LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : Remote oil rigs rely on bandwidth compression technology for voice and data transmissions
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1) September 29, 2006 : Inteference could stymie municipal mesh networks; vendors say RF management is the answer
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : As Japanese incumbent plans mega-fat optical pipe to cope with the demands of growing FTTH customer base, analyst reckons Cisco and Juniper could have a piece of router expansion
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : Seattle-based IP 'group communications' company helps defense and public safety radios and phones interoperate, says it will use the funds to increase sales
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : Portugal's Competition Authority has given a preliminary thumbs up for Sonae's takeover of Portugal Telecom, but there are conditions, shareholders, and potential rival bids for Sonae to overcome
News Analysis - Richard Martin - Comments (2) September 29, 2006 : City agrees to examine a public-utility alternative to Google/EarthLink project
News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : But T-Mobile is on the verge of launching its own FMC play
LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Post a comment September 28, 2006 : Calling results preliminary pending internal stock-option review, RIM shows strong earnings
LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Post a comment September 28, 2006 : City agrees to examine a public-utility alternative to Google/EarthLink project
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (12) September 28, 2006 : Says its IM/VOIP product is based on an open industry standard, while its competitors keep users 'walled in.' Google believes federation of IM/VOIP services is 'inevitable'
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment September 28, 2006 : But T-Mobile is on the verge of launching its own FMC play
LR Cable News Analysis - Michael Harris - Post a comment September 28, 2006 : Well ahead of schedule, the big British MSO rolled out its first four-service bundle, known as the "4 for £40" package, on Wednesday.
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) September 28, 2006 : As approval for the Alcate/Lucent merger heads towards the office of George W. Bush, Wall Street analyst likes the look of the 'end-to-end equipment supermarket' the vendors will create
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3) September 28, 2006 : Revenues for Q3 will fall well short of Zhone's goals, sending the stock tumbling 22% this morning
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 28, 2006 : Former Comverse CEO Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander, a fugitive who featured on the FBI's Most Wanted list, has been arrested in Africa, and now faces securities fraud charges that could send him down for 25 years
News Analysis - Michael Harris - Comments (2) September 28, 2006 : Convergence Consulting Group predicts that US cable operators will have 24 percent of the total American phone market in a little more than three years' time, mostly at the expense of the telcos.
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 27, 2006 : Management issues have burdened carrier Ethernet in the past few years, but now vendors, and an independent test lab, say major progress has been made on operations, administration, and maintenance
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (6) September 27, 2006 : Microsoft says the network build, not problems with its middleware, has made the rollout of IPTV a slow process; moment of truth approaches as AT&T rolls out later this year
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (5) September 27, 2006 : WiFi vendor releases access point for wireless intrusion detection and prevention marketplace
LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Post a comment September 27, 2006 : Due out tomorrow, earnings should be buoyed by new Pearl device and continued enterprise dominance
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3) September 27, 2006 : Computer problems took out Cisco's ordering systems last week, reportedly for 20 hours – and customers got treated to a repeat performance Tuesday
News Analysis - R. Scott Raynovich - Light Reading - Comments (2) September 27, 2006 : The US incumbent backs up its FTTH strategy with more cash, saying its FiOS service will turn profitable after four years – with growth fueled by video and gaming applications
LR Cable News Analysis - Michael Harris - Post a comment September 26, 2006 : TV Cabo says it has deployed C-COR's CableEdge network resource and bandwidth management software for IP data and voice services.
LR Cable News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Post a comment September 26, 2006 : Charter says it's now offering a 10 Mbit/s tier in 15 of its 20 markets, as well as a 5 Mbit/s tier everywhere.
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (2) September 26, 2006 : Will the Finnish giant follow in Motorola's footsteps with an enterprise acquisition?
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (137) September 26, 2006 : Carrier's NGN core was set to be pure IP/MPLS, but now BT is considering adding a new approach to Ethernet called PBT. And BT isn't the only operator eyeing up PBT
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1) September 26, 2006 : Bell Labs continues to dabble in 100-Gbit/s Ethernet experiments, the latest being an ECOC paper claiming 2,000km transmission with the help of Raman amps
News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Post a comment September 26, 2006 : Motorola buys switched digital video specialist Vertasent, giving it the rights to the software firm's edge resource management platform
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2) September 26, 2006 : Cisco adds Ethernet demarcation to its portfolio, while ADVA beefs up its demarc boxes, all in the name of making Ethernet carriers happier with the technology's manageability
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment September 25, 2006 : Symbol shows off new mesh, RFID, and wearable kit at rough and tumble NYC show
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (13) September 25, 2006 : In response to questions about the speed of IPTV rollouts, Microsoft, AT&T, and others say HD services will be available via IPTV systems by the end of this year
LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Post a comment September 25, 2006 : Looking for an East Asian beachhead, RIM preps Japanese-language BlackBerry
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment September 25, 2006 : Plus WiFi sniffing, meshed video, and patent news in the weekly new-product round-up
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 25, 2006 : Industry sources say Cisco, Nokia, and Siemens have formed a consortium pitching for a massive IMS deal at France Telecom, but there's strong competition from Ericsson, Alcatel/Lucent, and others UPDATED: 9/25, 3:20 PM
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Post a comment September 25, 2006 : Investment bank Rutberg & Co. says VC investors in August showed a taste for young digital media companies doing interesting things with video and video-related products/services
LR Cable News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : In a bad omen for cable, DSL subscribers seem much happier with their service than do cable modem customers, thanks largely to lower DSL prices.
LR Cable News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : North America's largest MSO is piling up broadband subscribers again, with a big boost from the now-defunct Adelphia Communications.
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : Carrier could perk up blue collars with long-awaited phones that roam between CDMA, iDEN networks
LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : Arizona Cardinals Stadium features distributed-antenna system for voice, data
Slide Shows - Phil Harvey - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : We wrap our coverage of Optical Expo 2006 with a list of 10 pictures and five (yet unpublished) quotes from the show
News Analysis - Alan Breznick - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : The first US or Canadian broadband provider to hit this milestone
News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (4) September 22, 2006 : NeuStar says it will charge carriers less starting next year to use its phone number routing database. 'You can’t complete a telephone call in the US without using NeuStar,' says CEO
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : Firm warns on three WiFi driver flaws that could enable Intel and PowerPC hijacks
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : Telco Systems is building its capabilities with small acquisitions – this time it's a remote IP DSLAM startup. The strategy appears to be paying off as the vendor reports a first-half profit
News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Comment (1) September 22, 2006 : Early-stage startups in India have found VC funding hard to come by, but the recent influx of funds is raising new challenges as VCs chase a limited number of deals
LR Cable News Analysis - Michael Harris - Post a comment September 21, 2006 : Keynote Systems concludes that not only is cable phone service cheaper that ILEC offerings, it sounds better and is more reliable, too.
LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Post a comment September 21, 2006 : Treading water in turbulent seas, Treo-maker reports first-quarter results
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment September 21, 2006 : Sprint Nextel examines WiMax technology as a way to provide less costly broadband data services
News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (7) September 21, 2006 : The 3rd largest cellular operator lays out how it will approach 'alternative backhaul' methods for WiMax and more at jam-packed LR Live show in NYC
LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Comments (6) September 21, 2006 : Like other muni networks, San Francisco's Google/EarthLink wireless dream encounters reality
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