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Ankeena's Prabakar Sundarrajan: Conquering Content
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November 13, 2009 : Ankeena's CTO Prabakar Sundarrajan gives us his view on the content delivery challenges facing telcos
Avail-TVN's Ramu Potarazu: VoD Gets Serious
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November 11, 2009 : Avail-TVN CEO says telcos need to brace for an onslaught of VoD content by making sure they have networks that scale to meet the demand
Heavy Reading's Adi Kishore: Powerful Pay TV Perceptions
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November 11, 2009 : Heavy Reading survey reveals that consumers are more price sensitive than ever, but that consumer loyalty can be enhanced by bundling services
AT&T Labs' Margaret Chiosi: Sticking With Standards
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November 5, 2009 : AT&T Labs' Executive Director of Optics & Ethernet Service Development says interconnecting networks and managing Ethernet devices are still big challenges
Optimum Lightpath's Dave Pistacchio: Healthy Ethernet
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November 4, 2009 : Ethernet technology enables an interactive healthcare application that is changing how doctors and patients interact
Level 3's Russell Shriver: Service Expansion
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November 4, 2009 : Russell Shriver, Level 3's VP of product management for IP and data services, says carriers need to take Ethernet services to the next level
Mzima Networks' Grant Kirkwood: Ethernet Gives a Fresh Start
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November 4, 2009 : Mzima Networks CTO Grant Kirkwood discusses his company's business plan
AboveNet's Rajiv Datta: Ultra-Low Latency, Guaranteed
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November 4, 2009 : Enterprise customers are realizing that not all Ethernet services are created equal, AboveNe CTO, Rajiv Datta says
Ethernet Expo Awards 2009
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November 4, 2009 : The winners of Light Reading's 2009 Ethernet Expo Awards
Reliance Globalcom's Kamran Sistanizadeh: Managing Services
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November 3, 2009 : Reliance Globalcom's CTO talks about the importance of managed services
Equinix's Jarrett Appleby: The Ethernet Hook-Up
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November 3, 2009 : Equinix's Jarrett Appleby explains how local carriers can get global reach with his company's Carrier Ethernet Exchange
Cox's Jeff Finkelstein: Why Cable Wants IPTV
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October 30, 2009 : Cox's director of network architecture explains why IPTV has risen on operator agendas and offers an idea of how many channels might have to be set aside
Telus CTO Ibrahim Gedeon: Net Neutrality
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October 26, 2009 : Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of Telus, shares his nearly stream-of-consciousness view on network neutrality and makes a distinction between when a carrier should support a service end-to-end and when it should hand off that responsibility to another party
Cox Business's Kristine Faulkner: Local Matters
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October 23, 2009 : Cox Business is making its mark by moving small and mid-sized enterprises off traditional phone networks. And, as its VP of product development explains, the company is also seeing a change in the way businesses use video, a core cable service
Verizon's Mike Marcellin: Assuring Apps & Creating Clouds
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October 22, 2009 : Verizon Business's VP of global managed solutions stops by for a discussion about how his company's services go far beyond basic enterprise connectivity
Mike Hatfield: The 'Why' Behind Cyan Optics
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October 22, 2009 : Cyan Optics CEO explains what problem in the 'middle mile' of the carrier network led to a new class of equipment to deal with the increased capacity in the access network
Verizon's Mark Wegleitner, Part II
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October 22, 2009 : In Part II of our interview, Verizon's SVP of Technology discusses how Verizon is integrating its core network and the challenges of software complexity when you're managing a big network
Verizon's Mark Wegleitner, Part I
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October 22, 2009 : In Part I of our interview, Verizon's SVP of Technology, Mark Wegleitner, discusses the changes in the transport network and how the wireless backhaul network will deal with the demands of 4G technology
AT&T: What's Moving M2M?
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October 14, 2009 : AT&T's Eric Krauss discusses machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies as a slowly emerging catalyst for the carrier's wireless business. Regulatory changes, tech pricing, and high-speed networks have all converged to make M2M healthier than it has been in several years
Verizon's Tony Lewis Defines an Open Network
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October 9, 2009 : Verizon's VP of Open Development, Anthony A. Lewis, says his company has changed the way it allows devices and applications to use its network. And they really are open now. No, really
Interview With Michael Hirsch, FLO TV's Director of Product Management
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October 8, 2009 : A robust product needs a robust network, and that's just the thing FLO TV, the Qualcomm company, has built, with mobile television in mind
Barry West, President, Clearwire International
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September 22, 2009 : Clearwire's Barry West says WiMax is maturing as a technology and some new roaming agreements prove that point. He expects to see devices able to roam between different WiMax networks around the world in Q1 2010
Rehan Jalil, President & CEO of WiChorus
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September 18, 2009 : What does the packet core of a mobile broadband network actually do? And what value can it add as Internet traffic increases? WiChorus CEO Rehan Jalil explains it all for us
Tzu-Han Huang, Chunghwa Telecom
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June 18, 2009 : Tzu-Han Huang, President of Chunghwa Telecom, talks to Ray Le Maistre about IPTV, VoD, and online banking
Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO
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June 18, 2009 : Robin Mersh, COO of Broadband Forum, talks about broadband growth in the Asia region as well as Forum specifications that carriers want right now
Verizon's Chuck Graff: Green Power
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June 17, 2009 : Verizon's director of corporate network and technology, Chuck Graff, discusses his company's approach to reducing the power used by legacy telecom equipment
Tata's Greg Adgate: Telepresence Transformation
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June 17, 2009 : Greg Adgate, the Director of Managed Services for Tata Communications weighs in on how telepresence technology has taken off inside Tata
Heavy Reading's Stan Hubbard: Measuring Green
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June 17, 2009 : Heavy Reading analyst Stan Hubbard cautions that measuring energy efficiency in telecom equipment is not as easy as it sounds
Heavy Reading's Jim Hodges: Green Thoughts
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June 17, 2009 : Heavy Reading analyst Jim Hodges sets the scene for Light Reading's Green Telecom East event in NYC
Telekom Malaysia CEO Talks FTTx, IPTV
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June 16, 2009 : Telekom Malaysia CEO Dato' Zam Isa talks to Light Reading jet-setter Ray Le Maistre about his plans for high-speed broadband, IPTV, and multimedia applications development
EANTC's Carsten Rossenhövel, Part II
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June 11, 2009 : EANTC's Carsten Rossenhövel discusses IP video quality monitoring and other issues during this interview on Light Reading's massive test of Cisco's IP video network infrastructure
EANTC's Carsten Rossenhövel, Part I
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June 5, 2009 : EANTC's Carsten Rossenhövel discusses Light Reading's latest test of Cisco's IP video network infrastructure
Interoute's Matthew Finnie
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May 19, 2009 : Matthew Finnie, CTO and CIO of pan-European carrier Interoute, talks to Ray Le Maistre about using Carrier Ethernet to simplify his firm's corporate offerings
Steve Best, BT Wholesale
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May 14, 2009 : BT Wholesale Director of Product Management talks to Georgina Burnett about BT's Carrier Ethernet strategy and the extent to which enterprise users are substituting legacy TDM services with Ethernet
Chris MacFarland, Chief Operating Officer, Masergy
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May 14, 2009 : The COO of network service provider Masergy talks to Georgina Burnett about how lower corporate travel budgets have led to an increase in demand for HD videoconferencing services
Key Innovations for Carrier-Class Ethernet
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May 13, 2009 : Heavy Reading's Stan Hubbard talks about the key innovations in Carrier Ethernet technology for 2009, including the ability to scrutinize frame delay, jitter, and packet loss
Iometrix Global Interconnect Demo
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May 13, 2009 : Testing and standards company Iometrix's 'Global Interconnect' demonstration of a round-the-world Carrier Ethernet circuit – the first time that a globally interconnected Carrier Ethernet service has demo'd using broadcast-quality video
Dr. Alireza Mahmoodshahi
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May 13, 2009 : Georgina Burnett talks to COLT Telecom Group's CTO about recent innovations in carrier-class Ethernet technology and whether affordable end-to-end Carrier Ethernet connectivity has at last become a reality
Comcast's Werner: Swimming Upstream
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April 21, 2009 : Comcast's CTO gives a tru2way update and says his company will be lab testing upstream bonding equipment this year and rolling some out over the course of next year
Transpera: Mobile Ad Market Small, But Growing
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April 21, 2009 : The advertising market is down overall, but targeted mobile ads are starting to pay off for some of the world's largest content makers and carriers
Telco TV's Backhaul Bottleneck
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April 6, 2009 : Service providers will need DPI and other techniques to handle video traffic in the metro network
Content Provider Expands Role in IPTV
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April 6, 2009 : Shemaroo's Jai Maroo talks about how his company often goes beyond the role of content provider in IPTV networks
Huw Price-Stephens: IPTV's Challenges
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April 6, 2009 : Open IPTV Forum's Huw Price-Stephens talks about the challenges facing IPTV, such as making applications portable between networks
Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan: Mobile Broadband
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April 3, 2009 : Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan discusses the mobile broadband boom
Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie: Policy Matters
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April 2, 2009 : Graham Finnie defines policy management and describes the controversy surrounding where in the network it should go
Cox's Jay Rolls: Ready for Wideband
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April 1, 2009 : Jay Rolls, SVP of Technology, Cox Communications, lists wireless, Docsis 3.0, and tru2way as his big tech priorities
Harry Bosco, Opnext
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March 31, 2009 : Opnext's former CEO (as of April 1, 2009) looks back on the telecom downturn and forward to the recession
Liberty Global Europe's Manuel Kohnstamm
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March 30, 2009 : Manuel Kohnstamm on competing with IPTV
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo
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February 27, 2009 : Sol Hails Speedy Mobility
Ashraf M. Dahod, President & CEO, Starent Networks
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February 27, 2009 : Deploying 4G now
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