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SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone finally approved by Apple and AT&T
Fellow Slingsters, rejoice! Apple has finally approved SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone after months of hemming and hawing. For the steep price of $30, starting tomorrow morning you can download an iPhone application that will allow you to watch video from home, no matter where you are. Well, as long as you have an iPhone, a Slingbox and a Wi-Fi connection.
That's the catch. Slingbox Mobile's 3G access will be disabled, probably because AT&T wasn't willing to cough up the bandwidth necessary for millions of Slingbox users to watch video over its 3G network. The good news? Contrary to earlier reports, the app will work on older Slingboxes, too.
So that stingy bandwidth issue rears its ugly head again. Damn you, lame cellphone companies and greedy broadband providers! Someday you'll build out those networks enough for watching streaming video in any circumstance. But we're not holding our collective breath waiting for that.
Via Engadget
By J at 2:25 PM ON 05/12/09
I knew they wouldnt give up some 3G space. They've blown all their money on the iphone and now have the weakest 3G network possible. If I had verizon, I'm not sure where I wouldnt have 3g, but with AT$T they've got a network thats the size of a dime. In springfield IL, I often switch over to edge because 3g wont work.
By jay at 2:27 PM ON 05/12/09
I knew they wouldnt give up some 3G space. They've blown all their money on the iphone and now have the weakest 3G network possible. If I had verizon, I'm not sure where I wouldnt have 3g, but with AT$T they've got a network thats the size of a dime. In springfield IL, I often switch over to edge because 3g won
By hoghead1 at 2:58 PM ON 05/12/09
AT&T, NEC, Corning test 32 Tbps connection
May 11, 2009 — 11:22pm ET | By Dan O'Shea
AT&T and vendor partners NEC America and Corning have worked together to test 32 Tbps transmission over a 580-km fiber link. The transmission was executed at 114 Gigabits per second over each of 320 separate optical channels on the single fiber to reach the aggregate bandwidth, according to an AT&T press release. The test originally was discussed at OFC/NFOEC in San Diego, Calif.
AT&T said the research was driven by the carrier's ongoing IP traffic growth rate of 45 percent annually. The test also is the latest step in efforts by a variety of carriers to demonstrate higher backbone bandwidth capabilities.
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