WiMAX World: Is WiMAX all things to all markets?
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — WiMAX is technologically and economically positioned to be all broadband things to most markets, Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer for Motorola, told the WiMAX World audience today. ...
WiMAX World: Barry West’s vision for Xohm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO — Barry West likes meat. When he’s in a new city, he would be very pleased if his handheld device could alert him to restaurants nearby that shared his culinary interest, while eliminating those unsavory vegetarian places from consideration. ...
Upside and upstream in the EchoStar-Sling deal
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the wake of EchoStar’s announcement this week of a proposed acquisition of Sling Media, it is unclear how the deal might affect services such as AT&T’s Homezone that are offered in partnership with EchoStar. ...
SIP Forum puts members on compliance road
By: By Tim McElligott
The SIP Forum took its first formal steps today toward solving problems with interconnection between service providers and their IP-PBX customers. The forum launched a SIPconnect Compliance program for ensuring interoperability among equipment manufacturers, software providers and service providers....
XO adds three IP services
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced three new services in its portfolio, including session initiation protocol trunking, a new managed IP PBX service and an integration of its XO Options Flex with its MPLS virtual private network offering....
WiMAX sweeping down the plains
By: By Carol Wilson
WiMAX is bringing the first broadband connectivity to rural communities in southeastern Oklahoma, Nortel Networks and three service providers announced today. ...
WiMAX World: Here comes the silicon
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The silicon flowed at WiMAX World this week as several chip-makers unveiled their platforms for future mobile WiMAX gear. ...
Kabira on the charge with new convergent platform
By: By Tim McElligott
From the IQPC Next Gen OSS/BSS Summit this week in Tucson, Kabira Technologies launched its Kabira Convergent Charging application and backed it up with its history of Visa-proven scalability....
Sylantro hosts telephony mashup contest
By: By Rich Karpinksi
Mashup "contests," a popular way to spur rapid development of new Web apps, are coming to the world of telephony. ...
Motorola bridges MPEG-4, MPEG-2 networks
By: By Sarah Reedy
Motorola is aiming to usher in the next generation of receiver/transcoders with its DSR-6000 series receivers. The receivers will allow networks to use both MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG-2 compression technologies, as well as convert content into MPEG-2 for operators with MPEG-2 set-tops. ...
Juniper takes its Ethernet gear to the edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks today introduced half- and quarter-sized versions of the core Ethernet router it brought to market earlier this year, hoping to compete more directly in Ethernet edge and metro markets....
MySpace expands scope into the mobile Web
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fox Interactive Media today said it would launch a free mobile version of MySpace.com for the wireless application browser browser, doing away with the subscription-fee model in favor of a completely ad-supported social networking portal....
New chip start-up puts carrier Ethernet in silicon
By: By Ed Gubbins
A new semiconductor start-up launched today with chips designed specifically for carrier Ethernet, hailing a new era in cost reductions for carrier Ethernet technology....
Laszlo moves beyond WebMail, targets providers with apps, VoIP
By: By Rich Karpinski
Internet rich-application vendor Laszlo Systems today released a new version of its Web 2.0 Desktop app, including a version specifically targeted at service providers....
Arris Group's acquisition of C-COR seen as good fit
By: By Sarah Reedy
Arris Group has agreed to acquire C-COR for a purchase price of approximately $730 million in cash and stock, the company announced today. Each share of C-COR will be converted into either a cash payment of $13.75 or 0.9642 shares of Arris. ...
VeriSign banking on mobility
By: By Tim McElligott
VeriSign made headway on its plan to help make the mobile device an integral part of the e-commerce infrastructure with a partnership announced today with ClairMail, which will provide a secure two-way mobile customer interaction platform that VeriSign will integrate into its Mobile Banking Solutions....
Sycamore institutes ‘capacity licensing’
By: By Ed Gubbins
In conjunction with a new optical switch unveiled today, Sycamore Networks is offering “capacity licensing,” allowing carriers to buy only the level of scale they need....
Adtran warns of carrier spending slowdown
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran warned of sequentially flat third-quarter revenue late last week, citing a general decline in carrier spending that offset gains in its optical business. ...
Verizon looks for SLA edge
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is hoping to gain favor with business customers by offering service level agreements that include the edge of the network — even in places where it doesn’t own the local network. ...
Calix takes a gig to the home
By: By Ed Gubbins
Calix has added gigabit Ethernet interfaces to the subscriber side of its optical network terminals, or ONTs, aiming to give telcos a bandwidth boost with which to compete against cable broadband....
Cisco gets into fiber-to-the-MDU
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems entered the fiber-to-the-multidwelling-unit market today with new customer premises gear based on an active Ethernet architecture and a new proprietary protocol to add resiliency....
AT&T suspends parental controls over 911 glitch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T has temporarily suspended its Smart Limits parental control service after the company discovered the service interfered with emergency 911 calling....
VZW, Vodafone jointly exploring LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is working with part-owner Vodafone on jointly evaluating next-generation, or 4G, network technologies with the aim of converging their technology paths on both sides of the Atlantic...
Leap Wireless, MetroPCS spar over merger
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Both companies say they'd make for an ideal marriage, but they're hashing out a very public pre-nup...
Alcatel-Lucent leaders draw fire
By: By Ed Gubbins
The big vendor's management team is suspected of scapegoating...
New software scales IMS traffic
By: Rich Karpinski
Supporting a new service in a test environment with a handful of users is one thing. But what's a carrier to do when it suddenly needs to scale that service across its entire customer base overnight?...
Paetec emerges among CLECs
By: By Ed Gubbins
With its acquisition of McLeod, the company is putting Qwest on notice...
Study finds ISPs calm in the hacker storm
By: By Carol Wilson
Although the number of zombie computers able to launch network attacks is growing, ISPs are still generally optimistic about their ability to address security issues, a recent study of ISPs by Arbor Networks indicates...
Advertising by SMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Europe is inundated, by the U.S. has been relatively spared -- until now...
