Level 3 advances video strategy
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications unveiled three new parts of its video initiative today, including a partnership with Move Networks to deliver high-definition (HD) video streaming over the Internet...
MWA: NetCracker gets high in Dallas
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--High definition and high bandwidth are new areas of focus for NetCracker Technology as the OSS provider announced new solutions for both from the TM Forum’s Management World Americas this week...
Updated: Google pursues open OS to penetrate wireless market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Google today finally revealed its long-awaited ‘Gphone’ plans, but instead of producing its own handset, the Internet giant is taking a completely different approach: proliferating its software and applications through standards...
MetaSwitch lands Cable & Wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
MetaSwitch has landed its first major customer in the company’s efforts to replicate its North American success in other markets...
MultiService Forum adds IPTV to GMI 2008
By: By Sarah Reedy
The MultiService Forum today announced the details of the Global MSF Interoperability event, GMI 2008, an event for multi-vendor interoperability testing for end-to-end practical network deployment...
Global Crossing to resell Nextlink
By: By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing is now reselling broadband wireless links from Nextlink for last-mile access to business customers under a national reseller agreement announced today by the two companies...
Tennessee utility bringing fiber to 55,000
By: By Ed Gubbins
Next month, the electric utility in Clarksville, Tenn., hopes to launch the first broadband and video services over what could become one of the largest municipal fiber-to-the-home networks in the United States...
Nokia experiments in content development
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is adding a new kink to the concept of user-generated content for the mobile phone...
CTIA: Play it on the phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
You'd expect to see Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a wireless industry trade event, but Quincy Jones or Master P?...
Innovation, apps power new stage of VoIP
By: By Rich Karpinski
Fall VON showed off an advanced form of voice over IP...
Microsoft: IPTV advantages come to market
By: By Carol Wilson
Lower set-top costs and an open developers' environment are among the benefits...
Verizon DSL growth withers in FiOS' shadow
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon's DSL business is slowing drastically as the company focuses on its fiber-to-the-home deployment...
What's brewing at Building B?
By: By Carol Wilson
The new company has a unique way to get telcos into video quickly...
CloudShield joins P2P shaping parade
By: By Rich Karpinski
Even as Comcast and vendor Sandvine take heat for peer-to-peer traffic shaping, deep packet inspection vendor CloudShield debuted its own platform last week that leverages DPI for prioritizing P2P packets...
Television collision
By: By Sarah Reedy
The consensus at both the TelcoTV show in Atlanta and Telephony's IPTV Workshop last week in Boston was that the worlds of Web TV and IPTV are moving from complementary to converged...
Visage grabs opportunity in mobility market
By: by Tim McElligott
The leading enabler of MVNOs acquires its way into the enterprise space...
Foundry's service provider drive pays off
By: By Ed Gubbins
Foundry Networks is making good on its promise to penetrate the service provider market this year...
Rising above the IPTV noise
By: By Sarah Reedy
The message NDS wants to spread is that Microsoft is not the only powerhouse for end-to-end solutions...
Google, MySpace launch social standards, targeting Facebook
By: By Rich Karpinski
The social networking wars got a lot more interesting this week, as Google and a slew of partners -- including still-market-leading MySpace.com -- debuted new APIs to enable the creation of Web-based social applications...
Tellabs, Carrier Access joint backhaul effort stalls
By: By Ed Gubbins
The wireless backhaul product developed jointly by Carrier Access and Tellabs has been snubbed by the operator for which it was created, Carrier Access revealed this week...
MetroPCS withdraws Leap merger bid
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS today said it is rescinding its offer to merge with Leap Wireless to after failing to bring Leap to the negotiating table...
Sprint still bleeding customers, reduces WiMAX spend
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint’s attempts to reposition itself in the wireless market and improve customer care hadn’t yet born any fruit in the third quarter, as the company shed another 60,000 subscribers, mainly from its Nextel iDEN network...
Anagran names new CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Edge router start-up Anagran today named as its new chief executive officer Kim Niederman, a former sales vice president at Polycom...
CenturyTel brings Broadband TV to 25 states
By: By Tmi McElligott
CenturyTel launched a Broadband TV product last week that is immediately available to anyone with the company’s broadband service...
VON: Motorola fellow describes WiMAX future
By: By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--WiMAX is like having DSL in the palm of your hands, and it will soon be a widespread reality, Jaime Borras, corporate vice president and senior fellow for Motorola’s WiMAX, iDEN Advanced Development and Technology Specialty Platforms, Mobile Devices, told the crowd at the VON show today...
Analysis: Will Google and VZW strike a content deal?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Google is reported to be in talks with the country’s largest wireless carriers for content deals to put Google’s bevy of search, messaging and content applications on their mobile phones...
VON: New world of unified communications on display
By: By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--FirstHand, Allworx and D2 Technologies were among several companies at the VON show in Boston this week touting new technologies that allow users to move between calling networks and reduce their contact numbers to just one...
VON: Certification program coming early next year, IMS Forum says
By: By Rich Karpinski
While still wrestling with the exact approach, the IMS Forum plans to have a certification program in place by early next year that should help service providers feel more comfortable that IP Multimedia Subsystem gear will be interoperable...
Alcatel-Lucent’s restructuring not a full remedy, say analysts
By: By Ed Gubbins
Analysts and investors seemed to approve of the new restructuring plans Alcatel-Lucent announced today, but the moves did little to assuage deeper doubts surrounding the company...
VON: Tekelec demos why orders are up 22%
By: By Tim McElligott
While technology and marketing folks from Tekelec were in Boston this week demonstrating the company’s IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities, corporate was releasing its third-quarter earnings...
