Our democracy, our culture, and increasingly our personal lives are encoded in the data stream.
The HD video feed starts out as a 1.5 Gbps data stream (about 1, 000 T-1 links).
But one emerging data stream that has left brands flying blind is that of the user-generated photo.
Twitter struck a deal with Google to provide access to its tweet data stream in late 2009.
Voice over DSL turns voice into ATM cells at the customer site and sends them over the DSL data stream.
Or we'll intercept the data stream in an online poker game to find out what cards our opponent is actually holding.
Cantaloupe solves that problem by giving landlords access to the data stream.
VOD, a unique 300 kilobit per second (kbps) data stream has to be allocated for the duration of the transmission to each user.
Firstly, mobile apps like Dragon Go and Siri, which have only appeared recently, are providing Nuance with a huge new data stream to study.
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But, you can jump into the data stream whenever you want.
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My manager and I used one tool to monitor the data stream while the uplink team used another tool for a different set of data.
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For this experiment, both a broadcast studio quality version (140 Mbps, embedded in a 270 Mbps data stream) and a lower quality version (40 Mbps) were sent.
This 6-megapixel data stream oversamples the target image by 3x resulting in video as sharp as that of the high-end multi-sensor video cameras used in television studios.
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"The sentiment building now is that things are improving, and people don't want to be underweight equities with a good data stream coming in next week, " Peckham says.
Data syndication selling its data stream to financial outlets.
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All of these data stream into the back of the van, where the rear bench seats have been replaced with a server tower that contains two 500-gigabyte hard drives.
In Europe, the backbone of this data stream is provided by Metosats 8 and 9 which sit high above Africa and relay pictures of the developing systems coming our way.
The resulting data stream is sent through the fastest supercomputer in the drug industry, a beast that consumes 64 kilowatts of power and is capable of 16 trillion calculations a second.
Most neighbouring pixels are no longer neighbours in such a data stream, so comparing them is a long-winded business, since the processor has to hunt down the relevant information before it starts.
While it would certainly be possible to reroute that data stream through a device that captures and archives it, such an effort would increase the complexity of a VoIP deployment and make it harder to manage.
Multiply that by the number of engines (tens of thousands), flights (hundreds of thousands), and then similar machines (hundreds of thousands), and the scale of the data stream moves into the same zetabyte class of data flows Cisco already counts in the existing Internet.
As some members of the Supreme Court recognized last year when they considered the use of only a single stream of data -- GPS location -- creating a life stream of data points paints a mosaic picture of a person's actions and habits.
They pore over statistical data, stream games on their computers and watch games involving lesser-known teams whenever they can.
There's three sync modes: Push, for instant updates, beaconing means you can send data at intervals throughout the day, or stream data to monitor your pace.
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In May of 2011, GameStreams started development of a system to track the viewership data of every stream that they aggregate.
Verizon smartphones with a high-speed 4G LTE data plan can stream the games through the NFL Mobile app for free, a spokeswoman for the carrier said.
Wholesale Internet carrier Level 3 quickly cited the new rules in a fight with Comcast over how much it would pay to stream data to Comcast customers.
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Moving forward in this new era demands new skills, such as a more precise focus on aberrant or statistically significant data in a stream, as well as better tools.
The first, of course, is towards mobile, in which people increasingly want their video to be sent to phones and tablets as part of a data-rich stream of content.
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With its services supported by the Amazon cloud services, which lets consumers stream data over a wide variety of supported devices, the company holds a strategic advantage over some of its competitors.
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