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It’s not every day that a test produces data that reverses a widely accepted belief: Effective throughput on wireless mesh networks is supposed to taper off to little more than 7 Mbit/s when traffic is backhauled over four or more nodes. In Iometrix’s first-ever series of independent IEEE 802.11 mesh tests, Strix Systems showed that its outdoor hardened OWS 2400 nodes spiked with multiple radios raise that bar fivefold to a steady 35 Mbit/s over multiple hops
Heavy Reading’s Links 2006 Executive Summit: The New Communications Order is a unique two-day colloquium that will bring together top-level executives from across the telecommunications and digital media value chains to debate and discuss the future of these rapidly changing, colliding, and increasingly interdependent industries. This two-day event on November 15 and 16 in Santa Barbara, Calif., will feature a golf tournament, a gala dinner with awards presentation, and a full-day conference with an unprecedented speaker lineup of executives from content, media, and service provider companies.
Connie Wong, CEO of Vidiator, explains what her company does (sort of) and describes how the online video market is evolving and how TV programmers can broadcast live to mobile phones using multicasting technology
Chris Ruff, President of UIEvolution, says handset technology and the ability for carriers to think beyond the first generation of wireless services are some of the issues holding up a real boom in the mobile video market
Tellabs CTO Tom Gruenwald talks about the evolution of fiber access equipment, the growth of IPTV, and what services we might see in 10 years, if bandwidth growth continues
