CenturyLink to Pilot 1-GB Fiber Net; Danny Pate Comments
CenturyLink is developing a new fiber network with the goal of providing 48,000 homes and businesses in Omaha, Neb. connection speeds of up to one gigabyte per second. The company will start to roll out the network next week and aim to connect all of its Omaha customers to the network by October 2013, CenturyLink [...]
General Electric has released a new industrial Internet router intended to secure wireless access on private networks owned by companies in industries such as oil and gas. GE’s MCR-4G is an industrial router will use public cellular infrastructures for data collection between disparate sources and operation centers, Manufacturing.net reports. Based on the MDS Orbit platform, [...]
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Nearly two-fifths, or 42 percent, of chief information officers told an Accenture survey managing increased use of mobile devices is one of their top five priorities. Thirty-four percent of the 413 CIOs surveyed said mobility was a priority of theirs for 2013, Silicon Republic reports. Tina Costanza writes 43 percent said their biggest need was [...]
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Cyber attacks on U.S. corporations, organizations and government agencies are largely coming from a 12-story tower in Shanghai that is home to a Chinese army unit, a U.S. computer security firm says in a study. The New York Times reports Mandiant was not able to precisely place the hackers in the building, home to People’s [...]
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Intel Designs Crystal Forest Platform for Processing Multimedia, Broadband Content; RK Hiremane Comments
November 12, 2012 No CommentIntel will release a new communication platform for telecommunications companies to process data across networks, The Hindu reports. According to the report, the company designed Crystal Forest to help address the needs of cloud computing, content processing and Internet transactions at speeds of up to 100 gigabytes per second. R.K. Hiremane, Asia-Pacific regional director for [...]
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General Dynamics Laptop Designed for Unclassified, Classified Comm; Chris Marzilli Comments
October 11, 2012 No CommentGeneral Dynamics‘ C4 systems unit has released a National Security Agency-approved laptop computer for secured network communications, the company announced Wednesday. The company said the TACLANE MultiBook laptop is designed for government, agency and state and local law enforcement users and other related organizations. According to Chris Marzilli, president of C4 systems, users would need [...]
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