Calls for industry-wide IoT collaboration sparked at oneM2M Industry Day

IoT dream may not be realised without a harmonised solution that takes all technologies into account  Memphis, TN, 18 September 2017: Organisations working to standardise and interoperate the Internet of Things (IoT) need to significantly increase collaboration if ubiquitous connectivity is to become successful on a mass market scale. That was the message delivered at oneM2M’s first North American Industry Day held in Memphis, TN. Representatives from several global standards organisations shared their goals and experiences with IoT interoperability during the event, which was hosted by ATIS, and attended by…

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Satellite Brings Australia’s Solar Car World Championship To Global Stage

Newtec, Network Innovations, VRT Sandbox and Pacific Live Media have teamed up to enable the Punch Powertrain Solar Team to live stream from the Australian outback. DARWIN, Australia, and IBC2017 Show, AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, 18 September 2017. Satellite will be used to live stream interviews and backhaul action video clips of the Punch Powertrain Solar Team as they compete in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge – a 3,000 km solar car race across the Australian outback from October 8, 2017 to October 12, 2017 – with Newtec, Network Innovations, VRT…

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tekVizion Expands EMEA and APAC Presence to Address Growing Customer Demand

Experienced telco specialist Simon Richards appointed EMEA and APAC Managing Director to lead growth strategy across Cloud and Connected Business communications 18 September, 2017, London, UK: tekVizion, the independent experts in multi-vendor business communications, today announces its expansion into the EMEA and APAC markets, adding a new member to its leadership team. Simon Richards, Managing Director EMEA and APAC at tekVizion joined the company on 1st July 2017 and brings with him more than two decades of experience in senior roles within the likes of Motorola Sony Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, and…

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KEMET Institute of Technology Series Begins 34th Season

GREENVILLE, S.C., Sept. 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — KEMET Corporation (NYSE:KEM), a leading global supplier of electronic components, today announced its 34th KEMET Institute of Technology (KIT) series. Beginning on September 26th with a two-day event at its Simpsonville Innovation Center and the Hilton Greenville, KIT is a free technology workshop based on classroom instruction and live discussion covering details on how capacitors and other passive components are made, how they work and their applications. This year’s event also includes presentations on KEMET’s new component offerings. Two technology tracks focusing…

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e-Skilling Critical If Europe Is To Hit Fibre Installation Targets, Says Emtelle

Gothenburg, Sweden. 18 September 2017: De-skilling of installation staff throughout Europe is absolutely critical if mass deployment of optical fibre is to be achieved as part of the European Union targets for 2020. This was the warning given at today’s opening day of ECOC from the region’s major provider of blown fibre and ducted network solutions for the telecoms industry, Emtelle. “If Europe is to achieve its goal of a Digital Single Market by 2020, then we need to make installation of new fibre optic networks as pain-free as possible,”…

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IntelliChief ECM’s Integration Link Named KMWorld’s Trend-Setting Product

Tampa, FL, Sept. 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IntelliChief LLC, a provider of automated document management and workflow enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, announces IntelliChief ECM’s Integration Link named KMWorld’s Trend-Setting Product for 2017. IntelliChief ECM enables connecting business systems without coding, through IntelliChief Integration Link. The program allows users to access and index documents in ECM directly from the screens of any enterprise resource planning (ERP) or line of business systems their company utilizes. This allows integration and information validation amongst each application’s databases, while automating document management and…

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“Intense power saving is needed to conquer the battle of growing bandwidth demands,” ProLabs warns at ECOC 2017

Tony Lefebvre discusses how to overcome the major power consumption concern in the design of data centres Gothenburg, Sweden. 18 September 2017: Tony Lefebvre, VP of Product Management & Marketing at optical transceiver specialist, ProLabs, today addressed why monitoring power consumption is integral to manage data centre environments. Speaking at ECOC 2017, Mr Lefebvre warned that operators need to be extra vigilant as data rates increase beyond 10G to 100G. “On a short-range optic, we are seeing typical power consumption on the transceivers go from 1W to greater than 3.5W…

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SolarWinds Delivers Deeper Visibility into Application Stack with New AppOptics Solution

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced the beta availability of AppOptics™, SolarWinds’ next-generation application performance management (APM) solution. AppOptics combines the proven distributed tracing function of TraceView™ with the infrastructure monitoring and real-time analytics capabilities of Librato®, delivering a powerful, unified monitoring platform for complex modern applications. AppOptics is designed to address the challenges associated with disparate monitoring solutions for distributed application performance and critical infrastructure metrics. AppOptics is the latest addition to the larger…

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COBO President: “Advance bandwidth growth with new optical modules to help realise next generation of technology”

Gothenburg, 18 September 2017 – Next-generation technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, 5G, and the Internet of Things (IoT) stand to benefit from equipment manufacturers’ adoption of on-board optics, the President of Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO), Brad Booth highlighted today. Speaking on the opening day of ECOC 2017 – Europe’s largest global optical communications exhibition – Booth explained how the data center infrastructure will need new approaches such as on-board optics to better cope with the large increases in traffic generated by these new innovative technologies. “Consumers are getting used…

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