over-capacity in news
Femtocells to save mobile operators over $5bn?
News The $5.3bn savings are based on the assumption that without femtocells operators would have to spend some $9bn on beefing up network coverage to take extra traffic - a figure which presupposes a third of this traffic will be handled by utilising... [13 Aug 2008]
Interference on the radar for FCC "white space"
News Several technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Motorola, have been lobbying the FCC for more than a year to open up these channels, which would provide between 300MHz to 400MHz of unlicensed spectral capacity throughout the country... [12 Aug 2008]
Google ups Search Appliance index
News Google has expanded the capacity of its Search Appliance and made other improvements to the customised server that lets people search their company's documents. Google doesn't disclose prices for higher-level models, which include features such as... [06 Aug 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Cern has not got the capacity to solely process the vast amount of data on site. Sansum said RAL and the GridPP are prepared for the LHC going live: "We have run it up to 250 to 300 Mbps each way sustained over several days so far. [15 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News When all of your machines and network links are running at capacity, XML is an extremely expensive proposition. Various other methods exist for passing encoded data over networks but Google found none of them suited its particular need - which was... [11 Jul 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Taking this approach means the tech could be used to help build out next generation networks - providing coverage and capacity quickly, and at a lower cost, than if an operator had to construct a fully fledged network before launching any services. [30 Jun 2008]
London Stock Exchange to ramp up electronic trading
News The exchange said capacity on the platform has increased tenfold over the last 12 months and it has contributed to an 82 per cent growth in trading volumes on Sets (the Exchange's single platform for the trading of the constituents of the FTSE All... [20 Jun 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News Unless there is sufficient investment into new infrastructure, the increased bandwidth demands of new advanced services could well outstrip capacity. Ryberg added that operators already put caps on data plans and often do not deliver advertised... [20 Jun 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News We are radically altering the capacity of the data network. FMC will allow staff to rely on one mobile phone, which will route calls over Tesco's internal network or via an external provider depending on their location. [28 May 2008]
LSE volumes boosted by trading system
News The Exchange's new trading platform was launched in June 2007 to provide significantly increased capacity and enables customers to trade at much higher frequency and with greater certainty of execution. [27 May 2008]
Barclays banks on offshore
News Speaking at the FT Global Outsourcing and Offshoring Conference, Stiller said: "As Barclays grows globally we require additional capacity to service our clients at scale even for small volume markets. [15 May 2008]
Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
News Ames director, Pete Worden, said the massive performance boost will fulfil Nasa's increasing need for capacity for future missions and scientific research. Back in July 2007, Nasa signed a supercomputer support deal with Computer Sciences... [09 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost
News But keeping up with other UK broadband players such as O2 - which Fogg said has recently started heavily marketing its ADSL2+ product - the company will need to upgrade equipment in exchanges and boost line capacity to cope with demand for higher... [09 May 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News However, now Microsoft OOXML has been ratified as an international standard - ISO/IEC 29500 - Bray said Microsoft would be unlikely to participate in the ongoing review process of the standard in any major capacity. [21 Apr 2008]
Ofcom primes WiMax spectrum auction
News However Ofcom notes there are a number of potential uses for the 2.6GHz spectrum - which it said can support high-speed, high-capacity mobile data connections - including mobile broadband wireless services via technologies such as WiMax or... [07 Apr 2008]
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