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Pervasive security

Verizon is stepping up its global managed security services by extending the reach of its denial of service, or DOS, defense mitigation service to 11...

Verizon Wireless tests the mobile TV waters

Cingular (now AT&T) may have the iPhone, but Verizon Wireless managed to wring its own victory at the Consumer Electronics Show this month. It's first...

Verizon invades the desktop

Verizon Business this week is taking its information technology management service down to the desktop, adding 24-hour management and maintenance of PCs,...

Verizon takes ethernet wide & deep

Ethernet is not a new serivce at Verizon. Within the legacy local telco side of the business, in fact, Ethernet has been offered as a service since 1993...

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Victims of success

A woman I know recently married her high school sweetheart, after meeting him again at a 25-year reunion. She was then faced with what she now calls the greatest challenge of her lifetime--consolidating the households of two adults...

The omniscience of time

When pondering the intentions of Verizon Wireless and its vendor cohorts in the recently announced enhancement proposal to the IP multimedia subsystem standard known as Advanced IMS, or A-IMS, the only real answer is: time will tell...

IMS: More important and confusing all the time

A new study from Infonetics Research points out the current problems legacy telephone companies face as they look to converge their services onto an IP backbone, with IMS...

Turning Japanese

Verizon Communications bragged this week that it had winnowed the cost of its fiber-to-the-premises deployment to $890 per home. That is a dramatic improvement over the $1400 per home it was paying a year ago. But I can't help but wonder...

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HP updates core OSS platforms

HP this week delivered a major platform update for its NG OSS portfolio, adding a handful of new features but more importantly adding key underlying capabilities and standards deployments that set a new baseline for future OSS feature releases...

AT&T: Pair-bonding to come in ‘late 2008’

AT&T said today it expects to begin pair-bonding advanced DSL lines in “late 2008,” pushing back the expected arrival of what the company says is an important part of its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) initiative...

Nokia breaches 40% mark in handset share

By its own estimates Nokia achieved 40% global handset market share in the fourth quarter after a strong holiday sales season and increased dominance in the developing markets...

Slow economy doesn't faze AT&T

AT&T is expecting a strong 2008, with consolidated revenue growth in the mid-single digits, a significant expansion in margins and continued double-digit growth in earnings per share -- even if the U.S. economy continues to struggle, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO Rick Lindner told financial analysts today...

New CEO describes Sorrento’s second life

Though optical transport equipment vendor Sorrento Networks was absorbed by Zhone Technologies in 2004, a new incarnation of Sorrento launched this month, acquiring those products back from Zhone. Its CEO Jim Nevelle spoke with Telephony about the startup’s plans...

Soma scores big in India

Little Soma Networks has hit the WiMAX jackpot, announcing today it is rolling out what it believes is the largest WiMAX network in the world in India...

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