Ambient Corporation’s Smart Grid Nodes Certified For The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Network

Ambient Corporation (AMBT), provider of a secure, flexible, and scalable communications and applications platform, today announced that all of the Ambient Smart Grid® Node family is now certified on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. For the first time, a high-speed, high-bandwidth communications network is now available to connect mission-critical utility and M2M smart grid applications.

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Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs & Parrot: AR.Drone with 4G Dongle over 1000 m / 3280 ft record!

The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 is many good things, but "long-ranged" isn't what comes to mind with a 165-foot maximum distance between pilot and quadrocopter. Not to be daunted, Alcatel-Lucent has conducted a test with an ad hoc LTE network, a USB modem and a smartphone to see just how far the remote-controlled aircraft could go on 4G. In practice, quite far: thanks in part to the inherently wide coverage of the 800MHz band in France, the team flew the AR.Drone more than 3,280 feet (one kilometer), all while streaming 720p video of the farmland below.

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M2M and LTE. Why you need to move to LTE

There is two classes of M2M applications: those where LTE's speed/latency is must and those with less demands. LTE provides a superior solution for the first class. But surprisingly LTE is better solution for second class as well. The reasons are: longevity, potentially lower service cost and scalability. Probably we are not in a harry with the move most of M2M to LTE (low coverage, high cost), but it is time to start thinking about it. /wirelessweek.com