Cisco publicized Tuesday its next Internet backbone router. The company described its coming CRS-3 as having enormous capacity and laying the foundation for the future of the Internet with combinations of video, cloud computing, collaboration and mobile use. With the National Broadband Plan due out in a week, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski issued a written statement saying new “technologies like Cisco’s and investments by broadband providers are important steps” toward his “goal of connecting every community to a 1 GB network, through anchor institutions like schools and libraries."

GENEVA - Civil aviation interests are pressing for more influence in coordinating mobile satellite networks that carry certain aeronautical telecom traffic, sources said. Mobile satellite interests and some countries oppose a new mechanism, while other countries appear to support it, a satellite executive said.

Support is growing in Congress to pass legislation to ban texting while driving. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is said to be planning a bill to that effect, possibly to be released Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the effort. The committee has rescheduled a hearing that was planned Wednesday on the matter to Oct. 28, the committee said Tuesday. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski are scheduled to testify.