Power companies and networking startups have spent years touting a technology called broadband-over-power lines, or BPL. In those systems, the utility sends a data signal across existing wires at a much higher frequency than electricity, so the two signals don't interfere.
They can use data to signal the highest performers, or even the highest performance across all of their performers.
For voice the difference will be a clean completed call or a noisy dropped call, for data services the better the signal strength the higher the data rate you will obtain in both directions.
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The natural response when one data center is facing a demand response signal is to move the workload to a data center in another geography.
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Then through the use of GPS-based reference clocks at each tower (for both time and frequency), the signals are synced so each can emit a perfect copy of both signal and symbol data.
High speed proton collisions generate a range of even smaller particles that scientists have been sifting through in search of a signal in the data suggesting the existence of the Higgs boson.
Researchers from SwayMarkets, which makes smartphone apps that monitor mobile signal quality and data usage, brought a handful of cell phones to Fenway Park for a Red Sox game and measured network performance.
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Current wireless protocols alter the spin angular momentum (SAM) of radio waves to hold info, and by combining both methods the team was able to pack eight data steams into a single signal, resulting in the mouth-watering number noted above.
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Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Some of you might remember when Wi-Fi was first being built into notebook computers, my company, as well as many others, ran tests to determine range and speed (the weaker the radio signal the less data speed), and found big differences.
What we need now is a way of thinking that helps us sift through these new reams of information to identify the truly valuable pieces of data that are communicating the signal to which we should pay attention rather than the noise we should discount.
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One challenge would involve creating a magnetic head that could hover over those dots, read their signal and write new data onto the grid.
The latest figures of future expectations dropped to 96.4 from a three-year high of 97.5 in January, Ifo said, adding that the data was a "small warning signal".
Another mote inside that range picks up the first one's signal and grabs its data, adding readings of its own and passing the package along to a third mote.
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Buoyed by their success, however, scientists on the mission are checking through the satellite's data to see if an infrasonic signal was also recorded when an asteroid entered the atmosphere over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk last month.
The dish would send the ISP's data up to one of the satellites (in low earth orbits to minimize signal delay), which would then relay the data back down to a backbone access point.
Amalga promised to bring the data together in one place and find the signal in the noise.
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Crucially for data storage, this free flow means that the spins of the electrons in question would be able to align themselves with those of the data-storing atoms, giving a clean signal.
Based on that premise, the company built out data centers with small antennas that could capture TV signal off the air and redistribute them over the internet.
But they experienced renewed hopes last week after Stanford scientists reported that a review of data revealed what might have been an extremely weak signal from Mars during tests on December 18 and January 4.
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And by stacking components so compactly, signal latency (the delay that results when data are moved from one part of a computer to another) would be greatly reduced, further enhancing performance.
Opera Solutions has created a platform based on the concept of a signal hub that recognizes signals in many sources of data and provides a platform for creating models and applications.
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It's not just about upping the data rate, though, as other challenges include keeping that signal good through conditions your ISP (thankfully) won't normally have to consider, such as pin-point accuracy over 238, 900 miles while moving through space.
There, a piece of hardware called the concentrator unit plucks the data off a fiber-optic network, reformulates it into a signal at 2 to 30 megahertz and injects that signal onto the power line.
As soon as a helicopter goes beyond the 80-mile zone covered by land-based radar, its signal is picked up by the offshore platforms, with the data then returned to the airport.
The trick only works with older 2G data services like Edge and GPRS. But by sending out a jamming signal that blocks 3G connections, the system can trick most phones into automatically downgrading to one of the two more vulnerable 2G protocols.
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