September 25, 2006
FORWARD MOTION
VoIP peering's business model shifts
The explosion in voice-over-IP traffic is producing a new and rapidly growing market for peering services, as VoIP providers try to avoid the public network...
Mobile WiMAX gear plugs in
Equipment based on the 802.16e-2005 Mobile WiMAX standard advances toward certification this week with a plugfest at a Bechtel facility in Maryland. According...
Nortel Networks pushes into the enterprise
How much of an enterprise vendor can Nortel become? After months of confusion over its strategic direction, Nortel Networks has voiced clear, bold ambitions...
Carriers embrace mobile ads
Mobile advertising is eking its way into the mobile content decks in the U.S., helping carriers boost their data revenues without scaring customers with...
Oz targets the consumer inbox
While the attention on mobile e-mail seems to be focused on the enterprise push e-mail market, Oz Communications is carving, unnoticed, a niche for itself...
No buzz, just biz for VoIP
Video may have grabbed most of the hype at VON '06, including co-billing in the title of what was once the Voice on the Net conference, but most of the...
Cable & Wireless a big deal for Sonus
Cable & Wireless International is giving Sonus Networks one of its largest transformation projects. The companies said last week that Sonus will be the...
A look at market consolidation
Citizens claims Commonwealth: Less than a week after Commonwealth Telephone announced it had retained an outside financial adviser to review strategic...
Web-based video offers more choice
This Halloween, teenagers won't have to flock to the theater to see the latest horror flick, they can instead sit with their laptops to watch Tara Reid...
OPINION
Video nation
As Americans, we're frequently told to take shame in our low broadband penetration and in the gap between other countries' consumer telecom technology...
Follow the money
It's pointless to complain about hype in the technology industry when it's hype that attracts investors, partners, potential buyers and, ultimately, customers....
Protecting the brand
Cingular is once again going after the denizens of the Web, this time targeting the users of video-posting site YouTube by sponsoring an online battle...
COVER STORY
More demand for more video
Telcos are getting into the video game just as consumer expectations of video content and delivery are changing radically from the way we have known them...
INNOVATION
The future as seen through technology
No one is more delighted about the video revolution in telecom than the folks at Tektronix. The company's video expertise has garnered it numerous awards....
HIGH-SPEED DATA
Quality of service moves down market
Call it the fallout from MPLS deployment. Service providers deployed multi-protocol label switching to provide classes of service (COS) that protect and...
WHAT'S NEXT
Mobile sonic boom
In today's mobile world, it's all about music. Start with the splashy introduction of new music phones. Mix in falling mobile Web access prices and new...
