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Articles published in May 2012
Carriers Must Think Small to Make Mobile Customers Happy
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May 31, 2012 : Heavy Reading’s Berge Ayvazian on how small cells can get smart about connections and help carriers improve data speed and coverage in traffic-heavy networks
Setting Cox's Priorities
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May 24, 2012 : Cox Communications EVP & CTO Kevin Hart explains what's at the top of his to-do list and offers an update on the company's TV Everywhere and IP video strategies
Taking CEM Seriously
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May 24, 2012 : How can communications service providers get the most out of their customer experience management (CEM) strategies? Jean-Marc Steffann, executive director at Capgemini's Telecom, Media and Entertainment division, explains
Comcast Calls on Wi-Fi
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May 23, 2012 : Comcast's Catherine Avgiris walks us through Voice2Go, which enhances Comcast's residential phone service with free Wi-Fi phone calls, advanced call forwarding and the ability to create personal phone numbers
Nice to See You!
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May 23, 2012 : TM Forum Chairman Keith Willetts talks about the much needed communications services revolution and the Management World show's return to Nice on the French Riviera
Huawei Courts US Cable
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May 23, 2012 : Huawei's MSO chief explains how it's helping US cable operators evolve their networks beyond Docsis 3.0 and into the world of EPON Protocol over Coax
Cable's New Video Frontier
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May 22, 2012 : Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, explains how the media publishing firm is backing Comcast's X1 platform and what cable needs to do to get TV Everywhere to the next level
Breaking Into Europe
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May 22, 2012 : At Management World 2012 in Dublin, Andy Tiller, VP of product marketing at AsiaInfo-Linkage, talks about the Chinese software vendor's plans to take Europe by storm
Management World 2012: Where's the Innovation?
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May 22, 2012 : Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie provides an update on how operators seem to be faring as they embrace apps ecosystems and challenging new business models
Comcast's Set-Top Software Kit
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May 21, 2012 : itaas President and CEO Vibha Rustagi explains how Comcast's Reference Development Kit (RDK) could get cable closer to a new standard for next-gen set-top boxes
XO Preps the Next Optical Wave
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May 18, 2012 : The vendors have delivered packet-optical systems, and it's up to XO to do something good with them, CTO Randy Nicklas says. Meanwhile, he's also eyeing the potential of OpenFlow. From the Packet-Optical Transport Evolution conference
Verizon: Putting SDN in Its Place
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May 18, 2012 : Given the disruptive potential of software-defined networking, what's going to happen to routers as we know them? Stuart Elby of Verizon gives us his theory
Fiber Shortage Will Slow LTE
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May 17, 2012 : Less than one-fourth of cell towers in the US have fiber connections today, says Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. Without fiber, 4G networks will be bandwidth starved
What Verizon Sees in Software-Defined Networking
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May 17, 2012 : Verizon has already put software-defined networking to use. Stuart Elby, who's in charge of network architecture, explains how and why
Packet Optical Goes Soft
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May 17, 2012 : Light Reading's Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference will see lots of discussion about the optical control plane as vendors prepare for far-off plans in cloud computing and software-defined networking
Verizon Shows Off Its Hurricane Force
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May 15, 2012 : At CTIA in New Orleans, Verizon explains to LR Mobile how it uses mobile cell sites to restore wireless services after hurricanes and other disasters
Hillcrest Puts the Motion in Mobile
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May 11, 2012 : The remote control maker is porting its software to mobile devices to change the way we interact on and with our smarpthones and tablets
OpenFlow Keeps Buzzing
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May 10, 2012 : OpenFlow and software-defined networking were the talk of Interop. Light Reading sits down with Dan Pitt of the Open Networking Foundation to explore the reasons why
Cricket's 3G-Friendly Mobile Tunes
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May 09, 2012 : Muve Music was built for the prepaid carrier's 3G network, but it's success has Cricket thinking about 4G improvements and international expansion




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