News tagged with communication signal

EU physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather

The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Faster computational methods could simulate the power and signal integrity of next-generation electronic systems

The overall performance of modern computers and communications networks is dependent on the speed of electronic components, such as transistors and optical switches, as well as the quality of the wire network ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers present a shiny new tool for imaging biomolecules

At the heart of the immune system that protects our bodies from disease and foreign invaders is a vast and complex communications network involving millions of cells, sending and receiving chemical signals ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

LightSquared tries to revive broadband network

A Virginia company is trying to revive its plan for a national high-speed wireless network, arguing that it can address federal regulators' concerns over interference with GPS devices.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dish closes on 2 purchases key to broadband plans

(AP) -- Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. has completed its purchase of two satellite operators whose licenses it hopes to use to offer broadband access that can help it compete better with cable TV and phone companies.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The world’s fastest Y-00 stream cipher transmission at 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km

Fumio Futami at Tamagawa University, Quantum ICT Research Institute, announced the world first transmission of the stream cipher by Yuen 2000 protocol (Y-00) at the bit rate of 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Record-speed wireless data bridge demonstrated: Takes high-speed communications the 'last mile'

A team of researchers in Germany has created a new way to overcome many of the issues associated with bringing high-speed digital communications across challenging terrain and into remote areas, commonly referred to as the ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Study provides new details of fundamental cellular process

A recent Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) study published in the journal Science investigating the molecular structure and function of an essential plant hormone could profoundly change our understanding of a key cell p ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

TV channel squeeze proposed to pay for tax cuts

(AP) -- Call it the Great Channel Squeeze.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ESA station keeps contact with Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt

Following the first successful contact on Tuesday, ESA's tracking station in Australia again established two-way communication with Russia's Phobos–Grunt spacecraft on 23 November. The data received ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 7

First implementation of 100 and 40Gbps ultra-high-speed plug-and-play optical communications

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and NTT Communications Corporation have conducted 100 and 40Gbps transmission tests in real field environments using existing installed optical fiber, and have demonstrated ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 11

North Korea upgrades jamming devices: report

North Korea is upgrading jamming devices to disrupt South Korean military communications, Yonhap news agency said Tuesday, citing a defence ministry report.

Technology / Other

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Dish asks FCC to let it build wireless network

(AP) -- Satellite TV broadcaster Dish Network is asking regulators to let it build a wireless broadband network. Having one would let Dish compete more effectively with cable companies that can bundle broadband and TV signals.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

10 years later, NY responders communicate better

(AP) -- On Sept. 11, 2001, as firefighters rushed into the smoldering twin towers, their radios went dead. Police on the scene couldn't hear orders from their superiors. And none of the agencies responding ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research team finds species share perceptual capabilities that affect how communication evolves

A research team that included Hamilton E. Farris, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Otorhinolaryngology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, reveals that two entirely different species show similar ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast