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3/9/2010  -  Nortel's LTE patents gain the attention of a Canadian licensing firm
3/9/2010  -  POW! Another telecom service broker is acquired, giving Metaswitch hardware, apps, and IP service transition credibility
3/8/2010  -  State-owned Indian carrier kills its 93M-line GSM expansion plan, leaving Ericsson, Huawei, and others empty-handed, at least for now
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... What's going to be interesting to watch is the price per line that BSNL will get from vendor bids this time around. The...
by Gagandeep Kaur
3/8/2010  -  Testing shows the top speeds that can be wrung out of the network, but average download estimates of 5 to 12 Mbit/s remain the same
Most Recent Post: kaps... Congrats, Verizon, for your self-awarded gold medal! Nothing like a press release touting speeds seen only by a sole network...
3/5/2010  -  The US will get the WiFi-only device first with a more global launch later in the month
Most Recent Post: jepovic... Can anyone explain why Apple went for MicroSIM? I just don't get it. Replacing SIM-cards is not a trivial matter for carriers,...
3/5/2010  -  Can Verizon double its LTE footprint by 2012?
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OVERLAND PARK, KS: Sprint Drives M2M Device - 3/10/2010
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Dan Jones
LTE vs. Advanced 3G
Dan Jones
3/9/2010  -  2:45 PM Is HSPA good enough for now?
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Phil Harvey
Mobile Madness
Phil Harvey
3/9/2010  -  7:30 AM As consumers take control of their hardware, who's really adding value to today's mobile experience?
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Michelle Donegan
Siverge Griffin Lands at ZTE
Michelle Donegan
3/8/2010  -  4:15 PM ZTE uses Siverge's chips for backhaul products
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Michelle Donegan
DragonWave Pilots LTE Backhaul
Michelle Donegan
3/8/2010  -  2:55 PM DragonWave gets its first LTE gig with its Horizon Quantum radio product
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Michelle Donegan
Cisco Quits WiMax
Michelle Donegan
3/8/2010  -  7:30 AM Vendor pursues femtocells and WiFi for wireless access
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Paul Kapustka
This Week in WiMax
Paul Kapustka
3/5/2010  -  12:35 PM The big number for Clearwire: 3,770 new subscribers a day
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CTIA WIRELESS Columns
The Chips Are Up for LTE
As more consumers buy smartphones, service providers have been rudely awakened by the growing amount of traffic that has been generated
Heavy Lifting
ANALYST NOTES
Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst
Telcos missed the boat on open applications. Will they get another chance?
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REAL WORLD RESEARCH
OTT Video: Service Providers Face a Gathering Storm
This report examines the spread of OTT video, weighing strategies for service providers to manage, or even profit from, this phenomenon. It also explores how other members of the value chain are dealing with online video and profiles 24 selected vendors in this space, summarizing their key products and solutions.
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Components Makers Scramble to Develop LTE Strategies
This report analyzes LTE chips and technologies, identifying the key advantages they hold for equipment manufacturers on the network and end-terminal side. It surveys component availability and reviews features, performance, and flexibility. The report covers solutions from 11 vendors that have announced they will pursue LTE, profiling their go-to-market strategies.
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Optical Transport: 40G/100G Interest Shifts Into Overdrive
A CABLE/MSO SECTOR RESEARCH SERVICE
Mobile Backhaul: MSOs Gear Up for a Tower Play
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Beyond CRM: Customer Experience Management
A SILICON & SUBSYSTEM RESEARCH SERVICE
100 Gbit/s: New Technologies Deliver Bandwidth & Reach
A BUSINESS-CLASS VOICE APPLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE
Cloud Telephony: The Battle Over SMBs
A DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERY RESEARCH SERVICE
Online Video Platform Survey: Launching the Internet Video Era
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 March 23- 25, 2010
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 March 24, 2010
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 Monday & Tuesday, April 12 & 13, 2010
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 Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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 Thursday, May 6, 2010
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Companies
Alcatel-Lucent (6203), AT&T (2956), BellSouth (849), BT (1321), Cablevision (668), Cisco (6278), Comcast (2080), Cox Communications (918), Deutsche Telekom (830), eBay (Skype) (352), Ericsson (1942), France Telecom (996), Google (943), Huawei (1302), Intel (1831), Juniper (2207), Microsoft (1653), Motorola (2996), Nokia Siemens Networks (2715), Nortel (4008), NTT (183), Siemens (1362), Sprint (2035), Telefonica (507), Time Warner Cable (1033), Verizon (3563), Vodafone (1779), Yahoo (343)

4G/LTE (Sponsored by Cisco)
3G Evolution (249), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (245), Carrier WiFi (2715), CDMA (3G) (3767), China Mobile (37), Core Network (816), EV-DO (263), Femtocells (516), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (126), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (145), GSM/EDGE (2479), HSDPA/HSUPA (777), IMS Core (107), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (1020), Messaging (302), Messaging (130), Mobile Advertising (147), Mobile location (98), Mobile Music (131), Mobile TV (221), Mobile Video (281), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (1993), Mobile/Wireless (6556), Municipal networks (109), Packet Core (135), Presence management (46), Radio Access Network (2908), Services (2678), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (125), Transmission (95), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (63), UMTS(3G) (416), Video services (4244), Videophone (197), Vodafone (1779), Voice Core (75), VOIP software (700), WiMax (1112), Wireless Backhaul (476), Wireless LAN (364)

Broadband
Access devices (282), Access equipment (2225), Access technologies (2412), Access test & measurement equipment (132), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (402), Cable Modems (744), Carrier WiFi (2715), Content/software downloads (244), Docsis (1153), DSL (2525), DSL chips (241), DSLAMs (709), Ethernet PONs (167), Femtocells (516), Free-space optics (39), FTTx (3615), Home gateways (675), Internet Video (992), IPTV (3596), Media adapters (26), Microsoft (1653), PON (1457), Satellite (534), Video services (4244), VOD (2793), Yahoo (343)

Cable
Access equipment (2225), Access technologies (2412), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (755), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1150), Cable Modems (744), Cable/MSO equipment (2836), CableLabs (517), Cablevision (668), Comcast (2080), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (294), Cox Communications (918), Digital content (1299), Digital rights management (380), Docsis (1153), DVRs (733), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (226), FTTx (3615), Gaming consoles (72), Head-ends (242), Home gateways (675), IPTV (3596), Media adapters (26), Middleware & business support systems (922), Network DVR (112), PacketCable (132), PON (1457), QAM (331), Residential (852), Set-top boxes (1746), Stored video servers (390), Time Warner Cable (1033), TV (3928), Video equipment (2505), Video services (4244), Video software (1403), VOD (2793), VOIP services (3826), Wavelength services (318)

Ethernet
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1473), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (289), Access devices (282), Ciena (62), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (112), Ethernet chips (601), Ethernet equipment (2290), Ethernet over copper (237), Ethernet PONs (167), Ethernet services (1973), Ethernet technologies (587), Ethernet test & measurement equipment (184), Multipoint (142), Multiservice edge equipment (148), Multiservice provisioning platforms (628), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (379), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (264), Point-to-point (152), Powerline (90), Resilient Packet Ring (173), Sonet/SDH (1053), Tellabs (15), Wireless Backhaul (476)

IP & Convergence
Activation (425), Anti-virus (31), B-RASs (232), Billing systems (803), Cell/WLAN (83), Centrex (199), Circuit emulation (16), Conferencing (139), Contact centers (38), Content delivery network (CDN) (415), Content/software downloads (244), Converged access (112), Core Network (816), Customer relationship management (318), Data Integrity (130), Denial-of-service attacks (50), Edge routers (1724), Element management systems (91), Encryption (157), Endpoint security (80), Enhanced voice (90), Enterprise (653), Fault management (126), Firewalls (118), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (834), GMPLS (79), IMS (1124), IMS Core (107), Interactive advertising (231), Internet Video (992), Intrusion detection & prevention (104), Inventory management (218), IP equipment (1283), IP software (405), IPSec VPN (854), Layer 3 VPNs (209), Media gateways (371), Mediation systems (265), Messaging (130), Middleware (129), Mobile/Wireless (6556), MPLS (1803), Multicast (38), OSS (3384), OSS test & measurement (1120), Performance monitoring (403), Planning tools (84), Policy control (330), Presence management (46), Product Management (81), Provisioning (623), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (133), QOS (356), Residential (852), Revenue assurance & fraud management (396), Security (1929), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (358), Service management (299), Service-oriented architectures (325), Services (2678), Session border controllers (409), Signaling gateways (114), SIP (416), Softswitches (1107), SSL VPN (917), Telepresence (216), Traffic managers (838), URL filtering (66), User authentication (81), Video services (4244), Videophone (197), VOIP equipment (3464), VOIP services (3826), VOIP software (700), VOIP test & measurement equipment (147), VOIP VPNs (32), Web services (138), Wholesale (226), Wireless LAN (364), Wireline/Wireless (68), XML (52)

Mobile Backhaul
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1473), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (289), Access devices (282), Cell/WLAN (83), China Mobile (37), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (112), Core Network (816), Ethernet equipment (2290), Ethernet over copper (237), Ethernet PONs (167), Ethernet services (1973), Ethernet technologies (587), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (126), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (834), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (145), IMS (1124), IMS Core (107), Mobile/Wireless (6556), Optical amplifiers (351), Packet Core (135), Point-to-point (152), QOS (356), Speciality fiber (98), Tellabs (15), Transceivers (1268), Transmission (95), Transmission fiber (420), Vodafone (1779), Voice Core (75), Wavelength services (318), WiMax (1112), Wireless Backhaul (476), Wireless LAN (364), Wireline/Wireless (68)

Optical Networking (Sponsored by TeraXion)
40-Gbit/s transmission (473), Alcatel-Lucent (6203), ATM switches (334), Core optical switches (770), CWDM (291), DWDM (1859), Ethernet technologies (587), Huawei (1302), Long-haul WDM equipment (680), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1197), Metro WDM equipment (796), Multiservice edge equipment (148), Multiservice provisioning platforms (628), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (379), Multiservice switches (396), Mux/demuxes (300), Optical amplifiers (351), Optical channel monitors (93), Optical components (2854), Optical components test & measurement equipment (118), Optical equipment (2297), Optical switches & crossconnects (402), Optical technologies (439), Optical test & measurement equipment (894), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (264), PON (1457), Resilient Packet Ring (173), Sonet/SDH (1053), Sonet/SDH chips (362), Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1601), Switches & OADMs (403), Transmission fiber (420), Variable optical attenuators (141), Wavelength services (318)

Service Provider IT (Sponsored by Nokia Siemens Networks)
Activation (425), Anti-virus (31), Application servers (200), Billing systems (803), Carrier managed (91), Cloud computing (143), Content/software downloads (244), Customer relationship management (318), Data Integrity (130), Denial-of-service attacks (50), Digital content (1299), Element management systems (91), Encryption (157), Endpoint security (80), Fault management (126), Firewalls (118), Grid networking (83), IMS (1124), IMS Control Layer (36), IMS Service Layer (36), Interactive advertising (231), Intrusion detection & prevention (104), Inventory management (218), IP software (405), IP technologies (1513), IPSec VPN (854), Managed Services (76), Media gateways (371), Mediation systems (265), Messaging (302), Middleware (129), MPLS (1803), MPLS (696), OSS (3384), OSS test & measurement (1120), Performance monitoring (403), Planning tools (84), Policy control (330), Product Management (81), Provisioning (623), QOS (356), Revenue assurance & fraud management (396), Security (1929), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (358), Service management (299), Service-oriented architectures (325), Services (2678), SSL VPN (917), Telepresence (216), URL filtering (66), User authentication (81), Vendor managed (69), Web gateways (66), Web services (138), XML (52)

Video
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (245), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (755), Cable TV chips (309), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (294), Content protection (318), Digital rights management (380), DVRs (733), Gaming consoles (72), Internet Video (992), IPTV (3596), Middleware & business support systems (922), Mobile TV (221), Network DVR (112), P2P (271), Satellite (534), Set-top boxes (1746), Stored video servers (390), Telepresence (216), TV (3928), Video equipment (2505), Video services (4244), Video software (1403), Videophone (197), VOD (2793)