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Policy & DPI: $1B Spree, But No Picnic for Vendors


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Graham Finnie - Post a comment
March 29, 2012 : The market for policy management and DPI gear topped $1B for the first time in 2011, and will be worth a whopping $2.7B by 2016

Key Attributes of Next-Gen SPIT Systems


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Ari Banerjee - Post a comment
March 29, 2012 : Next-generation SPIT systems will transform the way service providers understand the connected experience of their customers

Carrier Cloud Stirs the Telco Pot


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Caroline Chappell - Post a comment
March 29, 2012 : The emergence of carrier cloud has created a race between the world's biggest network equipment vendors

The Right Dose of Technology


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
March 16, 2012 : Government pressure is pushing those in the health care sector to adopt MPLS VPNs

SNA Brings the Customer Closer


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Sarah Wallace - Comment (1)
March 12, 2012 : Social network analytics (SNA) is becoming increasingly popular as service providers look for ways to gain a competitive edge and better understand their customers

Banks Get on the Phone, Tablet


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
March 1, 2012 : Mobile banking is fast becoming a mainstream service demanded by more affluent users

Will Operators Embrace Akamai's Licensed CDN?


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Aditya Kishore - Post a comment
February 28, 2012 : Akamai Technologies has launched 'Aura Network Solutions,' a set of licensed CDN products aimed at network operators

Y.1564 Testing to Enable Multi-CoS Ethernet


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February 28, 2012 : To be sure their Ethernet links can handle Multi-CoS, service providers need a pre-deployment proofing mechanism such as ITU-T Y.1564

MAM Gives IT Control Over Devices, Apps


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
February 24, 2012 : The explosive growth of mobile broadband service usage is creating a surge in demand for mobile application management

Video CDNs Will Rock the Cable World


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February 22, 2012 : Major cable operators are now building video-optimized content delivery networks (CDNs) that promise to deliver a full range of IP-based video offerings

Emergent Technologies Shake Up India's Backhaul


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Comment (1)
February 15, 2012 : The arrival of mobile broadband services will require a major retooling of India's backhaul infrastructure. Until fiber connectivity becomes widely available, microwave backhaul will continue to be a critical component in the short to medium term in the Indian telecom network.

It's More Than Just a Number


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Comment (1)
February 13, 2012 : Enterprises of all sizes are turning to cloud IP-PBX systems

Mobile Network Security Becomes Key Issue


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
February 6, 2012 : Mobile operators are realizing they must take more steps to secure their networks against malicious acts

100G Components Step Up to the Mark


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Simon Stanley - Post a comment
January 9, 2012 : Survey responses clearly show that 100G interfaces will play a major role in future networking systems

Education Is Key to AMI, Telemetry Success


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
December 13, 2011 : Despite a slow uptake, around 75% of utilities in North America prefer AMI and telemetry solutions

UC Gets a Straight A in Education


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
December 9, 2011 : Being hit from every side by demands to lower costs, many educational institutions have implemented unified communications systems

Message Storage Moves to Top Drawer


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
December 7, 2011 : Many companies plan to make massive data migrations over the next year because they're exceeding storage limits on their current servers

BI Takes Advantage of Mobile Boom


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
December 5, 2011 : Enterprises are moving business intelligence onto mobile platforms, but it involves far more than just shrinking an Excel spreadsheet for a smartphone

Standards in the Cloud


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Caroline Chappell - Post a comment
December 2, 2011 : As provider interest in cloud services grows, telcos explore ways to differentiate their products while the IT industry works on standardization

MEF Makes Strides With Ethernet Interconnection


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December 1, 2011 : Emphasis within the Ethernet market and the MEF has shifted to issues of interconnection and service alignment between providers

Assessing the Indian Telecom Equipment Opportunity: Part 2


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Sterling Perrin - Comments (2)
November 11, 2011 : Part two of our assessment of telecom equipment opportunities in India, focusing on packet-optical trends

Hey, You, Get Onto My Cloud


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Comment (1)
November 10, 2011 : MSOs are looking to use their own IP clouds to support new interactive program guides, user interfaces and interactive apps on cable TV

Second-Gen Silicon Drives Enterprise & Public Femtos


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Simon Stanley - Post a comment
November 2, 2011 : Small cells could mean a big payback for femtocell developers

India Targets Its Data Bottleneck


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October 31, 2011 : India presents a wide range of opportunities to telecom service providers and their technology suppliers

Huawei's 'Giga World' Vision


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Berge Ayvazian - Post a comment
October 20, 2011 : Huawei used the Global MBB Forum to offer a preview of its 'GigaSite' solution, designed to help operators achieve success in the new mobile 'Giga World'

HR Survey: OTT Experience Could Drive ISP Choice


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Aditya Kishore - Comment (1)
October 17, 2011 : Annual survey of consumers finds more watch high-quality online video – and if it doesn't work, they're likely to blame their ISP

Sprint Network Vision and 4G LTE Plans Should Integrate with Clearwire


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Berge Ayvazian - Comment (1)
October 14, 2011 : At the Strategy Update meeting, Sprint discusses the Network Vision deployment and plans to accelerate its 4G LTE rollout using its own licensed spectrum

DPI Goes Undercover


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Simon Sherrington - Comment (1)
October 14, 2011 : DPI has taken off in the market, but appliance vendors are finding that they need to step it up

Assessing the Indian Telecom Equipment Opportunity: Part 1


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Sterling Perrin - Comments (3)
October 12, 2011 : Part one of two assessing telecom equipment opportunities in India

RFID-M2M Takes Root in Manufacturing Sector


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
October 12, 2011 : The arrival of machine-to-machin communications is bringing renewed interest in RFID technology in the manufacturing sector

Turf Wars Threaten Telco CEM Initiatives


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Caroline Chappell - Post a comment
September 28, 2011 : Telcos today need CEM solutions that help them understand all their customers' individual experiences in real time

Service Providers Have First-Class Opportunity in Travel


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
September 26, 2011 : Analytics enables travel companies to understand all aspects of how to acquire, maintain and attract new customers to their websites. Successful analytics solutions for the future will build upon a two-pronged approach: an application approach and an analytic approach.

IMB & eMBMS: Wait-and-See Mobile TV


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Tim Kridel - Comment (1)
September 23, 2011 : IMB and eMBMS have a year to improve their penetration in the mobile video market to become long-term options for mobile offload

Smartphones Increasingly Affect the Retail Sector


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
September 13, 2011 : New applications and services that enable customers to make transactions via smartphones are a growing source of revenue for retailers

Motorola Atrix: The Power & Confusion


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Gabriel Brown - Comment (1)
September 8, 2011 : The advanced hardware of Motorola's Atrix impresses, but infighting in the mobile industry fogs the picture

Set-Tops, Modems Join in Royal Wedding


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August 31, 2011 : Hybrid gateways are wooing MSOs by unifying TV and IP video

Policy 2011: Hot, But Getting Crowded


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Graham Finnie - Post a comment
August 22, 2011 : Mobile broadband has driven a boom in policy over the past 12 months, bringing a passel of new vendors into the sector

Who Cares About Wi-Fi Quality?


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Tim Kridel - Comments (12)
July 28, 2011 : Operators need to get serious about Wi-Fi QoS, or risk revenue loss as customers decide their services are slow and unreliable

Grids Get Smart With BPL


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Simon Sherrington - Post a comment
July 25, 2011 : The global transition to electricity smart grids is creating new opportunities for broadband power line (BPL) communications vendors

Telepresence Takes the Show on the Road


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Denise Culver - Post a comment
July 22, 2011 : In the entertainment biz, telepresence is no longer seen as just a way to save money on travel, but rather a way to improve content delivery and collaboration

Road-Testing Verizon's 4G-LTE


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Gabriel Brown - Comments (14)
July 7, 2011 : Putting the world's preeminent LTE network through its paces under real-world conditions

Will the Cloud Swallow the CDN?


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Aditya Kishore - Comments (2)
July 6, 2011 : What exactly is the difference between the content delivery network and the cloud anyway? And could they someday merge into one?

The Service Broker Shows Great Potential


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Caroline Chappell - Post a comment
June 29, 2011 : Service broker technology meets network operators' need for a flexible way to program real-time orchestration across service portfolios

10Gig PONs Take On the World


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Simon Stanley - Post a comment
June 28, 2011 : PON vendors believe 10Gigabit PON will become the universal access technology for residential and business subscribers worldwide

'Social' vs 'Social': The Homophone of Telecom


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Sarah Wallace - Post a comment
June 20, 2011 : There's a lot of buzz in telecom right now regarding 'social,' both in terms of social network analysis and social media

Asia Leading TDM Replacement Parade


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Jim Hodges - Post a comment
June 20, 2011 : IMS remains the preference in the Asia/Pac region, as a recent Malaysian event confirms

Previewing the Cable Show


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Alan Breznick - Post a comment
June 13, 2011 : A peek at some of the major issues cable executives will be grappling with at this week's Cable Show in Chicago

Innovation Osmosis & the Return of D&R


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Ari Banerjee - Post a comment
June 9, 2011 : A roundup of the leading themes at Management World 2011

Mobile Sentiment Begins to Favor IPsec


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Patrick Donegan - Comments (3)
June 3, 2011 : Mobile operator sentiment worldwide seems to be shifting toward using IPsec encryption and authentication from LTE cell sites

Where's PON Going Next?


Heavy Lifting Analyst Notes - Graham Finnie - Comment (1)
May 20, 2011 : 10GPON is the logical next step, but some are already looking toward the generation beyond that
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