In this week's News in View, leading Linux vendors, VA Linux and Redhat, mapped out their future strategies for taking business away from Unix and NT. Open source vendors claim Linux still has to scale up to the high-end and down to mobile devices...
Meanwhile, potential business customers who could pioneer widespread use of broadband services more effectively are left out in the cold. ADSL, being asynchronous, is suited to consumers with high-speed in only one direction.
Despite the fact BT's slow roll-out of first-generation broadband technologies has been widely panned, it's already looking at the next stage.silicon.com has discovered the telco is evaluating a system called VDSL, or Very high-speed Digital...
In countries where DSL is, in fact, the only technology in use, it would be the only technology included in the analysis. Where DSL is the only relevant technology, as the Commission suggests it is throughout the EU, the result would be the same as...
Included in the recommendation is the Commission's view that cable modem technologies should not be considered as part of the market for broadband internet access and that DSL is the only relevant technology.
Addressing concerns that the wi-fi service won't be able to cover the entire city or reach deep enough into buildings, Sacca said the city may have to add more wireless access points on poles, and customers may have to use devices that will extend...