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CES 2016: Why the IoT needs fiber-optic broadband to succeed

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A panel of fiber broadband experts speaking at CES 2016 in Las Vegas this week said the Internet of Things (IoT) will not only benefit from fiber-optic broadband, it will require it.

Katie Espeseth, vice president of new products for EPB – the Electronic Power Board in Chattanooga, Tennessee, responsible for building and maintaining one of the country’s most famous fiber-optic networks – explained that the country’s first gigabit-speed municipal broadband network was built to support an IoT application.

Tasked with maintaining power supply to the city, the EPB sought to deploy a series of supercomputers that would constantly monitor the power grid throughout the city. This called for an always-on, gigabit-speed internet service.

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Network World Colin Neagle

How will the Apple Watch succeed where Android Wear has struggled?

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The Apple Watch is set to hit the market in April, at a time when the smartwatch market appears to be largely up for grabs.

Canalys released a report today that claimed manufacturers shipped just 720,000 devices featuring Google’s smartwatch OS Android Wear in 2014. For context, 4.6 million total smartwatches and bands shipped last year, and mobile market newcomer Pebble shipped more than 1 million units from its 2013 launch through 2014, according to Canalys.

Meanwhile, J.P. Morgan Chase wireless analyst Rod Hall recently upped his target for Apple stock price to $ 145 from $ 140 based on optimism for the Apple Watch, according to this Barron’s blog post. That excitement is based on the expectation that 5% of 525 million projected iPhone users will buy the Apple Watch this year, resulting in more than 26 million shipments. Hall was even bold enough to extend this prediction into 2016, when he sees 13% of iPhone customers buying the Apple Watch, good for more than 55 million units.

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Network World Colin Neagle