Author: Michal Winkler

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Railroad Enhances Communications Network and Safety With Actelis Networks

Gets More Reliable Bandwidth To More Places Over High Performance Ethernet Over Copper,
Enabling Positive Train Control, Diverse Access, plus WiFi and Radio Communications With Crews.

A regional railroad transports close to half a million passengers and millions of tons of freight each year,
providing a vital link between cities and towns. All while braving extremely challenging environmental conditions and terrain spanning some very remote sections of country.
This railroad operator needs to make sure that they operate the railroad safely and efficiently, and to do this they need to maintain a state of the art communications network at all times.

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Network Automation and Actelis Networks Partner to Enhance DSL Service Delivery and Profitability

NeXa BBA Connect Doubles Broadband Reach Efficiently With DSL Amplification and  Automation

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) September 30, 2014

Network Automation, the innovator in Automatic cross connects and Actelis Networks, the leader in high performance broadband over copper, announce a collaborative solution that enables operators to maximize DSL broadband capacity and reach, minimize CapEx and backhaul costs, and provide unprecedented remote management flexibility. The solution provides the most efficient way to upgrade and operate DSL networks that offer high speed broadband while maximizing profitability. (more…)

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“Optimized bandwidth for advanced ITS applications” –
Traffic Technology International Magazine

Advanced ITS technologies provide road authorities everywhere with a tremendous opportunity to better monitor and more precisely control traffic, while fully employing highways and roads. Coordinated use of advanced traffic and environmental sensors, traffic and video controllers, electronic…

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Traffic Technology International Magazine

Maintaining bandwidth over copper in changing noise environments requires a multi-faceted approach

Achieving high quality transmission with copper requires responding appropriately to various changes in the noise environment. These changes can be intermediate (caused by impulse noises or temperature), or they can be more permanent in nature (such as changes in noise introduced as other services are added to or removed from the binder).
"Rate adaptive" capability allows modems to adjust their performance to ensure high reliability and service availability by lowering their bandwidth and increasing their SNR. This feature is widely implemented by EFM over Copper vendors. Rate adaptation has its benefits, particularly in addressing longer-term sources of noise (such as a change in the services that exist within a binder). But rate adaptation is not very effective in dealing with intermittent interference, as it allows the bandwidth on the link to drop when intermit interference occurs. More is needed to solve these temporary noise problems.

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EU Digital Agenda For Europe: Objectives Achievable With VDSL2 and Broadband Amplification

The European Union’s revised Digital Agenda for Europe stipulates the following service objectives by the year 2020:

  • 30 Mbps to all Europeans
  • 100 Mbps to 50% of European households

Can the lofty objective of getting 100 Mbps service to 50% of households really be achieved in the next 6.5 years? This is an eventuality which even the European Commission itself has questioned recently, due to the high cost and logistical “red tape” associated with running fiber.

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LTE and Copper Joining Forces For Faster Broadband An Innovative Approach

Service operators are struggling to find cost effective solutions to enable them to offer faster broadband to their residential and SME customers before losing business to competitors. FTTH/B cannot be justified everywhere. Moreover service providers worldwide indicate that although FTTH is a solution that they will continue to deploy it would not be THE solutions for the large BB deployments in the next years.

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