Miniflex designs and manufactures optical fibre installation systems and products for the growing market in FTTP. Cost and convenience are the two biggest advantages of going wireless over wired. Signalling System #7 is being drowned out by the market-hyped promises of next generation networks. But, says Todd Mersch, it remains the heartbeat of the today’s revenue generating telecommunications networks. Two major semiconductor suppliers are taking very different routes to providing portable video encoding and decoding. Nick Flaherty reports. Researchers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, chip makers, software and content providers and operators from across Europe came together in Bristol, UK, to look at the next generation of wireless technology. Nick Flaherty reports.