July 17, 2006
FORWARD MOTION
Buyer/supplier linkages crossing traditional lines
New service demands and the rapid pace of industry change push service providers into closer arrangements with vendors. Click here to read the full-length version of this story...
Lucatel's leaders
Alcatel surprised the industry last week with the revelation that its chief operating officer, Mike Quigley, would trade in his title after the company's merger with Lucent Technologies...
Closed mergers face more scrutiny
Months after the AT&T/SBC Communications and Verizon/MCI mergers were closed, a federal judge may force new conditions on the merging partners...
EMC fails to execute with acquisition imminent
Twelve quarters of double-digit revenue growth reported late last week by EMC was not enough for CEO Joe Tucci, who said execution was not up to the company's own high standards...
Mid-band Ethernet hits the big time
The mid-band Ethernet market has been bubbling for a few years, but it passed an important tipping point last week...
WiMAX wins one convert, awaits more
The WiMAX community late last week was still anxiously awaiting any indication from Sprint that it plans to deploy the technology...
Windstream stands alone
The separation of Alltel's wireless and wireline businesses as well as the merger between the landline business and Valor Communications was announced in December 2005....
Wi-Fi Alliance gears up for 802.11n - Wireless Technology
The IEEE 802.11n standard may be more than a year away from being finalized, but the Wi-Fi Alliance is already prepping itself for the certification trials of the next-generation of Wi-Fi...
Sparkplug scales with broadband wireless buzz
If it's any indication of what may come for the broadband wireless market, several of the companies making news in the sector recently are guided by veterans of McCaw Cellular...
Mobile TV misses World Cup opportunity
This year's FIFA World Cup wasn't just a test of soccer powerhouses, it was a test of the newest technology to hit wireless...
OPINION
Buy me, supply me
The process of procuring network equipment was once a methodical and fairly standard one...
Pollyanna
In case you didn't know, Haley Mills doesn't have a twin sister. That was studio magic that made her twin appear to appear on screen at the same time in the 1961 Disney movie, The Parent Trap...
Party politics
To help build buzz for its new IPTV service, AT&T has enlisted Matthew Dowd, one of the political strategists behind President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign...
INNOVATION
Satellite allows localized mobile TV
Many said it simply would not work. There was too much technical complexity and too many challenges with the quality of reception. Yet in September at the 2006 IBC Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, UDCast plans to announce that it has created a low-cost, revenue-generating satellite distribution system...
WIRELESS
Taking VoIP to the cell phone
Qualcomm says its new EV-DO Revision A is ready for primetime, supporting the industry's first end-to-end voice-over-IP calls. VoIP to the handset may now be a reality, but it's a reality carriers may be slow to accept...
OPTICAL
The next ROADM
As ROADMs have evolved from core to metro to multi-degree functions, they've only become more important to carriers. Where are they headed next?...
WHAT'S NEXT
What are you doing for me?
Most of us in the telecommunications-related industries are technology-oriented. We see new technologies emerge, and we think in terms of the impact on network infrastructure and service provider operations. We often fail to anticipate how the interaction of this technology with our culture will produce change...
