Motorola has another WiMAX market launch coming up on July 21st in Las Vegas. That’s the day Clearwire officially unveils service in the third city on its rollout list. Las Vegas follows Atlanta and Portland, both of which are also powered by Motorola. Clearwire uses the Motorola WAP 400 and WAP 450 access points and [...]
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Averaging one new market every week, Motorola has been pushing the envelope with WiMAX over the last month. Most recently, Smart Communications in the Philippines launched its first WiMAX tests using Motorola equipment. From the press release:
To date, [Smart] has about 8,700 cell sites across the country, housing various network equipment, including antennae for GSM, [...]
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All of the major TV operators in the US are competing seriously on the quantity and quality of their HD programming. However, among the smaller guys, the HD line-ups are often significantly sparser. To help change that, Comcast Media Center (CMC), Motorola, and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) launched an update to the HITS [...]
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Clearwire has officially launched its second WiMAX market with today’s introduction of Clear mobile WiMAX service in Atlanta. Like its counterpart in Portland, the Clearwire network in Atlanta runs on Motorola radio infrastructure equipment – the Motorola WAP 400 and WAP 450 access points – and bundles service with consumer access devices from Motorola – [...]
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It’s pretty, it’s shiny, it’s red, and it does MPEG-4 rate shaping.
The new Motorola “headend 2.0″ solution launched at the ANGA Cable Show this week plugs some serious holes in the European cable infrastructure market, and it does so after a period of years when Motorola’s involvement in the space has been limited. For one [...]
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There are two notable DOCSIS 3.0 announcements coming out of the ANGA cable show this morning. First, Telia Stofa (part of TeliaSonera) has decided to deploy Motorola EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable modems. Perhaps not all that interesting in and of itself, but tucked into the release is a note that Infonetics has put a number on [...]
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Here’s a piece of news a bit outside the norm for this blog. BT, the parent group for British Telecom, is trialing Motorola software for the upcoming Paralympic World Cup that will deliver highlight videos and other event content to consumer mobile handsets. It’s a services and software engagement, but there is a common thread [...]
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The LTE World Summit is taking place this week, which makes it a good time for a quick update on Motorola LTE activities. On Monday, Motorola announced the launch of its LTE advanced self-organizing network (SON) solution. The solution goes beyond the specs in the LTE standard to optimize network architecture and reduce operational costs. [...]
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Typically the evolutionary path for broadband starts in the workplace and moves out to the home. Consumers moved from dial-up to high-speed because of expectations built at work. However, as evidence that sometimes the reverse is true, Motorola announced today a new solution for the enterprise – Motorola Passive Optical LAN – based on the [...]
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We’re trying something new on the blog. Starting this quarter I will be posting shipment numbers for the Motorola Home and Networks Mobility business on a regular basis. I’ve done it in a haphazard way before, but this blog will now be the home for these quarterly updates. Over time, you will be able to [...]
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