03 February 2010 - O&E Join in SFP Transciever
What about taking the small form-factor pluggable (SFP) to a new level by integrating the optical network unit (ONU) optical, electronics, processor, and software functions into an SFP form factor?
One company that has done so, Broadway Networks, has brought to market a single SFP that terminates the EPON, acts as an ONU and Ethernet bridge and provides a standard SFP interface. Broadway's "EPON stick," also known as SFP-ONU, embeds the ONU inside an SFP so that no external ONU is necessary. With this technology, a service provider can plug the SFP-ONU into any SFP MSA-compliant interface and use EPON as a substitute for baseband copper or optical GigE or coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM).
01 February 2010 - EDN Hot 100 Products 2009
Here is EDN's list of the products and technologies that over the past year grabbed the attention of our editors and our readers.
• Applied Systems
Gigle Semiconductor
GGL541 powerline-networking IC
18 January 2010 - Vodafone: 'guarantees' home coverage with £50 femtocell
Vodafone, the country's largest mobile phone operator, has promised to end so-called "not spots" by offering customers a £50 mini phone mast for their home.
The company said it can "absolutely guarantee" that customers will no longer suffer from the frustration of not having a proper mobile phone signal if they sign up to their Sure Signal box.
The Sure Signal box is a femtocell, a technology pioneered by a British company, Picochip. They are simple black boxes, the size of a paperback book, which plug into the back of a customer's broadband hub via an Ethernet cable.
07 January 2010 — 4Home, Verizon Wireless Tout 4G Home Control
Consumer Electronics Show - 4Home and Verizon Wireless are demonstrating collaboratively developed 4G home control services at this week's CES.
Verizon's 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network is slated for commercial launch in 2010. 4Home, the category-creator that has developed a carrier-grade software platform for connected home services, is working with Verizon Wireless to develop the first of these services over a 4G LTE network.
06 January 2010 - Mirics Launches FlexiStream™: a New Home Media Center Platform for Windows 7
Mirics today announces FlexiStream™, enabling PC users to take their home TV with them anywhere on smart phones, PMPs or netbooks. Running on Windows 7, the FlexiStream home-server is used for reception, viewing, recording, real-time re-formatting and IP-streaming of live TV to any kind of portable or handheld device. Instead of expensive hardware and proprietary set-top box technology, FlexiStream makes use of the widely available Windows 7 PC and Mirics FlexiTV™, the only production global terrestrial TV tuner solution with a sub-$5 bill-of materials.
