As a result of being so small the modem chip will also be more energy efficient and cheaper to produce.
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Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.
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The modem springs into action, it works, it works ... it doesn't.
This replaces the modem that most people use to surf the internet.
But as both improve and become more common, they will--like the modem before them--inevitably become required components in any computer on the market.
Just as the footsteps reached the top of the stairs, as the phone rattled in its metal hook, I'd kick the modem out of the wall, killing the connection.
The Broadcom-Qualcomm battle has echoes of the skirmish between Intel and AMD over PC chips, except theirs is a war over three key sockets in a smartphone: the processor (brain), the modem, and the connectivity combo chip.
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Setting up a wireless network in the home requires at least two components: a wireless hub, which connects to the modem (DSL or cable) or server PC, and a client device such as a PC insert card, which connects to the hub.
Three years earlier, he gave this circuitous, hour-long talk, laying out the long-running war between evolving information technologies from the piano roll to the telegraph to the modem, and how the established institutions that are disrupted by those technologies have sought to stifle them.
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This one promises download speeds of up to 42Mbps and upload speeds approaching 5.76Mbps, with a swiveling design that allows the body of the modem to be tucked up against the side of the notebook and protects it from being damaged by accidental bumps.
The company will showcase the BCM21892 modem at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona this week.
Once we made the right connections--connecting the DSL modem to the router, then the router to the PC--we opened a Web address that brought up a configuration window in the PC's Web browser.
For small businesses, AOpen America came out with two new modem routers, the IRoute 128 ISDN external modem router and the PRoute 112, an external standard phone line V.90 modem router.
In order to grow further in the smartphone and tablet market, the company thinks the integration of the LTE modem will substantially grow its market opportunity in the future.
According to him, his equipment was recently swapped out, with the new modem boasting a Motorola logo and a "CLEAR" logo instead of the "Clearwire" emblem as before.
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Broadcom customers are currently testing the LTE modem and production is expected to begin in 2014.
Also, the Verizon data modem wasn't the carrier's newest or possibly its best.
The new modem also supports LTE Category 4 speeds of 150Mbps1, operates in any 3GPP network and performs seamless hand-offs between the various 4G LTE, 3G and 2G interface technologies.
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It sheds the newer Cortex-A15 architecture of the Tegra 4 for a spruced-up 2.3GHz Cortex-A9 with the i500 LTE modem built directly into the chip die -- a move that cuts the surface area in half and simplifies the hardware, even as it supposedly outruns equivalent competition.
Additionally, U.S. Cellular offers 4G LTE capable data devices including the Huawei UML397 4G LTE USB Wireless Modem and the Samsung SCH-LC11 Mobile Hotspot, allowing customers to experience data speeds up to 10 times faster.
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The computers had a modem, a good, chunky keyboard and the ability to write up to 11 pages of text.
Moving right along, Canada's own Telus will be offering yet another new one from Sierra Wireless this March: the AirCard 319U USB modem, a device we recently spotted in the FCC's database.
Meanwhile, the MultiMobile Powerbook V.90 card modem plugs into the PCMCIA slots of Macintosh PowerBooks.
The 7160 global modem supports 15 LTE bands simultaneously, more than any other in-market solution.
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Simply plug in the 3G USB modem to TL-MR3020 and establish a Wi-Fi hotspot instantly.
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It is the first Icera modem to implement 4G LTE in NVIDIA's software defined radio baseband processor.
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Broadcom also stands to benefit from better margins on the new LTE modem.
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To send that information stream over the Net with the kind of modem most people use (one that can handle 28.8 kilobits a second) would take nearly four hours.
At my first test location, the T-Mobile Rocket drove the ThinkPad to an average download speed of 4.88 megabits per second, versus just 1.36 megabits per second for the Verizon data modem.
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