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New Product Recap: October 2009
Reports - Tim Hills - Comment (1)
November 10, 2009 : Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from last month
Telecom Market Spotlight: Europe II
Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment
October 21, 2009 : What's up (and down) in Europe
  • Fiber
  • IPTV
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Light Reading Reveals Its 2009 Top Picks
    Reports - Phil Harvey - Comments (9)
    October 19, 2009 : Here are the products and services that we think best indicate where the communications industry is headed in the next 12 months
    Telecom Market Spotlight: North America
    Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment
    September 3, 2009 : Mobile video could be THE telecom growth story in the US
    Telecom Market Spotlight: Africa
    Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment
    August 20, 2009 : Potential meets reality as consolidation grips the region and some mobile markets flirt with saturation
    Who Makes What: GPON & WDM-PON Equipment
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (25)
    July 22, 2009 : A year on, who's in and who's out?
  • New vendors
  • New products
  • New trends
  • Telecom Market Spotlight: Middle East
    Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment
    July 16, 2009 : Mobile broadband will see big growth as data usage soars on 3G networks and data cards are used to provide Internet access to PCs
    Who Makes What: 40- & 100-Gbit/s Systems
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (8)
    July 3, 2009 : Telecom's latest bandwidth-busting technology
  • Vendors
  • Product trends
  • Who's missing?
  • Who Makes What: ATCA, AMC & MicroTCA
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comment (1)
    June 15, 2009 : Report details these critical pieces of the telecom puzzle, delving into:
  • Building blocks
  • Vendors galore
  • Product moves
  • Testing Cisco's Media-Centric Data Center
    Reports - Carsten Rossenhövel - Comments (2)
    June 11, 2009 : Is Cisco’s solution ready for the future service provider data center? We tested:
  • Data center convergence
  • In-service software upgrades
  • Control plane failover
  • And more...
  • Video Experience & Monetization: A Deep Dive Into Cisco's IP Video Applications
    Reports - Carsten Rossenhövel - Comments (2)
    June 5, 2009 : A look at Cisco's ability to deliver advanced IP applications
  • Advertising insertion
  • Session shifting
  • Personalized content & user interface
  • Web 2.0 integration & more
  • Testing Cisco's IP Video Service Delivery Network
    Reports - Carsten Rossenhövel - Comments (15)
    June 3, 2009 : The largest, independent test of Cisco's service delivery network
  • 1.9 million potential users
  • In-line video quality monitoring
  • Massive scalabilty of IP video services
  • Recent Moves in Green Telecom
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (2)
    May 14, 2009 : Time to catch up on telecom's big green movement:
  • Telecom's consumption problem
  • What's being done
  • Who's measuring what
  • When products go green
  • Who Makes What: LTE Equipment
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (17)
    May 7, 2009 : Addressing the 3GPP next-gen mobile standard:
  • Manufacturers
  • Product trends
  • Are you there?
  • A Guide to India's Telecom Market
    Reports - Catherine Haslam - Comments (7)
    April 19, 2009 : A guide to India's fixed and mobile carriers and the 'circles' in which they operate
    Telecom Market Spotlight: Europe
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (7)
    April 15, 2009 : Big and surprisingly diverse
  • Largest markets
  • Fastest growing
  • Fiber & IPTV
  • Who Makes What: Docsis 3.0 Equipment
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (2)
    March 26, 2009 : As ultrafast cable rolls out:
  • Who's got products?
  • CMs, CMTSs, Edge QAMS...
  • List your company
  • Webinar Rewind: Customer in the Crosshairs
    Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment
    March 10, 2009 : Subscriber intelligence for:
  • Service personalization
  • Better targeting
  • Ads as information
  • Top 10 Telecom Markets: Latin America
    Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment
    February 25, 2009 : Top regional markets in 2008
  • Telecom revenues
  • Service penetrations
  • Operator trends
  • Top 10 Telecom Markets: Asia
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comment (1)
    February 9, 2009 : 2008 market rankings:
    * Sizes
    * Potentials
    * IPTV
    Who Makes What: IPTV Set-Top Boxes
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (6)
    January 29, 2009 : Check your company listing for
    * IPTV STBs
    * Silicon devices
    * Software
    The Decline & Fall of Nortel Networks
    Reports - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (14)
    January 21, 2009 : Nortel may never be the giant it once was, but the company has never failed to fascinate us, as a look back at more than eight years of Light Reading coverage shows
    CES 2009: Show Wrap-Up
    Reports - Phil Harvey - Comment (1)
    January 15, 2009 : We recap 2009 International CES by rating 40 products and services, and bundling up all the news, blogs, and photos from the show
    Who Makes What: Femtocells
    Reports - Michelle Donegan - Comments (3)
    January 5, 2009 : Can femtocells live up to the hype?
    * Who's making femtos
    * Femto market update
    * What's next
    Telco in Transition: The Move to 4G Mobility
    Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment
    December 29, 2008 : 4G in a nutshell:
    * What it is
    * Why do it?
    * What's coming
    40- & 100-Gbit/s Technology & Components
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (15)
    December 22, 2008 : The next step in optical transmission:
    * Technology options
    * Standards
    * Modulation issues
    IPTV in the USA
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comment (1)
    December 8, 2008 : The IPTV revolution has started stateside, but what's next?
    * Next-gen TV
    * Better technology
    * Finding value
    The Future of Fiber Access
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (21)
    November 5, 2008 : Looking at consumer fiber access as it becomes mainstream:
    * Where's it going?
    * What technologies will matter?
    * What can we learn from carrier experiences?
    The 2008 Leading Lights Finalists
    Reports - Comments (5)
    October 3, 2008 : Get the details on our editors' and analysts' picks for the 2008 Leading Lights finalists and take our Reader Survey to let us know who should win
    Guide to Open IPTV Standards
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comment (1)
    September 23, 2008 : The push to open IPTV
    * Who's involved
    * What's done
    * What's coming
    Who Makes What: GPON Equipment
    Reports - Raymond McConville - Comments (2)
    August 15, 2008 : Help create our taxonomy of GPON Equipment:
    * Where is your company?
    * Where are your products?
    * Who are your competitors?
    WiMax: What's Working Now
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comment (1)
    July 24, 2008 : WiMax starts to take off
    * Where?
    * Who?
    * Experiences
    The Future of Mobile Open Access
    Reports - Tim Hills - Post a comment
    June 26, 2008 : The networks loosen their grip
    * What it means
    * What's open
    * What's next
    Top 10 Emerging Mobile Markets 2007
    Reports - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
    April 30, 2008 : The 10 developing countries that registered the most new mobile subscribers in 2007 in total added 320 million new wireless users and boasted a combined subscriber base of 1.37 billion
    A Guide to PBT/PBB-TE
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comment (1)
    April 3, 2008 : Acronym soup or super network?
    * What?
    * Why?
    * Vendor roundup
    PBT/PBB-TE Guide: Vendor Talk
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (3)
    April 3, 2008 : We get 17 telecom equipment and components vendors to position themselves with respect to PBT/PBB-TE. Included are comments on the technology, the market, the challenges for acceptance, and the key applications and drivers
    A Guide to India's Telecom Operators
    Reports - Nicole Willing - Comments (3)
    March 6, 2008 : A guide to India's fixed and mobile carriers and their service area 'circles'
    Who Makes What: Telco Home Gateways
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (4)
    February 14, 2008 : Can telcos take over your home?
    * Who's making the kit
    * How it works
    * What's next
    Top Ten: IPTV Carriers
    Reports - Raymond McConville - Comments (8)
    January 14, 2008 : We name the world's 10 biggest IPTV service providers by subscriber numbers, and take a look at some middleware and penetration stats
    Who Does What: Middle East Carriers
    Reports - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
    December 19, 2007 : Find out which companies have network operations in the Middle East's emerging telecom markets
    The Role of SIP in VOIP
    Reports - Denise Culver - Post a comment
    December 10, 2007 : SIP grows up
    * New developments
    * Role in NGNs
    * QOS & Provisioning
    Top Ten: Emerging Markets Carriers
    Reports - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
    December 6, 2007 : China Mobile heads up the list of the top 10 carriers based in emerging markets by revenues for the six months to Sept. 30
    MicroTCA in Telecom
    Reports - Simon Stanley - Post a comment
    November 26, 2007 : The new telecom hardware platform
    * Features & packaging
    * Modules & hubs
    * Telecom applications
    What's Up With IMS?
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (9)
    November 19, 2007 : Our all-new guide to IMS
    * Where IMS is now
    * Issues & migration
    * New buzzwords
    Trends in Dynamic Optical Networks
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comments (8)
    November 5, 2007 : Metro ROADMs are booming:
    * Architectures & standards
    * ROADM requirements
    * WSS options & trends
    Who Makes What: Ethernet/IP Equipment 2007
    Reports - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
    October 16, 2007 : Help create our latest taxonomy of packet gear:
    * Where is your company?
    * Where are your products?
    * Who are your competitors?
    Leading Lights Finalists
    Reports - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
    October 12, 2007 : Here are the finalists for the 2007 Leading Lights Awards
    Monitoring the Performance of IP Centrex Services
    Reports - James Crawshaw - Post a comment
    September 18, 2007 : Keeping Centrex VOIP on track:
    * Quality problems
    * Testing methods
    * Challenges & issues
    Customer Focus Through Identity Management
    Reports - Tim Hills - Comment (1)
    September 11, 2007 : Managing customer info is key:
    * Why identity management?
    * Subscriber-centric databases
    * Challenges and issues
    Light Reading's Person of the Year: The Finalists
    Reports - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
    September 4, 2007 : You nominated them. We checked them out. Now it's time to vote
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