consumer downstream
How OEM Consumer Electronics Companies Can Dramatically Improve Profits Through Downstream Supply Chain Collaboration Directly With Retailers
White Paper With the nature of OEM Consumer Electronics manufacturers experiencing shrinking product lifecycles and the many business challenges impacting margins, there is no room for operational error or inefficiency. [28 Mar 2008]
Leveraging Telematics for Industrial Products
White Paper The potential value of telematics for industrial goods is greater than for consumer products because of the relatively high proportion of "downstream" costs for industrial products. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and equipment companies... [15 May 2004]
Constructing a Demand & Consumer-Driven Enterprise: A Framework for Utilizing Demand Signals
White Paper By utilizing accurate and timely downstream data from key retail trading partners, leading consumer goods companies are demonstrating improved business performance around key areas such as new product launches, promotions and supply chain operations. [07 Mar 2007]
Meeting Test Challenges for ADSL ICs
White Paper This asymmetric performance is ideal for market-driving consumer broadband applications like video and Internet access, where very high downstream rates are paramount, while minimal data moves upstream from the user to the CO. [02 Apr 2008]
GPRS is here, but it's late and it doesn't really work
News Speeds of over 100kbit/s have been quoted in early analyst reports and white papers, but BT's Motorola handsets will only be capable of a theoretical 28.8kbit/s downstream and 14.4 kbit/s upstream. The long-awaited consumer launch comes nearly a... [19 Apr 2001]
Is the game up for ISDN?
Comment ADSL, on the other hand, slows down to 16Kbps upstream and 2Mbps downstream over the same distance - although it is rare for the splitters in the local exchange to be that far away from the receivers in the users' premises. [10 Nov 1998]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM's branding nous, MS security lapses and government open source opportunities
Comment What the open source movement did to enhance the model was to formalise the arrangement by making all sharers of the source code abide by a legal agreement to share the fruits of their additional work and to prevent any downstream commercial... [03 Sep 2001]
Seagate Technology Improves Data Consistency and Eliminates Manual Coding With Human Resources Data Hub Based on Informatica Data Integration Platform
White Paper The company wanted to replace a complex legacy point-to-point Human Resources (HR) data infrastructure supplying data to more than 100 downstream applications with a streamlined HR data hub to reduce the time and cost of custom SQL integration... [14 Sep 2007]
Philadelphia to offer cheap broadband for whole city
News In contrast, Verizon just introduced a new 3Mbps downstream digital subscriber line tier that costs $30 a month and plans to lace houses with fiber-optic lines that are many times faster than DSL. Consumer groups are applauding the plan. [08 Apr 2005]
BT DSL under threat from cheap satellite broadband
News The service, called DirecWay, will be available across Europe and will offer 400kbps, but only downstream, with an uplink provided via a dial-up modem. Hughes Network Systems will shortly announce a broadband satellite service at a price comparable... [21 Aug 2001]
GPRS: Next generation phones hit shops
News Data speeds are around 30Kbs downstream and 10Kbs upstream - slower than many white papers were predicting a year or two ago, but still appreciably faster than GSM. The consumer launch comes nearly a year after BT announced the world's first live... [18 May 2001]
E-tailers missing out to the lure of the high street
News Joe Dickinson, survey leader and vice president of AT Kearney, said: "Many e-retailers skimp on basic front-end design and application investment, which leads to significant lost revenue and downstream costs. [06 Nov 2000]
SDSL pilot promises high-bandwidth data transfer
News Fibernet is to launch a pilot scheme of symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) networks for telcos and ISPs and will, unlike ADSL, herald the arrival of both voice and data transfer of up to 2Mbits upstream as well as downstream. [11 Oct 2000]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), near Oxford, has a 10-gigabit connection to Cern capable of 1,250Mbps upstream and downstream that will pipe in almost raw data from the LHC via the UK part of the LCG - the GridPP. [15 Jul 2008]
Broadband prices to fall in early 2003
News Primetime 2000 provides connections of 2Mbps downstream and 400Kbps upstream between 6pm and 8am on weeknights, and all weekend, reverting to 512Kbps at other times. The start-up cost of both consumer and business ADSL packages should fall in the... [13 Dec 2002]
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