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‘LiFi’ provider Oledcomm shares experience of ITU standards process

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:September 4, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:September 4, 2020

By ITU News Oledcomm started out as an R&D lab at Versailles University in 2005. That lab has grown into a company with global ambitions, developing high-security ‘LiFi’ solutions with infrared. The company’s ‘LiFiMAX’ solution builds on ITU G.9991, the ITU standard for high-speed indoor wireless communications with visible light and infrared. LiFi provides network connectivity within a premises, similar to WiFi, […]

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Why Fraunhofer HHI develops and trials ‘LiFi’ systems based on ITU standards

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:September 4, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:September 4, 2020

By Volker Jungnickel, Head of Metro-, Access- and Inhouse Systems at Fraunhofer HHI The LiFi market is growing with the help of the ITU G.9991, the first standard for Gigabit indoor wireless connectivity using visible and infrared light. The long-term research of Fraunhofer HHI made a key contribution in helping the wireless community to reach the exciting point we see today […]

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Why Signify builds ‘LiFi’ products to ITU standards

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:September 4, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:September 4, 2020

By ITU News ITU’s standard for indoor Visible Light Communication (VLC), also known as ‘LiFi’ – ITU G.9991 – is the world’s first standard for high-speed wireless communications with visible light and infrared. LiFi provides network connectivity within a premises, similar to WiFi, but using light rather than radio signals. When Philips Lighting introduced Signify as its new company name in 2018, […]

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ITU standards project G.fin to provide fibre connectivity in the home

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:September 3, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:September 3, 2020

By ITU News New ICT experiences are entering our homes with innovations such as smart TVs, smart speakers, HD video communications and Virtual Reality. The ITU G.fin project aims to optimize these experiences by introducing a novel fibre network to provide connectivity from the residential gateway to the wireless access points in the home. The performance of the access network […]

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New features of ITU home networking standards under development for Smart Grid, Industrial and IoT

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:September 3, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:September 3, 2020

By ITU News ‘Smart’ systems make smarter use of data to operate more autonomously and increase efficiency. The evolution of the ITU G.hn family of home networking standards will provide in-premises networks with the reliability, capacity and controlled-latency capabilities necessary to the remote management and control of smart systems. G.hn technology provides a highly flexible transmission engine capable over coax, […]

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The telecoms industry landscape is changing. What remains for traditional operators?

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:August 18, 2020
Post category:Broadband/ Network Innovation Network Management
Post last modified:August 18, 2020

By Tomas Lamanauskas, Managing Partner, Envision Associates Gone are the days when national telecoms markets were primarily defined by former monopoly incumbent telcos together with a handful of mobile operators (MNOs). New types of players have been emerging for a while, leveraging opportunities provided by market liberalization, competitive regulatory frameworks and the relaxation of licensing regimes. Internet service providers (ISPs), […]

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How Alesund became Norway’s first city to adopt smart city KPIs

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:August 17, 2020
Post category:Innovation Smart Cities
Post last modified:August 17, 2020

By Eva Vinje Aurdal, Mayor of Ålesund The city of Ålesund lies on the West Coast of Norway between high mountains and the famous fjords. Home to approximately 67,000 people, the city of Ålesund is a merge between five former municipalities. The merge was by far the largest in the municipality reform initiated by the Norwegian government, and the five […]

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Technology for all means tapping into the ‘Silver Economy’

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:August 11, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:August 11, 2020

By Michael Hodin, CEO of the Global Coalition on Aging *This article has been republished with permission of the author and the Global Coalition on Aging. The original article can be found here. Older people, globally, are consumers too. The megatrend of global aging — 2 billion of us over 60 by mid-century, more old than young, getting to the […]

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How AI is democratizing innovation in esports and beyond

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:July 28, 2020
Post category:Innovation Multimedia, Content & Apps
Post last modified:July 28, 2020

By ITU News It’s no secret now that esports are taking over both real and virtual worlds with a global audience nearing half a billion spectators. And esports industry statistics are earth-shattering, with annual growth rates as high as 20 per cent and revenues exceeding 1 billion USD per year. But what about the technology that makes the esports multiverse […]

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Why the new UN Disability Inclusion Strategy is an opportunity for ITU

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:July 27, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:July 27, 2020

By Catalina Devandas-Aguilar, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities *The following article is adapted from my opening remarks at the 2020 WSIS Forum session “ICTs and Accessibility: UN collaborative efforts towards SDGs, CRPD and UNDIS implementation in Digital Accessibility,” which took place virtually on 16 July 2020. People with disabilities represent more than 15 per cent […]

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