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The Real Reason Trump Blocked the Broadcom, Qualcomm Merger
U.S. regulators will often stop mergers and acquisitions because they are bad for the public in some way. Too much market control could inflate prices wildly, etc. When deals are killed it isn't always obvious why. Sometimes they are disallowed...
Diverse Broadband Roots Gives Hughes an SD-WAN Edge
One of the most demanding communications environments is satellite where bandwidth can be extremely limited yet real-time communications is a necessity as soldiers need to communicate with others - potentially thousands of miles from the battlefield. Over the years, VoIP...
Why Professionals Say to Avoid Nest
Nest thermostats look gorgeous but if your equipment isn't compatible, you are in for a lot of trouble setting up your thermostats. Having a 50-year-old home with AC and baseboard heat has made it difficult to get these devices to...
Senet LoRaWAN IoT Network Has Great Start on Global Ambitions
We estimate LPWAN connectivity could power half of the world’s IoT devices in the next five years. With range of more than ten miles and devices running on a single battery for a decade, we expect sensors and other IoT...
IoT Connectivity Standards? Still a Confusing Mess.
62 million European households will soon have smart gas meters as reported on IoT Evolution with an annual growth rate of 27.8 percent until 2022.We recently reported that the U.S. was behind Europe in LoRa deployments so when we saw...
Thanks to Actility, Comcast may Build Largest U.S. LoRa Network
There is a race to roll out the largest LoRa network as eventually trillions of devices will need a low-power way to communicate at distance For this reason Actility is powering Comcast’s efforts to deploy LoRa gateways in their set-top...
Netsnapper Brings SD-WAN to IoT and IIoT
Many M2M devices need to be securely and persistently connected over a variety of transports such as satellite, WiFi, LTE, etc. Increased persistence can increase pressure on security as the longer devices are connected, the greater the chance of them...
Extreme: Enterprise Networks Needs More Simplification, Orchestration and Automation
The holy grail of any company should be networks which never go down, don’t need an expensive network operations center (NOC) and are easy to manage. I recently sat down with Seema Kumar (left), Director of Product/Solutions Marketing and...
NYC or France, Where Would You Locate Your Company?
New York City – whose moniker is “The City that Never Sleeps” has pushed to ensure your company never sleeps and in today’s connected and digital economy, this may be the difference between success and failure.If you had a chance...
LinkNYC: The Ultimate Sin Hub in your Neighborhood
Once upon a time you had to travel to Las Vegas to live the Sin City Experience but why bother when new York can bring it right to your neighborhood. The idea behind LinkNYC is fantastic - free internet access...
You Can Now Use your Phone on the Plane
The latest Windows 10 update makes it easier than ever to bring your mobile lifestyle onto an airplane. If you go into Settings and then Network & Internet, under Mobile hotspot, you can turn the service on and set a...
How GigSky Made #MWC Easy for Me
I've used GigSky now a few years in Europe to keep me connected while at Mobile World Congress. I plugged the GigSky SIM into a Huawei MiFi and was able to work like a champ - getting email, doing internet...
Accuris Networks Helps Stich Together Cellular and WiFi Networks for Carriers and ISPs
This past week saw the launch of a plethora of new Apple devices – specifically two new phones which will shoot and edit 4K video as well as a new iPad Pro which sports a massive 5.6 million pixels. Moreover,...
Aerohive adds Ease of Use, Massive Dell Distribution Network
Aerohive told me in 2010 they were hell-bent on world-domination in the WiFi space. Very cool and certainly not your typical tech interview. Sure, its not break-the-internet worthy but still, an awesome approach IMO. Cisco, "Bring it on." They used...
Shocking Bang & Olufsen Profit Warning
Generally, I don’t write about profit warnings but the latest one from B&O caught me by surprise because the luxury market is booming and the consumer electronics market is doing amazingly well yet Bang & Olufsen is not seeing sales...
Birdstep Improves Wireless User Experience, Reduces Churn
A smartphone user can get tripped up easily when in motion as today’s smartphones look for WiFi networks to connect to and oftentimes aren’t able to fully connect to such signals, meaning a phone’s broadband connection can be in limbo....
Sonos BOOST, For Music in Tough to Reach Places
I’ve been using Sonos as an in-home streaming solution for many years and since it relies on WiFi it provides infinite levels of flexibility in speaker placement. However, since it is wireless, there are times when things don’t work perfectly....
Ethertronics Active Steering Boosts LTE Antenna Throughput 30%
One of the biggest challenges facing smartphone users is keeping the devices connected at all times. After all, the trend towards storing more data in the cloud means in order to access increasing amounts of information, you need a fast...
Rich Tehrani Thoughts From California
I've been on the road in Vegas and California over the past ten days or so. Here are my thoughts. The Venetian Rocks First off, the Venetian has remodeled its rooms and they are amazingly comfortable and some of the...
Panasonic A500 Wearable Tech Shoots 4K Video
Were you wondering how you can shoot 4K video without even having to use your hands? Well, Panasonic has the answer… A wearable 4K camera that straps around the arm and is connected to your head. In situations where you...
Boingo, GigSky, XCom: Why my Europe Connectivity was Awesome
A while back, I had a chance to go to MWC (news and analysis) in Barcelona, Spain and like many of you who travel internationally, I was concerned about my cellular bill as I enjoy the relative generosity of multigigabyte...
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Wants to Boost Your Application Fluency
Updated April 3rd 2014: added "Enterprise" after each mention of Alcaterl-Lucent and clarified the role of the coprocessor in the E series model.Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise recently made a number of intriguing enterprise announcements regarding new hardware and software to enable companies...
How Nordstrom Has Adopted The Latest Technology
For about two decades we have heard about the death of brick-and-mortar at the hands of technology like the Internet but Nordstrom’s is one retailer who seems to be embracing many aspects of technology in order to boost sales not...
Aruba Networks Shows WiFi Can Boost Retail Traffic
Aruba Networks had a few interesting announcements recently at Mobile World Congress 2013 and the first one shows how WiFi can be used as a differentiator and driver of retail traffic. In a deployment with NTT Broadband Platform or NTTBP...
xCom Global's International Wireless Solution is Fantastic
Perhaps the best part of my trip to Barcelona, Spain to visit Mobile World Congress 2013 was not having to worry about wireless broadband the entire time I was there. You see I was sent a review unit of...
