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11/6/2009  -  Cisco is buying the Chinese set-top maker, not for technology, but for a stronger role in China's move to digital cable
11/6/2009  -  Another 15 million mobile lines were activated during September, taking India's total mobile market to nearly 472 million lines
11/5/2009  -  The 3G60, a modular CMTS blade in the works at Cisco, will pack in 60 upstream ports – 12 better than Moto's RX48 module
11/3/2009  -  Reliance Globalcom's CTO talks about the importance of managed services
11/3/2009  -  The market for Carrier Ethernet switch router gear is set to grow in 2010 after contraction in 2009, analyst tells packed event
11/3/2009  -  Nokia Siemens unveiled a major cost-cutting initiative, a new corporate structure, and plans to cut 9% of its workforce
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Cisco Eyes Up China
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11/3/2009  -  9:10 AM Cisco's M&A run continues with a bid to buy Chinese set-top box firm DVN
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Michelle Donegan
Green Light for India's 3G Auction
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10/29/2009  -  10:15 AM Auction set for January next year
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Asia Minnows Face Cash Crunch
Catherine Haslam
Asia/Pacific's smaller mobile operators need investment and scale – surely it's time for some widespread M&A activity
Reports
Light Reading Reveals Its 2009 Top Picks
Phil Harvey
Here are the products and services that we think best indicate where the communications industry is headed in the next 12 months
Recent Moves in Green Telecom
Tim Hills
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
    • A Guide to India's Telecom Market
    Catherine Haslam
    A guide to India's fixed and mobile carriers and the 'circles' in which they operate
    Heavy Lifting
    ANALYST NOTES
    Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst
    Your intrepid correspondent tries out Vodafone's new 3G femtocell service
    Pyramid Points
    Tae-Hyung Kim (Analyst)
    A new proposal from private operator AIS suggests a middle ground that benefits government-owned TOT.
    Research Services
    REAL WORLD RESEARCH
    VoIP Peering: A Market & Technology Update
    This report analyzes the effects of the industry shift toward VoIP peering and interconnection, examining several competing platforms the services and functions they provide. It profiles 11 providers of VoIP peering and interconnection platforms, along with eight related equipment providers and six telecom operators that do not provide peering platforms.
    A SILICON & SUBSYSTEM RESEARCH SERVICE
    ATCA Proves Out as a Product Development Time-Saver
    This report reviews the benefits available to network equipment providers from using ATCA, the options available to make or buy, and analyzes the use of ATCA by vendors. The report also surveys system and component availability and profiles 15 leading software and application-ready system vendors in this expanding market.
    LATEST RESEARCH
    Pay-TV Video on Demand in Emerging Markets
    At year-end 2008, pay-TV households in emerging markets totaled 426m, up 16% from 2007. By 2014, we expect emerging markets to account for 69% of all pay-TV households. This report looks at the pay-TV VoD business model for emerging-market operators, analyzing its value proposition, different approaches to offering VoD and the overall market opportunity.
    A WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH SERVICE
    Voice Over LTE: Many Questions, No Easy Answers
    A CABLE/MSO SECTOR RESEARCH SERVICE
    TV Everywhere: Can Cable Solve Its Hulu Problem?
    A TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE
    Shrinking Margins Bring Big Changes to the CDN Market
    A BUSINESS-CLASS VOICE APPLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE
    VoIP Growth Poses New Challenges for SBC Testing
    A SERVICE DELIVERY RESEARCH SERVICE
    Telco App Servers: NGIN Revs Up for a Serious Run at SIP
    A DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERY RESEARCH SERVICE
    Online Video Platform Survey: Launching the Internet Video Era
    Optical Network Unit (ONU)
    The customer's side of a PON or FTTx connection
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     Integrated Edge Services: The TCO Advantage - by Ericsson
     IT Impact on Telecommunications Order Fallout - by Progress Software
    Events
    TelcoTV Conference & Expo
     November 10 – 12, 2009
    Orlando
    The Future of Cable Business Services 2009
     Thursday, December 03, 2009
    Westin Times Square, New York City
    Tower Technology Summit
     March 23- 25, 2010
    Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas
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    Alcatel-Lucent (5864), AT&T (1940), BellSouth (846), BT (1283), Cablevision (610), Cisco (5277), Comcast (1892), Cox Communications (850), Deutsche Telekom (806), eBay (Skype) (343), Ericsson (1610), France Telecom (963), Google (487), Huawei (1040), Intel (1127), Juniper (2019), Microsoft (1110), Motorola (1477), Nokia Siemens Networks (2631), Nortel (3945), NTT (168), Siemens (1359), Sprint (1057), Telefonica (435), Time Warner Cable (961), Verizon (2579), Vodafone (507), Yahoo (339)

    Broadband
    Access equipment (2157), Access technologies (2366), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (386), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1102), Cable TV chips (284), DSL (2405), DSL chips (227), DSLAMs (701), Free-space optics (35), FTTx (3237), Gaming consoles (58), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (22), Municipal networks (106), PON (1354), PON chips (217), Satellite (492), WiMax (879), Wireless LAN (353)

    Cable Digital
    Cable Modems (676), Cable/MSO equipment (2799), CableLabs (463), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (275), Docsis (1038), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (211), Head-ends (233), PacketCable (129), QAM (304)

    Chips, Components & Subsystems
    ASICs & FPGAs (100), ATCA (475), ATM chips (13), Comm chips (2354), Dispersion compensators (149), Lasers (919), Modulators (163), Mux/demuxes (299), Network processors (931), Optical amplifiers (349), Optical channel monitors (92), Optical components (2816), Speciality fiber (94), Switches & OADMs (397), Transceivers (1242), Transmission fiber (419), Variable optical attenuators (139)

    Ethernet
    10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1453), Access devices (271), ATM switches (333), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (101), Ethernet chips (570), Ethernet equipment (2191), Ethernet over copper (230), Ethernet PONs (160), Ethernet services (1896), Ethernet technologies (566), Multipoint (129), Multiservice edge equipment (143), Multiservice provisioning platforms (621), Multiservice switches (389), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (254), Point-to-point (137), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (132)

    IP & Convergence
    B-RASs (229), Cell/WLAN (77), Compression equipment (13), Core routers (1293), DNS (56), Edge routers (1682), ENUM (53), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (484), GMPLS (76), IMS (1078), IMS Control Layer (27), IMS Service Layer (27), IP equipment (1213), IP software (379), IP technologies (1477), IPv6 (96), Layer 3 VPNs (193), MPLS (687), MPLS (1768), Multicast (35), P2P (257), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (132), QOS (350), SIP (393), Traffic managers (804), Wireline/Wireless (58)

    Mobile/Wireless
    3G Evolution (175), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (189), Carrier WiFi (226), CDMA (3G) (364), Core Network (173), EV-DO (126), Femtocells (30), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (71), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (70), GSM/EDGE (429), HSDPA/HSUPA (319), IMS Core (47), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (185), Mobile Advertising (23), Mobile Music (30), Mobile TV (127), Mobile Video (64), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (90), Mobile/Wireless (5835), Packet Core (61), Radio Access Network (235), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (67), Transmission (38), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (8), UMTS(3G) (338), Voice Core (21), WiMax (879), Wireless Backhaul (270), Wireless Chips (191), Wireless LAN (353)

    Optical Networking
    40-Gbit/s transmission (448), Core optical switches (760), CWDM (289), DWDM (1841), Long-haul WDM equipment (651), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1173), Metro WDM equipment (771), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (375), Optical equipment (2170), Optical switches & crossconnects (398), Optical technologies (414), Sonet/SDH (1033), Sonet/SDH chips (350), Wavelength services (302)

    Security
    Anti-virus (28), Denial-of-service attacks (42), Encryption (96), Endpoint security (20), Firewalls (61), Intrusion detection & prevention (44), IPSec VPN (801), Security (1823), SSL VPN (862), URL filtering (11), User authentication (20)

    Services Software
    Activation (413), Billing systems (755), Content/software downloads (229), Customer relationship management (225), Data Integrity (59), Element management systems (36), Fault management (69), Inventory management (153), Mediation systems (202), Messaging (231), Middleware (71), Mobile location (41), OSS (2565), Performance monitoring (332), Policy control (266), Provisioning (551), Revenue assurance & fraud management (332), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (324), Service management (215), Service-oriented architectures (305), Services (2428), Web gateways (55), Web services (121), XML (50)

    Test & Measurement (Sponsored by Etaliq Inc)
    Access equipment Access test & measurement equipment (126), Comm chips Comm chips test & measurement equipment (29), Ethernet equipment Ethernet test & measurement equipment (170), IP equipment IP test & measurement equipment (120), MPLS MPLS test & measurement equipment (14), Optical components Optical components test & measurement equipment (113), Optical equipment Optical test & measurement equipment (885), OSS OSS test & measurement (1057), Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1599), Test & measurement (1746), VOIP equipment VOIP test & measurement equipment (144)

    Video (Sponsored by Ericsson Televisionary)
    Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (189), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (725), Content delivery network (CDN) (391), Content protection (268), DVRs (651), Internet Video (814), IPTV (3403), Middleware & business support systems (831), Set-top boxes (1614), Stored video servers (379), TV (3531), Video equipment (2433), Video services (4078), Video software (1340), Videophone (184), VOD (2608)

    VOIP
    Application servers (186), Centrex (197), Conferencing (76), Contact centers (37), Enhanced voice (33), Enterprise (636), Media gateways (357), Messaging (72), Presence management (42), Residential (831), Session border controllers (398), Signaling gateways (104), Softswitches (1090), VOIP chips (166), VOIP equipment (3412), VOIP services (3751), VOIP software (616), VOIP VPNs (27), Wholesale (219)