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Hotspot 2.0, 802.11ac and NFV driving carrier WiFi equipment market
Infonetics has reported the global carrier WiFi equipment market totaled $713 million in 2015. The other findings disclosed by Infonetics includes: The market has grown consistently year-over-year since 2007, initially due to the proliferation of WiFi as a hotspot service, but increasingly dr
3 min readNew chips from Realtek enhance datarate on twisted pair and coax to over 1Gbps
Realtek says its new RTL986x family Fibre to the Distribution Point (FTTdp) chips can increase the data rate on copper twisted pair and coax to over 1Gbps at 100 meter distance. RTL9864 quad port G.fast transceiver can be cascaded to support higher port count systems in Distribution Point Unit (D
1 min read40Gb Ethernet revenue grew 59.7% in 2Q2015, finds IDC
IDC estimates the worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) produced revenues of $5.8 billion in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15), an increase of 1.0% year over year and an increase of 7.6% quarter over quarter. Other market research findings shared by IDC includes: The worldwide total en
5 min readEtherCAT slave controller IC with real-time response support
Germany-based motion control semiconductor chip manufacturer, Trinamic has launched Ethercat slave controller IC. The new TMC8460 slave controller features PWM and Step/Dir I/O peripherals that do not require routing through the firmware of an application processor to ensure real-time response witho
2 min readAlliances for interoperability and network connectivity in IOT
Interoperability and network connectivity are two major issues in IOT design. Both are giving opportunity to a new wave of products and services. AllSeen Alliance, a cross industry IOT alliance is working on the interoperability issues by launching AllJoyn Device System Bridge (DSB) to make the leg
4 min readFDD/TDD carrier aggregation helps LTE data speed and coverage improvement
The demand for speed is helping LTE market to grow faster. Infonetics says LTE revenue grew 69 percent in 2014 from the previous year. Mobile traffic demand is expected to grow nine times by 2020. To address the growing demand of mobile Internet, service providers using a concept called FDD/T
3 min readSkyworks to open a design centre in San Diego to research on 4G/5G and IOT
GaAs based RF semiconductor chip maker Skyworks is opening design center and laboratory facility in San Diego, California to develop technologies related to 4G/5G protocols and the Internet of Things. Skyworks Centre is scheduled to be operational in July 2015. Skyworks has recently announced Io
1 min readTerahertz wireless link matching optical speed tested by IEMN
French research laboratory Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN) able to successfully demonstrate high-speed wireless communication data at a transmission speeds of 400 GHz using advanced signal coding (up to QAM-16) and key advanced THz devices. IEMN has combined
2 min readGCT's advanced LTE Chip powers new Modacom 4G Router in Japan
GCT Semiconductor's advanced LTE chip GDM7243M powers the new 4G LTEhome router, the URoad-Home 2+, developed by Modacom and is recently launched by UQ Communications (UQ) in Japan. 4G LTEhome router supports 110 Mbps downlink due to GDM7243M support for Category 4 FDD/TDD-LTE and was fully certi
1 min readAvago to acquire Broadcom: really a wide and broad comm semiconductor co.
Avago to acquire Broadcom for approximate US$37 Billion ( $17 billion in cash and equity valued at approximately $20 billion). This acquisition creates a big communications semiconductor company covering from the fibre-optic high-speed communication semiconductor devices to IOT enabling Bluetooth wi
3 min readLTE baseband processors' sales overtook 3G baseband in 2014
Strategy Analytics reported the global cellular baseband processor market grew an impressive 14.1 percent year-over-year to reach $22.1 billion in calendar year 2014. The other findings and comments by the Strategy Analytics includes: Based on this research from Strategy Analytics, Qualcomm, Me
2 min readHigh speed 5G research: 10 Gbps speeds in a 5G test demo by Nokia
Though full-fledged implementation of 5G networks is still looks to be anywhere around two or three years from now, but there are interesting technology demonstrations happening more frequently. At the recently held Brooklyn 5G summit in US, Nokia Networks demonstrated 5G network with the speed of
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