The week in review
Jun 15, 2005 12:12 PM
The Supercomm show is always a chance to gauge the mood of the telecom industry, and this year's event was no exception. Official attendance figures won't be available for a few weeks, while the auditors do their thing, but the Telecommunications Industry Association reports there was a "measurable" increase in attendance this year...
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Forums for progress
Jun 8, 2005 12:20 PM
Metro Ethernet Forum and the WiMAX Forum are two somewhat different groups with similar missions among their respective constituents. The MEF, which has been around for a while and is traditionally charged with promoting the deployment of metro networks, has more recently broadened its focus--or narrowed it, depending on how you look at it--on carrier Ethernet...
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The week ahead
Jun 7, 2005 7:57 PM
Supercomm 2005 guests may get a little confused when they first arrive at the show this year. Based on the muggy, 80-degree weather predicted for all four days, some might think they are back in Atlanta. Based on the amount of exhibitors demonstrating video, some may think they are at a cable TV show. And the focus on IP multimedia subsystems could have some thinking they stumbled into a wireless show...
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Communications enjoys bright future
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
With the telecom industry meeting in Chicago for Supercomm 2005, now is a good time to step back and take a look at the industry--its storied past, today's rapidly evolving present and the promising outlook for an extremely bright future...
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WiMAX continues its streak
Jun 3, 2005 12:27 PM
If you thought enough had been said about WiMAX by this point, think again. Next week's Supercomm show will feature a host of WiMAX-related news and events, adding more fuel to the significant sizzle already surrounding the broadband wireless technology format of the moment...
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Next-gen OSS: Coopetition required
May 31, 2005 8:27 PM
There's nothing hot in OSS this year--and that's cool. Except for the software catch phrase of 2005, "customer-centric," operation support systems vendors will be talking this year in straightforward terms how they are addressing straightforward problems, many of which are perennial...
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Giga-hype
May 30, 2005 12:00 AM
Translated from French, "puissance d'influence" means the power of influence...
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The mythical convergence box
May 27, 2005 11:52 AM
Vendors are prone to discussing wireless/wireline convergence in sweeping terms. The nit-picky details of how those two disparate networks will merge are often absent from the sales pitch, though...
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Fear factor
May 23, 2005 4:50 PM
Service providers have been offering Ethernet data services for years, but the practice was long tainted with fear, as carriers fretted over the extent to which metro Ethernet service would cannibalize their profitable existing frame relay and ATM service...
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Cable unwired
May 9, 2005 12:01 AM
It took a while, but the cable operators are finally biting...
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Gentle, giants
May 9, 2005 12:00 AM
With the consolidation of the telecom industry's largest carriers looming, telecom consumers of every stripe are already worrying about the effect of these mergers...
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Prepaid in full
May 9, 2005 12:00 AM
U.S. carriers are now making prepaid a priority...
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VoIP's collaborative strength
May 9, 2005 12:00 AM
For years, telecom has been looking for a silver bullet that will bring black ink to the balance sheets of equipment providers...
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