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The D-Link AirPremier DWL-3200AP is a powerful and reliable wireless access point for business-class enterprise environments. Designed for indoor installation, this access point provides secure options for network administrators to deploy a highly manageable and extremely robust wireless network. This access point supports Power over Ethernet (PoE) and provides two high-gain antennas for optimal wireless coverage.

PoE Support. Enclosed in a plenum metal chassis, the DWL-3200AP adheres to strict fire codes
and ensures complete safety. For advanced installations, this high-speed access point has an
integrated 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) support to allow installation in areas where power
outlets are not readily available.

Up to 108Mbps Wireless Speed. The DWL-3200AP delivers extremely reliable wireless performance with standard 802.11g wireless throughput rates of up to 54Mbps. It has the added capability of reaching maximum wireless signal rates of up to 108Mbps (Turbo mode) powered by D-Link 108G technology. At the same time, the DWL-3200AP remains fully compatible with the
IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g standards.

The device almost same with the ADSL2+ modem router, The DSL-2542B ADSL Modem Router is an affordable high-performance router ideal for the home and small office. With its integrated ADSL2/2+ supporting high download speeds of 24Mbps, Quality of Service (QoS), extensive firewall protection and 4-port built-in switch, this router provides all the essentials that a home or small office would need to establish a secure and high speed remote link to the outside world.

This 4-port ADSL modem router connects to the Internet using an integrated high-speed ADSL2+ interface, and allows multiple computers, at home or the office, to share high-speed Internet connection. The router provides firewall protection and QoS for secure and smooth online gaming, voice communications and downloading of photos, files, music and video over the Internet. 4-built-in LAN ports provide ready connection to 4 computers through the Ethernet cables.

The DSL-520B ADSL2+ modem router is an affordable high-performance ADSL device for home and the small office. With integrated ADSL2/2+ supporting up to 24Mbps download speed, firewall protection, Quality of Service (QoS) and 4-port switch, this router provides all the essentials that a home or small office needs to establish a secure and high-speed remote link to the outside world.

FIREWALL PROTECTION & QoS

Security features prevents unauthorized access to the home and office network from Internet intruders. The router provides firewall security using Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) and Denial of Service (DoS) attack protection. SPI inspects the contents of all incoming packet headers before deciding what packets are allowed to pass through. Router access control is provided with packet filtering based on port and source/destination MAC/IP addresses. For Quality of Service (QoS), the router supports multiple priority queues to enable a group of home or office users to experience the benefit of smooth network connection of inbound and outbound data without concern of traffic congestion. This QoS support allows users to enjoy high ADSL transmission for applications such as VoIP, streaming multimedia and on-line games over the Internet.

(Monrovia-Liberia-January 27, 09)-After years of dormancy, the Liberia Telecommunication Corporation (LTC) is ready to begin full operations, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has disclosed.
She told the nation that after a long period of planning and resource mobilization the agency is now ready for business, to provide a wide range of services including the restoration of fax facilities.

The Liberian Leader made the disclosure Monday when she delivered her state of the nation address to members of the National Legislature held at the Capitol Building in Monrovia. She said LTC would compete in certain categories with the four GSM companies currently operating in Liberia. President Johnson-Sirleaf to the Legislators that in keeping with the telecommunications law, government has made significant progress in negotiating the standardization of licenses for Lone Star and LiberCell GSM Companies.

“This is a clear victory for the national interest consistent with the practice in other African Countries; many of you may recall that licenses were granted to all GSM companies for US$50,000 per annum for variable tenures ranging from ten to 15 years,” President Johnson-Sirleaf stated.

But she disclosed that the four GSM Companies would now be standardized at a fee of US$15 million each with rights over a 15-year period. She pointed out that appropriate measures are now being considered to ensure compliance by CellCOM and COMIUM GSM Companies.

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Espoo, Finland/Berlin, Germany – Nokia and bit-side GmbH today announced that an agreement has been signed for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of bit-side. Bit-side is a privately owned Berlin-based professional services and software company with 39 employees. By acquiring bit-side Nokia will strengthen and accelerate its mobile development for Nokia Maps.

“Acquiring bit-side enables Nokia to offer consumers the world-leading mobile location applications, such as Maps, along with routing and navigation at an accelerated speed” said Michael Halbherr, vice president and head of social location, Nokia. “Nokia has been working with bit-side since 2007, and bit-side has become a strategic development partner to Nokia.”

“Nokia believes that context plays a pivotal role in the evolution of the Internet. To make the Internet truly personal, Nokia is building the ability for people to always know where they are and what is around them. Moreover, to know where their friends are and what they are doing and how they are feeling. Nokia calls this social location,” said Michael Halbherr, vice president and head of social location, Nokia.

“Joining Nokia, the world leader in mobility, is an exciting opportunity for us,” says Thom Brenner, managing director & partner, bit-side GmbH. “Our small team has brought many innovative mobile products to life and being part of Nokia will be like a catalyst to this. We share Nokia’s visions, on social and location related services and the future of their enabling technologies.”

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009. Bit-side will be integrated to Nokia’s Services unit.

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It’s a good bet Comcast didn’t see this one coming: as one of the last acts under outgoing Chairman Kevin Martin, the FCC has issued an inquiry to Comcast, seeking clarification on a recently posted Comcast FAQ about Network Management that states high-bandwidth subscribers to third-party players like Vonage or Skype using Comcast’s infrastructure could receive lower-quality VoIP service. The same text lists no such caveats about its own VoIP service.

“We seek clarification with respect to an apparent discrepancy between Comcast’s [September 19] filing and its actual or advertised practices,” Dana Shaffer, chief of the FCC‘s wireline competition bureau, and Matthew Berry, FCC general counsel, wrote in a letter to Comcast. “Comcast states that [a bandwidth hog] may find that his ‘VoIP call sounds choppy’ [but] draws no distinction between Comcast’s VoIP offering and those offered by its competitors.”

To provide a little context, the text of Comcast’s filing states, “During times of actual network congestion, when a [bandwidth hog’s] traffic might be delayed, there are a variety of effects…[like a ] webpage loads sluggishly, a peer-to-peer upload takes somewhat longer to complete, or a VoIP call sounds choppy. Of course, the same thing could happen to the customers on a port that is congested in the absence of any congestion management; the difference here is that the effects of any such delays are shifted toward those who have been placing the greatest burden on the network instead of being distributed randomly among the users of that port without regard to their consumption levels.”

A little background: after investigating claims of service restrictions, access blocking and per-session bandwidth caps beginning in 2007, the FCC issued an enforcement action requiring Comcast to switch to a network management system that did not discriminate against particular high-bandwidth protocols, such as P2P (see FCC to telcos via Comcast: “No more rate-throttling”). Comcast formally complied with the decision, presenting a detailed, more transparent network management policy platform last September. Comcast officially moved to the protocol-agnostic system at the end of 2008, setting a 250 Gbps per month per subscriber cap on bandwidth. Its new traffic management platform, based on Sandvine and Camiant equipment, can impose temporary rate-throttling on specific session for as much as 10 to 20 minutes, but does not target such streams by protocol alone, but rather amount of bandwidth consumed.

Nowhere in the finding does Comcast say it reserves priority treatment for its own VoIP traffic over its wholesale customers — who in this case are also competitors — but the implication of preferential treatment for its own subscribers while potentially penalizing over-the-top providers certainly raises questions for the FCC. To follow up, the FCC has asked Comcast for details on its network management platform and how it treats and controls VoIP traffic from its own facilities-based vs. wholesale VoIP customers.

In addition, Shaffer and Berry have formally requested that “Comcast explain any reason the commission should not treat Comcast’s VoIP offering as a telecommunication service—a service subject, among other things, to the same intercarrier compensation obligations applicable to other facilities-based telecommunications carriers. We understand that Comcast is not yet complying with such intercarrier compensation obligations.”

This is not the first time Comcast has had to resolve a dispute over the treatment of over-the-top service provider customers. It signed a so-called collaborative agreement with Vonage Holding Corp. that guaranteed that regardless of network management policies applied, Vonage VoIP QoS would not be impacted. However, this agreement does not extend to any other wholesale VoIP customers or over-the-top vendors.

The FCC has set a deadline of Jan. 30, 2009 for Comcast to respond to its request for clarification. Comcast says it is in full compliance with the FCC’s congestion management order, and is reviewing the FCC’s current request.

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Analysts expect PC sales to fall about 8 percent in 2009, marking just the second time in the last two decades, including 2001, that PC sales will have declined for the year. Analysts at the research company Forrester say that surveys show people are putting off PC purchases and spending less on systems they do buy.

Other PC component makers like Nvidia, Seagate Technology and Western Digital have also grappled with evaporating sales and significant layoffs. The reports from all of the component and software makers have set an ominous mood for Hewlett-Packard and Dell, the largest PC manufacturers, which report their financial results next month.

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President Barack Obama is keeping his cherished BlackBerry, becoming the first sitting president to use e-mail. The president has a BlackBerry through a compromise that allows him to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday. He did not say with whom the compromise was struck. Gibbs said the president will limit its use, and security has been enhanced to ensure that Obama can communicate in a way that’s protected. Previous presidents chose not to use e-mail because it can be subpoenaed by Congress and courts and may be subject to public records laws.

Gibbs said the presumption from the White House counsel’s office is that e-mails will be subject to the Presidential Records Act, the law that requires the National Archives to preserve presidential records. But he also said that some exemptions in the law allow for “strictly personal communications.” He did not say how that classification would be determined but made clear that the device could be used for both business and personal communication.

Obama’s BlackBerry has been a constant companion during the campaign and transition, and he had noted publicly that he was in negotiations to find a way to keep the device despite security concerns and records-keeping issues. Gibbs said the president believes that using a personal hand-held e-mail device is an effective way to keep in touch with people without “getting stuck in a bubble.”

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Nigeria’s Q3 08 growth could not match the record-breaking levels seen in the previous quarter, when 7.38m new connections were added – more than double the best figure recorded in any other African nation. However, its third-quarter boost of 4.11m was the second best figure ever recorded in the market, which is particularly impressive given that one of the top three operators, Glo, suffered a loss of 0.6m customers in the quarter. At the end of Q3, there were 55.8m connections in Nigeria, up 51% year on year with annual net additions of 18.8m.

Glo’s quarterly decline saw its customer base fall to 15.6m, which allowed Celtel to seize second place in the market. It added 1.10m in the quarter to finish on 15.9m, with market share of 28.5%. This represented a gain of 1.8pp year on year, while Glo lost 3.2pp to finish on 28.0%. In terms of annual net additions, Celtel led the market with 6.03m, although the quarterly honours went to market leader MTN with a gain of 1.61m. It thereby surpassed the 20m mark during the quarter to finish on 20.2m. This leaves it just 1.3m behind Vodacom South Africa, the African continent’s largest network, and given their respective growth rates, MTN could well take the lead in 2009.

While MTN, Celtel and Glo dominate the Nigerian market, their aggregated market share of 92.6% was down from 98.4% a year earlier. Of the remaining five players, four use CDMA technology (the exception being partially state-owned Nitel, which had just a small handful of customers on its ailing mobile network). Starcomms led the way with 1.3m customers, while Multi-links had 1.1m, Visafone 1.0m and Reltel 0.7m. In total, CDMA connections reached 4.13m or 7.4% of the total, compared to just 0.8% a year earlier. Meanwhile, W-CDMA technology – which is offered by all of the big three GSM operators – surpassed 1m connections during the quarter to finish on 1.1m, or 2.0% of the total.
The latest data from Nigerian regulator the NCC shows that the market total reached 57.61m at the end of October, with monthly net additions of 1.77m.

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