NAB: Building B lifts a veil
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--A few weeks ahead of its long-anticipated formal coming-out, video wholesaler Building B let one interesting bit of information out yesterday...
NAB: Sun scales down video streaming
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Sun Microsystems today announced an expansion of its Streaming System video portfolio, adding small to mid-scale streaming of television and IP-based video to create an IPTV that can scale from 100 to 160,000 simultaneous streams...
Cisco targets telco back-office consolidation
By: Rich Karpinski
Via acquisition and new data center switch releases, Cisco Systems is pitching service providers hard on its vision for building and consolidating next-generation telco data centers....
Craig McCaw looks to the heavens
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ICO Global satellite launches today, kicking off first hybrid terrestrial-satellite mobile TV service...
XO adds Anywhere voice and messaging
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced XO Anywhere, a suite of mobility and roaming features developed for its XO IP Flex customers. ...
Back-office play beneath the surface?
By: By Rich Karpinski
AT&T Mobility will be the first commercial user of Microsoft's Surface technology, a table-sized touch-screen that AT&T will use to let customers learn about -- and eventually perhaps even provision -- new wireless devices...
In the spotlight: DVB's Peter MacAvock
Mobile 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...
The high-def boardroom
By: By Sarah Reedy
LifeSize has taken the price point for high-definition communications lower than ever before, unveiling what it calls the world's smallest and most integrated HD camera/microphone system...
Blockbuster’s movie-streaming move
By: By Sarah Reedy
A set-top box (STB) for streaming video from the Internet is Blockbuster’s latest rumored plans to ensure relevancy in an Internet-dominated world, but it might not make a dent in the long run, according to Insight Research President Robert Rosenberg....
FCC approves rules for wireless text alerts
By: By Donny Jackson, Mobile Radio Technology
FCC commissioners this week approved an order to establish a program for commercial wireless carriers to deliver text-message alerts and critical information to their customers during disasters or other emergencies, although many questions remain regarding its implementation...
Jamcracker telco-SaaS platform ‘opens up’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Jamcracker, which helps telcos deliver software-as-a-service (SaaS), released a new XML-based toolkit this week to make it easier to add new software to its application catalog and delivery network....
New funds take Ohio muni fiber model nationwide
By: By Carol Wilson
The community/municipal network market might not be grabbing as many headlines these days but it hasn’t gone away. Just yesterday, the Knight Foundation agreed to pay up to $25 million for OneCommunity, a Cleveland-based non-profit group that operates a fiberoptic network in northeast Ohio, to share its approach with 25 other “Knight Communities” scattered around the US....
First Mobile WiMAX products certified (in Korea)
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMax Forum has certified the first Mobile WiMax products, announcing this week that four base stations and four data cards have received the Forum seal...
Mobile backhaul’s true bottleneck
By: By Sarah Reedy
Increased utilization of 3G networks, more so than the impending 4G requirements, is driving the need for higher capacity backhaul, according to a report released this week by ABI Research...
Globys billing analytics biz spun out of VeriSign
By: By Rich Karpinski
Executives in Verisign's telecom analytics and customer self-care division have taken the unit private, forming Globys Inc. with plans to deliver new solutions to help carriers better market new services to their customers...
Level 3 aims to make long-tail content cost-effective
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications today announced a new aspect to its Content Delivery Network that makes it more cost-effective for content owners to distribute a broader array of content, including the so-called “long-tail” niche content that has its own challenges...
CenturyTel plans 700 MHz broadband wireless overlay
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CenturyTel threw itself into the broadband wireless sector today, announcing it would use the 700 MHz licenses won at auction last month to create a broadband wireless overlay network feeding less densely populated areas in its existing wireline footprint....
Level 3 European CEO, content president resigns
By: By Ed Gubbins
Brady Rafuse, president and chief operating officer of Level 3 Communications’ European business and president of its content markets group, has resigned, the company confirmed to Telephony today...
FTTH now being sold to 10M US homes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is now being marketed to more than 10 million North American homes, according to the latest report from RVA Market Research & Consulting. ...
Nokia launches retooled N-Gage
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s new N-Gage platform finally went live today, officially discarding the old dedicated N-Gage phone for a software platform that runs on multiple Nokia N-series handsets....
Photuris acquired a third time
Xtera Communications’ acquisition of Meriton Networks for an undisclosed sum gets the long-haul optical equipment vendor into the hot market for metro transport gear based on Provider Backbone Transport (PBT). ...
AcmePacket intros open session routing
By: By Carol Wilson
The product on which Acme Packet is basing its new Open Session Routing architecture is actually five years old – but that’s the good news, said Seamus Hourihan, the company’s vice president of marketing and product management....
Microsoft alum launch 180Squared
By: By Sarah Reedy
After a year operating in stealth mode, a team of former Microsoft Mediaroom architects today officially launched their middleware services startup, 180Squared, with a framework for the integration of existing billing/operational support system (B/OSS) applications and third-party software....
CTIA: As AWS roll out, vendors start pumping out phones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
There 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....
Auction winners lay bare 700 MHz plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon outlines how open-access, LTE and new spectrum fit together. AT&T plans Evolved HSPA and later LTE. Google comes clean. Cyren Call fights back...
Study: Online won’t replace traditional TV anytime soon
By: By Carol Wilson
The latest edition of an annual survey on “The Battle for the North American Couch Potato” indicates the online viewing of video content is not going to supplant broadcast and cable/satellite/IPTV delivery of video into the TV set anytime soon, if ever. ...
CTIA: Qualcomm tweaks 1X
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS 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....
Tellabs’ post-Verizon PON business in doubt
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs’ decision to walk away from a contract to supply Verizon Communications with gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear has raised doubts about the vendor’s participation in the overall PON market....
CTIA: QuickPlay targets mobile radio, video
By: By Sarah Reedy
LAS 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 opportunity
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS 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....
