5/18/2012 - In today's EMEA roundup: Risk of a default rears its head for Finnish giant; Hutchison Whampoa bid for Eircom rebuffed; Jersey's fiber diet
SingTel's Bill Chang: Keeping an Eye on OpenFlow 5/17/2012 - 7:00 PM From a brief conversation with SingTel exec VP Bill Chang at Interop in Las Vegas, we bring you a quick podcast about expanding cloud services and an operator's view of OpenFlow. Don't let that Adele song in the background distract you Post a comment
5/17/2012 - What if ports could change speeds in, say, 25Gbit/s increments? Cisco brought up the idea at the Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference
5/17/2012 - Shlomo Rakib has quietly launched Cohere Technologies, a startup that aims to bring some radical changes to cable's access network architecture
Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst The future for telcos lies in leveraging context about their customers, but getting from concept to execution is no simple affair
Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst Here’s a look at some of the key themes we expect to hear about at this year's Packet-Optical Transport Evolution Conference
SingTel's Bill Chang: Keeping an Eye on OpenFlow 7:00 PM Featuring a brief conversation with SingTel exec VP Bill Chang at Interop, a quick podcast about expanding cloud services and an operator's view of OpenFlow
SPIT Podcast: A Site for Sore Eyes Ray Le Maistre and I discuss why the back-office and IT functions of service providers are so important and why the SPIT acronym is a war of attrition
Who's Big in Small Cells? Michelle Donegan Light Reading Mobile compiles a list of public access small-cell products to track this developing wireless infrastructure market
New Product Recap: April 2012 Tim Hills This month's recap of the latest, greatest communications products includes a longer video lineup from the 2012 NAB Show
The Samsung Illusion is one of many Android-powered, video-capable smartphones under $350. This model is exclusive to Verizon Wireless and we've got the tech specs below in a free, 11-page teardown summary, complete with photos of the phone's major components:
REAL WORLD RESEARCH IP Network & Service Migration: Benchmarking Telco Progress This report presents the Carrier IP Migration Index (CIMIX), a leading-edge technology- and vendor-agnostic market model used to measure an network operator's readiness for all-IP network and service platforms. The report also presents the results of a major network operators survey, ranking the importance of each indicator in our index.
ATCA, AMCs & MicroTCA: 2012 User Survey This report analyzes the current and projected use of ATCA, AMCs and MicroTCA, based on an exclusive survey of employees of telecom and network equipment manufacturers and suppliers. The survey clearly shows that these platforms are widely used in many types of networking equipment, from the edge to the core.
LATEST RESEARCH Canada: 2013 Spectrum Auction Spurs LTE Network Investments The Canadian telecom market generated $45.3bn in service revenue in 2011, an increase of 6.5% from 2010. The most important area of growth over the forecast period will be mobile data. The 700MHz spectrum auction in early 2013 will spur investment in, and deployment of, LTE networks,fueling the already strong growth in mobile broadband and will help to make mobile data the most important source of service revenue by 2015.
This report explores cable operators' interest in multi-screen IP video and the requirements for comprehensive management solutions that can help them provide customers with a convenient, consistent user experience. The report analyzes multi-screen management solutions from 16 companies that address management requirements in various ways.
This report examines the CEM market, analyzing the verticals most likely to utilize CEM over the next two years, market drivers and industry challenges. It includes a comparative analysis of CEM solutions, examines the growth expectations of the market and explores trends that will occur over the next 18-24 months.
This report identifies and analyzes key issues affecting the LTE-Advanced market, including a look at how LTE-A fits in with other technologies and trends, such as small cells, Wi-Fi offloading and cloud RAN. The report draws on input from operators, infrastructure vendors, silicon suppliers, trade associations and other ecosystem members.
This report examines the evolving infrastructure for carrier cloud and how five key network equipment vendors are positioned to address it. It describes emerging cloud concepts, including unified cloud management, network "cloudification" and service clouds and dissects network equipment vendor strategies and the threats they face as this market matures.
This report examines the MPLS VPN market, analyzing the healthcare verticals that are most likely to utilize MPLS VPN over the next two years. The report includes a comparative analysis of solutions and examines the market's geographic landscape as well as trends that may occur over the next 18-24 months.
This report examines the mBanking market, providing analysis about mBanking's most lucrative features, drivers in the industry, and challenges financial institutions are encountering. It includes a comparative analysis of mBanking solutions and examines the geographic landscape of the market and the trends likely to occur over the next 18-24 months.
Several vendors offer video-publishing platforms, and their features and functionality, key strengths, and costs vary widely. This report provides insight into media companies' perception of the online-video market. It also addresses key issues such as the status of video deployments, expectations of growth, capabilities required from their video platforms, and vendor views.
Mobile Broadband Summit India Tuesday June 5, 2012 Thursday, June 7, 2012
Shangri La Hotel in New Delhi & ITC Grand Central in Mumbai, Delhi & Mumbai, India
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XO's Next Optical Wave
A Mobile Reporter in a Management World
Verizon: Putting SDN in Its Place
Fiber Shortage Will Slow LTE
Rethinking Back-Office Systems to Support New Business Models
Juniper Networks’ Trusted Mobility Index Examines Confidence in Mobile Technology
What Verizon Sees in SDN
Packet Optical Goes Soft
Show Me the Guinness
Genband Simplifies Communications
Verizon Shows Off Its Hurricane Force
In Wireless Operators We Trust?
Hillcrest Puts the Motion in Mobile
Do You Know DiMoWiNe?
OpenFlow Keeps Buzzing
Cricket's 3G-Friendly Mobile Tunes
AT&T: Secure Your Home Even as You Roam
Smartphones Battle for Third
Telco Systems Unveils Carrier Cloud Gateway & Aggregation Platform
The Rise of Cloud Networking
Carrier Wi-Fi Is Hot
Eircom Blends Wi-Fi with Broadband
Anyfi Finds Its Wi-Fi Niche
AT&T Labs CTO: Wireless Network Evolution
FON Finds Acceptance
BT: From Hot Spots to HetNets
Can Carriers Improve Wi-Fi?
Cisco Talks SDN
SDN Fever Takes the Valley
Dutch Deliver on 100GigE
RAD Adds Magic to Carrier Ethernet Service Aggregation
Mike Tighe's 100G Vision
New IPv4 Address for Service Providers
The Evolution of Ethernet
Ethernet Europe Wrap
Colt Riffs On Its Service Wrap
Equinix Spreads Cloud Love
Buzzin' at Ethernet Europe
Ethernet Europe: Best of the Wurst
Belgacom's Smart Networking
Ethernet Europe's Magic Moments
The Small-Cell Backhaul Buzz
Ethernet Europe A Go-Go
Mobile Video's Operator Evolution
Thrupoint Demonstrates Leadership in Session Management, Mobility & UC as a Service
Privacy Ages Well
IPv6 & Cable: Is the Industry Ready?
Xfinity TV Meets the Xbox 360
