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Can cable faults ever go away?
News Telcos have stepped up measures in recent years to improve redundancy and re-routing efforts during cable disruptions, but costs and nature still stand in the way.
Tags: Network infrastructure, LANs and WANs, Disaster recovery, Starhub, Ovum, SingTel, Asia, cable system, Cable, e-mail
Overland cable connects India and China
News Reliance Globalcom's new terrestrial cable connecting India and China, aims to reduce latency and provide redundancy in case of subsea cable break.
Tags: Bandwidth, Networking technology, Disaster recovery, Asia, India, cable system, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Cable
APCN2 cable cut cripples connections
News update Cut in Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 undersea cable cripples connection speeds in Asia-Pacific region Wednesday, hitting Singapore and the Philippines.
Tags: Twitter, SingTel, Philippines, cable network, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Cable, network, Taiwan
Pacnet increases network capacity by 50 percent
News Telecommunications service provider boosts its subsea cable network with largest capacity upgrade to date, to meet Asia's growing demand for broadband.
Tags: Bandwidth, Optical networking, Business broadband, Pacnet Ltd., network, Asia, cable network, Hong Kong, Singapore, Stock
More redundancy needed for global links
News Ongoing and planned network upgrades between Asia and U.S. sufficient for bandwidth demands, but ISPs need redundancy to better manage outages.
Tags: Bandwidth, Ethernet, Pacnet Ltd., BGP, network, Asia, Broadband, Cable, Internet Service Provider, network provider
Time Warner CEO: No thanks to big media deals
News Jeff Bewkes says the company is not interested in bidding on NBC Universal or any other big media company because those deals typically fail.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, e-reader, CEO, Business Strategies & Functions, TV, America Online Inc., Cable, Comcast Corp., NBC Universal Inc., Time Warner Inc.
Amazon, Facebook, and Google back FCC on Net neutrality
News Some of the biggest names on the Internet are throwing their support behind the FCC's plan to form new Internet openness regulation.
Tags: Facebook, Google Inc., Rule, CEO, network, Amazon.com Inc., Wireless, cable company, Cable, Net Neutrality
Leaking crypto keys from mobile devices
News Attackers could steal keys used for encryption and authentication on mobile devices by analyzing electromagnetic signals and radio frequency emissions, researcher says.
Tags: Mobile, Authentication and encryption, Phone, cable box, Key, bank, mobile, Authentication and encryption, Attack, Mobile Device
Clearwire to bring WiMax to 10 more markets
News Company will add 10 WiMax markets starting September 1 in its effort to blanket the United States with 4G wireless broadband service.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Broadband, Cable, Clearwire Corp., 3G, 4G, WiMAX, Mobile platforms/communications
Intel's Light Peak: One PC cable to rule them all
News Chipmaker wants to replace today's hodge-podge of copper cables with single type of optical connection, and hopes standardization will help it catch on.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., UWB, QoS, Cable, monitor, wireless communication, PC, Components, Sony Corp.
Complacency has no place in IT
Blogs It was on April Fools' Day at the turn of the millennium that the Singapore telecommunications market was fully liberali...
Will Intel and USB make fiber optics mainstream?
News Chipmaker hopes its Light Peak project will bring fiber optic speeds to ordinary computer users, and USB could be logical path to get there.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., Connector, Fiber-optics, Fiber, Video, Storage, USB, Cable, USB 2.0
Intel's Light Peak optical links could arrive in 2010
News Intel won't promise when its optical communication technology will arrive. But a fiber-optic company allied with the chipmaker says cables will be done early in 2010.
Tags: Components, Optical networking, R&D, Intel Corp., Computer, optical networking, Fiber-optics, network, Light Peak, Foci
Facebook's mounting customer service crisis
News It's unclear how many members still can't access their accounts after Facebook acknowledged a database issue, but one thing's for sure: the ones locked out are steaming mad.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Web 2.0, Robert Scoble, screen name, Plaxo Inc., Cable, e-mail, IM, customer service
Ultra-broadband to cause bandwidth divide
News Adoption of ultra-high speed residential broadband will create bandwidth divide among world regions, as well as within countries in three to five years, says Gartner.
Tags: Networking technology, Bandwidth, Mobile Broadband, TV, Video, Gartner Inc., HDTV, Broadband, Cable, cable television
