How about a complete system for your front door? The Aiphone version of the old fashioned doorbell has both chimes and voice capabilities! The CCS-1A Chime Com2 Door Entry compact unit takes up no more room than a light switch plate and delivers clear audio to the user.
The Aiphone Tenant Station is another excellent product. It offers great features such as a large Push-To-Talk button, door release button, 4” black and white monitor, security guard call button, volume control, and you can use up to 500 stations in one system. (more…)

3G wireless seems to be all about new technology, multibillion-dollar expansions and high-wire international finance deals with little or no discussion of service offerings or value propositions. Surely investors know what this could lead to, so why is most of the wireless world making this huge bet on 3G?
One important motivation: 3G is more efficient and simply works better. Since it is packet-based it uses wireless spectrum more efficiently than first- or second-generation systems. This is particularly important for data communications because of the discontinuous and bursty nature of the traffic. Secondly, a packet-based system can send and receive messages (and calls) simultaneously from two or more cell sites while 2G systems choose the “best” site and stay locked on it until the signal is handed off. The packet-by-packet approach provides more reliable and better quality communications by a statistical hedging process similar to the portfolio theory of stock market investing. (more…)

When was the last time you surfed the Net on your mobile phone and were limited by its small screen? Have you ever wanted to hook onto the Web but found yourself connectivity-handicapped because you were not in a hotspot? Wireless technologies of all kinds ranging from mobile phones running on 3G technologies to laptops utilising Wi-Fi facilities are fast re-shaping the way we work and play.
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Looking to enhance its DSLAM market status, ADC has introduced version 3.0 of its Avidia DSLAM platform. With support for G.SHDSL symmetric business service, the Avidia 3.0 is also a 24-port ADSL subscriber module that can increase chassis density and port power consumption by 40 percent. Avidia is complete with enhanced ATM capabilities including UNI 4.0 and ILMI/PNNI 1.0 for end-to-end SVC support. The platform can also now support broadcast video. For carriers with IP infrastructures, the Ethernet uplink element enables carriers to deliver enhanced data services. Available now, the enhanced platform is currently being utilized by France-based LDCOM for its G.SHDSL capabilities and by Rochester, N.Y.-based Frontier Communications for its T1/E1 IMA backhaul feature to take advantage of its existing copper infrastructure in lieu of new fiber buildouts.