By David Sims
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The news as of the first (iced) coffee this morning, and the
music is Elvis’s “Kentucky Rain,” just everything a great song should be:
We’ll start off with one for the pocket protector set:
Japan’s Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is
announcing that it has succeeded in transmitting
160Gb/s data, which is equivalent to transmitting four movies of two hours
each, in a single second over 396
miles.
This experiment was conducted as part of the “Research and
Development on Ultrahigh-speed Backbone Photonic Network Technologies” project,
consigned by National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology. Oki used an optical testbed
provided by Japan Gigabit Network II, and succeeded in transmitting world’s
first 160Gb/s data, that included high-vision video.
The optical testbed offered by JGN II is an optical fiber, single
mode optical fiber 63.5km x 10 fiber cables, installed between Open Laboratory
in Kyoto and Dojima Relay Station in Osaka. At each connection point an optical
amplifier similar to a relay station for commercial-use 10Gb/s data
transmissions, and a dispersion compensation fiber were installed.
Oki’s saying this is the world’s first transmission of signal
evaluation data simultaneous with high-vision video. Harushige Sugimoto, Senior
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Oki Electric, says the test
proves that “it can be used for backbone lines such as the super high-speed
optical communication between Tokyo and Osaka,” 312 miles apart, “which is 16
times higher in speed than the 10Gb/s systems that are commercialized.”
Sugimoto thinks that 160Gb/s optical transmission is “the
next generation super high-speed optical transmission technology to be
commercialized after 2010.”
…
I get as many fraud e-mails and cheap Viagra ads as the
next small business owner, but this one is One Of The Funniest Ones I’ve Gotten
Recently:
I Am Prince Nana Opuku
Asare Jr. I Am 37 Years And The Eldest Male Child Of Late, Chief Kwesi Opoku
Asare the Late Traditional Ruler of the Central Region Ghana. Our Father Died
On 16th June 2004 leaving the bereaved family with 102 Kilos of Au Gold Dust as
legacy…
Gold dust. From the dead “traditional ruler.” Somewhere in
Ghana. Wait, I’m sure I have my bank account number here somewhere to give this
guy, hang on a sec.
...
That Little Ol’ Software Company From Redmond
would like you to know that since their
introduction of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 last December, it has been
deployed by a broad range of enterprise-scale businesses:
Just recently H&R Block has added 500 seats to what was
a deployment of 1,500, and plan to have 6,000 seats soon. AGFirst Farm Credit
Bank has 1,500 seats, Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA, an Italian multinational
pharmaceutical company, as those of you who read Italian have divined, is going
with 500 seats and Maccabi Healthcare Services in Israel runs 1,200.
Microsoft says one reason companies like Dynamics CRM is the
“familiar and consistent user experience based on Microsoft Office and
Microsoft Office Outlook,” and they’ve got a point, we all like what’s
familiar. As Joy Baer, chief executive officer of Spot Buy Spot LLC says “everyone
already lives in Outlook.”
Oh, hey, and Quiznos is using it too.
…
I said this
yesterday in a different place, and I still think it would work: Has
there ever -- ever -- been a more
soulfully sweet voice than Smokey Robinson’s? I think not. If this guy
read compromise terms to the Arabs and Israelis we’d have permanent peace in the Middle East.
Here’s how it would go:
Smokey: You will
divide the West Bank here, and Jerusalem here, and stop all suicide bombings,
okay?
Israeli negotiator:
(sighing) Sounds beautiful.
Arab spokesman: I
second that emotion.
…
GlobeTel Communications Corp. appears to have
conceded their much-publicized Russian WiMax deal.
CEO Timothy Huff has released a statement saying “On March
2, we advised our shareholders that Internafta requested an additional delay in
the closing of the funding until the week of March 6… Internafta advised us
that its funding has been approved by its bank syndicate, subject only to the
bank’s final review and analysis of this GTE business plan.”
But after two previous delays in securing the funding
necessary for the splashy project, Huff says, “we have agreed to a continuance
of the contract with Internafta until the end of this week, pending a final
decision by Internafta’s bank regarding a funding commitment secured by
Internafta’s assets.”
Should such a funding commitment not be forthcoming by the
end of this week, “or unless the banking syndicate provides written assurances
to GlobeTel of the imminent delivery of such commitment,” however, Huff concludes
that “GlobeTel will have no choice but to exercise its right to default the
contract for non-payment.”
It’s probably a good time for GlobeTel to throw in their
hand and looking elsewhere. In related news, the company has announced the appointment of Floyd Bradley
as Managing Director of its GlobeTel Wireless subsidiary. Bradley will be
initially based in Florida at the national headquarters of GlobeTel Wireless.
…
EPlus Inc., a vendor of Enterprise Cost
Management products, has announced that ePlus Technology, Inc., the company’s
wholly owned subsidiary of integrated professional services and direct sales, has entered into a contractual agreement
with BCE Elix, a Bell Canada contact center company, whereby BCE Elix will
provide business consulting, professional services, application development,
and support services for contact center clients.
EPlus has been working in IT sourcing and hardware and
software technology products to both the public and private sectors across a
number of vertical markets, and BCE Elix has contact center expertise.
EPlus’ “widespread resources in the United States will
enable BCE Elix to extend its geographical operations area,” ePlus officials
say, while BCE Elix’s “in-depth knowledge of the contact center industry will
enable ePlus to use its expertise in another market niche.”
Andy Shulman, national Cisco practice manager at ePlus,
noted that contact center projects are very complex and require specialized
skill sets.
…
Inter-Tel has announced the general availability of Contact Center
Suite Version 4.0, offering a number of new and enhanced features,
including media blending, improved call routing, advanced reporting tools and
simplified administration designed to enable small- and mid-size businesses to
effectively manage customer communications through multiple mediums such as
voice, e-mail, voice mail, or fax.
…
And bear in mind: It
is the Ides
of March today, so beware of Greeks bearing gifts, or Italians
coming up to give you a friendly pat on the back.
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