Posted on February 28th, 2001 by admin
Despite its PC-centric heritage, the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) taking place this week in San Jose is yielding a diverse set of technology and product announcements, ranging from power-miserly processors to new server architectures. Indeed, the educational sessions and the news mirror Intel’s four-pronged organization around the PC, Personal Client Architecture (PCA—primarily handheld devices such [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2001 by admin
As we recounted in “Bits on a wire” in our January issue, a number of silicon vendors have developed all-digital audio chip sets. This emerging technology presents a digital signal directly to the speaker terminal, presumably improving audio quality and definitely offering superior power efficiency. The question has remained just where this all-digital technology would [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2001 by admin
When we covered Internet telephony products in a hands-on article back in August 2000, the dial-up nature of many of the products available then led to complicated setup routines and—because of limited bandwidth—made the Net telephony experience pretty much intolerable. Now, a relationship between Linksys and Net2Phone has spawned a device that combines telephony with [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2001 by admin
IBM’s PowerNP network processor offering made the news in our last email two weeks back, and supporters of the architecture continue to emerge. Noted embedded operating system vendor Wind River Systems has just partnered with IBM to provide network equipment vendors with a PowerNP-based software package that supports advanced routing and switching applications. Based on [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2001 by admin
While SS7 serves as the signaling protocol for the PSTN (public switched telephone network), and softswitches provide the signaling connectivity between that circuit-switched network and emerging IP-based voice networks, there are bound to be scalability and reliability challenges as VoIP (voice over IP) becomes increasingly pervasive. As service providers start to deploy VoIP in earnest, [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2001 by admin
Because 26 states have now passed some form of regulation regarding cell-phone use while driving, voice commands present a viable and necessary in-vehicle solution. Car interiors, however, can be plagued by ambient noise that can interfere with the voice interface.
With this in mind, Comworxx has taken steps to optimize the performance of the voice interface [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2001 by admin
While CommVerge has reported frequently on convergence in the automobile, demonstrations at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) showed that the move toward more sophisticated in-vehicle technologies and services is hitting highway speeds.
For example, Delphi Automotive Systems demonstrated how wireless home networks could be extended to the garage. Delphi’s demo featured a concept car tapping [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2001 by admin
The wireless Internet left many early adopters wanting, but the situation is improving. In fact, today you can receive streaming media, even video, over wireless links. One catalyst fueling this progress is the MPEG-4 encoding and compression scheme.
In fact, wireless may prove to be the Trojan horse through which MPEG-4 becomes the standard for wired, [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2001 by admin
Broadband service providers may have found a viable entrée into the voice market, one that meets consumer demand for quality communication at a reasonable cost. deltathree, an IP (Internet protocol) communications network and hosting service provider, has launched a new offering that allows users to centralize all their communications through a single broadband Internet connection. [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2001 by admin
At a time when many consumers are disappointed with the performance of the wireless Web, Mitsubishi Materials Corp (MMC) has unveiled SWIFTcomm, an all IP (Internet protocol) wireless system aimed at turning those frowns upside down.
MMC aims to deploy the technology in the US in a two-stage process, with low-rate service available by the end [...]
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