PoE Technologies Release Extreme PoE Extender

PoE Technologies announces the release of  a new product,  The XLE-PoE Extender. The XLE-PoE is an indoor Power-over-Ethernet extender allowing up to 60 watts of power to be extend. The XLE-PoE-includes a 60watt PoE Injector.

The XLE-PoE is extremely small, measuring only L 2.70 (68mm) W 1.65(42mm) H .90(23mm) inches. The XLE-PoE is considered the world’s smallest PoE Extender.

The XLE-PoE can power any Network PD (Powered Device) including 802.3af and 802.3at compliant devices.

“Having the ability to extend Ethernet, with 60 watts of power, plus being extremely small the XLE-PoE gives our Dealers the ability to put together a high power solution. With the ever increasing power demands of network devices using PoE, such as Wireless Access Points and PTZ IP Cameras, the XLE-PoE solves any Ethernet and Power problems. We also are the only PoE Extender on the market that includes a 60 watt PoE Injector in its base model.
With the numerous PoE extenders on the market, we also made the XLE-PoE extreme competitive in price.” says James H Riggs, President of PoE Technologies

About PoE Technologies Company:

PoE Technologies is a manufacture of Ethernet and Power products that increase solutions while reducing cost for Integrators. PoE Technologies focus on the ability to bring high performance across wired networks, while providing solutions to Ethernet networks not normally accessible with previous technologies.

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PoE Technologies Public Relations

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Tom Callahan Appointed President QRC Technologies

QRC Technologies (QRC) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Tom Callahan as President of the company. “I am pleased to announce that Tom Callahan will succeed me as President,” says Roger Matherly, founder and CEO of QRC. “Tom’s ability to interpret our markets’ needs, translate those needs into technically superior solutions, and manage an organization to deliver those solutions to our customers’ makes him perfectly suited to lead QRC and direct our company’s continued growth.”

Tom Callahan has played a central role in the development of QRC’s product lines. He has been QRC’s General Manager for two years, and prior to this, Tom was VP of Engineering since joining the company in 2006. Tom came to QRC from PCTEL, formerly DTI, a world leader in commercial cellular test solutions, where he was the VP of Engineering overseeing the development of world class software defined scanning receivers and software solutions. Before DTI, Tom was a DSP engineer at the Watkins-Johnson Company, a leading government supplier of COMINT electronic warfare solutions.

“Tom’s experience in bringing to market superior radio frequency (RF) and cellular solutions in both commercial and government markets makes him uniquely qualified to lead QRC’s continued market expansion,” said Jeff Lazzuri, Executive VP. “We are very excited to have him take over leadership of the company.”

Tom Callahan holds an MBA from Keller Graduate School, a BSEE from Grove City College and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2003. Tom is also a member of QRC’s Board of Directors.

About QRC Technologies

QRC Technologies (QRC) specializes in RF Test and Measurement products, focused on cellular communications.  QRC develops and produces survey tools for cellular communication systems, phone based measurement, stimulation tools, forensic tools, and integrated RF recording and playback equipment.

QRC was founded in 1987 and has been serving as a systems integrator since its inception, and in the last decade has expanded with a portfolio of RF Test and Measurement products.  The company has over 50 employees in three offices:  one in Gaithersburg, MD, one in Stafford, VA, and the world headquarters located in Fredericksburg, VA.

Media Contact:

Jeff Lazzuri
QRC, Inc
jeff.lazzuri@qrctech.com
www.qrctech.com
540-446-2270

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The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society (Interactive Technologies)

Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for "real time” coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens "text” to each other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations, looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The mobile phone has fundamentally affected our accessibility, safety and security, coordination of social and business activities, and use of public places.

Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this insightful and entertaining book examines the once unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The compelling discussion and projections about the future of the telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice and process, and provide researchers with new ideas to last years.

*Rich Ling (an American working in Norway) is a prominent researcher, interviewed in the new technology article in the November 9 issue of the New York Times Magazine.
*A particularly "good read", this book will be important to the designers, information designers, social psychologists, and others who will have an impact on the development of the new third generation of mobile telephones.
*Carefully and wittily written by a senior research scientist at Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, and developer of the first mobile telephone system that allowed for international roaming.

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Packet Guide to Voice Over IP: A system administrator's guide to VoIP technologies

Go under the hood of an operating Voice over IP network, and build your knowledge of the protocols and architectures used by this Internet telephony technology. With this concise guide, you’ll learn about services involved in VoIP and get a first-hand view of network data packets from the time the phones boot through calls and subsequent connection teardown.

With packet captures available on the companion website, this book is ideal whether you’re an instructor, student, or professional looking to boost your skill set. Each chapter includes a set of review questions, as well as practical, hands-on lab exercises.

• Learn the requirements for deploying packetized voice and video


• Understand traditional telephony concepts, including local loop, tip and ring, and T carriers


• Explore the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), VoIP’s primary signaling protocol


• Learn the operations and fields for VoIP’s standardized RTP and RTCP transport protocols


• Delve into voice and video codecs for converting analog data to digital format for transmission


• Get familiar with Communications Systems H.323, SIP’s widely used predecessor


• Examine the Skinny Client Control Protocol used in Cisco VoIP phones in networks around the world

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Patton Exhibits Revenue-Enabling Technologies at Mobile World Congress This Week

Patton Electronics (www.patton.com)—exhibiting this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC)—is promoting two new technologies for carriers and service providers that enable fixed-mobile convergence and cloud-based value-added services for business, institutions, transportation, and M2M applications. Patton invites aspiring business partners and prospective customers to request a private meeting with a company executive or product manager. Headquartered in Maryland, USA, Patton manufactures over 1,000 networking products. Yet this week at MWC (Hall 7 Stand 7G05) the company will focus on two flagship product lines: .

• SmartNode™ 10K TDM + VoIP Media Gateways facilitate carrier-paced transition to all-IP architecture. Supporting concurrent TDM POTS/ISDN and NGN VoIP protocols, Patton’s commercial-grade SN10K gateways connect traditional SS7 edge, core and peer zones with new-generation MEGACO and SIP networks. Transitioning to converged IP is no sprint,” said Burton A. Patton, Executive Vice President. “It’s a long run. SmartNode 10K gateways facilitate long-term migration plans by concurrently supporting TDM, IP, and hybrid architectures. The integrated SS7 stack ensures global carrier interop, and yet carrier-grade redundancy is a major strength. With N+1 and 1+1 options, the SmartNode 10k enables true ‘five-nines’ reliability.”

FMC - By supporting such mobile and IP vocoders as AMR, AMR-WB (G.722.2), GSM-FR/GSM-EFR, EVRC/QCELP, G.728, G.729eg, and iLBC, with independent dynamic codec selection per channel, the SN10K enables fixed-mobile convergence (FMC).

VAS - Scaling from four T1/E1 trunks up to a full STM-1, SN10K solutions enable customized ringback, background audio, number spoofing, ads-for-minutes, and other value-added services (VAS).

• BODi rS™ Bandwidth-on-Demand Internet Routers offer fast internet connectivity over bonded multi-link 3G, 4G, and VSAT. BODi combines WAN load balancing with VPN bonding to deliver MPLS-like speed and reliability. Supporting up to seven 3G/4G/LTE, WiFi/WiMAX or VSAT uplinks, the BODi product line offers cost-effective, on-demand bandwidth aggregation for fixed and mobile enterprises of all sizes.

"BODi offers a unique mobile broadband experience," said Brian Lawlor, product manager. "These powerful fixed-mobile routers combine up to seven wired and wireless broadband connections--plus a WiFi hotspot and WiFi WAN—all in a single unit."

Meet Patton in Hall 7 Stand 7G05. To request your private meeting, email we@patton.com.

About Patton

Patton is all about connections. It is our joy and mission to connect real-world customer challenges with high-quality, right-priced solutions—complemented by unrivaled customer service and technical support. Incorporated 1984, Patton has built everything from micro-sized widgets that connect "this-with-that," to carrier-grade Telecom gear that connects subscribers to service-providers. Patton's specialty is interconnecting legacy TDM and serial systems with new-generation IP-based voice, data, and multi-media technologies.

Headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Patton equipment—including VoIP, Ethernet extension, and wireless router technologies—is up-and-running in carrier, enterprise and industrial networks worldwide. Patton works in connection with a growing network of technology, business, and sales-channel partners. To connect with local-market requirements, Patton operates training and support centers in Switzerland, Hungary, Lebanon, India, Vietnam, and the USA.

Patton… Let's Connect!

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Glendon Flowers

Patton Electronics Company
7622 Rickenbacker Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20879 USA
Tel: (301) 975-1000
Fax: (301) 869-9293
Email: press@patton.com
Web: www.patton.com

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New Technologies will change the way you call Africa

Rebtel, one of the world's largest VoIP companies has developed free apps that work on most Smartphones and tablets making it possible to call Africa over 3 G mobile data, Wi - fi or using local numbers.

Rebtel (http://www.rebtel.com/) is a new innovative service in the UK that caters to West African customers and provides calls with crystal clear sound even when the user's Internet is slow. Today, calling over the Internet is a reliable and popular alternative for consumers and small businesses. It provides significant cost savings over conventional phone systems with lower monthly expenses thanks to cheaper long distance and international rates (http://www.rebtel.com/en/Rates/Rates/). Rebtel has combined the convenience of traditional fixed and mobile phones with the advantage of low-cost routing over the Internet wrapped up in an app.

Andreas Bernstrom, CEO of Rebtel says, "International calling is an industry that has been plagued by fraudulent practices, non-user-friendly experiments and the burden of having to carry two phones." "We are proud to say that we have solved all those problems for millions of people that have a Smartphone and want to use it to keep in touch with their families in Africa for the lowest possible cost."

Rebtel uses the latest innovations in calling and makes it a convenient affair to call Africa as opposed to with a prepaid SIM that is commonly used in the UK. The app works instantly and eliminates the need for the second phone. According to an independent survey commissioned by Rebtel in the UK, 85% of the respondents own a Smartphone, however 81% of them use a different phone for calling Nigeria.

In America, Africa callers have been discarding old fashioned international calling solutions for some time such as prepaid SIM cards in favor of these new services. Almost 1 million * people have made calls to Africa using Rebtel to date and the company holds a 59.8% recommendation rating amongst its total of 17 million users. If you have related or friends in Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia whom you'd love to call often goal feel the price is too high then this international calling app is definitely worth consideration.

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VoIP Technologies: A Comprehensive Guide to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

Your complete guide to Voice over Internet Protocol

Looking for a reference on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)? VoIP Technologies, your complete guide to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), provides a comprehensive foundation of VoIP technology, as well as the knowledge necessary to successfully support any VoIP product.

Designed for those who have a working knowledge of data, this guide examines the major components of VoIP networks, the incorporation of VoIP into a data network, packaging and transmitting voice, maintaining voice quality, and addressing traffic issues. Many other topics are also discussed in this section, including VoIP standards, protocols, and configuring networks for VoIP. The second half of the guide focuses on designing and supporting complex VoIP solutions encountered in Wide and Local Area Networks (WAN and LAN).

This guide will also help to prepare you for the Technology Standards and Protocols for IP Telephony Solutions (920-803) and Technology Standards and Protocols for Converged Networks (920-804). Nortel Professional Certification exams.

Key Topics:

- Major components of the VoIP network

- Voice packetization

- Voice quality

- Bandwidth

- Quality of Service (QoS)

- Traffic convergence issues

- VoIP standardization and signaling protocols

- Managing VoIP networks

- Security in the VoIP environment

- Emergency services in the VoIP environment

- Technology standards and protocols for converged networks

- Network assessment

Today an understanding of VoIP is essential, because it allows network operators to lower operations costs and take advantage of advanced applications. The VoIP Technologies guide will provide you with the knowledge you need to understand VoIP, support a wide-variety of VoIP products, and prepare for Nortel Professional Certification exams.

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