Nine consumer electronics giants, including Philips, Samsung, Sharp and Sony, have agreed upon standardisation for the next generation of DVD players. The new generation of 'blue-laser' DVDs are designed to store even greater amounts of data than...
Also, the world's largest chip-maker will unveil networking chips aimed at providers of routers and other equipment. Intel will use this week's developer conference to unveil faster Xeon processors for low and mid-range servers, and tout upcoming...
BT is already evaluating super-high-speed broadband technologies at its Ipswich research labs in a bid to kick-start the next generation of high-bandwidth data communications. Despite the fact BT's slow roll-out of first-generation broadband...
SDH provides the reliability of circuit-switched pathways and resiliency should there be a fault but it is overly complex and not nearly as flexible as a native IP architecture when it comes to supporting Ethernet services, for example.
Airgo Networks, which makes wi-fi chips, announced on Tuesday that Caton Overseas and STMicroelectronics will use its latest generation of wireless technology to distribute video over wi-fi links throughout the home.
Next-generation networks (NGNs) are already being installed across the UK. That takes care of the so-called "backbone" of the UK's broadband infrastructure but next-generation access (NGA, or the local loop) is another matter entirely.
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