November 5, 2007
EDITOR'S LETTER
Thoughts in motion
Like most of the telecom world, I spent the month of October bouncing from one city to the next, listening to trade show keynotes, walking exhibit floors, and talking with product managers and marketing directors, almost to the point where everything started to blur together...
FORWARD MOTION
Innovation, apps power new stage of VoIP
Fall VON showed off an advanced form of voice over IP...
CTIA: Play it on the phone
You'd expect to see Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a wireless industry trade event, but Quincy Jones or Master P?...
Microsoft: IPTV advantages come to market
Lower set-top costs and an open developers' environment are among the benefits...
Verizon DSL growth withers in FiOS' shadow
Verizon's DSL business is slowing drastically as the company focuses on its fiber-to-the-home deployment...
Nokia experiments in content development
Nokia is adding a new kink to the concept of user-generated content for the mobile phone...
CloudShield joins P2P shaping parade
Even as Comcast and vendor Sandvine take heat for peer-to-peer traffic shaping, deep packet inspection vendor CloudShield debuted its own platform last week that leverages DPI for prioritizing P2P packets...
What's brewing at Building B?
The new company has a unique way to get telcos into video quickly...
Television collision
The consensus at both the TelcoTV show in Atlanta and Telephony's IPTV Workshop last week in Boston was that the worlds of Web TV and IPTV are moving from complementary to converged...
Foundry's service provider drive pays off
Foundry Networks is making good on its promise to penetrate the service provider market this year...
Visage grabs opportunity in mobility market
The leading enabler of MVNOs acquires its way into the enterprise space...
Rising above the IPTV noise
The message NDS wants to spread is that Microsoft is not the only powerhouse for end-to-end solutions...
OPINION
Mining the 'social graph'
Is it possible for one company's PR problem to be another company's billion-dollar business model? When it comes to telecom and Web companies sharing and leveraging information about their users, this indeed seems to be the case...
INNOVATION
The talking phone
What if your phone could talk to you? Not just relay the voice communications of others, but really talk to you...
SOFTWARE
Service creation and management find common ground
Talk about silos. Does it make sense for the creation and management of services to exist in different parts of the telecom brain?...
COVER STORY
When giants stumble
Last year, as the telecom industry's top equipment vendors moved toward consolidation, the rest of the vendor landscape was grimly warned: Join the consolidation trend or be trampled by the new breed of titans. Why megavendors aren't so tough after all...
WHAT'S NEXT
Who will win the wireless wars?
New wireless access technologies are arriving with the promise of anywhere, anytime high-speed Internet access. Led by WiMAX, these technologies can provide connections to customers where wired and conventional cellular networks come up short...
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