Singapore Telecommunications can now secure its reliable IPTV home network provisions due to the introduction of Comtrend’s Power Grid 902 adaptor, which is a similar model to the DS2’s Aitana power line chipset for communications.
SingTel will now be able to offer an ITPV service with the new power grid for use as an adaptor to [...]

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Singapore uses Power Grid for IPTV

Shenick is the First Test Vendor to Deliver Complete TWAMP for Per-flow, Real-time Measurement – December 1, 2008 Shenick Network Systems announced that it is the first and only vendor to offer complete two way active measurement protocol (TWAMP) measurement and testing capability as standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in RFC5357.

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IPTV Real-time Measurement

The internet is suffering from a real problem with power supply. This is twofold. First of all, the availability of power (and especially redundant power) is becoming more expensive and more inconsistent; secondly is the problem of the heat caused by powering internet servers.

So what are the answers?

Well, our, military submarines have their own nuclear power plants – so, why can’t data centres be powered in a similar way. Not the large, three mile island type affair, just a small local plant that will run forever without draining the local grid ?

At a local level, Flash storage provides a real alternative to traditional hard drives that reduce power usage phenomenally (and moving parts); as the costs of this technology decline it will surely replace traditional HDDs.

So, there you go, what the world need now is a nuclear sub full of Flash drives with a good WiMax signal….

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Nuclear Option

NetLogic has announced the launch of its fifth-generation knowledge-based processor under the badge NL91024XT.
This new processor is a hybrid which is fully programmable and capable of converging high-performance with very low power usage and Sahasra algorithmic technology.
The new processors are capable of dealing with 1.5 billion decisions each second; they have also been built [...]

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New Processor Capable of 1.5 Billion Decisions Per Sec

Sigma Designs have announced that one of their solutions, the integrated SMP8654 media processor, will be used in Advanced Communications’ IPv6 set-top boxes.
The companies have also announced a partnership to develop IPTV set-top boxes, for the Japanese market, again using Sigma Designs SMP8654 media processor, alongside the Adcom’s iSense IPTV software platform.
Sigma Designs’ chips [...]

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Sigma Designs powers IPv6 set top boxes