networking

The people at Fujitsu laboratories said they have come up with a solution that will make it easier for us to access and manage our digital content.  The marketing department hasn’t come up with a name for it yet, I will just call it, ‘the solution’.  Fujitsu said this with this solution you will be able to access files at home or in the cloud and be able to edit them from any mobile device.

The reason for this new solution said Fujitsu is to reduce the cost of cloud storage and to make it easier for us to access and manage our digital content on the go.

The CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) judges have done their examination and have release the 2014 International CES list of Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Award Honorees. The judges look products across 28 consumer electronics product categories; they have also added extra categories this year: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing and Wearable Technologies. The "Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Award" honors products and solutions that demonstrate outstanding design and engineering advancements. The CEA said they saw a record number of entries this year (See Photos).

Apple has made public what I have suspected from a long time, they want a share of the home automation market.  In addition to that they want your location data collected by their iPhone, ipad etc., to provide the service. In 2010/2011 Apple came under a lot of pressure to say why they were collecting customers location data and what they were doing with it.

Deutsche Telekom recently announced that they are partnering with DSP Group, a wireless chipset manufacture, to trial the use of ULE (Ultra Low Energy) technology in Deutsche Telekom’s Speedport Home Gateway. ULE is seen by many as an important part to next-generation home networking and a preferred solution to offering connected home services.

After last year’s success in China, the HomePlug Alliance is going back this year to host the Connected Home Summits. Unlike last year Chinese Technology Summits where they did two shows, this year they are doing three from November 11 to 15 in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenshen.   Exclusive to the Beijing summit there will be a panel which include China’s Government Officials and moderated by CWW's Editor-in-Chief Yang Hai-Feng.

More and more services are moving online, which before would come to us physically or we would go where it is. This increase in digital services has put a lot of pressure on broadband service providers to offer better internet speed to download and upload data. It does not matter where we live we want the same quality of service.  The challenge some of these service providers face is it is not feasible possible to have the same quality service in every area they serve. This is where VDSL and LTE come in useful, both increasing internet speed for wired and wireless internet users.

For a long time supporters of Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH), me included, have been shouting that service providers need to bite the bullet and invest in FTTH. Seeing the news coming out of this year’s Broadband World Forum, there is still life left in the good old copper. This week, Huawei announced that they are working with BT, the UK’s leading broadband supplier to trial the use of G.fast broadband solution for the UK.

Zigbee Alliance and the ECHONET consortium have recently announced plans to develop a certification program for products based on ECHONET standards.  This will be based on ECHONET Lite products using the ZigBee IP wireless mesh networking communications protocol.  Now designers and implementers will have the peace of mind knowing that products that are certified meet the required standards to interoperate seamlessly.

According to a study done by Cisco, the Internet of Everything (IoE) is big business. The global sector is expected to generate in excess of $600 Billion in global profits for private-sector businesses this year alone. Cisco interviewed IT leaders in 12 countries across 7,500 global business.  They found that the United States, China and Germany are expected to realize the greatest value from the technology.

To add more flexibility to its network StarHub has deployed two content delivery solutions from Broadpeak. The two Broadpeak content delivery networks (CDN) and video-on-demand (VOD) servers has boost StarHub backend and enable the company to deliver content in a variety of formats, including Apple HTTP Live Streaming.