As I’m still wrapping up coverage of the products and demos from CES, here’s a quick look at Motorola’s VDSL2+ gateway. Per my earlier conversation with Alan Lefkof, it looks like this will be a big year for upgrades from ADSL to VDSL. The gateway shown here (Motorola Netopia 7000 series) can [...]
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There will be a lot of WiMAX technology on display from Motorola at CES, including the new CPEi 100 single-data-port modem announced today. From the press release, the CPEi 100 will be “one of the devices used during CES on a demonstration WiMAX network built by Motorola in conjunction with Intel and Clearwire.” [...]
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Motorola put out a milestone press release today wrapping up the year in WiMAX. Easy to overlook, except as I scanned the text, I realized that even I didn’t know half the milestones listed in the release. For example, how many active WiMAX trials would you guess Motorola currently has going on around [...]
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With the exception of visible filth and the smell of cigarette smoke, nothing bothers me more about a hotel stay than having a flaky Internet connection. Clearly I’ll have to book at Marriott in the future.
Motorola announced a deal yesterday with Marriott to provide Motorola’s mT2a PowerBroadband system in Marriott-branded hotels. The system [...]
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Insight Research has a recent report predicting that wireless carriers and ISPs will generate $28 billion in revenue from peer-to-peer and file sharing services over the next four years. How fascinating. As much as ISPs decry P2P for the bandwidth those services eat up, there’s recognition of an upside too. Of course, [...]
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Let me preface this post by saying that I love widgets. I don’t know why it took so long for them to become available in any practical sense, and I can almost guarantee that in a few years we’ll look back in wonder at a time when our IP-connected devices didn’t pop up little [...]
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What do you think of when you think of a home phone? Boring? Commodity? Get the cheapest one possible? Isn’t it funny how different our perceptions of the home phone are from the mobile phone.
As much time as I spend talking with people about the digital living room and what the [...]
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Earlier this week Time Warner announced it was ending a trial that allowed subscribers to watch cable television on their PCs. Aside the from the question of why you’d want to watch TV on your PC rather than your… um… TV, the test brought up an interesting technical dilemma. Time Warner converted its [...]
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Ray Sokola is not only the CTO for Motorola Connected Home; he also works closely with the SCTE. For the recent SCTE Emerging Technologies Conference, he chaired the subcommittee charged with selecting topics for program sessions. I caught up with Ray to find out how the subcommittee worked and also to hear his thoughts on [...]
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