Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor
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12th annual Sprint Open Solutions Conference to be held October 24-25 in San Jose
Sprint has announced that the 2012 Open Solutions Conference will be held in San Jose, California October 24-25. The two-day proceedings at the San Jose Conference Center are designed to bring developers and service providers together to contribute to the company’s open source strategy, focuses on platform and network solutions ranging from 4G LTE and optimization technologies to cloud and M2M strategies.
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BAE Systems' 3U CompactPCI SBC at Home on Mars in Curiosity Rover
The Curiosity rover landed on Mars late Sunday evening after traveling 36 weeks and across a 352 million mile expanse of space. Now safely at the base of Gale Crater on the Red Planet, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will begin a two-year scientific expedition powered not by boosters and rocket fuel, but by the Rover Computational Element (RCE) and CompactPCI Single Board Computers (SBCs).
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Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio leveraged by Sprint for High-Capacity 4G LTE Mobile Broadband
OVERLAND PARK and PARIS – Alcatel-Lucent and Sprint (NYSE: S) have announced an agreement to deploy lightRadio Metro Cells in high-traffic areas on the Sprint network to augment coverage. The mini basestations are 2G, 3G, 4G LTE, and Wi-Fi compatible, and deployable indoors or outdoors to fill gaps in coverage and increase broadband capacity. lightRadio's controller software is also virtualized, allowing for AdvancedTCA, blade server, or Cloud delivery in Sprint’s initial deployment focusing primarily on indoor applications for entertainment, transportation, and campus venues to improve QoS.
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CompactPCI SBC hosts Wind River’s VxWorks in Mars Science Laboratory rover
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The Curiosity rover, the most complex interplanetary robotic probe in history, landed safely on Mars last night at 10:31 PDT. The Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) operations of the rover’s infamous “Seven Minutes of Terror,” and now the scientific duties of the rover, will now be carried out by WindRiver’s VxWorks running on a 3U CompactPCI Single Board Computer from BAE Systems.
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Olympian offloading and creating a (profitable) “Games Lane”
Today, the 30th Olympics are scheduled to officially begin, but yesterday Heathrow airport in London experienced its busiest day ever, as athletes, media, and fans flooded the city in anticipation of the 2012 summer games. Eager to witness the physical prowess of the likes of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, the gates at Olympic Park are expecting over 9 million tickets worth of traffic. The streets of London are prepared for even greater congestion, as the 16-day event has prompted the creation of a “Games Lane” to ease some of the bottlenecks sure to arise.
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HPM and managing the "9s"
As High Availability (HA) systems go, efficient management middleware is must for retaining all five (or six) 9s of service.
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Keeping commercial "off-the-shelf"
Smooth open standards roadmaps and interoperability are they key to the increased longevity and usability of deployed ecosystems such as the AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI, both of which are evolving to faster/more robust systems without compromising equipment already deployed in the field.
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Fallback to the future: Circuit-switched networks as a voice/data solution
The Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) feeds data's insatiable bandwidth appetite while maintaining voice QoS, as explained in an interview with industry experts from three companies that collaborated on this new technology.
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Retooling the roadmap: Q&A with Venkataraman Prasannan of Radisys on the acquisition of Continuous Computing
In an effort to provide more complete, and in some cases turnkey, solutions for next-gen communications systems, Radisys has acquired Continuous Computing.
Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor