October 8, 2007
EDITOR'S LETTER
Good guys or bad guys?
Can a technology be inherently bad? Of course not. But it can be used for an ill purpose. And an ill purpose, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder (and sometimes the jury)...
FORWARD MOTION
VoIP gets social
Putting voice in IP apps is a natural fit, but the business case is a challenge...
The meaning of Xohm
Barry West, chief technology officer for Sprint, is fond of joking about what people think is the meaning of Xohm, the name of Sprint's new WiMAX network...
DPI: Service savior or devious device?
The proliferation of deep packet inspection technology is being met with suspicion in some quarters and relief in others...
Interop test bed gets permanent home
The MultiService Forum launched a permanent test bed last week at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory ...
Sequans puffs out its chest
WiMAX World was definitely Motorola's party, but tiny Sequans Communications almost stole the show...
HotSpot@Everywhere
Although municipal networks have lost their glossy hype, they are still being built and they still present an opportunity for consumers to cut down on...
Q&A: Verizon's Terry Denson
Terry Denson, vice president of FiOS TV content strategy and acquisition for Verizon, spoke at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Orlando last week...
OPINION
Is Navteq just the beginning?
If anyone was still thinking Nokia's Ovi strategy was a joke, then Nokia just plopped $8.1 billion on the table to quell any doubts...
No mo' MVNO
What does it mean when the marketing champion of all time, Disney, could not make a go of it as a mobile virtual network operator? Or that Disney-owned ESPN couldn't translate its powerful brand into a mobile business either? ...
INNOVATION
Adding Web services to VoIP
The feature server, a standard component for delivering call-routing features in voice-over-IP environments, is getting a Web 2.0 makeover thanks to vendor Sylantro Systems...
BROADBAND
Getting over YouTube
Why the rising tide of video traffic is like nothing you've been told...
COVER STORY
Dual-mode D-Day
As cellular and Wi-Fi networks converge, network operators are calculating their optimum market and technology tactics...
WHAT'S NEXT
Broadband before its time
Almost 20 years ago, I helped write Probe Research's landmark study, “The End of the RBOCs,” in which we argued that one of the then-seven Bell companies would sell its outside plant in exchange for regulatory freedom to offer any service. This was a novel concept, and it made perfect sense. But it was totally premature...
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