NXTcomm: Playing by new rules
What lies beyond current triple-play and quad-play bundles still marketed primarily around price? ...
NXTcomm: AT&T’s Video Share goes live
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T commercially launched its first IP multimedia subsystem application at NXTcomm, revealing that it is offering its video sharing service in three U.S. markets this month and plans to expand the platform across its national 3G network by the end of July and eventually to across its broadband and TV networks....
BT’s Bross steals CTO show
By injecting considerable humor into his responses, Matt Bross technology officer for the BT Group, stole the show Tuesday when the industry’s leading chief technology officers gather for the annual ATIS TechThink CTO panel. ...
NXTcomm: Wiley panel says know your regs in video market
By: By Tim McElligott
Helping the nation transition to digital television is a huge priority for the FCC’s Media Bureau and so is increasing competition for multichannel programming. ...
Law firm promotes patent protection
By: By Joan Engebretson
How many lawyers does it take to protect a telecom patent or trademark? ...
WiMAX Forum opens U.S. testing lab
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum said today it is opening its first interoperability and testing lab in the U.S. to complement its facilities in Europe and Asia. AT4, the engineering group that runs the Forum’s validation testing in Spain, is scouting several locations near Reston, Va., which would put the facility right next to Sprint’s own WiMAX research and development facilities...
NXTcomm: Customer data a concern for all
By: By Tim McElligott
One week after a deadline for compliance to new rules regarding the use of customer proprietary network information, or CPNI, Wiley Rein conducted a session on the do’s and don’t of protecting customer privacy....
NXTcomm: Actelis lands Windstream
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO--Actelis Networks today announced that Windstream is deploying its ML1300 and ML600 point-to-multipoint Ethernet-over-copper systems to offer symmetrical Ethernet services to multiple markets ranging from large government agencies and other institutions to the small to mid-sized business market...
Mirapoint pursues mobile e-mail integration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Enterprise messaging provider Mirapoint is going mobile, kicking its off entry into the wireless space with a partnership with Nokia...
NXTcomm: ZyXEL announces new ADSL 2+ gateway
By: By Carol Wilson
ZyXEL today announced an ADSL 2+ gateway with built-in HomePlug AV Powerline and Wi-Fi capabilities. ...
NXTcomm: BEA joins Tekelec in Open IMS
By: By Tim McElligott
Following up on a strategic partnership with HP around an open IP multimedia subsystem approach, Tekelec and BEA announced this week at NXTcomm that the two have completed interoperability testing and BEA will join the partnership. ...
NXTcomm: NewStep expands handset support
By: By Carol Wilson
Fixed/mobile convergence software maker NewStep today announced two major agreements that will expand the handset support for its voice call continuity capabilities. Through an agreement with fg microtec, NewStep’s software will run on Nokia handsets in the Symbian operating system. ...
NXTcomm: No time to snooze on COTS
By: By Dan O'Shea
The telecom industry's move toward open systems may have been an achingly slow process, but service providers and vendors may finally have learned that use of open interfaces and non-proprietary, commercial off-the-shelf, or COTS technology and products can offer effective, distinctive solutions....
Integra5 touts Minerva, SeaChange deals
By: By Carol Wilson
Integra5 today announced two separate deals with makers of IPTV middleware to get its converged services platform more widely deployed...
Industry connects on interconnection
NEW YORK—The 2007 cbx, or Customer Business Exchange, Hosted by the interconnection facility operator telx, brought together more than a thousand people and hundreds of communications and content companies in New York City’s financial district last week, all of them focused on how interconnection with one another fits into their strategies....
AT&T names GPON suppliers
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T names GPON suppliers Alcatel-Lucent was the first supplier of GPON gear to Verizon Communications, which began deploying the gear commercially this spring and will ultimately use a trio of suppliers for GPON, including Tellabs and Motorola, its two existing suppliers of lower-speed BPON gear....
InfoSpace debuts new content platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InfoSpace formally launched its mCore software suite this week, the result of the company’s transformation from a content distributor and aggregator to a content platform provider that draws in multiple technologies, including search, portal, messaging and storefront and Web/WAP solutions...
Vendor: U.S. not ready yet for indoor ONTs
By: By Ed Gubbins
TXP introduced a new optical network terminal (ONT) architecture today aimed at easing some of the power-related challenges of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) installation. But the Texas-based vendor isn’t selling the product in the U.S. anytime soon due to a lack of demand here for indoor ONTs...
In the spotlight: IPTV Interoperability Forum Chairman Dan O’Callaghan
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards yesterday released a high-level architectural standard for IPTV that has been developed by its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). Dan O’Callaghan, chairman of IIF, spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about the significance of the document....
Report: Sprint looking for WiMAX partner
By: By Kevin Fitchard
According to news reports, Sprint is on the hunt for new funding to build out its WiMAX network and ease investor concern about the costs of such a capital-intensive project...
Clearwire partners with Echostar, DirecTV
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire today said it has signed mutual distribution deals with EchoStar and DirecTV, allowing Clearwire to sell the two satellite providers’ TV services and allowing EchoStar and DirecTV to sell Clearwire’s broadband wireless service...
ATIS releases IPTV standard
By: By Carol Wilson
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards today released a high-level architectural standard for IPTV that has been developed by its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF)...
IBM, Cisco tighten software bonds
By: By Tim McElligott
Cisco came to market this week with a new solution for service assurance that has IBM Tivoli software embedded in it. The two companies also announced an expanded partnership to bring integrated network management and monitoring products to the telecom marketplace...
Infinera goes 40 Gb/s, looks beyond 100 Gb/s
By: By Ed Gubbins
Optical switch vendor Infinera announced new products and customer wins in advance of the NXTComm trade show next week and hinted at future products with significant increases in capacity...
Telcordia petitions FCC to open LNP
By: By Tim McElligott
Telcordia Technologies said yesterday that 10 years is too long for one company to control the administration of number portability and filed a petition asking the FCC to re-establish competition in this numbers marketplace...
Sprint buys sixth affiliate
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint is buying yet another affiliate, agreeing today to acquire Northern PCS Services for $312.5 million and pumping an additional 167,000 direct subscribers and 69,000 wholesale subscribers to Sprint’s dwindling CDMA subscriber base...
Motorola takes over Amedia IP gateways
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola is taking over production of some IP home gateway products it developed jointly with Amedia Networks...
Alcatel-Lucent launches mobile commerce platform
By: By Carol Wilson
The latest Alcatel-Lucent product is based as much on the advice of a bunch of teens and twenty-somethings as on the company’s noted engineering expertise...
T-Online France deploys Visionael resource manager
By: By Tim McElligott
Visionael, a provider of next-generation service automation and delivery management software, announced this week that T-Online France has selected its Network Resource Manager solution to automate delivery of its residential triple-play services...
Wave 7 adds GPON to access platform
By: By Carol Wilson
Access equipment maker Wave 7 Optics today said it has added gigabit passive optical network capabilities to its Trident7 Universal Access Platform...
