New solutions are required to overcome the performance, availability, scalability and security issues introduced by this hybrid network environment.
Many customers will prefer a hybrid network that steers traffic away from more expensive Akamai-style networks whenever possible, in Level 3's view.
In simplified terms the system will be a hybrid network of satellite and terrestrial facilities tied to a ship cloud to transfer very large amounts of data and store it onboard.
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"The hybrid home network is clearly the network of the future - offering the best networking technology to meet the consumer's needs - so IEEE establishing this standard is significant, " said Rob Ranck, president of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance.
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Better Place has also struck a deal with GM Holden to allow owners of the Volt plug-in electric hybrid to use its network of fixed charging stations.
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Ning, a Silicon Valley start-up, plans to almost double its mobile development staff to 17 to work on a hybrid instant-message and social network it launched in February, said Chief Executive Jason Rosenthal.
And there is talk of hybrid systems, which allow smart cards and network-based payments to work together.
To see where all this could go, think about another failed Motorola-designed communications network, a phone-taxi dispatch hybrid with clunky phones, poor call quality and lousy customer service.
So Samsung and LG both announced deals with a company called Kineto Wireless Inc. that's developing a hybrid wireless technology that can seamlessly pass a call from a cellular network to a WiFi network without interrupting the call.
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In Australia, where he was overseeing a Better Place initiative, the company provides GM customers with a fixed-charging network and home chargers for the plug-in electric-hybrid Volt.
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Within its network, this company could lead the way toward a new hybrid of commerce: not cash over the counter and not the "have faith" terms that attend to so many Internet and other long distance transactions.
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