11/23/2009 - Lost in the RFoG?
Who's in it?
What are they up to?
by Tim Hills
11/23/2009 - Ciena outbids Nokia Siemens in weekend-long auction process, paying $769 million for Nortel's optical and Ethernet assets
11/20/2009 - Some unknown company has already bought up RadioFrame's femtocell assets. Could it be Broadcom?
by Dan Jones
11/20/2009 - Senior exec at Russian giant MTS says carriers need to focus on partnership management and internal processes to succeed in the Internet world
11/20/2009 - Motorola is buying into cheaper, low-power iDEN technology
by Dan Jones
11/20/2009 - The mobile gateway company claims it's getting quite a fan base in Japan – and in Europe, too
by Craig Matsumoto
11/19/2009 - Cable upgrade lets Telstra offer 100-Mbit/s downstream services to 1M homes in Melbourne and provides a pipe for its broadband DVR
11/19/2009 - Phil Wiser says Sezmi has the strategy to win against the traditional TV guys as well as Boxee and other over-the-top video service providers
by Steve Donohue
11/19/2009 - Cisco says a closer look at how consumers are digesting video on set-tops will aid programmers and ad agencies as TV viewing goes increasingly mobile
by Steve Donohue
11/19/2009 - OSS provider believes broadband service providers can capitalize on their customer data to deliver more value
by Carol Wilson
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3G in China: Backhaul Bonanza
Xuefei (Michael) Peng
The concurrent arrival of 3G and 'beyond 3G' mobile networks, mobile data services, and all-IP networks is putting much higher demand on mobile backhaul in China
SIP Trunking Fuels UC Movement
Denise Culver
SIP trunking may finally provide the push that unified communications has needed to achieve widespread acceptance. The many benefits SIP trunking provides for carriers and enterprises make it only a matter of time before this service becomes extremely disruptive to traditional telecom providers.
Daniel Locke (Senior Analyst)In the next five years, smartphones will represent the majority of new handsets sold and spur a shake-up in market leaders.
ANALYST NOTES
Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst
'Come' to our virtual tradeshow on policy control and DPI to register your views on the FCC's latest moves
REAL WORLD RESEARCH
VoIP Peering: A Market & Technology Update
This report analyzes the effects of the industry shift toward VoIP peering and interconnection, examining several competing platforms the services and functions they provide. It profiles 11 providers of VoIP peering and interconnection platforms, along with eight related equipment providers and six telecom operators that do not provide peering platforms.
A WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH SERVICE
Mobile Backhaul in China: Sizing the Market Opportunity
This report outlines and forecasts the backhaul market in mainland China, and explores and analyzes the current backhaul arrangements and future plans of China's three major operators: China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom. It also presents a comprehensive analysis of 10 backhaul technology suppliers in mainland China.
LATEST RESEARCH Business Services to Drive WiMAX Success in AME MarketsWiMAX adoption in Africa and the Middle East is growing at one of the fastest rates globally. By year-end 2009, we expect WiMAX to contribute about 2% of total fixed broadband subscriptions in AME. Deployments are based on a range of business models, from subsidized rural connectivity schemes to fully customized connectivity.
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Pigtail/Fiber Pigtail
A short section of optical fiber
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| Companies |
Alcatel-Lucent (5872), AT&T (1948), BellSouth (848), BT (1287), Cablevision (615), Cisco (5297), Comcast (1910), Cox Communications (858), Deutsche Telekom (807), eBay (Skype) (345), Ericsson (1617), France Telecom (964), Google (489), Huawei (1045), Intel (1127), Juniper (2022), Microsoft (1115), Motorola (1486), Nokia Siemens Networks (2646), Nortel (3957), NTT (173), Siemens (1359), Sprint (1059), Telefonica (439), Time Warner Cable (969), Verizon (2587), Vodafone (510), Yahoo (339)
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| Broadband |
Access equipment (2169), Access technologies (2378), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (388), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1104), Cable TV chips (286), DSL (2425), DSL chips (227), DSLAMs (703), Free-space optics (35), FTTx (3265), Gaming consoles (58), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (23), Municipal networks (106), PON (1365), PON chips (217), Satellite (497), WiMax (880), Wireless LAN (354)
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| Cable Digital |
Cable Modems (681), Cable/MSO equipment (2803), CableLabs (470), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (279), Docsis (1046), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (213), Head-ends (233), PacketCable (129), QAM (307)
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| Chips, Components & Subsystems |
ASICs & FPGAs (101), ATCA (480), ATM chips (13), Comm chips (2360), Dispersion compensators (149), Lasers (920), Modulators (163), Mux/demuxes (299), Network processors (933), Optical amplifiers (349), Optical channel monitors (92), Optical components (2824), Speciality fiber (94), Switches & OADMs (397), Transceivers (1247), Transmission fiber (419), Variable optical attenuators (139)
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| Ethernet |
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1454), Access devices (272), ATM switches (333), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (103), Ethernet chips (573), Ethernet equipment (2213), Ethernet over copper (231), Ethernet PONs (160), Ethernet services (1909), Ethernet technologies (569), Multipoint (131), Multiservice edge equipment (143), Multiservice provisioning platforms (622), Multiservice switches (389), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (256), Point-to-point (139), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (132)
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| IP & Convergence |
B-RASs (229), Cell/WLAN (77), Compression equipment (13), Core routers (1294), DNS (56), Edge routers (1686), ENUM (53), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (485), GMPLS (76), IMS (1088), IMS Control Layer (27), IMS Service Layer (27), IP equipment (1224), IP software (381), IP technologies (1482), IPv6 (99), Layer 3 VPNs (194), MPLS (1774), MPLS (687), Multicast (36), P2P (258), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (132), QOS (350), SIP (396), Traffic managers (808), Wireline/Wireless (59)
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| Mobile/Wireless |
3G Evolution (175), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (189), Carrier WiFi (226), CDMA (3G) (367), Core Network (173), EV-DO (126), Femtocells (30), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (71), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (70), GSM/EDGE (430), HSDPA/HSUPA (321), IMS Core (47), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (188), Mobile Advertising (24), Mobile Music (31), Mobile TV (130), Mobile Video (65), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (92), Mobile/Wireless (5877), Packet Core (61), Radio Access Network (236), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (67), Transmission (38), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (8), UMTS(3G) (340), Voice Core (21), WiMax (880), Wireless Backhaul (272), Wireless Chips (191), Wireless LAN (354)
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| Optical Networking |
40-Gbit/s transmission (452), Core optical switches (760), CWDM (289), DWDM (1842), Long-haul WDM equipment (654), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1173), Metro WDM equipment (773), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (375), Optical equipment (2192), Optical switches & crossconnects (398), Optical technologies (418), Sonet/SDH (1037), Sonet/SDH chips (351), Wavelength services (305)
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| Security |
Anti-virus (29), Denial-of-service attacks (44), Encryption (97), Endpoint security (22), Firewalls (61), Intrusion detection & prevention (45), IPSec VPN (801), Security (1835), SSL VPN (862), URL filtering (12), User authentication (24)
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| Services Software |
Activation (415), Billing systems (761), Content/software downloads (231), Customer relationship management (231), Data Integrity (61), Element management systems (36), Fault management (69), Inventory management (153), Mediation systems (204), Messaging (231), Middleware (72), Mobile location (41), OSS (2584), Performance monitoring (335), Policy control (269), Provisioning (553), Revenue assurance & fraud management (334), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (328), Service management (220), Service-oriented architectures (310), Services (2480), Web gateways (56), Web services (124), XML (51)
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| Test & Measurement (Sponsored by Etaliq Inc) |
Access equipment Access test & measurement equipment (126), Comm chips Comm chips test & measurement equipment (29), Ethernet equipment Ethernet test & measurement equipment (170), IP equipment IP test & measurement equipment (122), MPLS MPLS test & measurement equipment (14), Optical components Optical components test & measurement equipment (113), Optical equipment Optical test & measurement equipment (886), OSS OSS test & measurement (1059), Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1599), Test & measurement (1755), VOIP equipment VOIP test & measurement equipment (145)
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| Video (Sponsored by Ericsson Televisionary) |
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (189), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (730), Content delivery network (CDN) (394), Content protection (270), DVRs (665), Internet Video (840), IPTV (3461), Middleware & business support systems (845), Set-top boxes (1624), Stored video servers (379), TV (3581), Video equipment (2448), Video services (4131), Video software (1349), Videophone (185), VOD (2635)
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| VOIP |
Application servers (186), Centrex (198), Conferencing (78), Contact centers (38), Enhanced voice (34), Enterprise (637), Media gateways (357), Messaging (73), Presence management (43), Residential (835), Session border controllers (398), Signaling gateways (104), Softswitches (1090), VOIP chips (167), VOIP equipment (3423), VOIP services (3768), VOIP software (620), VOIP VPNs (28), Wholesale (220)
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