VoIP Market Grew by $15 Billion Over Last 2 Years
The VoIP market has seen a rise in market share over the past two years, going from a $34.8 billion market in 2008 to a $49.8 billion market in 2010, according to Infonetics Research. Both residential and business VoIP services have continued to grow, with larger growth within the business sector. Some of Infonetics key VoIP research findings include: ... Read more

IEEE Approves New WiMAX2 Standard
The Standards Board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved IEEE 802.16m, a standard designed to support future advanced services and applications for next generation broadband mobile communications, also known as WiMAX2. Already being incorporated in the International Telecommunications Union’s ITU-R as part of the ... Read more

Texas Electric Co-ops Partner with Tantalus for SmartGrid Technology
Texas Electric Cooperatives (TEC) will be offering Tantalus's TUNet smart grid communications technology to electric co-ops and municipal utilities across the state. The business alliance with Tantalus enables TEC to offer it 65 electric distribution and nine electricity generation and transmission co-op members support for wired and wireless smart grid platforms. ... Read more

Amazon Introduces Digital Locker
Amazon is moving further into cloud-based computing with the announcement of three personal data storage services: Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web, and Amazon Cloud Player for Android. The services enable customers "to securely store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they ... Read more

Verizon Intros a 100G Fiber Backbone
Chicago-New York, Sacramento-Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-Kansas City are to be the first three 100 Gb/s segments of Verizon's recently announced backbone network upgrade. Verizon expects the backbone upgrade to be completed by the end of the second quarter. "We've already successfully deployed 100G on a portion of our European network... Read more

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