For example, in its bid to seed homes with smart meters, it has found partners in utilities.
“In the end, the utility becomes a client with service providing,” Arndt said. “But, if we want that to happen, we have to partner and understand [the market] together first.”
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Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM
The pornography filtering system praised by David Cameron is controlled by the controversial Chinese company Huawei, the BBC has learned.
via BBC News – Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM.
Customers who do not want filtering still have their traffic routed through the system, but matches to Huawei’s database are dismissed rather than acted upon.
Facebook Saves Datacenter Costs with Frigid Arctic Wind
The constant, biting wind may have stunted the growth of Lulea’s tourism industry, but it has proven a big factor in luring big IT facilities into the area. Datacenters in Lulea are just as difficult to power and cool as any other concentrated mass of IT equipment, but their owners can slash the cost of cooling all those servers and storage units simply by opening a window: the temperature in Lulea hasn’t stayed at or above 86 degrees Fahrenheit for 24 hours since 1961 (PDF), and the average temperature is a bracing 29.6 Fahrenheit.
via Facebook Saves Datacenter Costs with Frigid Arctic Wind.
NSA Data-Scooping: A Coming Backlash in Europe?
Most European nations have long had stronger privacy laws than those in the United States. As a result U.S. Internet companies doing business there–incluiding Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and AOL–have signed on to so-called “safe harbor” principles, promising a European level of privacy protection. Now, of course, it appears they’ve also been providing gobs of data about some overseas customers to the U.S. National Security Agency (see “NSA Surveillance Reflects a Broader Interpretation of the Patriot Act”).
Among other fallout, it’s reasonable now to expect E.U. regulators and customers to go nuclear–and U.S. companies to face tough sledding ahead.
via NSA Data-Scooping: A Coming Backlash in Europe? | MIT Technology Review.
BT Lights Up World’s First 800Gbps Fibre Super Channel
Laboratory tests have reached 800Gbps before, but this is the first time it’s gone long distance, covering the 410km between BT’s Adastral Park research centre, near Ipswich in Suffolk, and the BT Tower in London, using equipment from network kit vendor Ciena. The surprising thing is that the test was successful on fibre which was previously not considered good enough to carry 10Gbps.
BT Retail Tests Controversial Carrier Grade NAT IP Address Sharing
The technique has been criticised because it imposes certain limits on users by virtue of the fact that their broadband connection no longer has the use of a fixed unique IP address, but is rather sharing an address with other users – in BT’s trial, up to nine other users. This means, for instance, that users can’t serve content to the wider Internet from servers on their home network; and BT admits that it can also affect activities such as online gaming and dynamic DNS services.
via BT Retail Tests Controversial Carrier Grade NAT IP Address Sharing.
Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies
ISPs over the years have profited from the switch to online media consumption and they have offered unlimited Internet access with very high download speeds in advertising campaigns, Sabam said. “The Internet access providers have never paid copyright levies for this activity. They hide behind their status as intermediary, without taking responsibility for the information transmitted over their networks,” the organization said.
via Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies | PCWorld.
Deutsche Telekom to curb ADSL volumes
Germany’s national telco Deutsche Telekom is fighting back against OTT players using its broadband network for data-intense services like video-on-demand (VOD) portals without sharing their revenues by throttling the data rate to 384Kbit/s for ADSL and VDSL customers if they exceed the volume included in their tariff.
via Setback for OTT: Deutsche Telekom to curb ADSL volumes | Rapid TV News.
And so it begins….
European scientists propose world’s largest quantum network, between Earth and the ISS
In recent years, quantum physicists have successfully teleported entangled photons over a free-space distance of 143 kilometers (89 miles) using lasers, and 250 kilometers (155 miles) over optical fiber in the lab. In the past year we have also seen the first ground-to-air network, between a base station and an airplane flying 20 kilometers (12 miles) above. These were impressive feats, but to prove the possibility of a worldwide, satellite-based quantum network, larger distances are needed — something like the 400 kilometers (248 miles) to the ISS.
via European scientists propose world’s largest quantum network, between Earth and the ISS | ExtremeTech.
Life For European Telecom Carriers Will Not Get Any Easier In 2013
The European carrier market will continue to suffer. Once upon a time, Europe led in telecom innovation and usage via a couple of large carriers and network equipment suppliers. More than 100 carriers in the 27 European countries are after 650 million consumers — less than the installed base of China Mobile alone. Competition will be fierce, especially in France with Free/Iliad’s aggressive disruption. Expect regulation, acquisitions, and cost-sharing to be high on the agenda, but the No. 1 challenge is to invent a new business model via more strategic partnerships with OTT players.
via Life For European Telecom Carriers Will Not Get Any Easier In 2013 | Forrester Blogs.