DPI gets ROI tool
By: By Carol Wilson
Deep packet inspection (DPI) has been used to detect and manage peer-to-peer traffic in the network but is now moving into more mainstream usage as a means of prioritizing traffic to support more advanced services...
Landmarks add depth to maps
By: By Sarah Reedy
For the directionally challenged, finding a destination with street names and cardinal directions can be a frustrating experience ...
Seismic shift in competition?
By: By Carol Wilson
The net effect of the recent FCC decision granting AT&T the right not to resell packetized and broadband services will be fewer service options for business customers, say competitive service providers...
Google, Microsoft join free 411 party
By: By Rich Karpinski
Service provider revenues are under attack from all quarters, and 411 directory assistance can be added to the list...
Cisco social network strategy emerges
By: By Rich Karpinski
Cisco Systems’ social network strategy--fueled by acquisitions of two small social network vendors earlier this year--has started to emerge, with a surprising focus on consumer entertainment...
Covad teams with McAfee on security
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications is partnering with security technology company McAfee to offer its small to mid-sized business customers a managed security service to protect against hackers, spam, spyware and other threats...
AT&T says ‘no’ to Conn. cable franchise
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is fully prepared to cut off service to more than 7000 U-verse customers in Connecticut and stop all video service in that state rather than file for a statewide cable licens...
In the Spotlight: Michael Inouye, In-Stat
By: By Sarah Reedy
In-Stat analyst Michael Inouye shares his thoughts on the changing nature of online video and the unbundling of the television experience as a whole...
AT&T, EchoStar speculation swells
By: By Sarah Reedy
There is a 65% chance that AT&T will buy EchoStar’s DISH Network satellite TV service within the next 12 months, according to Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet in a research report published today...
AT&T to sue over Conn. video franchise
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T will file a lawsuit challenging the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control’s decision not to grant the company a statewide video franchise for its U-verse service, a company spokeswoman confirmed today...
Google, Microsoft join free 411 party
By: By Rich Karpinksi
This week both Google and Microsoft rolled out free 411 services, or at least free until they eventually add locally targeted voice-based advertising to the mix...
Eagle Broadband sheds IPTV STB business
By: By Sarah Reedy
Nighthawk Systems today announced that it has purchased the IPTV set-top box business assets of Eagle Broadband for $4.75 million...
Telephony LIVE: Innovation wins out for award winners
By: By Carol Wilson
DALLAS--One service provider made lemonade out of service interval lemons, and another figured out a way to make fixed/mobile convergence real for its customers. All six winners of the first annual Telephony Innovation awards are finding new ways to solve customer problems...
Telephony LIVE: DSL needs SLAs, says New Edge head
By: By Carol Wilson
DALLAS--The telecom industry needs to develop better service level agreements, especially for small to mid-sized businesses that use DSL and high-speed T-1 connections, Linda Beck, president of New Edge Networks, said this week...
High-capacity circuit price decline not wholly XO’s fault
By: By Sarah Reedy
As competition in the wholesale industry has ramped up in the past 12 to 18 months, the price of high-capacity circuits has been dropping at an equivalent pace. Many are quick to blame XO Communications...
Comptel: Qwest offers 10G wholesale service
By: By Carol Wilson
DALLAS--Qwest Communications today announced new dedicated Internet access wholesale offerings at speeds from 2 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s, with the promise of 40 Gb/s on the horizon...
ECI Telecom introduces new broadband access features
By: By Sarah Reedy
ECI Telecom, the Israeli equipment vendor, today introduced new broadband access features to its Hi-FOCuS-5 Multi-Service Access Node product line, aimed at enhancing IPTV and video services...
Comptel: CLEC vets give FCC an earful
By: By Carol Wilson
DALLAS--The Federal Communications Commission has become a bureaucratic morass, incapable of enforcing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, three competitive industry veterans said yesterday...
Verizon expands wholesale portal
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced enhancements to the Web portal it offers its wholesale customers that the company said should speed up service delivery as well as cut Verizon’s costs...
XO attacks enterprise market
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications is taking on the big boys, going right after AT&T and Verizon in courting enterprise and larger business customers...
Funding the exaflood
By: By Ed Gubbins
Data-rich services may push up the price of broadband access...
Getting over YouTube
By: By Ed Gubbins
Why the rising tide of video traffic is like nothing you've been told...
DPI: Service savior or devious device?
By: By Carol Wilson
The proliferation of deep packet inspection technology is being met with suspicion in some quarters and relief in others...
Clean up on aisle Internet
By: By Carol Wilson
Before launching the Customer Internet Protection Program it announced this week, Qwest Communications conducted a year of pilot trials, discovering in the process that consumers were happy to get information about viruses or other malware on their computers, so long as it came with detailed instructions on how to clean up the mess...
