Mobile infrastructure must catch up with user needs and demands. Ubiquitous mobile computing is all around us. Some time in the next six months, the number of smartphones on earth will pass the number of PCs. As the power and capability of many mobile devices increases, the increased demand on networks. We watch more videos, and listen to music on our phones. Mobile Data Traffic To Grow 300% Globally By 2017 Led By Video, Web Use. Mobile network operators would have had an easier life if it wasn’t for smartphones and the flood of data traffic they initiated, and soon there will be also very many Internet of Things devices. Businesses and consumers want more bandwidth for less money.
More and more network bandwidth is being used by video: Netflix And YouTube Account For Over 50% Of Peak Fixed Network Data In North America. Netflix remains the biggest pig in the broadband python, representing 31.6% of all downstream Internet traffic in North America during primetime. In other parts of the world, YouTube is the biggest consumer of bandwidth. In Europe, YouTube represented of 28.7% of downstream traffic.
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014 expects that Software Defined Anything is a new mega-trend in data centers. Software-defined anything (SDx) is defined by “improved standards for infrastructure programmability and data center interoperability driven by automation inherent to cloud computing, DevOps and fast infrastructure provisioning.” Dominant vendors in a given sector of an infrastructure-type may elect not to follow standards that increase competition and lower margins, but end-customer will benefit from simplicity, cost reduction opportunities, and the possibility for consolidation. More hype around Software-Defined-Everything will keep the marketeers and the marchitecture specialists well employed for the next twelve months but don’t expect anything radical.
Software defined technologies are coming quickly to telecom operator networks with Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV). Intel and rather a lot of telcos want networks to operate like data centres. Today’s networks are mostly based around proprietary boxes designed to do very specific jobs. It used to be that way in the server business too until cheap generic x86 boxes took most of the market. The idea in NFV is that low-cost x86 servers can successfully many of those those pricey proprietary boxes currently attached to base-stations and other parts of the network. This scents a shift in the mood of the telcos themselves. This change is one that they want, and rather a lot of them are working together to make it happen. So the future mobile network will have more and more x86 and ARM based generic computing boxes running on Linux.
With the introduction of Network Functions Virtualisation base stations will have new functions built into them. For example NSN has announced a mobile edge computing platform that enables mobile base stations to host data and run apps. Think of this as an internet cloud server that’s really close to the customer.
Hybrid Cloud and IT as Service Broker are talked about. Telecom companies and cloud service providers are selling together service packages that have both connectivity and cloud storage sold as single service. Gartner suggests that bringing together personal clouds and external private cloud services is essential.
The type of device one has will be less important, as the personal or public cloud takes over some of the role. The push for more personal cloud technologies will lead to a shift toward services and away from devices, but there are also cases where where there is a great incentive to exploit the intelligence and storage of the client device. Gartner suggests that now through 2018, a variety of devices, user contexts, and interaction paradigms will make “everything everywhere” strategies unachievable, although many would like to see this working.
“Internet of Things” gets more push. The Internet is expanding into enterprise assets and consumer items such as cars and televisions. The concept of “Internet of Things” will evolve a step toward The Internet of Everything. Gartner identifies four basic usage models that are emerging: Manage, Monetize, Operate, Extend. The Internet of Things (IoT) will evolve into the Web of Things, increasing the coordination between things in the real world and their counterparts on the Web. The Industrial Internet of Things will be talked about. IoT takes advantage of mobile devices’ and sensors’ ability to observe and monitor their environments
Car of the future is M2M-ready and has Ethernet. Many manufacturers taking an additional step to develop vehicle connectivity. One such example is the European Commission’s emergency eCall system, which is on target for installation in every new car by 2015.
Smart Home Systems Are on the Rise article tells that most automated technology is found in commercial buildings that feature automated lighting that changes in intensity depending on the amount of sunlight present. Some of these buildings have WiFi incorporated into their lighting systems. There will be new and affordable technology on the market, but people today are still reluctant to bring automation to their homes.
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Corning trumpets fiber-optic networking prospects for 2014
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2014/01/corning-trumpets-fiber-prospects.html
Corning (NYSE: GLW) said its fiber-optic communications product business enjoyed a stellar end to fiscal 2013.
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Report: 400G optical networking market on steady climb
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2014/02/cir-400g-report.html
Communications Industry Researchers (CIR) has issued a new report that predicts the market for 400-Gbps optical transport systems will hit $528 million by 2019. The market research firm says this level of consumption will drive demand for the supporting optical components and silicon devices to nearly $195 million by the same year.
CIR sees the growing demands of mobile backhaul networks and changing traffic patterns overall as driving the need for 400G, particularly in metro/regional networks.
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Researcher: 10G will account for more than half of Ethernet data center switch ports shipped this year
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2014/01/crehan-10g-2014.html
“10 Gigabit Ethernet is finally on the verge of becoming the most popular data center switch port connection, after a long and sometimes rocky adoption curve,” said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research, when announcing the findings of the firm’s latest report
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Cat 6-capable surge protector handles 10GBase-T
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2014/02/itw-cat6.html
ITW Linx recently announced the global launch of its SurgeGate CAT6 RJ45 four-pair surge protector, which the company says has been “thoroughly tested to meet or exceed Cat 6 standards for signal integrity,”
“Not all marketed Cat 6 surge protectors provide comparable signal integrity.”
The SurgeGate CAT6 RJ45 four-pair protector is available with three different clamping voltage levels: 1) 16 Volt (for LAN internet applications); 2) 75 Volt (for applications requiring paired power and data such as PoE and VoIP phone systems and security cameras); 3) 235 Volt (for voice analog telecommunications applications)
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Ethernet predictions: 8 for 2014
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2014/01/ethernet-predictions.html
Network World’s Jim Duffy recently put together his list of “8 Ethernet predictions for 2014.”
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8 Ethernet predictions for 2014
Comcast Business sees Ethernet services broadening in addressable markets, capabilities next year
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/120613-ethernet-predictions-276675.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2013-12-06
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EU Pushes to Globalize Internet Governance
European Commission to Propose Steps to Curb U.S. Influence Over Key Web Functions
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303874504579377052129964162?mod=WSJEUROPE_hps_sections_tech
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tinfoil hats proven useless by eleven-year mobe radiation study
Your phone won’t fry your brain, say MTHR boffins
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/mobiles_dont_fry_your_brains_11year_mthr_study/
A long-term longitudinal study in the UK has concluded that mobile phones are safe, with the publication of a report finding “no evidence of biological or adverse health effects” from using mobiles.
The second MTHR (Mobile Telecommunications and Health Report) study is a follow-up to a prior report published in 2007.
“This independent programme is now complete, and despite exhaustive research, we have found no evidence of risks to health from the radio waves produced by mobile phones or their base stations. Thanks to the research conducted within the programme, we can now be much more confident about the safety of modern telecommunications systems.”
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DDoS Attack Hits 400 Gbit/s, Breaks Record
http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks-and-breaches/ddos-attack-hits-400-gbit-s-breaks-record/d/d-id/1113787
A distributed denial-of-service NTP reflection attack was reportedly 33% bigger than last year’s attack against Spamhaus.
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Microsoft staffs up its evolving Internet of Things team
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-staffs-up-its-evolving-internet-of-things-team-7000026199/
Summary: Microsoft’s Windows Embedded team seemingly has a new name, and may be expanding to have a broader charter.
Microsoft is staffing up its Internet of Things (IoT) team that is part of its unified Windows division and may be expanding its charter, as well.
The IoT team, at least originally, was the renamed Microsoft Embedded team
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EU Pushes to Globalize Internet Governance
European Commission to Propose Steps to Curb U.S. Influence Over Key Web Functions
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303874504579377052129964162-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwMTExNDEyWj
“We want to work collectively to make multi-stakeholder governance more inclusive while maintaining the stability of the open and innovative Internet.”
By pushing for less U.S. control of the Internet, the European Commission is aligning itself in some ways with Brazil, which has struck a particularly strident tone over Internet governance in the wake of news reports alleging the U.S. government spied
“The Internet should remain a single, open, free, unfragmented network of networks, subject to the same laws and norms that apply in other areas of our day-to-day lives,” according to the EU document.
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Intel Labs ‘geeks’ flash Edison kit to El Reg: We do it for the BIRDS
Chipzilla ponders IoT – the Internet of Twitchers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/intel_edison_smart_birdfeeder_wearables/
Intel’s recent Edison launch was much more than a tilt at the burgeoning wearables space – Chipzilla has been working on designs for everything from a smart birdfeeder to a paper notebook on which the user can compose emails, according to a chief boffin.
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So cool it 2.4 gigahertz: BATTERY-FREE comms for international band
Embedded wireless bods show off first prototype this month
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/enocean_debuts_self_powered_wireless_transmitter/
Embedded wireless solutions company EnOcean is planning to show the first self-powered transmitter to work at 2.4GHz.
The radio isn’t passive, the power to run the radio is generated through motion, light or temperature changes.
The EnOcean self-powered prototype will debut at Embedded World 2014 in Nuremberg
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ISP lobby has already won limits on public broadband in 20 states
Bills limiting municipal ISPs in Kansas and Utah continue noble tradition.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/isp-lobby-has-already-won-limits-on-public-broadband-in-20-states/
It’s no secret that private Internet service providers hate when cities and towns decide to enter the telecommunications business themselves. But with private ISPs facing little competition and offering slow speeds for high prices, municipalities occasionally get fed up and decide to build their own broadband networks.
To prevent this assault on their lucrative revenue streams, ISPs have teamed up with friends in state legislatures to pass laws that make it more difficult or impossible for cities and towns to offer broadband service.
Taxpayer dollars can be used to build networks
“Most networks sell bonds to private investors who are repaid by revenues from the network. No taxpayer dollars,” he told Ars. “If anything, taxpayer dollars are better spent by no longer overpaying for service to schools, fire departments, and the like. And the municipal utilities that often operate the network generally pay far more in what is called PILoT—Payments in lieu of taxes—than the private providers do, meaning that even though the prices on muni networks are generally lower than what existed in the market prior to the muni entry, more of the revenue goes to pay for other government services. The result is that municipal networks more often subsidize the general fund rather than the general fund subsidizing a municipal network.”
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11 Year MTHR Study Finds No Danger from Wireless Mobile Phone Radiation
Posted Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 (8:21 am) by Mark Jackson
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/02/11-year-mthr-study-finds-danger-wireless-mobile-phone-radiation.html
11-year long and £13.6m UK study found “no evidence” of biological or adverse health effects.
Overall the lengthy research programme found no evidence that exposure to generally low frequency base station (mobile network) emissions during pregnancy affects the risk of developing cancer in early childhood, and no evidence that use of mobile phones can lead to an increased risk of leukaemia.
It’s natural for people to fear what they can’t see
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Here’s Why the Biggest Cable Company in the Country Thinks It Can Get Bigger
http://recode.net/2014/02/12/heres-why-the-biggest-cable-company-in-the-country-thinks-it-can-get-bigger/
So Comcast, in a sort-of surprise, is going to end up buying all of Time Warner Cable for itself.
So here’s the big idea that’s supposed to get the deal approved in the coming months: It’s okay for a giant cable company to buy another giant cable company, because cable companies don’t compete.
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Netflix’s Streaming Quality Is Based On Business Decisions by Netflix & ISPs, Not Net Neutrality
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/02/netflixs-streaming-quality-based-business-decisions-isps-net-neutrality.html
The reality is that business decisions that Netflix and ISPs make regarding quality of service determine how good Netflix or any other content looks when streamed to consumers. Both Netflix and ISPs are constantly having to add capacity to their networks, of all kinds, and make decisions on how much money they want to spend versus the level of quality they want to offer.
To make it simpler, if Netflix or the ISP can deliver content right now and the video starts up within three seconds and has SD quality, they have to decide if it is worth spending the additional money to make it startup within one second and have HD quality. From a business decision, it does not help any ISPs business to improve the quality past a certain point.
From a technical standpoint, it’s also extremely complicated how Netflix’s content is delivered as they have a total of three different CDNs, all delivering content in different ways.
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The big US carriers are currently falling all over themselves to tweak their plan offerings to be more competitive with each other.
Source:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/12/verizon-more-everything-launches-tomorrow-increased-data-caps-lower-prices-for-edge-subscribers-faster-network-speeds-and-more/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Network equipment manufacturer Cisco revealed interim results of its profits have fallen by more than half during the quarter, and net sales have dropped nearly eight per cent.
The company’s fiscal second quarter ended at the end of january. Operating profit was 1.4 billion dollars. It amounted to 3.1 billion years ago
Cisco’s net sales quarter of the year was 11.2 billion dollars. Net sales slightly exceeded analysts’ expectations, since they could expect a profit warning, the result of a deteriorating.
Globally, service providers of the incoming orders fell by 12 per cent. Data centers and data security instead of orders and net sales were better than a year earlier.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/ciscon+voitto+puolittui/a967283
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Comcast and Time Warner Cable: Forget TV, it is all about broadband
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/12/comcast-and-time-warner-cable-forget-tv-it-is-all-about-broadband/
Comcast has made a daring $44 billion offer to acquire its nearest cable competitor, Time Warner Cable. While it might seem like the deal is about video, our math says it is all about broadband. And it always has been.
At end of 2013, Comcast’s estimated average revenue per user (ARPU) of around $151.30 a month, while Time Warner Cable’s ARPU was around $148.70 a month, according to UBS.
The video-only ARPU per month was roughly $78 a month (give or take a dollar).
they were making $43 a month per subscriber from their video business.
Compare that with the internet/broadband business. Of the total, the two companies had data-only revenues of roughly around $43 a month.
Voice also has very high gross margins – about 91 percent for Comcast and 82 percent for Time Warner Cable.
You can see broadband is not only a much faster growing business, it also has higher gross margins and comes with much fewer headaches — such as paying through the nose for programming. Broadband also comes with one more thing — a virtual monopoly.
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Tech Companies Push for Greater Wi-Fi Access
Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter, Google, Microsoft Set to Announce Coalition
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304703804579379491788318808-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwMzExNDMyWj
As mobile data traffic continues to skyrocket, Wi-Fi is getting a lot more attention.
The group, to be called WifiForward, will add heft to an already strong lobbying effort the companies are making in Washington to increase the allocation of airwaves that make Wi-Fi possible.
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Google working on 10 gigabit Internet speeds
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/12/google-10-gigabit-internet-speeds/5421709/
Google Fiber offers data transfer speeds of 1 gigabit per second currently. But the company is already working on speeds of 10 gigabits per second, Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette said during the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference.
Faster speeds will increase the use of software as a service
“That’s where the world is going. It’s going to happen,”
Tomi Engdahl says:
From the desk of a former FCC Commissioner
Journalists need to generate a national discussion on the future of the internet
- See more at: http://www.cjr.org/essay/from_the_desk_of_a_former_fcc.php?page=all#sthash.d8KSaLyg.dpuf
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Sleeper Issue Peers Around the Corner of Comcast-Time Warner Deal
http://recode.net/2014/02/13/sleeper-issue-peers-around-the-corner-of-comcast-time-warner-deal/
The wonky issue of how Internet companies like Netflix pay to get fast downloads into homes could replace net neutrality as one of the most significant issues in the upcoming review of the Comcast-Time Warner deal.
When you download a movie from Netflix, it comes to your house via middleman Internet distributors, or content delivery networks, that are scattered across the country. Those content delivery networks, which are paid by companies like Netflix to serve its videos, reach so-called “peering” agreements with Internet providers like Comcast to deliver traffic directly into homes. Such agreements allow the data to get to your PC or tablet faster than if the data went over the open Internet.
Peering used to be free, for the most part, but that began changing as video streaming became more popular.
There are no regulations over such deals and the FCC has steered clear of this issue in the past.
“The problem is that the bigger you are and the more residential customers you have, the bigger ability you have to make the middle mile guys pay,”
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Time Warner merger great for Comcast, but not for anybody else
Regulators face crucial decision over mega-merger – cue the lobbyists!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/14/time_warner_merger_great_for_comcast_not_so_good_for_everybody_else/
The merger of the two biggest cable companies in the US has set the markets aflutter, but the government has the final say on whether to allow the deal, and regulators will now be taking a long, stern look at how the deal with change the US TV and broadband market.
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Merkel, Hollande to discuss European communication network avoiding U.S.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/15/us-germany-france-idUSBREA1E0IG20140215
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she would talk to French President Francois Hollande about building up a European communication network to avoid emails and other data passing through the United States.
“We’ll talk with France about how we can maintain a high level of data protection,” Merkel said.
“We’ve got to do more for data protection in Europe, there’s no doubt about it,” Merkel said on Saturday.
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The Economist explains
Why South Korea is really an internet dinosaur
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/economist-explains-3
SOUTH KOREA likes to think of itself as a world leader when it comes to the internet. It boasts the world’s swiftest average broadband speeds (of around 22 megabits per second). Last month the government announced that it will upgrade the country’s wireless network to 5G by 2020
Yet in other ways the futuristic country is stuck in the dark ages. Last year Freedom House, an American NGO, ranked South Korea’s internet as only “partly free”. Reporters without Borders has placed it on a list of countries “under surveillance”, alongside Egypt, Thailand and Russia, in its report on “Enemies of the Internet”. Is forward-looking South Korea actually rather backward?
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Devices on Net to Top 6 Billion in 2014
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1321005&
By the end of 2014, more than 6 billion devices will connect to the Internet as a glut of smartphones, tablets, televisions, and laptops come into the market.
In the next 12 months, the number of Internet-connected devices across the globe will rise 6% to 6.18 billion, according to an IHS report published Wednesday. Some of the most popular devices for 2014 are, not surprisingly, video game consoles, media tablets, mobile handsets, LCD TVs, set-top boxes, and laptops
Game consoles are expected to grow at the fastest rates
Media tablet production will increase 25%, and cellphone production will rise 7%.
The need for always-on, always-connected access continues to push consumers toward more sophisticated devices.
The peak years for Internet-connected devices occurred between 2000 and 2007, when annual growth rates hovered at around 20%.
Between next year and 2017, according to the report, 19.42 billion new Internet-connected devices will appear.
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Free space optics gets shiny new snake-oil paint job
Money-sharks with frikkin’ lasers for this week’s ‘tech’ media rating system
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/17/free_space_optics_gets_shiny_new_snakeoil_paint/
A technology more than 15 years old is getting a brand-new publicity brush-up because it’s been discovered by the high-frequency trading community.
So yeah: this old technology probably does warrant a little bit of attention.
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Google ‘Already Working On’ 10-Gigabit Internet
By Stephanie Mlot
February 14, 2014 04:44pm EST
Google Fiber is currently moving at a 10-year pace, but there’s no reason why the company can’t quicken the process.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2453466,00.asp
But why stop at just 1 gigabit? Well, Google isn’t.
“After a gig it’ll be 10 gigs,” Pichette said. “So we’re already working on 10 gigs because we know a gig works now.”
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E-mail and ERP’s rotation is no longer enough. It is now also perform digitization and industrial internet.
CIO’s real mission has been oriented to the rest: digitalization and the industrial to the Internet. The organization must consider how their own products and services and how to digitized digitized solutions to intelligently discuss other solutions.
Digitalization is not just e-commerce, games, or monitoring services in the industry. It is the ability to take advantage of new technologies – sensor, cloud, mobile, or analytics – anywhere in action. And, in particular digitization is the ability to network globally in any sector.
Global digital service technical establishment today is relatively simple – but can you define your organization’s digital business model? The World’s best innovations are now start-ups – but how do you find and take advantage of them?
IT unit is not worth the candle to hide under a bushel: many organizations, it is the only unit that has years of experience in outsourcing, ecosystems, end-user support, networks, standards, master data, security, and architecture management.
Negligible Nor is it that on this day every IT professional is already used to working in a global, virtual environment.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/blogit/CIO_100_blogi/huomiseksi+teollinen+internet/a968301
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Roaming: 300 million extra customers for telecoms companies when roaming charges end, survey shows
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-152_en.htm
94% of Europeans who travel outside their home country limit their use of services like Facebook, because of mobile roaming charges, according to a new survey of 28,000 EU citizens. The European Commission calculates that telecoms companies are missing out on a market of around 300 million phone users because of current pricing strategies, with negative effects for other businesses such as app makers.
At the same time as booming use of mobile at home, especially use of mobile data, other effects of roaming premiums include:
47% would never use mobile internet in another EU country.
Only 1 out of 10 would use e-mails in the same way as at home
More than a quarter of us simply switch off our mobiles when we travel in the EU
Millions divert to SMS rather than pay for calls
Frequent travellers – the most lucrative section of the potential market – are more likely to switch-off their mobile phone data roaming capabilities than the occasional travellers. The Commission believes this is because frequent travellers are better informed about the real costs of data roaming in Europe than less frequent travellers.
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Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/021714-ipv4-278692.html
In February 2011, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries. At the time, experts warned that within months all available IPv4 addresses in the world would be distributed to ISPs.
The day of reckoning still looms – it’s just been pushed out as the major Internet players have developed ingenious ways to stretch those available numbers.
ARIN currently has “approximately 24 million IPv4 addresses in the available pool for the region,” according to President and CEO John Curran. They’re available to ISPs large and small, but Curran predicts they will all likely be handed out by “sometime in 2014.”
So, why hasn’t everyone just switched over to IPv6?
Well, IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4, meaning network operators need to run a dual stack IPv4/IPv6 network for years to come.
“Service providers didn’t want to implement IPv6 because the content providers weren’t there, and content providers didn’t want to implement it because the service providers weren’t there.”
The Internet Society also makes ongoing measurements of IPv6 deployment on its World IPv6 Launch site. It shows that 13 percent of the Alexa Top 1,000 websites are currently reachable over IPv6.
No one seems willing to predict a date by which the last IPv4 packet will traverse the Internet backbone, but we are seeing clear progress toward IPv6 critical mass
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Merkel Backs Plan to Keep European Data in Europe
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/world/europe/merkel-backs-plan-to-keep-european-data-in-europe.html?hp&_r=0
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has embraced proposals to create European data networks that would keep emails and other communications on the European side of the Atlantic, farther from prying American eyes, and said she would raise the matter this week with President François Hollande of France.
“We will, above all, discuss which European providers we have who offer security for our citizens,” Ms. Merkel said on Saturday in her weekly podcast.
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Killing Net Neutrality Helps Underdogs Succeed
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/02/oh-cries-net-neutrality-comcast-time-warner-merger/
We’ve already seen four net neutrality controversies this year … and it’s still only February.
The debate is really about who pays for — and who profits from — the increasingly elaborate infrastructure required to make the internet do something it was never designed to do in the first place: stream high-speed video.
Editor’s note: Two independent perspectives were combined below (the first one is by Berin Szoka, president of TechFreedom; the second one is by Brent Skorup, Research Fellow at Mercatus Center).
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Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=87B5BFC7-C429-CB17-96ADA43C842BA582
In February 2011, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries. At the time, experts warned that within months all available IPv4 addresses in the world would be distributed to ISPs.
Where are we headed?
“Today, over 25 percent (and growing) of Comcast’s Xfinity Internet customers are actively provisioned with native dual-stack broadband Internet service. Native IPv6 support has been deployed to over 75 percent of our broadband network, and our goal is 100 percent in early 2014.”
Not all service providers have been as proactive, however. According to Internet Society measurements, Verizon shows no IPv6 presence.
All the major enterprise router vendors, and most vendors of small office routers, offer products with IPv6 support.
As with IPv6 deployment among access providers, deployment among content providers is growing.
However, while the shape of the curve is encouraging, in absolute terms the number of users accessing Google via IPv6 is barely above 3% of all users. Still, “that’s more than double what it was a year ago,”
13 percent of the Alexa Top 1,000 websites are currently reachable over IPv6
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Out in the Open: Automate Your Home With Your Own Personal SkyNet
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/skynet/
HeatSync Labs sits just off Main Street in Mesa, Arizona. This public hacker space offers a workshop where engineers and programmers can build whatever they like, and as you might expect, it’s littered with clever little gadgets that can talk to the internet.
“Every day, we come up with a new thing we want to automate,” explains HeatSync Labs board member Luis Montes.
The trouble is that each little gadget makes life more complicated for the lab. In addition to writing new code and piecing together new hardware for each gadget, hackers must setup and maintain the servers that keep the gadgets running. If they create enough them, these automated tools become more of a hassle than a convenience.
That’s why Montes wants to move all of them under the control of a single open source system created by one of the hackers who hangs out at HeatSync. The system is called SkyNet,
If you can connect a device or application to the internet, you can connect it to SkyNet.
at least one company is already thinking about using SkyNey in commercial applications
http://skynet.im/
“The idea is that you can load SkyNet Firmware on any Arduino compatible device or board,”
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Node-RED
A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things
http://nodered.org/
A lightweight, browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows and deploy in a single click.
Any part of a flow can be imported or exported using JSON for easy sharing and collaborative development.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Introducing Revolv:
Smart Home Awesomation on your Smart Phone.
http://revolv.com/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Internet of Things If This, Then That
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/internet-of-things-ifttt/
You see, there’s a motion sensor in Andersson’s room, and it’s connected to his household lighting system by way of an internet service called IFTTT, short for “If This, Then That.” The same service connects his scale to his coffeemaker, and he arranged all of this without writing a line of code. He simply bought a few pieces of hardware, hooked them up, and tinkered with the web service to ensure all the pieces could talk to each other.
“But with IFTTT, I don’t have to code anything.”
The dream of an automated home full of connected appliances — aka The Internet of Things — isn’t the vaporware it once was.
IFTTT — and alternatives like the open source alternative Hugin or the business-oriented service Zapier — have become a standard part of the Quantified Self toolkit, letting users automate and analyze their lives.
At the moment, IFTTT only works with pre-selected services.
Tomi Engdahl says:
E2000 connector has 0.1-dB insertion loss, 80-dB return loss
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2014/02/tde-e2000.html
The connector includes a zirconia ceramic ferrule.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hybrid fiber, power cable system speeds small cell deployment
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2014/02/te-hybrid-power-fiber-small-cells.html
TE claims that the powered fiber cable system has a reach greater than 10x the distance of PoE+ cables. The ability to transport power farther makes it possible to place small cells exactly where they are needed
The system is designed for low power DC transmission (NEC Class II), eliminating the need for highly-skilled electricians.
Tomi Engdahl says:
TIA applauds FCC’s stance on IP transition tests
http://www.cablinginstall.com/articles/2014/02/tia-fcc-ip-transition.html
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) says it applauds the FCC and its chairman Tom Wheeler for unanimously voting to allow communication networks to conduct pilot programs that would examine any possible issues that may arise during the transition to Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
Tomi Engdahl says:
At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They’re Watching You
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/business/at-newark-airport-the-lights-are-on-and-theyre-watching-you.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
171 recently installed LED fixtures.
light fixtures are the backbone of a system that is watching
Using an array of sensors and eight video cameras around the terminal, the light fixtures are part of a new wireless network that collects and feeds data into software that can spot long lines, recognize license plates and even identify suspicious activity, sending alerts to the appropriate staff.
the systems hold the promise of better management of security as well as energy, traffic and people
The light fixtures are outfitted with special chips and connect to sensors, cameras and one another over a wireless network.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Is pCell the Holy Grail of wireless networking?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57619072-94/is-pcell-the-holy-grail-of-wireless-networking/
Steve Perlman believes his company’s pCell technology will revolutionize the wireless industry, eliminating congestion, dead zones, and unreliable connections.
pCell, which stands for “personal cell,” exploits interference rather than avoiding it as in conventional wireless networks.
pCell is based on DIDO (Distributed-Input-Distributed-Output) technology, a cloud wireless system dependent on DIDO data centers running on industry-standard processors and Linux, according to a white paper (PDF) by Perlman and chief scientist Antonio Forenza.
It’s those data centers that are key: they’re able to separate traffic from different devices into multiple channels
pCell can also run LTE and other wireless protocols at the same time.
Perlman shows streaming 1080p video at 10 MHz on laptops over an LTE cellular connection
Tomi Engdahl says:
AT&T, IBM partner on Internet of Things for smart cities, utilities
The companies said they will combine their analytic platforms, cloud and security technologies with a focus on privacy. AT&T will manage sensors’ communications and tracking happening over the cellular network and IBM will use its analytics platforms.
Read more: AT&T, IBM partner on Internet of Things for smart cities, utilities – FierceWireless http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/att-ibm-partner-internet-things-smart-cities-utilities/2014-02-18#ixzz2tkrc2eeC
Tomi Engdahl says:
Telecom operator AT & T and IBM IT house will take a joint effort to pry the Internet of Things useful and productive future.
In October, AT & T andGE announced a collaboration with GE’s Industrial Internet project within the scope of devices communicate with AT & T’s wireless networks. The project workers are expected to follow, and controlling devices via the Internet.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.digitoday.fi/data/2014/02/19/ibm-ja-att-tekevat-esineiden-internetista-rahasampoa/20142459/66?rss=6
Tomi Engdahl says:
EU hunts down online cross-border lawbook bureaucra-snaggles
But are they dangerous to biz? Commish to ‘assess’ risks
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/19/eu_to_assess_risks_of_conflicting_laws_that_apply_online/
The European Commission is to conduct an “in-depth review” of the risks present in conflicting laws and jurisdictions that apply online.
The Commission’s communication also called for a change in the way the internet is governed. It called for the globalisation of ICANN, the body that oversees the identification of websites, and IANA, the body that is responsible for responsible internet protocol resources such as domain names and IP addresses.
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes said: “Some are calling for the International Telecommunications Union to take control of key Internet functions.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
TeliaSonera takes as a Scandinavian, the first operator to test the new speed of up gigabit copper connections. Equipment suppliers in Helsinki and Stockholm tests operates a Chinese Huawei.
t is April, the International Telecommunication Union ITU on completion G.Fast new standard, which promises gigabit data rate in the homes of up to 250 meters from the center. TeliaSonera will launch the test services to use.
Source: Elektroniikkalehti
http://www.elektroniikkalehti.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=977:sonera-testaamaan-gigabitin-kuparia&catid=13&Itemid=101
Tomi Engdahl says:
Machines between M2M connections will grow this year to 250 million.
Last year, the number of connections was 195 million according to the GSMA report.
For the period 2010-2013 the number of connections increased by 40 percent per year.
Of all the operators in the world, 40 percent are involved in the M2M traffic (=428 different operators in 187 countries).
It is clear that M2M is shifting rapidly towards mass-market. The fastest-growing M2M’s use is in cars.
Source: Elektroniikkalehti
http://www.elektroniikkalehti.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=974:tana-vuonna-neljannesmiljardi-m2m-yhteytta&catid=13&Itemid=101