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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.

 

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03 February 2010 - O&E Join in SFP Transciever (Broadway Networks)
01 February 2010 - EDN Hot 100 Products 2009 (Gigle)
01 February 2010 - The femtocell comes of age: The femtocell market is undergoing a period of radical change and market, participants must keep pace (picoChip)
22 January 2010 - Feel the bandwidth (picoChip)
18 January 2010 - Vodafone: 'guarantees' home coverage with £50 femtocell (picoChip)
14 January 2010 - Realising the benefits of femtocells (picoChip)
07 January 2010 - 4Home, Verizon Wireless Tout 4G Home Control
06 January 2010 - Mobile phone 'not-spots' zapped (picoChip)
06 January 2010 - Winners and losers at CES opening reception (picoChip)
06 January 2010 - Mirics Launches FlexiStream™: a New Home Media Center Platform for Windows 7
04 January 2010 - Mirics starts volume shipments of FlexiTV software
02 January 2010 - Femtocell uptake expected this year (picoChip)
29 December 2009 - Top 5 Energy Display Devices Coming to CES 2010 (4Home)
15 December 2009 - The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2009 (Gigle)
14 December 2009 - HomePlug® Powerline Alliance Congratulates Member Companies on International CES Innovations 2010 Awards (Gigle Networks)
11 December 2009 - Nanotech Semiconductor introduces pure CMOS TIA for FTTH applications
09 December 2009 - Tiny Mirics dreams a dream of one software configured radio for TV (article also available at Mirics website)
20 November 2009 - picoChip's Latest Femtocell Solutions Integrate PHY, Stack and System Software
20 November 2009 - Nanotech Semiconductor announces expansion with new design team
18 November 2009 - Femtocell reference design from picoChip heralds new phase in wireless buildout
18 November 2009 - 4Home's Smart Meter Software Saves Energy in the Home
18 November 2009 - picoChip raises $20m in venture capital
17 November 2009 - Gigle Semiconductor Changes Name to Gigle Networks
15 November 2009 - Mirics' CEO Simon Atkinson presents Mirics' FlexiTV solution at the nVidia GPU Technology Conference, San Jose - October 2009
28 October 2009 - 'Superfemto' chip aims at 2km range (picoChip)
28 October 2009 - Picochip offers PC8219E femtocell reference design
27 October 2009 - Class 3 femtocell reference design targets enterprise, metro and rural applications (picoChip)
21 October 2009 - Delivering The Standard In Wireline Home Networking (article by Michael Wilson, VP of Corporate Business Development for Gigle Semiconductor)
13 October 2009 - Mirics FlexiTV
13 October 2009 - Mirics and Shanghai HDIC Introduce Digital TV Reference Design for Portable and Desktop PC Devices
September 2009 - Energy Efficiency, Dematerialization And The Role Of The Broadband Forum (PDF of paper MR-204 co-edited by Alex Fedosseev, 4Home's VP of Product Management)
30 September 2009 - Mirics, Nvidia develop CUDA-based mobile TV
29 September 2009 - Mirics and NVIDIA Bring Software-Based TV to More PC Platforms
14 September 2009 - PicoChip Unveils LTE Femto Chipset
10 September 2009 - picoChip targets small-cell LTE femto designs
20 August 2009 - Gigle and Belkin Tout Review of HD Powerline Kit
19 August 2009 - ZigBee Certifies Enhanced-Spec Devices (4Home)
12 August 2009 - Korean and Brazilian deals extend Mirics reach
11 August 2009 - New Partnership Targets HDTV for Netbooks in China (Mirics Semiconductor)
10 August 2009 - EPN Interview With Chet Babla, Director of Marketing, APAC, Mirics Semiconductor
10 August 2009 - Sigma Designs and 4Home Team up to Deliver Set-Top Box Reference Design for Home Control Services
31 July 2009 - Air Semiconductor secures additional funding for GPS development (PDF)
29 June 2009 - picoChip named winner at inaugural Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2009
25 June 2009 - Gigle powers ahead in Belkin adapters
22 June 2009 - Gigle and Belkin Team Up for Gigabit Home Networking
18 June 2009 - 4Home, Sensus in Home Energy Trials With Southern Co., Cleco, Other Utilities
17 June 2009 - Starent Networks, picoChip and Continuous Computing to Demonstrate 3GPP Standard Iuh Femtocell Interoperability
17 June 2009 - 4Home, Sensus unveil partnership details
02 June 2009 - The convergence "time bomb" (Mirics Semiconductor podcast)
02 June 2009 - Interview With Jim Hunter, CTO and Chief Architect of 4Home
27 May 2009 - PicoChip - Industry's first HSPA+ femtocell SoC to support true eight-user operation
19 May 2009 - Groups combine for high level protocol LTE ref designs (picoChip)
19 May 2009 - Smart Grid, Home Monitoring, and Wireless Home Controls Key Focus of CONNECTIONS™ Conference (4Home)
18 May 2009 - Q5 Interview - Nigel Toon, president and CEO, picoChip
18 May 2009 - Femto Forum Announces Femtocell Industry Awards 2009 Finalists; Winners to be announced at Femtocells World Summit in London (picoChip)
05 May 2009 - Le moderne reti richiedono femtocelle basate su SoC (picoChip; article is in Italian, see English translation)
29 April 2009 - Gigle Semiconductor's Entertainment-Grade System-on-Chip Family Secures HomePlug Powerline Networking Certification
11 April 2009 - En systemkrets för femtoceller (picoChip; article is in Swedish, see English translation)
09 March 2009 - UK firm supplies first geo-tagging camera chip to Japan (Air Semiconductor)
07 April 2009 - Mirics, Spreadtrum launch TV-on-PC mini-card
06 March 2009 - Air Semiconductor samples 1mA Always-On GPS receiver
03 March 2009 - Mirics' FlexiTV PCTV receiver complies with NorDig specs
27 February 2009 - IC TV Receiver Uses Software-Defined Radio Solution (Mirics Semiconductor)
26 February 2009 - Second Annual SPIFFY Award Winners Announced - Global Telecom Service Providers Recognize Telecom Startups (4Home)
25 February 2009 - PicoChip lines up partners for femtocell assault
19 February 2009 - PicoChip unveils baseband for WCDMA femtocell design
17 February 2009 - Cambridge, PicoChip launch GSM PHY reference design
16 February 2009 - MWC 09 - PicoChip targets eight-user femtocalls
16 February 2009 - Agilent Technologies, ASTRI, picoChip Demonstrate Design And Test Of TD-LTE Femtocell At 2009 Mobile World Congress
09 February 2009 - Mirics FlexiTV® receiver achieves NorDig 2.0 compliance World's first broadcast TV receiver using software demodulation passes latest NorDig specifications for DVB-T
02 February 2009 - Nigel Toon leaves Icera, becomes picoChip CEO
26 January 2009 - The Great Home Control Collision of 2009 (4Home)
26 January 2009 - Shades of green (4Home)
22 January 2009 - Report: Young consumers tune in to web video (LiveRail)
20 January 2009 - Nanotech Semi offers chips for Ethernet over plastic fiber
08 January 2009 - 4Home Wins CES 2009 Best of Innovations for Eco-Design and Sustainable Technology Category
08 January 2009 - 4Home and Sensus Partner on Home Area Network and Demand Response
07 January 2009 - 4Home Announces Availability of 2.x Software Release
05 January 2009 - Who Makes What: Femtocell Chips (picoChip)


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