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ITU to promote interoperability of ICT products
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2009-11-04 01:32:57
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is to set up a global database that will log products' declaring conformity to ITU standards. The move is part of a wider ITU initiative designed to give purchasers of ICT equipment a much clearer picture of that equipment's ability to interoperate with other ICT devices.


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ITU's 4G 'Beauty contest' gets underway
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2009-10-25 19:20:08
Forget all those claims from WiMAX and cellular operators bragging about their 4G wireless technologies. No 4G technologies exist today. The International Telecommunication Union has just started evaluating candidate technologies for the global 4G mobile wireless broadband standard. It and expects to announce, in October 2010 those chosen to qualify as "true 4G technologies" - and that’s official!


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ITU approves universal cellphone charger standard
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2009-10-22 15:07:57
The ITU has given its stamp of approval to an energy-efficient one-size-fits-all new mobile phone charger.


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Industry heavyweights demand fewer standards bodies
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-10-12 00:35:51
The CTOs of some of the word's leading IT&T vendors - including Cisco and Microsoft - and some of the largest telcos - including BT, NTT and Telstra - have joined forces in a bid to rationalise what they see as an excess of different, and sometimes competing, organisations developing IT&T standards.


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ITU approves home powerline communications standard
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-10-11 00:38:39
The International Telecommunication Union's telecomms standards arm (ITU-T) has agreed upon the key components of the G.hn specification for carrying broadband communications, and other types of traffic over in-home mains wiring
 

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WiMAX v LTE-A: battle for the 4G wireless standard ramps up
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-10-06 21:46:44
The battle between the cellular and WIMAX camps for future 4G wireless networking standards ramped up this week with the IEEE formally submitting its 802.16m standard (the next iteration of today's 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard) to the ITU as a candidate radio interface technology for IMT-Advanced standardisation.


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Is your printer spying on you?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-09-30 06:45:57
Probably the last thing you are worried about is someone hacking into your printer. After all why would anyone want to do that?


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ETSI looks to identity management for "the Internet of Things"
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-24 02:52:51
The Future Internet will be an extremely complex world of numerous interconnected devices and services and with users already bemused by a bewildering array of connections, usernames and passwords a radically different approach will be needed.


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Axis supports ONVIF network video standard in 'spy' camera
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-09-21 22:15:22
It might not be the first company to deliver ONVIF compliant products, but networked camera specialist Axis has revealed the first of its products to support the open protocol.


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USB 3.0 on the way
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Hardware

2009-09-21 03:14:43
A chip company is set to demonstrate its USB 3.0 to SATA bridge chip this week, and a research firm is tipping adoption of the new standard beginning next year with rapid takeup.


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Ratification of 802.11n WLAN standard will usher in new features
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-12 17:45:33
Seven years after it kicked off the process the IEEE has ratified the 802.11n WLAN standard. 'Draft n' products have been on the market for several years,' but, ratification will see a new wave of innovation because to date these products have implemented only a small subset of features available in the standard, says 802.11 working group member, Matthew Gast.


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IEEE standardises 10G EPON for FTTH networks
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-11 18:38:11
The IEEE Standards Board has announced the approval of an amendment to the ethernet standard (802.3) which adds a new specification for 10Gbps on point-to-multipoint passive optical networks used for FTTH rollouts like Australia's NBN.


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802.11n set for final approval, but the story's not over
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2009-09-08 17:28:55
Although the 802.11n standard should receive final approval this Friday, there's more to come in wireless networking.


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Alcatel-Lucent opens its GPON networks to other vendors' CPE
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-09-07 23:46:05
Alcatel-Lucent is taking what it says is a major step to help service providers create a true multivendor gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) infrastructure, expected to be the technology that will be used for Australia's National Broadband Network.


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Microsoft back down on IE8 $10,000 competition
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-06-19 22:16:33
Internet Explorer 8 could net you $10,000, but cost you your soul, judging by the feedback from certain sectors to Microsoft’s IE8-only competition. Microsoft has paid attention and now the "ten grand is buried here" competition no longer requires Internet Explorer be used.


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TALKINGtech selects Tripwire for PCI compliance
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-03-30 21:14:50

Tripwire, enterprise configuration control software provider, has been selected by TALKINGtech to implement a system to help it maintain compliance with the payment card industry data security standard (PCIDSS).


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Macquarie Telecom call on government over data centre strategy
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Government

2009-03-25 06:54:06

Macquarie Telecom has called on the Australian Government to ensure its data centre strategy, planned in response to the Gershon data centre recommendations, includes clear, environmental standards for individual data centres to be measured against.


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NetApp reaches Common Criteria EAL 4+
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-03-12 01:19:57
NetApp's DataFort and Lifetime Key Management have achieved Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification.


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Australia’s first GSM-based rail communication system for Melbourne
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Government

2009-03-02 08:17:28

Nokia Siemens is to implement the first GSM-based rail communication system in Australia with an upgrade of the Victorian urban rail network’s existing analog system in a contract valued at more than $150 million.


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Broadband over home wiring bodies unite to push ITU standard
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature

Category: Enterprise

2009-02-26 14:24:38
Universal Powerline Association & HomeGrid Forum have agreed to support the ITU's recently released G.hn standard for broadband networking over domestic power, coax and phone lines.


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