Charter Communications, Inc. announced that it is awarding $1.1 million (€1.03 million) to 46 nonprofit organisations through its spectrum digital education grant programme. With this recent round of grants, Charter has committed more than $9 million (€8.46 million) total to the initiative, which supports broadband technology programmes, education and training in unserved and underserved communities throughout Charter’s service area. (more…)
September 22, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Omni Fiber has its sights set on continued growth in Ohio with construction now underway in Bucyrus, Defiance, Eaton, Fremont, Greenville, London, Monroeville, Mount Gilead, New Philadelphia, Perkins Township, Perrysburg, Sandusky, and Wooster. In addition, construction will be starting shortly in Ashland, Ballville Township, Catawba Island, Crestline, Mansfield, Marblehead, Mount Vernon, New Washington, Norwalk, Ontario, Pataskala, and Upper Sandusky. (more…)
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NETGEAR Inc., has introduced Nighthawk Tri-Band Mesh Wi-Fi 6E System (MK93S), engineered for mesh Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) range and performance. The system, consisting of a router and two satellites, delivers 50% improved Wi-Fi performance over previous model and speeds up to 5.7Gbps (gigabytes per second). With quad-core 1.7GHz (gigahertz) processor and recent Wi-Fi 6E tri-band technology, it offers less congestion, ultra-low latency, and more bandwidth. (more…)
September 21, 2023
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Accenture Federal Services has won a $25 million (€23.36 million) digital transformation prime contract to modernise operations for Air Force Sustainment Centre (AFSC) including each of three air logistics complexes (ALCs) at Tinker Air Force based in Oklahoma, Robins air force base in Georgia, and Hill air force base in Utah. Using an approach that includes cloud, edge computing, and industrial internet of things (IIoT), Accenture Federal Services is creating IIoT enterprise platform for AFSC’s technology hosting environment for NextGen automation, a programme commonly referred to as ATHENA. ATHENA is central to air force’s plan to create “digital depot”, and modernise AFSC operations. (more…)
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The University of Liverpool’s project, has been awarded £9 million (€10.48 million) funding from department of science, innovation and technology. It aims to tackle challenge of poor digital connectivity in places where there is a high user demand such as busy railway stations, football matches or large concert venues. The Liverpool City Region High Demand Density (Liverpool City Region HDD) project aims to demonstrate benefits of open RAN (radio access network) technology to support large number of users accessing mobile and internet services in settings such as sports and music venues. (more…)
September 16, 2023
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Tarana Wireless, Inc., announced that Digital Alpha Advisors, has joined Tarana’s investor group. The $50 million (€46.92 million) up round led by Digital Alpha is focused on both accelerating Tarana’s growth in sales and deployment of G1 (generation 1), its next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform, as well as expanding R&D investment. This will thereby help to build on Tarana’s foundational advances in wireless broadband technology. Tarana’s valuation increase reflects the Tarana’s performance and market traction. (more…)
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Molex has released a report that highlights opportunities and obstacles facing product design engineers as the future of connectivity continues to unfold. The report, “Predicting the Connectivity of Tomorrow: Innovations Driving the Connected World,” offers insights into changing future connectivity, which is poised to unlock product creations. (more…)
September 15, 2023
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Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has announced public release of Get Ready for Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) 7: Applying new capabilities to the key use cases, a report that explores how this technology will change the way people worldwide live, work and play. Based on the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 802.11be (extreme high throughput) standard, Wi-Fi 7 has a variety of advanced capabilities. These will improve existing use cases or enable recent ones that are not possible with existing wired and wireless technologies. (more…)
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced product creations to enable small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to improve customer networks with high speed, increased capacity, and strengthened security. HPE Aruba Networking introduces Aruba instant on AP22D, a Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) 6 access point, and Aruba instant on 1960 stackable switch with 2.5GB port capacity. (more…)
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Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA) has announced election of Bertrand Moussel (Valid) as chair of board for 2023-4. The organisation works to promote eSIM (embedded subscriber identity module) interoperability, advanced use of eSIM technology across upcoming IoT (internet of things) use-cases and support sustainable creation. Moussel has served on TCA’s board since 2016 and succeeds Claus Dietze (Giesecke+Devrient), who stepped down following three consecutive terms as chair. Dietze remains on board alongside Benoit Collier (IDEMIA), Christian Vignes (STMicroelectronics) and Stephane Quetglas (Thales). The re-election of Cyril Caillaud (NXP Semiconductors) and Jean-Philippe Betoin (Kigen) to the two rotating seats completes the board for 2023-4. (more…)
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