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Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo The retinal implant receives a signal via wireless transmission, encodes it into specific patterns of stimulation pulses that are conducted through a cable to the electrode array that stimulates the retina. [21 Aug 2009]
Delivering High-Speed Wireless Commercial Services With Canopy Cable
White Paper Wireless commercial services present tremendous opportunities for cable operators to increase revenues while building long-term bonds with business customers. Canopy Cable allows... [15 Aug 2009]
Businesses set to show fixed mobile convergence some love - finally
News While the technology has some big name backers among the telcos - both BT and Cable and Wireless offer FMC services - take up has yet to match the early hype. FMC (fixed mobile convergence) might not... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: Intel's experimental tech unveiled
Photo Intel hopes the technology will be useful for charging devices without wires and possibly within devices such as a laptop, which today carries power from a battery to its screen through a flexible but fallible cable. [22 Jun 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment Cable &Wireless' operations director, Phil Male, is another critic - pointing out that high capacity connections can still be expensive for businesses and that Ethernet is "not widely available". The... [19 Jun 2009]
'Digital Britain snubbing UK businesses'
News The government's interim Digital Britain report doesn't offer enough help for business, according to a senior Cable & Wireless executive. Phil Male, operations director at Cable &... [15 Jun 2009]
3Com Case Study: St Michaels Collegiate College (Australia)
White Paper If a lesson required Internet usage, the only options were to book the Computer Lab or physically cable a maximum of seven laptops into a classroom. St Michaels deployed 3Com Wireless LAN solution which... [12 Jun 2009]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile During his 30-plus years in IT, Taylor has held CIO posts at textiles giant Courtaulds, Cable & Wireless and EMI Music. Career highlights include leading EMI through the year 2000 and the advent of... [03 Jun 2009]
Virgin Media trials 200Mbps broadband
News Broadband speed freaks take note: cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media has upped the ante by announcing a trial of 200Mbps broadband - four times faster than its current fastest fat pipe service. The ISP claims it is... [08 May 2009]
Adaptive Modulation (QPSK, QAM)
White Paper These modulation techniques are the basis of communications for systems like cable modems, DSL modems, CDMA, 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) and WiMAX (IEEE 802.16). Techniques described include quadrature phase shift keying... [04 May 2009]
350,000 NHS email accounts Exchanged in massive migration
News Cable & Wireless, which supplies the NHSmail service, started the migration process in January and 12 weeks later, the NHSmail accounts of 1,381 organisations across England and Scotland had been moved... [29 Apr 2009]
Deploying Mobile WiMAX Networks
White Paper WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is described by the WiMAX Forum as "A standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to... [23 Apr 2009]
Delivering on the Promise of WiMAX
White Paper WiMAX is a wide-coverage, high capacity wireless internet technology offering coverage comparable to a PCS telephone network and with speeds reaching those of a wired DSL or Cable internet service. WiMAX... [23 Apr 2009]
WiMAX Opportunities in the Broadcast Environment
White Paper While Wi-Fi was developed to cover small areas such as a home, coffee shop or office floor, WiMAX is intended to deliver 'Last mile' wireless broadband access over large coverage areas - typically as an alternative to... [23 Apr 2009]
Signaling Cost Evaluation of Centralized Scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks
White Paper To achieve long distance network access, the wired technologies, such as Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL), cable, and T1, are applying higher cost and lower elasticity than wireless network. IEEE 802.16... [23 Apr 2009]
