September 11, 2006
Editor's Letter
Generational overlap
Telephony's editors will be all over the map this week: Carol Wilson, Jason Meyers, Tim McElligott and Ed Gubbins are in Boston hosting Telephony's one-day...
Forward Motion
Major vendors in price war
This summer has seen a wave of bitter price wars among major equipment suppliers, as vendors risk more and more near-term payback for a chance to win...
Net neutrality not going away
Proponents of Net neutrality are vowing to keep fighting well past this fall's election and say their grassroots movement is gaining ground. There is...
SBC vendors take exception to talk of demise
Leaders in the session border control market this week challenged published reports and speculation that question the long-term viability of the SBC market,...
Muni Wi-Fi now almost de rigueur
Less than two years after it first launched with a now-landmark Philadelphia project, the municipal Wi-Fi market is in full swing, attracting cities and...
Alliance wants orderly 802.11n process
The Wi-Fi Alliance's decision to certify 802.11n pre-standard products isn't the first time that the umbrella group has moved ahead of the IEEE. The alliance...
Cable ripe for 3G backhaul?
The long-awaited emergence of 3G mobile services has the telecom industry concerned that the T-1 circuits traditionally used to backhaul mobile traffic...
Stratus, Emergent join combo craze
Stratus Technologies will announce at Fall VON this week in Boston that it has acquired Emergent Network Solutions in a deal that will take Stratus beyond...
Carriers build givers' networks
What do you get when you take four of the largest telecom powerhouses and assess what they're doing for social causes in the communities they serve? The...
White Rock in a hard place
White Rock Networks entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy and suspended operations late last month, dismissing all but about 10 of its 80 U.S. employees while...
Cover Story
Maxing out on 3G
When Sprint recently announced that it would deploy Mobile WiMAX over the next two years in what it called a migration to 4G, it applied some pressure...
Opinion
Sorting through the vendors
There's an awful lot of network swapping going on. Last month Nortel Networks announced it would sell its UMTS division to Alcatel. Sounds innocuous,...
The big ah-ha
Progress is good, mostly, but sometimes it just creates more work. Unfortunately for some folks in this case, the FCC that work is just going to have...
Back in the back seat
Political season is looming again, and where do the many critical issues in telecom rank? Listen carefully, and it's soon clear there is little political...
Wavelengths
MIT researchers toast Wi-Fi love connections
Seven hundred thousand married couples are living long distances from each other in different cities. E-mails and unlimited cell phone minutes may help...
Innovation
Cisco's smaller huge router
Cisco Systems' mammoth core router is rolling downhill toward end users, and as it does, it's crossing competitors' gear that's on its way up. Last week...
SDPs can be part of IMS strategy
Service delivery platforms, or SDPs, and their relationship with IP multimedia subsystem concepts is a confusing topic. SDPs provide service providers...
Mobile Apps
Mobile games moving back online
In Telephia's latest rankings of the top 10 highest-grossing games in the U.S., two titles stand out: The Sims 2, published by Electronic Arts, and World...
VoIP
The invisible advantage
Now that voice over IP has gone mainstream, the obvious and most visible means of competition are growing more aggressive. Price leads the charge with...
Other
CORRECTION
A graphic piece in the Aug. 14 issue of Telephony titled Globalcomm Revisited, stated that about 400 representatives from AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon...
