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Taqua is a provider of fixed and mobile converged switching, gateway, media processing and backhaul solutions. When it was founded in 1998, the company's goal was to develop next generation telecommunications solutions that would economically deliver advanced communications capabilities. Since that time, the company has been transitioning into what can be considered the networks of the future.
Why You Need to Know: This week, Taqua announced that it has reached a milestone for mobile calls processed by an IMS core network. That milestone is the mark of two billion IMS-based mobile voice calls was surpassed. The increasing number of Wi-Fi calls has allowed Taqua's VMC to recently process its two billionth call within a commercial IMS network.
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It would be easy to think that a computer not connected to the Internet might be the safest computer of all. After all, how does one break into a building with no door? That might be an apt description of an offline computer depending on what's called an "air gap" for protection, but as it turns out, those who believe an air gap has been established may be wrong, unless certain considerations are made.
Why You Need to Know: This is not a problem with easy solutions, sadly. While most will likely never have to worry about a hacker going to those lengths to breach a system, some will, and for those a difficult and probably expensive set of security challenges awaits to protect against the newly-breached air gap security measure. |
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New payment methodologies and technologies are being unveiled with head-spinning velocity these days. For those of us in the financial services industry, these are exciting times as each new development in the evolving mobile payment "story" presents new opportunities.
Why You Need to Know: With each new technological payment benchmark we see, there are issues that have not been addressed, which has impeded my industry from fully embracing the complete potential of the growing digital channel. |
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Typical sensor nodes in Internet of Things deployments are low power, wireless, distributed over a large area, and most certainly resource constrained (usually driven off of a very low cost controller). They may contain a variety of sensors from different manufacturers, possibly using different protocols, and they are prone to failure.
Why You Need to Know: In terms of security, IoT networks with the proper management and control will have sensor nodes that can exclude rogue sensors from joining the network, throttle sensor data volume, and handle firmware upgrades. |
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, Samsung (News - Alert) Gear VR has brought in a little help to better establish that oh-so-important immersive sound. Specifically, the Samsung Gear VR is now the first Samsung device to use Fraunhofer Cingo 3D sound systems, making VR that much more immersive.
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Why You Need to Know: Oculus reportedly had a hand in the development of the Samsung Gear VR, so there's certainly a point to consider in that. At any rate, a VR system that can comfortably help users track sound location will prove to be more immersive, and thus more valuable, than one that does not. |
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