June 30, 2008
COVER STORY
What happened in Vegas
NXTcomm08 had hoped to establish itself as the telecom industry's premiere event, replacing Supercomm and its successor shows. Under a very hot Las Vegas...
Carrier Ethernet builds critical mass
New equipment introductions at NXTcomm08 were in many ways a love letter to carrier Ethernet, illustrating its growing influence, even among skeptics....
Solving the SDP puzzle
With new applications and services taking the forefront at NXTcomm08, the software required to run those services from delivery platforms to test and...
IPTV: Stuck in the middle
NXTcomm08 attendees interested in IPTV found themselves somewhere in between the glorified hype of past years and the reality of nitty-gritty network...
EDITOR'S LETTER
What did you think?
When it comes to NXTcomm08, I realize I've been standing in the trees too long to recognize the forest. As official publisher of the NXTcomm08 Daily News,...
FORWARD MOTION
Giving away the mobile OS
The mobile phone operating system was supposed to be a critical part of the value chain what drove the mobile computing revolution and powered the smartphones...
Ixia's 100 GbE challenge
IP testing company Ixia used NXTcomm08 to showcase its 100 gigabit Ethernet proof-of-concept, alongside a new provider backbone transport and peer-to-peer...
Jaduka blazes telecom API trail
Service providers are starting to experiment with business models in which application programming interfaces are as important as services. But what would...
Darkstrand lights up supercomputing apps
Chicago-based Darkstrand emerged from relative obscurity this month, buying half the capacity of the National Lambda Rail, a high-bandwidth 12,000-mile...
Skyhook goes hybrid
Now that Wi-Fi location pioneer Skyhook Wireless has added GPS satellites and cell towers to the mix, mobile handset owners can map locations whether...
Voice evolution
Consultancy STL Partners' Telco 2.0 program has been tracking the evolution of the telecom industry and the emergence of new business models such as two-side...
OPINION
Fixed voice providers: Surrender
T-Mobile's entry into the landline voice-over-IP business last week was the latest accelerant of the trend toward voice as an application owned predominantly...
IMS
The truth about IMS
Completely overhauling the global telecom network per complex yet open-to-interpretation specifications can't be easy, right? Then why the surprise when...
WHAT'S NEXT
SMBs' fear of the unknown
In the industry, we joke about small- and medium-sized businesses' inability to deal with technology issues almost as much as my kids joke about my inability...
