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Articles published in June 2008
Basil Alwan, President, IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent
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June 26, 2008 : Basil Alwan tackles questions about deep packet inspection, routing startups, whether optical and Ethernet will ever be truly united, and how Alcatel-Lucent’s platforms are prepared for IPv6.
Jim Hansen, SVP, Network Services, Embarq Corp.
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June 23, 2008 : Jim Hansen, SVP, Network Services for Embarq, says IPTV’s economics don’t always make sense and he talks about how Embarq plans to fend off competition from WiMax services.
Randy Nicklas, CTO, XO Communications
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June 23, 2008 : XO’s CTO Randy Nicklas discusses the demand for 100 Gbit/s services and elaborates on why one single, big backbone pipe may not yet be as smart a buy as several smaller bandwidth connections.
CommunicAsia 2008
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June 20, 2008 : IP video services are still in the early stages of development in Singapore, but the government there has put into place some measures to provide fiber access to its residents - a move that will encourage development of wireline and wireless networks alike, as well as a boom in consumer video services. At CommunicAsia 2008, our International Editor Ray Le Maistre tapped into the excitement surrounding IPTV, while still notching out a little time for some virtual golf and a spin around the track via a Formula One simulation game.
Bengt Hellstrom, Director Business Development APAC, Net Insight
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June 19, 2008 : Net Insight's video transport solutions are well known in the broadcast world. But as Bergt Hellstrom tells LRTV, increasingly it is telco service providers who are now talking to him as IPTV ramps up in Asia
Roger Chen, Head of Multimedia, Far EasTone
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June 19, 2008 : Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd. is keen to engage and learn from other carriers as it embarks on its video services strategy. The carrier's VP of business development and multimedia services, Roger Chen, says Far EasTone is about to embark on an initial test of IPTV services, with some receiving the trial service across a DSL line and others over a WiMax connection
Neil Montefiore, CEO, MobileOne
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June 19, 2008 : Singapore operator MobileOne Ltd. (M1) is looking forward to being part of the island's iN2015 initiative to hook up every home with fiber, a move that will help the 3G service provider break into the fixed services world. M1's CEO Neil Montefiore’s excited about becoming part of Singapore's new breed of ServCo as M1 moves from its mobile services base into the fixed line world. There, the planned 1 Gbit/s of access capacity per household will enable a whole raft of services, such as multiple channels of high-definition (HD) TV and online gaming
Jan Wareby, Head of Business Unit Multimedia, Ericsson
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June 19, 2008 : There's no holding back Ericsson's Jan Wareby when it comes to the new multimedia opportunities enabled by today's networks. Across both the fixed and mobile worlds, and not least when it comes to TV and video services, Asia is at very the heart of the latest developments
IPTV in Asia
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June 18, 2008 : Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan reveals his findings after researching the IPTV market in Asia, And when it comes to video in Asia, carriers there are more focused on offering video services over mobile devices than their western counterparts.
Maria Pardee, Managing Director, Global Integration, BT Group
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June 18, 2008 : BT's Maria Pardee says there's a new network required for the new ways that people are communicating. The future, for network operators, is all about adding value to the network
Dennis Huber, SVP, Strategy, Embarq
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June 17, 2008 : How do broadband providers continue to make a business selling connections when speeds are going up, and prices are constantly falling? We asked Embarq's SVP of strategy, Dennis Huber, and he fills us in on how value is added to broadband and what the next wave of video services will include.
James Kelso, VP of Video Engineering, Cox Communications
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June 12, 2008 : Speed is the creed




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