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Articles published in February 2011

Docsis 3.0 Tackles Linear IP Video


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 28, 2011 : New and improved multicast capabilities for D3 could help push forward cable's grander IP video migration plans

Acme Packet Broadens Its Horizons


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
February 28, 2011 : Acme looks beyond session border controllers with new recording product and middleware platform to enable business apps in the IP world

New Services Set for Rural Carrier Rescue


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comment (1)
February 28, 2011 : Vendors are aiming to solve the rural carrier innovation gap with cloud computing, VoIP and wireless solutions

China Unicom to Target Google, Apple


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (4)
February 28, 2011 : Borrowing a page from China Mobile's playbook, the Chinese operator plans to develop its own operating system and take on Android and iOS

Cisco Reclaims CMTS Lead


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
February 28, 2011 : Cisco follows a wobbly 2009 by retaking the cable modem termination system revenue share lead from Arris in 2010

Comcast Won't Sell Video to Non-Subs


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comment (1)
February 28, 2011 : Elsewhere: ivi TV seeks help in DC, Level 3 and Comcast bend the FCC's ear, and Mediacom makes a bold Web ad play

Bonding With Cable's Upstream


The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 28, 2011 : 10:55 AM Comcast's Chris Bastian sheds more light on the MSO's field tests of Docsis 3.0 upstream channel bonding

Can Cloud Boost UC for Verizon?


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
February 28, 2011 : New UCaaS approach intended to hide complexity, reduce cost for enterprises wanting to use Unified Communications to support mobile apps

AT&T Intros Mobile Location-Based Ads


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (6)
February 28, 2011 : AT&T teams up with major brand names to launch a mobile ad system that delivers targeted info within retail 'perimeters' in major cities

Burglars Bring Down Vodafone Network


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (3)
February 28, 2011 : Vodafone UK suffers major service outage following a break-in at an exchange where equipment was stolen

ADVA in for the Long Haul With 100G


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
February 28, 2011 : After a good year in the metro market, ADVA decides it's time to compete with the long-haul brigade. But it faces some challenges

MPLS Argument Leads to Split Standard


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (37)
February 28, 2011 : The ITU appears to be supporting an AlcaLu/Huawei-led revolt, a move that some are calling a rift in MPLS standardization

Euronews: Feb. 28


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
February 28, 2011 : Google denies European VoD plans, a third licence is granted in Oman and France frowns on Skype in today's news from the EMEA region

Dish Paves Way for Streaming-Only Option


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (4)
February 25, 2011 : Charlie Ergen & Co. is trying to secure rights to stream programming over the top

iSuppli: Why Xoom Has to Go Back for 4G


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
February 25, 2011 : Researchers open up a Xoom, explain why you need to return the tablet for a 4G upgrade and identify differences versus the iPad

Comcast Targets First CMAP Field Trial


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 25, 2011 : The trials, slated for mid-2011, will focus on the 'operational readiness' of the architecture rather than the testing of new CMAP gear

MWC 2011 Photos: NSN Booth Tour


Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 25, 2011 : For our second photo-booth tour we headed to the Nokia Siemens Networks village, to see what the people there had to say this year

Consumer Group Wants to Tax Netflix


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (3)
February 25, 2011 : Elsewhere: Dish chief stays coy on spectrum plans, retrans consent lobbying heats up, and former Cablevision exec joins social media firm

T-Mobile Loses Subs as Data Grows 25%


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
February 25, 2011 : T-Mobile hopes that 42Mbit/s service in 25 metro areas by mid-2011 will help it on road to recovery

OS Watch: Sprint Snags First CDMA WP7 Phone


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
February 25, 2011 : Microsoft makes its CDMA debut, iPad 2 expectations rise and Android 3.0 reviews amass in this week's OS observations

Mixed 2010 for Euro Giants


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 25, 2011 : Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia and Telefónica have all reported their 2010 financials – so how did they do, and what are their 2011 prospects?

Euronews: Feb. 25


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
February 25, 2011 : It's financials time for Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and cable giant UPC in today's helping of Euro telecom news

Huawei's Open Letter to the US


News Analysis - Comments (32)
February 24, 2011 : The company takes a stand against what it considers to be an unfair image in US eyes – and openly invites an investigation

Comcast Preps a Docsis 3.0 Boost


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
February 24, 2011 : Upstream channel bonding, which has hit 75 Mbit/s in labs, will be ready for the real world within weeks, a Comcast exec says

Tablet Wars: Who's Xooming Whom?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (4)
February 24, 2011 : Users and reviewers like the Honeycomb OS, but aren't so keen on the price of the new Motorola tablet

Cable Pushes Docsis 3.0 Deployments


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 24, 2011 : Heavy Reading says wideband will reach 85M homes in North America this year, and close in on 90M by the end of 2012

MetroPCS Hints at LightSquared LTE Deal


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (3)
February 24, 2011 : Carrier isn't ready to reveal financial details of its LTE rollout, but it could be teaming up with LightSquared for a wholesale roaming deal

France Telecom Updates on LTE, FTTH


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 24, 2011 : French giant lays out its timetable for LTE and updates on its fiber-access progress

France Telecom Battles Through 2010


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 24, 2011 : European giant holds up well in 2010, with growth towards the end of the year, though it still has a few troubled units to turn around

Euronews: Feb. 24


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
February 24, 2011 : France Telecom steadies the ship, taxing times for Magyar Telekom and Eircom crisis latest in today's canter through the Euro telecom news

Comcast Unit Shares Cisco's Video Spotlight


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 24, 2011 : Cisco's first Videoscape deployment has to share the glory with Comcast's unit, thePlatform, and with non-Cisco set-tops

Tablet Wars: iPad 2 vs Android 3.0


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (2)
February 23, 2011 : Apple confirms iPad 2 launch event just as Google unveils Android 3.0 'Honeycomb' SDK

DirecTV Preps Broadband Boxes, Flirts With LTE


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
February 23, 2011 : Satellite TV giant looks to launch premium service that offers movies soon after theatrical release, and talks up some plans involving LTE

How Q-ute! Juniper's QFabric Rethinks the Data Center


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (18)
February 23, 2011 : The Stratus fabric arrives as Juniper explains its plan for huge, distributed data centers that it says Cisco (and others) can't match

When Will Thunder Strike Verizon?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Comments (2)
February 23, 2011 : Verizon's first LTE smartphone, the HTC ThunderBolt, could be hit the market tomorrow – or next month

Motorola & Verizon Ink Public-Safety LTE Deal


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (4)
February 23, 2011 : Motorola Solutions will use Verizon's LTE network for public-safety applications in the US

South Korea Wants 1Gig for All


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (5)
February 23, 2011 : Elsewhere: DirecTV adds 289,000 subscribers, Netflix cuts CBS deal, while Knology expands in Alabama and Georgia

Court Finds for Huawei vs Moto


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5)
February 23, 2011 : Huawei wins preliminary court injunction against Motorola to prevent trade secrets being sold to Nokia Siemens Networks

Global Crossing Preps Major US Upgrade


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
February 23, 2011 : Company will build first US data centers and upgrade to ultra-long-haul optics to meet demand for cloud services and IP video

Euronews: Feb. 23


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
February 23, 2011 : MittelEuropa dominates today's Euronews, with Austria and Poland very much in the telecom headlines

Court Cuts Ivi's Web TV Signal


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
February 22, 2011 : A firm that targeted so-called 'cord-cutters' by rerouting broadcast TV signals over the Internet has just had its own cord snipped

Verizon Lets Users Xoom for $600


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
February 22, 2011 : Moto's Honeycomb iPad competitor will go on sale on Thursday for $600 with a two-year contract, or $800 without one

WOW Rips Page From Comcast's Digital Playbook


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 22, 2011 : Competitive overbuilder to reclaim spectrum using new breed of 'universal' DTAs that can run on Cisco- and Moto-based cable networks

MWC 2011 Photos: NEC Booth Tour


Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4)
February 22, 2011 : We hit the NEC stand in Barcelona with a probing lens, a fresh notebook and a sharpened pencil – but what did we find?

Amazon Fires Shot at Netflix's Bow


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
February 22, 2011 : Elsewhere: 3-D-TV standard makes Euro-progress, broadcasters may face spectrum fees, while Convergys is ID'd as a possible takeover target

Vidyo Puts Services Spin on Videoconferencing


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Comments (3)
February 22, 2011 : Using video routers rather than bridges helps drive down costs for video as a managed service from global service providers

LightSquared Tees Up $586M Loan Deal


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
February 22, 2011 : Wholesale LTE provider to tap new infusion for 'corporate purposes' and its network buildout, as its total raised funds reaches over $2 billion

AlcaLu's IP Router Sales Soar


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2)
February 22, 2011 : Alcatel-Lucent is now established as the number-two player in IP routing, so just how well did the vendor's IP team do last year?

Euronews: Feb. 22


News Analysis - Paul Rainford - Post a comment
February 22, 2011 : CSR merges with Zoran, Interoute buys dark fiber from KPN and NSN/Juniper's Carrier Ethernet JV gets busy in today's Euro roundup

Netflix: Comcast May Be Discriminating


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
February 21, 2011 : Elsewhere: DirecTV eyes charges for premium 3DTV, SeaChange targets broadband-connected TVs in Europe, while cord-cutting is debunked
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