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Intelliden beefs up network policy management

By: Rich Karpinski

Intelliden today released a new version of its platform for enabling policy-based management of IP networks, aiming to further automate and simplify how carriers implement and manage complex network policies....

Qualcomm buys ad-targeting firm

By: Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm is throwing its hat into the mobile advertising ring, announcing on Tuesday the $32-million purchase of Irish wireless content-targeting technologist Xiam, which has developed a platform that bridges the carrier’s customer data with advertising and content delivery platforms....

NEC brings IPTV over IMS

By: By Sarah Reedy

In a move to expand its business into international markets, Japenese vendor NEC announced the launch of its IPTV business today. On display at this week’s IPTV World Forum, the end-to-end IPTV platform and video delivery system targets carriers using an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture....

MyVox tries another tack at monetizing Web voice

By: Rich Karpinski

VoodooVox, which runs an ad network that places audio ads for radio stations, calling card and 411 service companies, is turning its attention to the emerging – but yet to take off – Web-embedded telephony market....

Nortel takes novel approach to 40G, 100G

By: By Ed Gubbins

Nortel Networks introduced new equipment today allowing carriers to migrate from 10 Gb/s links to 40 Gb/s and eventually 100 Gb/s. A key aspect of the new gear is its ability to enable these migrations while maintaining the characteristics of the existing network—something Nortel achieved through a novel approach that applies wireless technology to optical networks...

Expanding digital universe expands service possibilities

By: Carol Wilson

The rapid expansion of the digital universe – defined as information that is either created, captured or replicated in digital form – poses a tremendous challenge to corporate IT departments and a tremendous opportunity to service providers, according to researchers at IDC....

NextWave targets TV over WiMAX

By: By Kevin Fitchard

NextWave revealed a new video delivery platform today designed to deliver Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) capabilities to new WiMAX networks, using technology from its IPWireless and PacketVideo acquisitions...

Alltel won’t be left out of all-you-can-eat

By: Sarah Reedy

Despite expectations that Alltel would stay out of the unlimited pricing wars of late, the nation’s fifth largest wireless operator today joined the likes of Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint in offering an unlimited voice plan. ...

Alcatel-Lucent cracks open the wireless data network

By: Kevin Fitchard

Alcatel-Lucent took the wraps off of a wireless network data traffic management solution today squarely targeted at a problem that hasn’t yet become big in the industry but potentially could become an enormous issue for wireless networks: the lack of visibility into how customers are using data connections. ...

Verimatrix brings HD to the PC

By: Sarah Reedy

IPTV security vendor Verimatrix today released its ViewRight PC Player 2.0 with full digital video recorder (DVR) functionality over the PC. ...

Apple’s business strategy not a game-changer -- yet

By: By Sarah Reedy

At last Thursday’s news conference, Apple made a significant inroad into the corporate world by announcing the iPhone’s support for Microsoft Exchange, push email and a Cisco IPsec VPN client for acess to private corporate networks...

Extreme beefs up PBT

Extreme Networks made a string announcements today aimed at enabling broader deployment of Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technology, the connection-oriented Ethernet transport technology championed by Nortel Networks and others....

Verizon builds 18-city optical mesh

Verizon Business will deploy a combination of optical mesh networking gear and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) across the US this year that the carrier expects will radically change its network provisioning processes by allowing far more automation and efficiency....

Leap preps for AWS launch

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Cricket Communications will begin selling its first phone with an Advanced Wireless Services chip Saturday in Tulsa, Okla, as its corporate parent Leap Wireless prepares its to turn up in the coming months its first network using the new frequency bands in nearby Oklahoma City...

Sprint T-Mobile: New mega-carrier or four-network nightmare?

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Wall Street claims T-Mobile is eyeballing financially weakened Sprint, but would integrating Sprint’s alien network technologies into its global GSM footprint be more trouble than it’s worth?...

Why Ciena sees an even brighter year ahead

By: By Ed Gubbins

Ciena continues to benefit from a booming optical market, raising its annual revenue expectations today after a successful 2007. But the company said it’s also taking advantage of the difficulties rival vendors are having in integrating mergers and acquisitions...

Apple releases SDK, e-mail support

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Apple unveiled its long-promised software developer’s kit for the iPhone today and, as expected, announced support for Microsoft Exchange, allowing enterprises to bring the hip and powerful device into their corporate folds for the first time. But Apple CEO Steve Jobs had one surprise...

Zayo still on acquisition prowl

By: By Carol Wilson

Tight capital markets may have slowed telecom consolidation in 2008, but Zayo Bandwidth is not deterred. The company went public last summer with its strategy of acquiring fiber assets in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and has lived up to that plan, with a total of six acquisitions...

Form vs. function in handsets – the generational divide

By: By Sarah Reedy

Consumer preferences for mobile handsets vary widely and are heavily influenced by demographic factors, particularly age and income, according to a recent iSuppli study. Based on a survey of more than two million US consumers, the results indicated that while price and brand trumps all else, there is a generational divide in how and why consumers use their wireless handsets...

Is YouTube following Google, Facebook down?

By: By Rich Karpinski

Already worried about the bubble-popping potential of a looming recession, the Web 2.0 crowd has been hit with traffic slides in recent days at three of the Web’s bellwether properties, Google, YouTube and Facebook...

What AT&T will buy for $1 billion

By: By Carol Wilson

AT&T’s $1-billion in investment in global infrastructure, announced today, is a reflection of multiple global telecom trends, including the move to managed services and the consolidation of server farms in centralized data facilities as well as a general growing demand for bandwidth driven in part by video...

Verizon strives to automate fiber patch panels

By: By Ed Gubbins

Verizon Business is testing various ways to remotely reconfigure patch panels--the thousands of short fiber connections between transport, switching and outside plant equipment in every central office. And a small group of innovative equipment vendors are offering a range of options for doing just that...

Cell phone most valuable communications tool, study says

By: By Carol Wilson

Americans would rather give up their TV, Internet access or wireless email device than give up their cell phone, according to the latest Pew Internet Project survey, the first one to include mobile data...

WiMAX spotlight shifts to India

By: By Kevin Fitchard

While Sprint sorts out its financial woes, South Asia and India have started hogging the WiMAX limelight. This week Tata Communications became the second major operator to wholeheartedly embrace WiMAX in India, and the third on the subcontinent....

Microsoft expands ‘cloud’ services

By: By Rich Karpinski

Microsoft owns the desktop, but its next battle will be in the network cloud, where Google and other competitors await with applications that run on the Internet rather than the desktop...

When text messages become mission-critical

By: By Sarah Reedy

In an emergency situation, SMS networks are likely to become congested. How are carriers making vital texts a first priority? ...

Verizon Business certifies Overture gear

By: By Carol Wilson

Ethernet access gear-maker Overture Networks today announced that its equipment has been certified by Verizon Business, enabling Overture gear to be installed at customer premises and Verizon co-location sites in order to deliver Ethernet services over copper and fiber lines...