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AT&T, Microsoft to collaborate on IP services
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
AT&T and Microsoft today announced an expansive five-year agreement to develop and deploy IP communications services globally, leveraging AT&T's worldwide IP backbone and Microsoft's Connected Services Framework platform...
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Taking a new direction
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Until 2002, Muna Nijem was a successful U.S. telecom executive, having served in strategic advanced technology positions at both Motorola and at Ameritech, where her work in deploying the first digital cellular system earned her 16 patents...
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IPTV booming in China
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
At the ChinaTel Forum at Supercomm Monday, vendors said the potential for IPTV services in China and the rest of East Asia could rival that of the rest of the world...
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Cisco offers DDoS protection
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
With more than 100 deployments of its big CRS-1 router in the last year and 650 reconfigurable add/drop multiplexing blades out in the market, Cisco Systems is feeling the momentum for its hardware. However, today the company touted its softer side with the introduction of the Cisco Distributed Denial of Service Protection solution...
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Aperto launches WiMAX platform
Jun 6, 2005 4:21 PM
CHICAGO--After many months of resisting the release of a “pre-WiMAX” product, Aperto said today it is finally prepared to unveil its standardized broadband wireless access product line...
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Panel sees ubiquitous broadband in the future
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Delivering IP-based applications to consumers on any device at any location is the vision of network providers, speakers said yesterday morning during an IEC executive forum...
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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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IT economics enter the telecom sector
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
The Open Communication Architecture Forum this week unveils its first major deliverable, a public draft of its Carrier Grade Open Environment framework, at a 1 p.m. Wednesday press conference...
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OIF builds on interoperability with Ethernet demo
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
The Optical Internetworking Forum is taking a giant step forward in its efforts to build global interoperability of multi-domain Sonet/SDH transport networks by demonstrating the ability to set-up and tear down Ethernet services across a global optical transport network...
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Sonus builds up and scales down
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Sonus Networks, which considered the buy versus continuing-to-partner option for providing more integrated application server capabilities, decided on neither and instead built its own IMX Multimedia Application Platform...
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Amdocs builds complete order-to-activation suite
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Amdocs continued to make it harder to see them as just a billing vendor this week by introducing a complete order-to-activation solution anchored by the company's new fulfillment manager...
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Macromedia makes Breeze-y telecom entrance
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Software firm Macromedia, known for its Flash technology that is widely used to create and play animated Web pages, is now hoping to bring e-learning and Web conferencing capabilities to the service provider market...
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Microsoft eyes carrier VoIP
Jun 7, 2005 8:20 AM
Microsoft is moving into the carrier voice-over-IP arena via a sales and marketing agreement with Sylantro Systems Corp., maker of a software platform for advanced IP Centrex and hosted communications services...
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Sprint North Supply signs on Scientific-Atlanta
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Sprint North Supply this week is unveiling a distribution agreement with Scientific Atlanta that will mark one of its first large-scale deals with a traditional cable vendor while also adding some final pieces to its fiber-to-the-home portfolio...
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No more whys for WiMAX
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
It's more than a little surprising that WiMAX reigns among the hot-button topics here at Supercomm 2005...
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The search for new broadband services
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Don't get confused when you walk onto the Supercomm exhibit floor--this isn't the national cable show or the National Association of Broadcasters exhibit...
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Telecom expansion steady but quiet
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Tellabs President and CEO Krish A. Prabhu is a 25-year veteran in the telecom space and has seen the industry from many different points of view...
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IMS getting universal support
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
In these days of rabid polarization, where even the facts seem to have two sides, it's comforting to know that there are still some things that nearly everyone can agree on...
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Since last we met
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
The last 12 months have proved to be both turbulent and transforming for the telecom industry...
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New products
Jun 6, 2005 12:00 PM
Patapsco Communications (booth #86082) has launched the Liberator series, a range of ISDN cross-connect multiplexers...
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My Chicago
Jun 7, 2005 12:00 AM
Chicago is known as the Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders and the city where guys named Daley become mayors-for-life. But you may not know that among those who explore paranormal phenomenon, Chicago is also considered to be among the most haunted cities in the U.S....
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