News & Analysis
9/10/2010  -  With its mobile device leadership faltering, Nokia replaces Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with Stephen Elop, a Microsoft man from Canada
Most Recent Post: Craig Matsumoto... High profile, no doubt. Certainly moves around a lot, though.
9/10/2010  -  Nokia, Vodafone, BT, and the French president stand tall in today's roundup of European telecom news bits
by Paul Rainford
9/10/2010  -  Developers hate RIM, love Android, and have a love-hate relationship with Apple. Plus other OS observations
Most Recent Post: jdbower... I don't know that an Android-based RIM device is a good idea, their hardware has been typically sub-par from a performance...
9/10/2010  -  Major TV service providers are crafting strategies for Apple's latest hit, but there are key differences in how they're being executed
by Steve Donohue
9/9/2010  -  As exclusively reported back in July, T-Mobile has a HTC phone coming this month that can rival download speeds of the Sprint Epic and Evo
Most Recent Post: Dan Jones... Best Buy is starting pre-sales today for $200 (w/ contract). The phone will be in stores on October 6th. http://www.bby...
9/9/2010  -  The evolution of OSS continues as industry experts link service provider IT (SPIT) software directly to carrier revenues
9/9/2010  -  The stage is set for the flexible optical network operators have been dreaming of, but management software will need a boost
Most Recent Post: fiber_r_us... The cheapest capex way to perform router bypass would be to express a static wavelength between the router pairs with traffic...
9/9/2010  -  There's no lack of interest by large firms in the transition, just the occasional lack of coverage by large operators, says IPv6 pioneer
9/9/2010  -  Nokia Siemens Networks targets set-tops, PCs, and smartphones with new IPTV client that's completely devoid of Myrio code
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... Sounds like a good addition for those existing customers, but wonder if it's enough to help them grow their share among...
9/9/2010  -  Telenor, Vodafone, and Amsterdam figure in today's European news roundup
9/8/2010  -  The operator is offering a 'sneak peek' of its WiMax service in the Big Apple but still not giving an actual launch date
Most Recent Post: Dan Jones... Just signed up for another Sprint launch at CTIA in October too.
9/8/2010  -  The cable chip market is changing again as Zoran inks a deal for Microtune and looks to develop integrated SoCs for set-tops and DTVs
Most Recent Post: pogo... The Zoran acquisition of Microtune is directly related to DOCSIS IP, particularly DOCSIS 3.0.  While Broadcom's D3...
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LIVINGSTON, UK: Nexpresso Gets EU Funding - 9/10/2010
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Think of Telecom as 'Things Connected'
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Telecom network operators and communication service providers are facing a growing and undeniable outside threat from big market disrupters
Healthy Market for 4G Base Station Antennas
Tim Kridel
Deployment of 4G LTE and WiMax mobile networks will result in strong growth for makers of base station antennas and related products. And with so many operators deploying or committed to LTE and WiMax, the market will enjoy strong growth over the next five years.
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Verizon Wireless Gets a New CFO
Sarah Reedy
9/10/2010  -  12:30 PM Vodafone's restructuring could leave Verizon Wireless on its own
Most Recent Post: Dan Jones... We'll see, the prospect of Vodafone selling its stake always seems to get short-termist shareholders going, but does it...
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Apple Relaxes App Restrictions
Erin Barker
9/10/2010  -  10:30 AM Apps using Adobe Flash and Google AdMob are now allowed... but flatulence apps are not
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Ray Le Maistre
BT Builds CDN With CDS
Ray Le Maistre
9/10/2010  -  9:50 AM Carrier to use Cisco's Content Delivery System for its content delivery network
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Larry, Monkey
My Little Pony on the Go-Boom
Larry, Monkey
9/10/2010  -  9:10 AM Step away from the stuffed animal...
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Jeff Baumgartner
Celeno's Cable Breakthrough
Jeff Baumgartner
9/10/2010  -  6:00 AM Celeno gets big WiFi win as Liberty Global prepares to hit Europe with video-optimized multimedia gateways
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AT&T: Same Old Song
Dan Jones
9/9/2010  -  5:20 PM Are customers feeling the effects of AT&T's 3G upgrades? Their Facebook responses suggest not
Most Recent Post: Gabriel Brown... Still not getting AT&T 3G coverage here in London. I blame the FCC and iPhone.
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Smartphones will be the fastest-growing segment and will make up more than half of all sell-throughs by 2015.
Special Features
Testing Cisco's Mobile Core, Data Center & Business Services
Carsten Rossenhövel
The second part of our mobile megatest puts Cisco's mobile core offering and its applications services to the test
New Product Recap: August 2010
Tim Hills
Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from last month
Testing Cisco's Next-Gen Mobile Network
Carsten Rossenhövel
In part one of a huge testing program, we put Cisco's IP backbone and IP radio access network (RAN) to the test
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Trans-Atlantic Telephone Cable (TAT)
A series of submarine systems placed across the Atlantic Ocean
Companies
Alcatel-Lucent (6360), AT&T (3270), BellSouth (851), BT (1411), Cablevision (760), Cisco (6472), Comcast (2361), Cox Communications (1021), Deutsche Telekom (894), eBay (Skype) (360), Ericsson (2075), France Telecom (1061), Google (1104), Huawei (1426), Intel (1862), Juniper (2262), Microsoft (1735), Motorola (3155), Nokia Siemens Networks (2859), Nortel (4047), NTT (208), Siemens (1362), Sprint (2144), Telefonica (597), Time Warner Cable (1141), Verizon (3888), Vodafone (1892), Yahoo (354)

4G/LTE
3G Evolution (400), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (270), Carrier WiFi (2770), CDMA (3G) (3866), China Mobile (82), Core Network (852), EV-DO (295), Femtocells (615), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (147), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (256), GSM/EDGE (2555), HSDPA/HSUPA (880), IMS Core (136), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (1461), Messaging (150), Messaging (334), Mobile Advertising (206), Mobile location (117), Mobile Music (171), Mobile TV (346), Mobile Video (372), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (2153), Mobile/Wireless (7224), Municipal networks (115), Packet Core (192), Presence management (51), Radio Access Network (2962), Services (2829), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (152), Transmission (119), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (84), UMTS(3G) (520), Video services (4539), Videophone (205), Vodafone (1892), Voice Core (103), VOIP software (748), WiMax (1232), Wireless Backhaul (601), Wireless LAN (394)

Broadband
Access devices (306), Access equipment (2312), Access technologies (2465), Access test & measurement equipment (133), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (425), Cable Modems (847), Carrier WiFi (2770), Content/software downloads (254), Docsis (1350), DSL (2704), DSL chips (249), DSLAMs (713), Ethernet PONs (176), Femtocells (615), Free-space optics (40), FTTx (4188), Home gateways (726), Internet Video (1292), IPTV (3805), Media adapters (30), Microsoft (1735), PON (1611), Satellite (588), Video services (4539), VOD (3058), Yahoo (354)

Cable
Access equipment (2312), Access technologies (2465), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (809), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1220), Cable Modems (847), Cable/MSO equipment (2912), CableLabs (596), Cablevision (760), Comcast (2361), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (323), Cox Communications (1021), Digital content (1410), Digital rights management (426), Docsis (1350), DVRs (871), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (259), FTTx (4188), Gaming consoles (84), Head-ends (273), Home gateways (726), IPTV (3805), Media adapters (30), Middleware & business support systems (1080), Network DVR (137), PacketCable (142), PON (1611), QAM (367), Residential (881), Set-top boxes (1978), Stored video servers (426), Time Warner Cable (1141), TV (4493), Video equipment (2621), Video services (4539), Video software (1526), VOD (3058), VOIP services (3963), Wavelength services (342)

Ethernet
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1491), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (374), Access devices (306), Ciena (102), Circuit emulation (19), Converged access (133), Ethernet chips (619), Ethernet equipment (2456), Ethernet over copper (252), Ethernet PONs (176), Ethernet services (2116), Ethernet technologies (641), Ethernet test & measurement equipment (197), Multipoint (167), Multiservice edge equipment (156), Multiservice provisioning platforms (632), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (384), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (275), Point-to-point (183), Powerline (94), Resilient Packet Ring (175), Sonet/SDH (1067), Tellabs (32), Wireless Backhaul (601)

IP & Convergence
Activation (442), Anti-virus (39), B-RASs (236), Billing systems (866), Cell/WLAN (86), Centrex (205), Circuit emulation (19), Conferencing (160), Contact centers (39), Content delivery network (CDN) (454), Content/software downloads (254), Converged access (133), Core Network (852), Customer relationship management (375), Data Integrity (165), Denial-of-service attacks (67), Edge routers (1790), Element management systems (109), Encryption (176), Endpoint security (100), Enhanced voice (106), Enterprise (684), Fault management (147), Firewalls (138), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (848), GMPLS (80), IMS (1164), IMS Core (136), Interactive advertising (307), Internet Video (1292), Intrusion detection & prevention (123), Inventory management (239), IP equipment (1339), IP software (425), IPSec VPN (867), Layer 3 VPNs (236), Media gateways (387), Mediation systems (283), Messaging (150), Middleware (145), Mobile/Wireless (7224), MPLS (1832), Multicast (41), OSS (3584), OSS test & measurement (1155), Performance monitoring (470), Planning tools (113), Policy control (404), Presence management (51), Product Management (106), Provisioning (670), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (134), QOS (366), Residential (881), Revenue assurance & fraud management (429), Security (2005), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (388), Service management (342), Service-oriented architectures (351), Services (2829), Session border controllers (428), Signaling gateways (123), SIP (434), Softswitches (1136), SSL VPN (931), Telepresence (247), Traffic managers (870), URL filtering (82), User authentication (99), Video services (4539), Videophone (205), VOIP equipment (3540), VOIP services (3963), VOIP software (748), VOIP test & measurement equipment (150), VOIP VPNs (33), Web services (155), Wholesale (242), Wireless LAN (394), Wireline/Wireless (74), XML (54)

Mobile Backhaul
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1491), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (374), Access devices (306), Cell/WLAN (86), China Mobile (82), Circuit emulation (19), Converged access (133), Core Network (852), Ethernet equipment (2456), Ethernet over copper (252), Ethernet PONs (176), Ethernet services (2116), Ethernet technologies (641), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (147), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (848), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (256), IMS (1164), IMS Core (136), Mobile/Wireless (7224), Optical amplifiers (357), Packet Core (192), Point-to-point (183), QOS (366), Speciality fiber (106), Tellabs (32), Transceivers (1318), Transmission (119), Transmission fiber (426), Vodafone (1892), Voice Core (103), Wavelength services (342), WiMax (1232), Wireless Backhaul (601), Wireless LAN (394), Wireline/Wireless (74)

Optical Networking (Sponsored by TeraXion)
40-Gbit/s transmission (509), Alcatel-Lucent (6360), ATM switches (336), Core optical switches (780), CWDM (297), DWDM (1890), Ethernet technologies (641), Huawei (1426), Long-haul WDM equipment (737), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1254), Metro WDM equipment (835), Multiservice edge equipment (156), Multiservice provisioning platforms (632), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (384), Multiservice switches (405), Mux/demuxes (304), Optical amplifiers (357), Optical channel monitors (96), Optical components (2932), Optical components test & measurement equipment (127), Optical equipment (2452), Optical switches & crossconnects (409), Optical technologies (461), Optical test & measurement equipment (917), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (275), PON (1611), Resilient Packet Ring (175), Sonet/SDH (1067), Sonet/SDH chips (367), Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1604), Switches & OADMs (434), Transmission fiber (426), Variable optical attenuators (143), Wavelength services (342)

Service Provider IT
Activation (442), Anti-virus (39), Application servers (210), Billing systems (866), Carrier managed (206), Cloud computing (307), Content/software downloads (254), Customer relationship management (375), Data Integrity (165), Denial-of-service attacks (67), Digital content (1410), Element management systems (109), Encryption (176), Endpoint security (100), Fault management (147), Firewalls (138), Grid networking (96), IMS (1164), IMS Control Layer (41), IMS Service Layer (44), Interactive advertising (307), Intrusion detection & prevention (123), Inventory management (239), IP software (425), IP technologies (1546), IPSec VPN (867), Managed Services (136), Media gateways (387), Mediation systems (283), Messaging (334), Middleware (145), MPLS (1832), MPLS (700), OSS (3584), OSS test & measurement (1155), Performance monitoring (470), Planning tools (113), Policy control (404), Product Management (106), Provisioning (670), QOS (366), Revenue assurance & fraud management (429), Security (2005), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (388), Service management (342), Service-oriented architectures (351), Services (2829), SSL VPN (931), Telepresence (247), URL filtering (82), User authentication (99), Vendor managed (131), Web gateways (71), Web services (155), XML (54)

Video (Sponsored by Cisco)
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (270), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (809), Cable TV chips (358), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (323), Content protection (411), Digital rights management (426), DVRs (871), Gaming consoles (84), Internet Video (1292), IPTV (3805), Middleware & business support systems (1080), Mobile TV (346), Network DVR (137), P2P (278), Satellite (588), Set-top boxes (1978), Stored video servers (426), Telepresence (247), TV (4493), Video equipment (2621), Video services (4539), Video software (1526), Videophone (205), VOD (3058)

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