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The City's IT Vision includes a component for addressing the digital divide in Minneapolis: All City residents, institutions and businesses will have the tools, skills and motivation to gain value from the digital society. Our residents and businesses need to be equipped to effectively compete with others around the world—to be smarter, more creative, more knowledgeable, and more innovative. Leveraging technology is a necessary ingredient of success.

OpenWISP is a software platform that implements a complete Wi-Fi service.

Researchers in Japan have smashed the record for wireless data transmission in the terahertz band, an uncharted part of the electro-magnetic spectrum.

The data rate is 20 times higher than the best commonly used wi-fi standard.

Report Release and Briefing The Broadband Imperative: Recommendations to Address K-12 Education Infrastructure Needs

RT @ITU_News #Broadband Commission releases country case studies spanning emerging economies in Americas, Asia & Europe

This article discusses the bandwidth limitations that we may be facing as more people get online and as the demand for higher bandwidth increases worldwide. In the year 2011, the world consumed about 92.1 terabits of bandwidth every second, which is up from 1.4 terabits per second. However, things are about to get much more demanding, since the 2020 projections state that the world will be consuming 1,103.3 terabits per second. The IEEE is currently working to ensure that the technology behind the web (meaning everything from undersea cables to new WiFi technologies) can service this increased demand as time goes on.

Definition of Next Generation Network

A Next Generation Network (NGN) is a packet-based network able to provide services including Telecommunication Services and able to make use of multiple broadband, QoS-enabled transport technologies and in which service-related functions are independent from underlying transport-related technologies. It offers unrestricted access by users to different service providers. It supports generalized mobility which will allow consistent and ubiquitous provision of services to users.

The NGN is characterized by the following fundamental aspects:

Packet-based transfer
Separation of control functions among bearer capabilities, call/session, and application/ service
Decoupling of service provision from network, and provision of open interfaces
Support for a wide range of services, applications and mechanisms based on service building blocks (including real time/ streaming/ non-real time services and multi-media)
Broadband capabilities with end-to-end QoS and transparency
Interworking with legacy networks via open interfaces
Generalized mobility
Unrestricted access by users to different service providers
A variety of identification schemes which can be resolved to IP addresses for the purposes of routing in IP networks
Unified service characteristics for the same service as perceived by the user
Converged services between Fixed/Mobile
Independence of service-related functions from underlying transport technologies
Compliant with all Regulatory requirements, for example concerning emergency communications and security/privacy, etc.

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