maximus V Extreme which is based on Intel Z77 chipset and supports a range of 2nd and 3rd generation Intel Core processors. The ...
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In considering the design option for DSP vs.FPGA it is helpful to compare both architectures in a FIR filter application,writes Reg Zatrepalek One of the most widely used digital signal-processing elements is the finite impulse response,or ...
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Berlin, Germany--By simply modulating the LEDs in an LED lighting fixture, it can become a digital transmitter for an optical wireless local-area network (WLAN). Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz ...
Tags: market view, LED light fixture