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The WAVE Report on Digital Media
3D --- Media Creation --- Shared Space ---Published by 4th Wave, Inc.--- Issue #0537------------------9/16/05 |
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0537.2 Gaming in China
DFC Intelligence Forecasts China Online Games to Reach $1.7 Billion by 2010
0537.3 Web Design Tools
0537.4 Higher Speed Networking
0537.5 Home Network Security
Symantec Press Publishes ''The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security''
0537.6 Packeting Standards
0537.7 Windows Server 2003
Realtimepublishers and triCerat Release Two New Books on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services
0537.8 Spam Index
Commtouch Reports August Spam Trends: Spammers Seek to Profit From Katrina
0537.9 Streaming Advertising
AccuStream Research Releases a Comprehensive Guide Book for Streaming Advertising
0537.10 WiMAX Growth
0537.11 ZigBee Applications
ZigBee Not a Perfect Fit for Industrial Applications, Says ARC Advisory Group
0537.12 Microsoft Futures
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0537.1 Secure Communications
***First Portable Mil-Spec 3G Network Provides Secure and Versatile Communications for Defense Applications
Cambridge, UK
September 13, 2005
3Way Networks has launched a breakthrough in rapid-deployment secure communications with the launch of a hand-portable UMTS network capable of supporting up to 100 user devices. Based on the company's unique 'network on a card', the equipment packs a complete 3GPP Release 5 compliant system with radio network, switching and packet elements into a tiny 30x56x80cm ruggedised case.
Called DBX-m, the system offers a highly cost-effective solution for a range of applications including disabling third-party 3G networks, providing home calling facilities for armed service personnel, or ruggedised basestations with the bandwidth to support the spectrum of remote sensing applications from battlefield sensors to multi-media UAV communications. These, and numerous other applications, are emerging as potential defence uses for UMTS thanks to the technology's intrinsically high level of security including 128-bit encryption and mutual client/network authentication.
DBX-m can be used in conjunction with 3G terminals and NATO approved secure encryption devices, and the new generation of secure UMTS terminals currently in development. The system can be used standalone - providing a fully-functional local UMTS network - or connected to a satellite uplink employing commercial internet protocol (IP), circuit-based, or military satellite infrastructure. The radio element of the system additionally features software-definable characteristics, allowing it to be re-banded to take advantage of military spectrum, for instance. As standard, the system offers a 5W output, but can optionally be fitted with a power amplifier to achieve the desired range.
3Way Networks' communications network - which includes a keyboard and high-brightness 6.5 inch display - is provided in a ruggedised and waterproof form factor meeting Mil-Spec 810F and Def Stan 81-41j packaging standards. The equipment comes with a power connector conforming to the NATO Slave Receptacle specification, allowing it to be plugged onto the standard 24V auxiliary power interfaces available on military vehicles.
3Way Networks anticipates three major applications for the new equipment in the short term. DBX-m can be used for electronic warfare, to temporally disable third-party 3G terminals prior to enemy engagement for instance. This activity can be performed in a far subtler manner than a broad spectrum jammer, and can be done without alerting enemy to its presence.
DBX-m offers a cost effective home calling solution - connected to commercial broadband satellite facilities for the backhaul medium for instance. This would provide significantly enhanced security even using commercial UMTS handsets - compared with the GSM and other solutions currently widely employed for this application.
UMTS is also ideally suited to support the new generations of micro sensors for battlefield use, and remote camera applications - as it offers significantly better reception sensitivity than almost any other digital communications system (and its mass market penetration means that core devices and silicon are both inexpensive and power efficient). The system is both rugged and waterproof, allowing it to be operate autonomously, linked to observers located in the local UMTS cell, or even on another continent if connected to a satellite uplink.
For a DBX-m datasheet, visit the website.
http://www.3waynetworks.com/defence.html
***DFC Intelligence Forecasts China Online Games to Reach $1.7 Billion by 2010
SAN DIEGO
Sept. 14, 2005
A new report from DFC Intelligence forecasts that the online game market in China will grow from $580 million in 2005 to $1.7 billion in 2010. This does not include any potential revenue from traditional video game console or handheld systems. According to Alexis Madrigal, lead author of the report, "because of piracy concerns China has been forced to pioneer new business models for video games. The game market in China is all about online play and charging by usage. There is even a growing market for the items used in games like weapons and characters."
With the recent introduction of Vivendi Universal Games/Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, it has been shown that western content can have strong appeal in China. Nevertheless, the Chinese market remains extremely difficult for foreign companies. A company entering the Chinese market must compete with the increasingly sophisticated domestic Chinese game companies. On top of that, there is the rampant piracy problem, extensive government regulation and a market that is already overcrowded with products. "Because the top games in China can generate as much as $100 million a year for several years, at first glance the market looks very attractive," says Madrigal. "However, it is clear that margins are headed down as the business matures."
The new report, The Game Market in China, is over 350 pages and contains forecasts for China online games through 2010, complete business model analysis, extensive company profiles, a discussion of popular and emerging game genres, a look at government regulations, piracy and the telecommunications infrastructure and case studies of product launches. More information is available at
http://www.dfcint.com/game_report/China_GameMKT.html
***Macromedia Studio 8 Now Available; Dreamweaver 8, Flash Professional 8, Fireworks 8, and Flash Player 8 Ship with New Advanced Features and Workflows
SAN FRANCISCO
Sept. 13, 2005
Macromedia, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of Macromedia Studio 8, the essential suite for web designers, developers, video professionals, and graphic artists to design, develop, and maintain interactive online experiences. Combining the latest releases of award-winning Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash Professional, and Macromedia Fireworks, and key productivity tools Macromedia Contribute) and Macromedia FlashPaper), Studio 8 offers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency, and simplified workflow to create websites, interactive media, and mobile content.
Studio 8 contains feature firsts, workflow enhancements, and new products. Studio 8 includes groundbreaking new video encoding tools, which give customers an easier method for creating and publishing high-quality interactive video for truly memorable online experiences. New CSS enhancements and visual authoring tools for XML add style and sophistication to websites and applications. New tools for authoring and testing mobile content give Studio 8 the market lead in helping businesses reach the widest audience possible across multiple platforms. The addition of Contribute and FlashPaper allows designers and developers a streamlined approach to maintaining web content, making the upkeep of sites created with the suite even more cost effective.
The Studio 8 suite and its individual products are key application components of the Macromedia Flash Platform for delivering the most effective experiences for rich content, applications, and communications across browsers, operating systems, and devices.
Dreamweaver 8 is Macromedia's latest release of the industry-leading tool for designing and developing websites and applications. New Dreamweaver 8 features include expanded Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layout visualization for easier design, drag-and-drop integration of XML data feeds, improved code hinting support for XML and XSLT, enhanced usability features such as zoom and code collapse to streamline the development process, and easier ways to incorporate Flash video content onto websites.
Flash Professional 8 marks a significant release for Flash, the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences, and mobile content. Improved graphics performance, new graphic effects capabilities, new animation controls, script editor usability, Flash video features, and workflow integration with leading video editing and encoding tools allow the creation of rich, immersive content for the web that was not possible before. Flash Professional 8 is the professional authoring environment for the Internet's most widely distributed rich client runtime, Flash Player.
Fireworks 8 offers many new and improved features for optimizing images and graphics for the web. Web designers and developers can now create interactive CSS-style pop-up menus, experiment with more than 26 new blend modes, import new file formats, and experience improved roundtrip editing with Dreamweaver 8 and Flash Professional 8.
Flash Player 8 is a major update to the ubiquitous runtime client. Flash Player 8 includes a higher quality video codec, an advanced text-rendering engine, and an improved security model and privacy controls to offer unprecedented performance in a lightweight runtime player. Flash Player is currently installed on over 600 million desktops and mobile devices globally.
Availability
Macromedia Studio 8, Dreamweaver 8, Flash Professional 8, and Fireworks 8 are available for immediate purchase from the Macromedia Online Store.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/studio
0537.4 Higher Speed Networking
***Neterion Publishes White Paper Demonstrating the Benefits of 10 Gigabit Ethernet versus Aggregating 1 Gigabit Ethernet Links
CUPERTINO, Calif.
Sept. 14, 2005
Neterion, Inc. has announced the release of a case study that answers one of the main questions the company is receiving from IT managers contacted in its "Test Drive 10 Gigabit Ethernet" Evaluation Program. What is the more cost effective solution -- aggregate 1 GbE links or upgrade to 10 GbE?
Neterion sales engineers who are receiving customer feedback in their Test Drive Program report that many data center managers are seeking specific numbers on the benefits of trunking 1 GbE links versus upgrading to 10 GbE. The case study they are releasing provides complete detail on the upgrade process along with a thorough cost analysis.
In order to provide data that directly addresses the concerns of IT management, Neterion worked with the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) to evaluate the overall system cost, performance, power, and management trade offs involved with several approaches to upgrading the center's data networking infrastructure.
The case study describes the real-world migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet by SDSC and details the process that was undertaken. This study concluded that 10 Gigabit Ethernet allowed cutting the cost by a factor of 6 compared to upgrading the system with a 1 Gigabit trunked solution, while more than doubling the resulting bandwidth. A white paper detailing this migration can be found at
http://www.neterion.com/solutions/whitepapers.html
***Symantec Press Publishes ''The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security''; Easy-To-Understand Book Offers Ways For Home Computer Users and Small Businesses To Protect Information From Cyber Attacks
CUPERTINO, Calif.
Sept. 13, 2005
Symantec Corp. has announced "The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security," published by Symantec Press. Authors Andrew Conry-Murray, technology editor for IT Architect (formerly Network Magazine), and Vincent Weafer, senior director, Symantec Security Response, provide a straightforward, understandable guide to help individuals, families, and small businesses protect themselves from Internet threats and security risks.
Consumers and small businesses face a broad range of risks when they connect to the Internet, including maintaining the privacy of their personal information and their computer's usability and performance. In the guide, users will find simple explanations and helpful illustrations on how to keep their computers free of threats such as spyware, worms, viruses, spam, and intruders. In addition, readers of the book will learn how to use e-mail and browse the Web in ways that safeguard their identity and privacy. Lastly, the book also offers steps to keep children safe from online predators and how to filter unwanted content such as pornography.
According to the authors, today more and more computer users conduct sensitive transactions via e-mail and the Internet, including online banking, stock trading, e-commerce purchasing, personal accounts management, or just sharing photos with friends and relatives. While the Internet makes such activities more convenient, it also exposes users to security risks and threats. These threats, which are frequently driven by profit-motivated criminals and online predators, pose daunting new challenges for everyone who uses the Internet.
The Internet opens huge opportunities for communication, sharing information, along with commerce and learning, but it also brings along significant risks. The Guide offers users easy, step-by-step explanations and recommendations that will allow both individuals and small businesses to navigate safely and securely, armed with the knowledge and technology needed to prevent them from possibly becoming victims of cyber crime.
According to a recent study released by the Small Business Technology Institute in conjunction with Symantec, 56% of small businesses with 50 to 100 employees have experienced at least one security incident in the past year with their computer networks. Only 20% of small businesses have yet to implement virus scanning for their e-mail, and only 40% of small businesses using wireless access have implemented encryption technology.
Purchasing information for the book and additional information on other books scheduled to be published by Symantec Press can be found at
http://www.ses.symantec.com/symantecpress
The book is also available on
***1394 Trade Association Developing IP over Isochronous 1394 Specification, Providing Quality of Service for IP Networks
DALLAS
Sept. 13, 2005
The 1394 Trade Association has announced the formation of a new Task Group to develop a specification for the transport of IP packets over isochronous (real-time) 1394.
The group's efforts will build on the existing IP over 1394 specification in order to minimize development time with a year-end target. The new effort applies 1394's inherent real-time capabilities to provide the critical Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees within a wired IP-based network.
Chaired by Oxford Semiconductor, the task group is identifying changes required to fully support isochronous transport of IP. By the fourth quarter it will produce a technical bulletin that specifies the required changes.
The first stage of the work involves the task group identifying specific areas that require standardization. These include defining the extensions to the Multicast Channel Allocation Protocol (MCAP) to provide a mechanism for announcing the 1394 channel that contains Unicast IP data, a mechanism already exists within MCAP for announcing Multicast and Broadcast IP channels though it needs minor changes to indicate the bandwidth used by each channel. The group also is developing guidelines that indicate how devices should optimally manage 1394 bandwidth at the Isochronous Resource Manager (IRM). It also will identify content protection requirements for data forwarded beyond the local 1394 bus.
The completed specification will enable the transport of IP packets with guaranteed Quality of Service. Data will be delivered within a guaranteed time period, ensuring that the transport of IP-based video, for example, from a video source to sink will be free from breakups due to data 'starvation,' even on very busy home networks.
In order to optimize product interoperability, the 1394 TA task group will be working throughout the development of the specification to ensure the mechanisms used for 1394 transport are compatible with those used in other IP systems, such as the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and Residential Ethernet.
The 1394 Trade Association is an international organization dedicated to the advancement and proliferation of the IEEE 1394/FireWire multimedia standard.
***Realtimepublishers and triCerat Release Two New Books on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services
SAN FRANCISCO
Sept. 13, 2005
Realtimepublishers and triCerat are releasing two new books covering different aspects of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services. The Definitive Guide to Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services Updated Edition is the newest installment in Realtimepublishers' Definitive Guide Series, and The How-To Guide to Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services is the first title in the new How-To Guide Series.
The Definitive Guide to Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services Updated Edition offers an introduction to Windows' multi-user capabilities for both management and executive-level IT professionals.
Main topics of discussion include:
-- Role-based architecture, with a focus on Terminal Server role
-- Application Compatibility
-- Multi-server Architecture
-- System Administration
-- New features from Service Pack 1
As a companion to this book, The How-To Guide to Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services offers a step-by-step approach to installation, management, configuration, and troubleshooting of Terminal Services.
Each new chapter of both guides will be posted online immediately upon completion, ensuring the most up-to-date information available. As an exclusive sponsor, triCerat is offering free access to both guides on their website at:
http://www.tricerat.com/ebooks
The guides will be available for download at Realtimepublishers own Content Central eBook portal
http://cc.realtimepublishers.com/portal.aspx?pubid=343
***Commtouch Reports August Spam Trends: Spammers Seek to Profit From Katrina; Using Katrina to Attract Recipients' Interest and Trick Anti-Spam Filters, Spammers Send 36% More Spam in August 2005 Than in August 2004
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
Sept. 14, 2005
Commtouch has announced spam trends and statistics for the month of August. The announcement was based on data from the Commtouch Spam Detection Center, which analyzed over 1.5 billion spam messages in the month of August 2005.
Commtouch noted that their analysis shows that spammers used Katrina to attract and hold recipients' interest. Typically, the subject of the email relates to hurricane related news, while the body of the message has nothing to do with the hurricane that devastated Louisiana.
During a monitoring experiment of less than 5 hours, the Commtouch Spam Detection Center identified more than 250 examples of such spam outbreaks, with subject lines such as:
-- "today's headlines: hurricane katrina slams into gulf coast; dozens are dead"
-- "travelnewsletter - katrina affects cruise itineraries. stay safe!"
-- "hurricane katrina update - nationwide storm survey"
-- "Instantly track Katrina's progress john"
In other examples, variations on "Katrina" and "Hurricane" are used in multiple ways within the subjects of spam. The objective is to circumvent naive spam filters (such as Bayesian filters, which tend to white list messages by 'positive' keywords). Examples include:
-- "Claim your stock car racing gift Katrina"
-- "El 'Katrina' podria costarle a las aseguradoras mas de 20.000 millones"
-- "Enter now for a complimentary trip to Maui Katrina"
-- "Get an overnight $1500 cash advance for Katrina"
-- "Katrina win a $50,000 scholarship"
-- "Sexy hottie Katrina strips down"
Note: spelling and mistypes are from the original messages.
The Real Content: Drugs, Money and Sex
While some spam may have masqueraded as messages relating to Katrina, the true content of August 2005 remained similar to that of previous months. The list is headed once again by pharmaceuticals (29.15%), financing schemes (20.95%) and sex enhancers (14.19%).
| Category | % of spam | Popular subjects |
| Pharmaceutical | 29.15% | "Cailis Softabs Onlly $3.99 d9Z" |
| Financing | 20.95% | "Congrats on your Approval", "Get Your personalized rate quote NOW" |
| Sex enhancers | 14.19% | "Alpha male", "Aging shouldn't mean The end of your love life" |
| Software | 10.42% | "Adobe Photoshop 8.0 - wholesale price", "All software -- 75% OFF" |
| Porn & Dating | 8.40% | "Date couples", "Dating for naughty people" |
| Gifts & Shopping | 8.40% | "Want a Rolex? Try a Replica First", "Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton..." |
| Stocks & Frauds | 3.28% | "The Next White Hot St0ck?""Account notification from eBay" |
| Other | 5.21% |
Spam Volume -- Significant Increase vs. Summer 2004
The Commtouch Spam Detection Center identified 27,664,737 new spam outbreaks in August 2005, averaging 922,158 outbreaks per day. This represents a slight decrease from July 2005, during which 33,977,674 spam outbreaks were detected. During the period July-August 2005, there were 36% more spam outbreaks than during the same period in 2004.
Spam Sending Domains
Spammers continue to abuse the reputation of the leading email service providers, forging messages so they appear to be sent from domains such as Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail. The most popular domains used as "senders" in August 2005 were:
| yahoo.com & yahoogroups.com | 2.08% |
| hotmail.com | 1.35% |
| aol.com | 0.55% |
| gmail.com | 0.52% |
| msn.com | 0.30% |
| sympatico.ca | 0.26% |
| netscape.net | 0.25% |
| ebay.com | 0.22% |
| comcast.net | 0.22% |
| fusemail.com | 0.20% |
| ebay.de | 0.19% |
***AccuStream Research Releases a Comprehensive Guide Book for Streaming Advertising
MONTEREY, Calif.
Sept. 13, 2005
AccuStream iMedia Research has released its 2005 - 2006 Guide To Streaming Advertising: Agencies to Vendors, an essential, comprehensive resource for broadband media planners, buyers and sellers across a wide range of advertising applications, from entertainment to business communications.
The guide provides a detailed assessment of how streaming advertising is bought, sold, paid for, where the budgets are, CPMs, the top sites for streaming video and audio, CDN pricing to deliver streaming advertising and a section on the growing importance of Flash streaming video.
Many of the CDNs in this report also have developed custom streaming advertising solutions, in cooperation with vendors such as Macromedia, Eyewonder and Klipmart, and those integrated solutions are also examined.
This reference guide walks users through the entire process of placing streaming media campaigns online, how the deals are getting done, what agencies and rep firms are involved, sites with available streaming inventory (audio and video), and how CDNs such as VitalStream, Akamai, Nine Systems and Mirror Image are working with Flash to offer a number of broadband advertising applications.
As in the broadcast business, streaming media campaigns online require creative assets, agency representation, in addition to an understanding of streaming codecs, distribution providers (CDNs), prices, formulas for types of media insertions and more.
Streaming advertising, whether placed on business related sites across finance, retail, real estate, travel, media, entertainment or telecommunications sectors will be able to utilize the guide's resource of vendors and application providers.
There is also streaming media trending analysis, and streaming advertising buying trend analysis, on both the audio and video side of the broadband medium.
http://www.accustreamresearch.com
***New Wireless LAN Report Chronicles Major Technology Changes and the Effect of WiMAX as Sales Continue to Climb
Tempe AZ
September 8, 2005
Forward Concepts has announced the publication of a new in-depth study of the WLAN and WiMAX equipment and chip markets. The new report, "Beyond Wi-Fi: 802.11n, VoWi-Fi & WiMAX" provides a comprehensive analysis of worldwide equipment and chip markets. The report also profiles the ODMs, OEMs and chip vendors serving these markets.
Based on product reviews and interviews with numerous companies involved in the WLAN and WiMAX markets, the report provides detailed forecasts through 2009 of all market segments, including Access Points (APs) and base stations (WiMAX), Network Interface Cards (NICs), Wireless Router Gateways (WRGs), and the chipsets enabling the entire WLAN and WiMAX networks. Units, average selling prices (ASPs), and total revenue are forecast for every market segment.
The author of the report, Carter L. Horney, pointed out, "The growing WLAN market is a classic example of how a market can continue to expand as costs and prices ride down the learning curve, opening up new applications and market opportunities. Specifically, in spite of a predicted 23% average selling price drop, worldwide shipments of WLAN equipment products will increase 6% to the $5.2 billion level in 2005." The report also predicts that WLAN equipment will continue growing at a higher rate in 2006 to the $5.9 billion level as new IEEE 802.11n and VoWi-Fi equipment is introduced and the infrastructure for traditional Wi-Fi expands.
In the report, the WiMAX and pre-WiMAX equipment market (including both 802.16d and 802.16e) is forecast to grow from $72 million in 2005 to just over $2 billion in 2009, for an annual compound growth rate of 130%. Mr. Horney went on to say, "We view WiMAX as complementary to both Wi-Fi and 3G cellular. Fixed 802.16d systems can provide backbones for Wi-Fi hotspots where DSL or cable is unavailable or impractical. When emerging 802.16e provides a mobility WiMAX capability, it will augment the Wi-Fi infrastructure that will remain dominant for several years."
Early views were that mobile WiMAX would be a threat to 3G, but now cellular equipment vendors such as Nokia are saying that WIMAX will be complementary. Preliminary analyses indicate that 802.16e data delivery costs can be significantly cheaper per megabyte than HSDPA or 1xEV-DO when provided as an overlay to a cellular network.
Pure WiMAX chipsets, beginning with 802.16d-compliant fixed-operation units, are beginning to ship in 2005 for estimated revenues of $5.4 million. However, mobility-capable 802.16e chipsets will begin sampling next year and the combined chip market is forecast to grow at a 209% compound annual growth rate to $489 million in 2009.
In addition, the report includes WLAN profiles of all major equipment providers, including Taiwan ODMs. Profiles of chip vendors for both WLAN and WiMAX are provided for baseband/PHY and MAC suppliers as well as those of RF and power amplifier chips. Uniquely, the report not only provides details of chip vendor market shares for each chip class, but also indicates which chip vendor's products are shipping to what equipment vendors, and which equipments are re-branded and sold under other vendor's names.
The report also discusses many new markets enabled by WLAN technology, including VoWi-Fi phones and the growth of converged WLAN/cellphones and Home Multimedia TV Networks. And it also forecasts the embedded WLAN markets for those applications, along with Notebooks, PDAs, security cameras, and much more.
The 392-page report, "Beyond Wi-Fi: 802.11n, VoWi-Fi & WiMAX" includes 82 figures and 49 in-depth tables. A global enterprise license for the electronic version is also available.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/wirelan5.htm
***ZigBee Not a Perfect Fit for Industrial Applications, Says ARC Advisory Group
DEDHAM, Mass.
Sept. 12, 2005
ARC Advisory Group has issued a new Strategy Report entitled "ZigBee in a Nutshell: How Suitable for Industrial Applications?". This report explains what ZigBee is and why new technology like ZigBee will be needed in future wireless sensor networks. It also examines each major component of ZigBee (ZigBee's overall architecture, application environment, network layer, and security). The report continues with an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of ZigBee in industrial applications and with recommendations for industrial manufacturers and product developers.
The report says that manufacturing end users see a huge potential value in wireless devices, but will only make large deployments of products when they are based on standards. Reliance on standards assures better radio frequency coexistence, multiple sources of supply, and predictable performance as deployments scale up. The ZigBee Alliance has positioned itself as being the key technology standard not only for wireless coexistence, but for device level interoperability -- hence the ZigBee marketing tag line "wireless control that simply works".
According to ARC Advisory Group, developers of products and solutions for industry are now choosing from among several wireless technologies. Their menu of technology choices consists of IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4 (either with or without ZigBee), Bluetooth, and even more far off wireless technologies like UWB. Among these radio technologies only 802.15.4 has the property of very low power consumption that long-lived battery-powered industrial products will require. Most industrial applications will deploy at least some fraction of battery-powered devices. As a result, the question on the table today in many industrial development and deployment roadmaps is "to ZigBee or not to ZigBee?"
The report praises ZigBee for its development, management, and promotion of technology and for its flexibility to satisfy a wide range of applications, including those with demanding response time constraints. The report urges manufacturers to explore extensions beyond ZigBee for more RF agility, edge devices with higher network reliability, and other advanced services that benefit industrial devices and systems.
http://www.arcweb.com/research/reports/zigbee.htm
***Wainhouse Research Releases Comprehensive Report on Microsoft's Real-Time Communications Vision, Product Strategies, and Partner Ecosystem
BROOKLINE, Mass.
Sept. 14, 2005
Wainhouse Research has announced the publication of a major new industry research report, "Microsoft's Presence-Enabled Real-Time Communications Strategy: What Every Organization Should Know About the 800-Pound Gorilla's Voice, Video, and Web Collaboration Solutions and Partner Ecosystem"
The 235-page report presents a comprehensive analysis of Microsoft's integrated enterprise collaboration product offerings for presence-enabled VoIP, IP video, instant messaging and web conferencing. It also analyzes the firm's vast partner ecosystem, including companies such as Siemens Communications, Genesys Telecommunications, Polycom, Research in Motion, Radvision, Siebel Systems, British Telecom, and MCI.
According to Wainhourse Research, few sources exist for helping businesses to craft a comprehensive IP communications strategy for their firm and to understand the bewildering array of technologies and vendors in the marketplace. This report provides useful guidance for companies of all sizes for understanding not only how Microsoft's products work, but also how the products and services from more than 40 strategic partners can integrate with Microsoft's desktop applications and communications systems.
The report provides an exhaustive third-party analysis of Microsoft's strategy for dominating the desktop communications and collaboration market, presents a summary of product strengths and weaknesses, and assesses Microsoft's probability of success in the collaborative communications marketplace. It also provides commentary on Microsoft's major competitors in this market including Cisco Systems, IBM, and Oracle.
The executive summary and a complete table of contents are online.
http://www.wainhouse.com/reports
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