768 kb/s still isn't enough
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom industry professionals think the current Universal Service Fund should be used to expand rural broadband, according to a recent Tellabs survey, and they believe location and economic status should not determine the extent to which broadband is available...
CTIA: Ericsson pushes UMTS to its limits
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though the industry’s attention may be caught up in 4G, Ericsson isn’t prepared to give up the 3G spotlight just yet. The vendor is highlighting its Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) gear at CTIA Wireless this year and promises to demonstrate the maximum capacity that can be squeezed out of a 3G network...
Tellabs’ rebound postponed, analyst says
Tellabs’ optical strength may offset other issues...
Are further splits in Motorola's future?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola announced Wednesday that it planned to spin off its mobile phone business into a separately traded company, unlocking the value of that division as well as giving new focus to its infrastructure group. But if focusing on core businesses is the goal of Moto’s restructuring, does that mean further subdivisions of the company are waiting?...
AT&T experiments with 3D Web browser
By: By Rich Karpinski
The browser wars are heating up, enough so that an unexpected entrant appears to be hoping to make a splash with a new “3D-style” browser – AT&T...
U.S. IPTV operators slow to install
By: By Sarah Reedy
North America has the highest overall total average installation times for IPTV, coming in around 5.16 hours in-person, according to a study published this week of the top 60 operators in Asia, Europe and North America...
Telecom well poised to benefit from $70 billion streaming market
By: Carol Wilson
A new Insight Research study says IPTV, along with streaming video and audio, will generate $70 billion in revenue over the next six years, from both network-derived services and content-derived income....
CTIA: Motorola getting jump on CDMA-to-LTE migration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola today said it has successfully completed a handoff between a CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in its labs, thus demonstrating the viability of the two different technologies working in unison on the same flat IP core...
FTTP innovations aid Verizon’s push into big MDUs
By: Carol Wilson
The announcement this week that Verizon Communications was installing its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network in its largest apartment complex to date is emblematic of what the company has planned for New York City and elsewhere...
SureWest adds home monitoring to triple play
By: Ed Gubbins
SureWest Communications announced a new remote monitoring service Tuesday that allows users to keep tabs on their home while they’re away, using live video and alerts....
Occam outgrows Tellabs partnership
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks’ three-year partnership with Tellabs expires this month, without having generated much revenue....
IBM aims to secure ‘mashups’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Applications mashing together Web and voice features are all the rage, but enterprises and service providers have security concerns about opening up APIs that your average Web developer can probably afford to ignore...
Covad pitching quality in its bundle
By: By Carol Wilson
Small to mid-sized businesses are seeing the value of VoIP, but they are also insisting on quality service and that is turning them away from best-effort services, according to Lisa Graham, senior vice president and general manager of Covad Communications’ Wholesale Division...
Adva CEO: How AT&T is holding Ciena ‘hostage’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adva Optical Networking announced restructuring moves this week after reporting a disappointing” 2007. On the company’s quarterly earnings call Tuesday, CEO Brian Protiva spoke out on a number of topics in response to analyst questions...
Verizon extends security to application layer
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced an extension to its managed security services that will protect its customers’ network infrastructure at the application layer...
In the spotlight: Tandberg’s Rick Snyder
Tandberg is one of a number of companies riding the popularity wave of telepresence, announcing yesterday that it has signed agreements with both Nortel Networks and Micosoft. Rick Snyder, president, Americas, for Tandberg, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson from the VoiceCon show. ...
MegaPath enhances integrated voice-data offer
By: Carol Wilson
MegaPath this week is announcing new SIP and PRI interfaces to enable its Duet integrated voice and data service to support both digital and IP-based PBXs....
VON: IIA chairman urges investment in bandwidth
By: Sarah Reedy
San Jose – Don’t say we didn’t warn you. This was Larry Irving’s word of caution to service providers at the VON.x conference in San Jose. Speaking at the Town Hall meeting kicking off the conference, Irving, co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA), said something has to be done to increase bandwidth or better utilize existing bandwidth today....
VON: A new wave of unified communications hits
By: Sarah Reedy
SAN JOSE, CA – Several new products announced Monday at the VON.x conference in San Jose had a common theme: Cisco Systems isn’t the only name for unified communications. Many companies unveiled new products to promote UC, a concept championed by Cisco in recent years, at all levels of the enterprise network. ...
Polycom, Tandberg extend telepresence reach
By: Carol Wilson
Two different video players – Tandberg and Polycom – today announced plans with Microsoft that will enable them to bring higher quality videoconferencing to the desktop....
'Bill-yuns and bill-yuns'
By: by Carol Wilson
A new IDC study shows that the digital universe -- defined as information that is either created, captured or replicated in digital form -- is expanding, as more devices go digital and digital containers such as RFID tags and video monitors generate more content than ever...
Telepresence: Ready for its close-up
By: By Dawn Bushaus
Late arrivals and missed connections could be a thing of the past if telepresence continues to gain popularity among high-flying executives...
API a go-go
By: By Rich Karpinski
Telcos long to be part of the world of service and application mashups, but the path to get there remains unclear. ...
Ericsson says ready to supply 700 MHz gear
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson today said it plans to produce network infrastructure and device-side chips for the 700 MHz frequencies in both the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) flavors, giving it a product for any of the eventual Auction 73 winners--no matter who they are...
Verizon beefs up DSL
By: Carol Wilson
Verizon Communications, which has come under fire for neglecting its non-FiOS customers, today said it is rolling 7 Megabit per second DSL service in 12 Eastern states and the District of Columbia by the end of 2008....
