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VITAS Tests AR/VR Tech on 5G Networks AT&T and hospice provider VITAS Healthcare today unveiled a study that tests whether virtual reality and augmented reality can ease chronic pain and anxiety for patients undergoing end-of-life care. The study will help caregivers, patients and families assess a potential alternative to prescription drugs that may relieve pain but also can hinder patients from interacting with loved ones during their last days. Comfort is, of course, the goal during this most difficult time. But a solution that uses immersive technology may be a good use case for testing 5G's video-download speeds and low-latency promises in an initiative intended to help patients and families during a time of need, according to AT&T. "They have the power to innovate; we are the fuel that can enable that power to go further," Maria Lensing, AT&T's vice president of Global Business Healthcare told Broadband World News during HIMSS 19 in Orlando today. This trial involves technologies that are ready for use today, targeted specifically at healthcare use cases, Lensing said. The healthcare division leverages AT&T's knowledge from other departments and verticals -- including security, finance, retail and big data -- then uses best practices learned from them to benefit hospitals, healthcare systems and others in the medical field, she added. "We're bringing all these things that people have been talking about and making them realities in their space. Not in our labs but in their environments, because we need to start moving away from justification into what are the practical applications of everything we're talking about because it's not a faraway future. It's happening right now," said Lensing. "We're ready to bring it into your space in a way that is safe -- we don't want to put anybody's life at risk -- so we pick the spaces, the use cases, that are safe to practice and bring innovation about. It's going to be secure, because we have the reliability and security investments AT&T has made for 140 years of our existence," she added. "We're going to work together to make sure their vision becomes a reality before their competition and disruption happens. It's very exciting." Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News. Follow us on Twitter or @alisoncdiana.
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In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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