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Neustar Labs Innovation Center Grand Opening Video

In March, we announced the opening of the Neustar Labs Innovation Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Our friends at Illinois were kind enough to take a video of the grand opening and we wanted to share it.

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Neustar Recognizes Top Technical Talent

We’re pleased to announce that recently, we launched a new program to encourage the professional development of our top technical talent. The program allows individual contributors to achieve levels that are equivalent to Director and Vice President while remaining in the technical track. In keeping with industry norms, these positions are named Distinguished Engineer and [...]

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Neustar Innovation Center Opens

We have announced our partnership with University of Illinois to open the Neustar Innovation Center, a research facility located at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  The Center will bring students together with tech innovators to develop technologies to solve a variety of customer problems. In 2012, the Innovation Center will focus on Big Data, in [...]

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Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Compeition

Creating Cyber Defense Professionals, One Student at a Time

The other day, I was sifting through the mass of emails I receive on a regular basis, and I noticed one from YouTube. I was almost ready to dismiss it as another advertising email trying to get me to go to the service, but then I saw the subject: “your video has been approved.” That’s [...]

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Future M2M Applications

Future M2M Applications

In previous posts, my colleagues laid out a great case that even if mobile networks are being used to provide communications for M2M systems, the industry should use a new addressing scheme.  Using traditional telephone numbers (TNs) on a network will simply exhaust our supply of TNs, and will require costly upgrades of many systems. [...]

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Say hello to the future of machine to machine addressing

Say Hello and Address Machine to Machine Appropriately

We love phone numbers at Neustar, of course we do. In fact, Tom has shown in Part 1 of this series, Telephone Numbers Are For People, Not Machines, that in the particular case of Machine to Machine (M2M), using phone numbers to address those devices and machines (and not people), can be short sighted. My colleague, [...]

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How to Name Your M2M Devices

How to Name Your M2M Device

A standard method for naming and addressing Machine to Machine (M2M) devices is going to be critical as these devices proliferate. A standard method will ensure that the devices are useful to the widest group of people, are interoperable among many networks and services, and propagate as useful tools for all. There are many ways [...]

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Telephone Numbers Are For People Not Machines

Telephone Numbers Are for People, Not Machines

Through the years, new technologies and capabilities have been so popular they put a strain on numbering resources. Cell phones and faxes were blamed for many area code exhausts in the ‘80s and ‘90s. After the Telecommunications Act of 1996, when competition for local telephone service was introduced, we witnessed the greatest threat to area [...]

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