Globalcomm: Wavion adds MIMO to metro Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO--Start-up Wavion made its debut at Globalcomm this week, revealing plans for a new type of metro Wi-Fi that uses multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) antenna technologies to increase range and capacity over the typical wireless access point...
Globalcomm: Alvarion adds triple play to BreezeAccess
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO—Alvarion released a new version of its proprietary broadband wireless base station BreezeAccess VL, which integrates prioritization technology capable of supporting VoIP...
Globalcomm: Ixia sells Tekelec on IMS
By: By Tim McElligott
CHICAGO--Ixia said this week that Tekelec will use its IxVoice test application to verify fixed/mobile convergence voice and messaging solutions implemented on its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture...
Globalcomm: Tekelec targets the IMS core; takes on SMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO--Tekelec is turning its expertise in core signaling toward IP multimedia subsystem, unveiling at Globalcomm its version of the technology’s central control element, the call session control function ...
Globalcomm: ATCA start-up exits stealth mode
By: By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--A new equipment vendor is launching at the Globalcomm trade show with plans to sell cards for carrier networking gear based on the modular Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA)...
Globalcomm: Nortel gets small with softswitch
By: By Tim McElligott
CHICAGO--Nortel unveiled a new, smaller softswitch this week aimed at the small- to medium-sized service provider market. The Nortel Communication Server 1500 (CS 1500) can be seen at Globalcomm and will begin field trials in the fourth ...
Are photos a killer app?
By: By Stephanie Dell
A new application from dotPhoto aims to help carriers gain more revenue from their camera-phone toting subscribers while allowing those subscribers to more easily access the photos they snap on those phones...
Nokia's new openness
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is taking an odd strategy toward distributing its new mobile browser--it's giving it away...
WiBro/Mobile WiMAX exchange begins
By: By Dan O'Shea
While the WiMAX Forum is conducting programs to certify product interoperability for the WiMAX standard, the hunt continues for the right carrier business...
IMS and ATCA: Brothers in arms
By: By Dan O'Shea
The IP multimedia subsystem and the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture might seem like similarly nebulous concepts to the uninitiated, but beyond their intimidating labels, IMS and ATCA are both just trying to help...
IMS connects with cable
By: By Dan O'Shea
Cable TV firms with VoIP visions and wireless wishes may soon take the next step--implementing an IMS architecture...
The rise of the application architect
By: By Kevin Fitchard
IMS promises to make the creation of new and innovative applications a snap, but application vendors like Comverse caution not to write their roles off so quickly...
UMA adds supporters, keeps detractors
By: By Dan O'Shea
The Voice Call Continuity specification of the IP multimedia subsystem standard eventually will allow seamless handoffs of voice calls to support fixed/mobile convergence services...
Battle for the middle mile
By: By Dan O'Shea
The backhaul market is heating up as mobile and fixed wireless broadband services move to center stage...
Bandspeed brings back the intelligent Wi-Fi AP
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While the WLAN switch is the hot item in enterprise Wi-Fi these days, a newcomer is challenging the notion of a centralized wireless network architecture and making a case for the “fat” access point...
Qualcomm releases universal TV chip
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm said today it has produced a multi-mode mobile TV chip that supports two competing standards along with its own Forward Link Only (FLO) technology...
U.S. Cellular buys into BREW client
By: By Kevin Fitchard
U.S. Cellular today confirmed that it is using Qualcomm’s new user interface uiOne, making it one of the first carriers to adopt Qualcomm’s new modular BREW strategy end-to-end...
Nokia releases open-source browser
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today said it is releasing the underlying engine powering its Series 60 mobile browser to the open source community in an effort to kick-start innovation around one of the most maligned applications in mobile...
Intrado providing V-911 solution to Broadwing for AOL
By: By Tim McElligott
When AOL picked Broadwing as the network provider for its AIM Phoneline service, Intrado also became a winner. The Longmont, Colo-based company will provide voice-over-IP E-911 service for AOL through its relationship with Broadwing....
WiMAX World: New chips, new execs, new deployments
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX technologist Wavesat is putting mobility in Fixed WiMAX--or at least portability. At WiMAX World Europe in Vienna this week, the chip vendor offered a sneak peek at a system on a chip WiMAX solution that supports nomadic capabilities...
Verizon to carry Motorola's new Q
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless will be the first operator to sell Motorola's Q handset, its answer to Research in Motion's BlackBerry push e-mail device. ...
Modeo to use Penthera head-end software
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Modeo today revealed that is going with a relatively unknown vendor to power its multicast mobile TV network. The subsidiary of Crown Castle has selected Penthera Technologies to provide the interactive programming head-end for Modeo’s network operations center in Pittsburgh as well as the interactive client software powering Modeo’s first handset...
Sprint eyeing BREW
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After years of striking its own mobile data course, Sprint is taking another look at Qualcomm’s BREW...
Towerstream offers SLA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Metro broadband wireless access provider Towerstream today said it has created a wireless T-1 with dual base station redundancy, allowing it to offer service level agreements equivalent to those offered by wireline carriers...
Sprint to carry new Treo
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today said it would be the first to offer Palm's new 3G-enabled Trio, the first Palm-OS device with built-in EV-DO capabilities. Palm unveiled the 700p Monday, making it Sprint's second 3G device along with the Windows-powered 700w, announced last year....
