The cloud and the future OSS
Larry Dennison, the MIT computer science and engineering Ph.D. who co-founded core router vendor Avici Systems and control-plane pure-play Soapstone Networks,...
Are consumers ready for m-banking?
Security and privacy concerns are the only things standing between banking and mobile domination, according to audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG. The...
How Telcos Could Conquer the Cloud
Telecom providers could play an important and lucrative role in the burgeoning world of cloud computing by combining their natural advantages as network...
CTIA feeling new pressure
CTIA Wireless fell victim this year not just to the recession but to the growing importance of CES and Mobile World Congress, which not only siphoned...
Putting the Green in Green
U.S. enterprises are still willing to go green if it saves them money. So service providers that recently started marketing the environmental benefits...
Mobile entertainment's rocky road
CTIA serves as a microcosm for the wireless industry, and while it may have been a bit more micro this year, it was clear that application stores are...
RCS: Mobile's next step
In 2005, IP multimedia subsystem was heralded with great fanfare, as equipment vendors began launching products and service providers began making initial...
Debt markets begin to thaw for telcos
When Windstream executives said over the past two years that inhospitable debt markets were putting roadblocks up to much-needed consolidation in the...
The WiMAX power players
WiMAX has been deployed or trialed by almost 400 operators around the world, as WiMAX proponents are fond of saying when touting the scale of their technology....
Ethernet penetrates mobile backhaul
The barrier that separates the next-generation metro network from the legacy world of mobile backhaul may finally be crumbling. Vendors in the U.S. are...
Green Minute: Tips for Going Green
Join the Green Grid: Visit www.thegreengrid.org and learn about ways to measure data center efficiency. Among current members: AT&T, BT and Verizon. Or...
Microsoft Blasts into the App Store Game
Building on the Mobile World Congress announcement of its own application store, made alongside a number of other app store launches, Microsoft recently...
PBB-TE: What Now?
In summer 2006, as Nortel Networks was announcing its new metro Ethernet division, new executives at the time working to quickly redefine the vendor's...
Interactive TV Tries Again
Enter the words interactive TV into the Telephony search engine and you are as likely to find a story from 1999 or 2003 as one from 2008. The idea of...
What slowdown?
Don't talk to Kevin Rocks about a bad economy. The executive vice president of sales and marketing for Pangaea Networks just isn't seeing the downside...
Sprint’s prepaid mixed blessing
Sprint’s two prepaid arms might be working against each other, but their competition is ultimately helping the carrier stem its subscriber loss...
CORRECTION
The ITN PocketLeads device pictured in the ODI Field of Dreams story from the January 2009 issue was described incorrectly. The unit transmits data via...
Middleware maneuvering
Consolidation in any industry typically is associated with maturity and stability. Yet in the case of IPTV middleware, while IP-enabled services may be maturing, things are still murky in the middle....
IPTV billing road map still on the horizon
For major IPTV players, truly converged triple-play billing is finally within reach...
Diverting the data flood
The loud pounding you hear is the sound of telecom giants rushing into the content delivery network business, looking to move video traffic out of their core networks and onto sites closer to their customers....
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