Tuesday, December 21, 2010

4G in India , trials at Navi Mumbai

 After the acquisition of Infotel Broadband Ltd by Mukesh Ambani?s Reliance (RIL), the rumour was there in market that Mukesh?s Reliance will come up with the most speedy Internet connection in India. As Indian market is still waiting for proper implementation of 3G network by major players, Reliance has started testing 4G connections. RIL team at Navi Mumbai started trials of 4G connection and got download speed of 80 Mbps and upload speed of 20 Mbps. It is way ahead than current 3G connection of 3.1 Mbps or 7.2 Mbps. Tata Indicom (Docomo) and Reliance Communication (Anil Ambani?s ) also started giving 21 Mbps download speed on supported devices. Reliance is using Ericsson equipment to test this 4G network. As the above testing results are in ideal scenario, that may drop to 40 to 50 Mbps depending on the system load and distance from the nearest tower etc.

As wireless Internet is at boom in India and other parts of world but still we are way behind most of the western countries. We are still waiting for the proper coverage of 3G network when Smartphone makers started selling 4G phones in countries like US and UK. But finally we are getting good news on Wireless Internet connectivity, as Reliance is expected come up with good plans in future for such fast Internet connections

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Oh wow ! WikiLeaks data stored in Cold War-era bunker in Sweden !

Confidential files of the website WikiLeaks have been stored into a nuclear bunker in Stockholm, Sweden early this week. In particular, WikiLeaks servers are moved to the “Pionen” White Mountains data center, 30 meters below the ground after being dumped by Amazon. According to the Norwegian news site VG Nett, the “Pionen” White Mountains data center is owned by Bahnhof - a Swedish broadband provider. This is the home to WikiLeaks\' sever and confidential national data called "James Bond" styled bunker, or Cold-War-era nuclear bunker. Let\'s take a tour around the nuclear bunker of WikiLeaks in the “Pionen” White Mountains data center in Stockholm, Sweden.
 
There are two WikiLeaks’ servers at least hosted by Bahnhof, a Swedish broadband provider under the granite-housed World-War-II era bunker.


WikiLeaks moved into Bahnhof’s “Pionen” White Mountains data center for the fist time in August 2010 utilizing servers owned by the Swedish Pirate Party. However, WikiLeaks has currently had a direct contract with Bahnhof in order to have servers hosted

the nuclear bunker in Bahnhof’s “Pionen” White Mountains data center featuring with the "floating" conference room  and backup generators remind the scenes from "James Bond" film.


The move of Wikileads to Bahnhof’s “Pionen” White Mountains data center in Stockholm, Sweden is the result of debate last month of the launch of thousands of confidential documents about the Afghanistan war


 About 15,000 secret documents related to the Afghanistan war will be released soon.