:: Calendar of Events ::ABOUT TELEPHONY'S CALENDAR OF EVENTSTelephony's Calendar of Events Page offers a range of upcoming telecommunication events from around the industry, as well as Telephony news from the show floors of recent telecommunications trade shows, conferences and expos. FEATURED EVENTS
Carrier
Ethernet World Congress
Fall
2008 Convention & Expo
TelcoTV
2008 UPCOMING EVENTS
OPASTCO
Summer Convention & Tradeshow TM
Forum World Africa IPTV World
Forum North America CTIA Wireless I.T.
& Entertainment Femtocells
2008 Intelec 2008
FTTH Conference & Expo Carrier
Ethernet World Conference Telephony
LIVE: The 2008 Telecom Summit WiMAX World 2008 COMPTEL
Fall 2008 Convention & Expo ICCM Canada Conference
& Exposition Femtocell
Summit 2008 Fall VON.x Andicom International
Telecommunications Congress TelcoTV 2008 TM
Forum Management World Orlando
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advertisement NEWS FROM THE NAB SHOWNet neutrality threatens Internet investment dollarsAny new government policies regarding the Internet should be focused on advancing broadband deployment in the United States, not trying to impose regulations on Internet service providers, who are investing billions in infrastructure, the head of USTelecom told an audience at the NAB Show this week... Content first IPTV consideration, panel saysAs IPTV operators seek greater cooperation with broadcasters, content should be their first and foremost consideration, according to a panel of broadcasting and telco executives. The NAB discussion “True Hollywood Story,” moderated by Whit Jackson, VP of business development and studio relations at SecureMedia, concluded that the rules have changed for IPTV providers, and they now must meet the conditions of licensing content, rather than just transporting it... TM Forum demos Content EncounterThe TM Forum, a cross between a trade association and standards body, realized that as convergence was becoming more of a reality, the telcos would have to expand their ecosystems to welcome the content companies into the mix. The result of this realization was the Content Encounter, which went public in November of last year... Industry Perspective: Kamil Grajski, FLO Forum presidentAs the mobile TV market continues to attract a lot of attention at the conference, Kamil Grajski, VP of engineering for QUALCOMM and president of FLO Forum, spoke with Telephony associate news editor Sarah Reedy about what the FLO Forum sees as the three biggest trends in mobile TV today... Securing the future of IPTVLayers of security protection for IPTV may have a place in doing more than just deterring content thieves. Measures like deep packet inspection (DPI) and digital rights management (DRM) — once somewhat controversial — are now key elements in maintaining relevancy and taking IPTV across all three screens, according to industry executives today... IPTV still a quality challengeIPTV providers still face multiple challenges in managing end-to-end quality on their networks, because of the technology’s many moving parts and the lack of standards, equipment vendors say... Thomson ready for middleware runThomson is finally ready to make a run at the U.S. middleware market, the video giant said at this year’s NAB Show. That could be good news for Tier 2 and Tier 3 telcos in the United States, who have lately complained about what they see as limited middleware options... Broadcasters, telcos should partner moreThe top content executives at the top two telcos-turned-video distributors would like to partner and cooperate more with broadcasters and content developers... Independent telco exec tells IPTV cautionary talePhil Erli was an early IPTV convert. The executive VP of Georgia-based ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) Ringgold Telephone has been “doing” IPTV for five years, deploying well ahead of AT&T and other major global carriers. But as he told a NAB audience Monday, real-life experience has made him somewhat cynical about IPTV’s real-world prospects... Hybrid STB market remains viableWhile all-IP networks may be attracting all the attention, OpenTV, for one, is not ready to cede the market to pure-play providers... FTTH sells more IPTVFiber-to-the-home (FTTH) providers sell much more IPTV in the United States than those selling copper-based services, the head of the Fiber-To-The-Home Council said today... Marketing IPTV as a ‘hyper-local’ eventTelecom companies rolling out IPTV have to market it on a “hyper-local” basis to reach the customers who can receive their service. In some cases, that means going door-to-door, and in others, it can mean guerilla marketing, according to both telco execs and industry analysts... Network PVR would be IPTV’s saving graceNetwork-based personal video recorder technology might be the only saving grace for telcos wanting to deliver HDTV as part of their IPTV service using copper-based networks, according to Thierry Fautier, director of Telco Solutions for Harmonic, which provides video and headend gear to many telcos globally... In the spotlight: Peter MacAvock, executive director of the DVBMobile television is a topic attracting global attention, but not a lot of traction to speak of, yet. DVB executive director Peter MacAvock spoke with associate news editor Sarah Reedy about what’s holding back digital TV services and what will drive them forward... Craig McCaw looks to the heavensOn the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., prepped and ready for countdown, is an Atlas V rocket, atop which sits a complex piece of communications hardware. At 4:00 PM ET today, that booster will launch the ICO G-1 -- and telecom entrepreneur Craig McCaw’s first extraterrestrial venture -- into geosynchronous orbit... NEWS FROM CTIA WIRELESS 2008CTIA: As AWS roll out, vendors start pumping out phonesThere isn’t exactly a glut of Advanced Wireless Services phones on the market, but there isn’t a dearth either. As the first AWS networks went live in the last few weeks, handset makers at CTIA Wireless debuted new devices embedded with the new radio chips, trying to avoid the time gap between networks and handsets common to a new technology launch.... CTIA: Qualcomm tweaks 1XLAS VEGAS--For much of the CTIA Wireless show this week, Qualcomm was looking to the future, pointing to key customer wins for its Gobi embedded laptop radio chip, talking up Snapdragon for even smaller devices and assuring the industry that MediaFLO will continue to expand.... CTIA: QuickPlay targets mobile radio, videoLAS VEGAS – QuickPlay, which runs off-deck mobile TV and video, announced this week it will branch into satellite radio with XM Radio Mobile.... CTIA: GenBand touts femtocell opportunityLAS VEGAS – The femtocell market represents a major opportunity for wireless service providers to push even more wireline substitution while making their own networks operate more efficiently, according to media gateway maker GenBand.... CTIA: LTE, sooner rather than laterLAS VEGAS--Long-term evolution may not be so long term after all. As operators rally behind the standard, the wireless industry vendor community is ramping up the development of their radio access gear--or at least giving the appearance of doing so... CTIA: Verizon Business makes PBX mobileLAS VEGAS--Verizon Business this week announced new mobile extensions for PBXs that allow businesses to make their mobile workers more productive while keeping corporate networks more secure... CTIA: Yahoo adds punch to mobile searchLAS VEGAS--Yahoo today debuted a new version of its mobile oneSearch service, led by the addition of technology that lets users search the Web from their phone using simple voice queries... CTIA: AT&T’s de la Vega now in Android ‘camp’LAS VEGAS--While stopping short of announcing formal plans to offer Android phones on his company’s network, AT&T Mobility president and CEO Ralph de la Vega said recent talks with Google and demos of its Android operating system convinced him to one day have Android-based phones in the AT&T device portfolio... CTIA: Vodafone CEO warns against 4G standard warsLAS VEGAS--The wireless industry needs to rally behind a single 4G standard and not waste resources on technology wars in order to take full advantage of the massive opportunity of the mobile Internet, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said in his CTIA keynote address here today... CTIA: Mobile social networking bloomsLAS VEGAS--Less than six months after Research In Motion (RIM) launched its Facebook-for-BlackBerry smartphone application at October’s CTIA conference, the company is announcing at this week’s show that the application has been downloaded 1 million times. With explosive growth like this, it is becoming harder to dismiss mobile social networking as a fad... CTIA: Symbian adds database, location managementLAS VEGAS--To help enable more sophisticated mobile applications, operating system vendor Symbian this week at CTIA added an SQL-based database and a new location-based services architecture to its core mobile OS... Q&A: NSN’s Spradley on the U.S. marketNokia Siemens Networks North America chief Sue Spradley has been on the job only eight months, but her region has born results. Spradley talked with Telephony about her recent success in the U.S. as well as what it will take to win AT&T back as a wireless customer.... CTIA: Nokia adds WiMAX to the Internet TabletLAS VEGAS--Nokia today unveiled the first standalone WiMAX data device for the North American market, a version of its N810 Internet tablet embedded with a WiMAX chip as well as Wi-Fi... CTIA: Performance Technologies powers Pocket in TexasLAS VEGAS--Pocket Communications, a prepaid wireless carrier covering San Antonio and south Texas, is preparing to build on its success by expanding its network using Performance Technologies’ SEGway X401 signaling gear, the two companies announced here at CTIA... CTIA: Level 3 takes hybrid approach to backhaulLAS VEGAS--Wireless backhaul has rapidly become not just a big market but a crowded field, with everyone from CLECs to cable companies to broadband wireless companies, not to mention wireline incumbents, looking to capture a piece of the 3G-4G buildouts... NEWS FROM OCF/NFOEC 2008OFC: 40G, 100G debates die downSAN DIEGO--Like last year, the evolution of 40-Gb/s and 100-Gb/s optical technology was a prominent topic at the OFC NFOEC show. But unlike last year, there is more agreement today about the timing of those technologies’ deployment in carrier networks.... OFC: Why optical components are ripe for recovery (really)SAN DIEGO--At the OFC NFOEC show, familiar lamentations of an overcrowded and unprofitable components and modules sector dampened the mood among attendees. But to at least one Wall Street analyst, this dour sector suddenly seems ripe for investment... OFC: Verizon details plans to bring fiber to larger MDUsSAN DIEGO--Verizon Communications is planning a major push of its fiber-to-the-home service into multidwelling units (MDUs) this year. Despite passing 2.1 million MDUs at the end of last year’s third quarter, Verizon’s FTTH network was only capable of serving 400,000 of them. The company’s technology director, Vincent O’Byrne, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins at the OFC show in San Diego this week about Verizon’s plans for MDUs this year.... OFC: Terabit Ethernet requires network overhaulSAN DIEGO--Terabit Ethernet networks are coming, said Bob Metcalfe, a partner at Polaris Ventures who is credited with having invented Ethernet more than 35 years ago. But it’s not clear exactly when, he said. And it’s less clear what network architectures will be needed to enable them... OFC: Qwest CTO maps optical’s futureSAN DIEGO--Pieter Poll, Qwest Communications’ chief technology officer, described some of the innovations critical to the future of optical networks, but he also identified hurdles to the commercial implementation of those innovations in a speech at the OFC NFOEC show today... NEWS FROM COMPTEL PLUS 2008Comptel: Qwest Wholesale promises tighter customer focusNASHVILLE--On the heels of its fourth consecutive customer service award from Atlantic ACM, Qwest Wholesale Markets is preparing to move things up a notch, according to its leadership... Comptel: CLECs should be better partners, Paetec CEO saysNASHVILLE--Competitive service providers should be buying and selling services more amongst themselves and being better partners, Paetec Chairman and CEO Arunas A. Chesonis told the Comptel crowd today... Comptel: Hatteras lands another NW CLECNASHVILLE--For a North Carolina company, Hatteras Networks is getting quite a reputation in the Pacific Northwest. The Ethernet-over-copper gear maker today announced its fifth CLEC customer in that region in Quantum Communications, an Oregon-based local CLEC... Comptel: Business assurance key for New HorizonsNASHVILLE--New Horizons Communications today said it has become a Vertek Financial Assurance customer, outsourcing its business assurance services to Vertek in order to better protect its bottom line... Comptel: Verizon to wholesale Integrated Optical ServiceNASHVILLE--Verizon Partner Solutions, the company’s wholesale arm, today announced a new Verizon Integrated Optical Service that incorporates ROADM capabilities into nodes or access points to enable a much wider variety of service offerings from a single point... NEWS FROM CES 2008CES: Digital home on displayMicrosoft wasn’t the only company at the Consumer Electronics Show that prominently featured the connected home. In Las Vegas this week, the digital or connected home was on display widely, and new levels of simplicity, connectivity and convergence were the focus of many companies’ announcements and plans. ... CES: XStreamHD takes the theater experience homeLAS VEGAS--Although high-definition DVD suffered from the news that Warner Brothers will only be providing content in BluRay format this year, the HD market in general was in fine shape at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas... CES: Comcast unveils ’08-model cable competitorIn what was the first keynote from a cable company executive in the Consumer Electronic Show’s history, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the audience that the cableco is now the fourth largest residential phone service provider in the United States, surpassing Embarq in subscribers... CES: FCC chair sets hard date for DTV transitionFCC’s Kevin Martin says broadcasters will leave 700 MHz in 2009; implies the commission may consider EchoStar-DirecTV merger if they change business model... CES: Enter mobile TV technology No. 3If FLO and DVB-H weren’t enough, a new mobile TV broadcast technology has emerged on the already crowded scene... CES: Yahoo CEO announces software development platformAs the world is becoming more open, interoperable and social, everything is going mobile, and the future becomes about making the Web experience simpler and more efficient for its more than one billion users to manage their online and offline lives, Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo told Consumer Electronics Show attendees today... CES: Samsung says femtocells will go nationwide in 2008Samsung’s femtocell pilot with Sprint wasn’t just an early fluke. A Samsung executive said today the Korean vendor has completed trials with several North American CDMA operators ... CES: Microsoft celebrates IPTV success, adds appsMicrosoft Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show this week with encouraging news for skeptical IPTV followers... |
