7/3/2009 - Telecom's latest bandwidth-busting technology
Vendors
Product trends
Who's missing?
by Tim Hills
7/3/2009 - A genuine IPO to come from Bangladesh's leading operator, Grameenphone, as it gets go-ahead for a $65 million offer.
by Catherine Haslam
7/3/2009 - Clearwire says it doesn't need stimulus money to complete its WiMax deployments, but is reviewing the rules for a bid on the broadband billions
by Dan Jones
7/3/2009 - Cisco founder Len Bosack sheds new light on his company's DarkStar products and the appeal of DIY enterprise optical networks
by Catherine Haslam
7/2/2009 - Industry sources say one of Nokia Siemens Networks's new WiMax partners is specialist vendor Alvarion
7/2/2009 - Cisco's annual customer lovefest comes back to the Bay Area
7/2/2009 - Cable veteran leaves Vidiom to be CEO of Alticast's Americas unit as tru2way specialist gears up for a domestic growth spurt
7/2/2009 - Nokia Siemens tells Unstrung it has shifted its R&D focus away from WiMax and into HSPA+ and LTE
by Michelle Donegan
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ANALYST NOTES
Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst
LTE is an exciting new technology, but will it ever really take off if it doesn't support voice and SMS?
Testing Cisco's Media-Centric Data Center
Carsten Rossenhövel
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...
Outlook Cloudy for Telco IaaS
Caroline Chappell
Telcos should be natural suppliers of IaaS, but have so far largely ceded this market to niche players – a move they may live to regret
Sylwia Boguszewska (Analyst)The new entrant will have an edge over current operators as the first mobile operator to provide 3G services.
REAL WORLD RESEARCH
IPTV 2.0: Delivering the IP Promise
This report analyzes IPTV deployments worldwide, identifying the most successful and innovative providers and examining the next-generation IPTV applications and services they are developing. The report also examines the vendors most involved with IPTV 2.0 innovation and reviews their application roadmaps and most recent announcements.
A TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE
Can VDSL2 Turn Copper Into Stimulus Package Gold?
This report examines the VDSL2 market, including the most significant factors telcos must consider when choosing to deploy VDSL2 and whether the fiscal and broadband stimulus measures will make a difference in the market. The report also profiles 15 major vendors of VDSL2 equipment, comparing their portfolios and competitive positioning.
LATEST RESEARCH Spectrum Refarming for 3G: A Low-Cost Boost for Mobile BroadbandAs existing mobile networks are stretched to their limits, spectrum refarming offers the most cost-efficient and practical method of meeting demand. Pyramid Research believes spectrum refarming, although controversial, will benefit operators in Europe by boosting network capacity economically while improving the availability and quality of existing services.
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| Companies |
Alcatel-Lucent (5752), AT&T (1866), BellSouth (845), BT (1245), Cablevision (555), Cisco (5136), Comcast (1682), Cox Communications (787), Deutsche Telekom (795), eBay (Skype) (339), Ericsson (1512), France Telecom (939), Google (473), Huawei (953), Intel (1122), Juniper (1971), Microsoft (1083), Motorola (1391), Nokia Siemens Networks (2565), Nortel (3875), NTT (148), Siemens (1355), Sprint (1042), Telefonica (417), Time Warner Cable (882), Verizon (2478), Vodafone (490), Yahoo (338)
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| Broadband |
Access equipment (2070), Access technologies (2301), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (379), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1027), Cable TV chips (244), DSL (2262), DSL chips (213), DSLAMs (691), Free-space optics (33), FTTx (2760), Gaming consoles (54), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (21), Municipal networks (104), PON (1206), PON chips (207), Satellite (447), WiMax (850), Wireless LAN (350)
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| Cable Digital |
Cable Modems (574), Cable/MSO equipment (2750), CableLabs (403), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (250), Docsis (891), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (193), Head-ends (206), PacketCable (116), QAM (275)
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| Chips, Components & Subsystems |
ASICs & FPGAs (95), ATCA (456), ATM chips (13), Comm chips (2304), Dispersion compensators (148), Lasers (909), Modulators (158), Mux/demuxes (299), Network processors (912), Optical amplifiers (344), Optical channel monitors (91), Optical components (2780), Speciality fiber (90), Switches & OADMs (395), Transceivers (1222), Transmission fiber (415), Variable optical attenuators (138)
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| Ethernet |
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1437), Access devices (257), ATM switches (332), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (94), Ethernet chips (560), Ethernet equipment (2026), Ethernet over copper (216), Ethernet PONs (156), Ethernet services (1787), Ethernet technologies (532), Multipoint (124), Multiservice edge equipment (136), Multiservice provisioning platforms (612), Multiservice switches (383), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (244), Point-to-point (132), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (128)
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| IP & Convergence |
B-RASs (224), Cell/WLAN (75), Compression equipment (13), Core routers (1264), DNS (51), Edge routers (1628), ENUM (53), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (478), GMPLS (74), IMS (1048), IMS Control Layer (26), IMS Service Layer (26), IP equipment (1152), IP software (360), IP technologies (1452), IPv6 (90), Layer 3 VPNs (178), MPLS (1737), MPLS (683), Multicast (33), P2P (247), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (128), QOS (346), SIP (381), Traffic managers (793), Wireline/Wireless (56)
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| Mobile/Wireless (Sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent) |
3G Evolution (167), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (187), Carrier WiFi (213), CDMA (3G) (322), Core Network (159), EV-DO (117), Femtocells (24), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (69), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (54), GSM/EDGE (391), HSDPA/HSUPA (295), IMS Core (43), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (131), Mobile Advertising (21), Mobile Music (26), Mobile TV (100), Mobile Video (49), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (60), Mobile/Wireless (5460), Packet Core (54), Radio Access Network (219), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (55), Transmission (35), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (8), UMTS(3G) (298), Voice Core (20), WiMax (850), Wireless Backhaul (239), Wireless Chips (182), Wireless LAN (350)
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| Optical Networking |
40-Gbit/s transmission (430), Core optical switches (757), CWDM (289), DWDM (1816), Long-haul WDM equipment (620), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1153), Metro WDM equipment (751), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (369), Optical equipment (2027), Optical switches & crossconnects (395), Optical technologies (401), Sonet/SDH (1018), Sonet/SDH chips (344), Wavelength services (281)
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| Security |
Anti-virus (27), Denial-of-service attacks (40), Encryption (92), Endpoint security (19), Firewalls (60), Intrusion detection & prevention (41), IPSec VPN (800), Security (1796), SSL VPN (861), URL filtering (11), User authentication (19)
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| Services Software |
Activation (409), Billing systems (730), Content/software downloads (219), Customer relationship management (210), Data Integrity (47), Element management systems (36), Fault management (65), Inventory management (147), Mediation systems (202), Messaging (211), Middleware (67), Mobile location (38), OSS (2427), Performance monitoring (314), Policy control (244), Provisioning (535), Revenue assurance & fraud management (326), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (297), Service management (188), Service-oriented architectures (293), Services (2179), Web gateways (51), Web services (108), XML (50)
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| Test & Measurement |
Access equipment Access test & measurement equipment (124), Comm chips Comm chips test & measurement equipment (28), Ethernet equipment Ethernet test & measurement equipment (162), IP equipment IP test & measurement equipment (115), MPLS MPLS test & measurement equipment (13), Optical components Optical components test & measurement equipment (110), Optical equipment Optical test & measurement equipment (876), OSS OSS test & measurement (1055), Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1596), Test & measurement (1679), VOIP equipment VOIP test & measurement equipment (143)
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| Video (Sponsored by Ericsson) |
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (187), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (670), Content delivery network (CDN) (369), Content protection (230), DVRs (565), Internet Video (678), IPTV (3212), Middleware & business support systems (719), Set-top boxes (1477), Stored video servers (355), TV (3206), Video equipment (2366), Video services (3906), Video software (1256), Videophone (182), VOD (2410)
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| VOIP |
Application servers (181), Centrex (195), Conferencing (74), Contact centers (37), Enhanced voice (31), Enterprise (616), Media gateways (351), Messaging (65), Presence management (41), Residential (789), Session border controllers (390), Signaling gateways (102), Softswitches (1080), VOIP chips (161), VOIP equipment (3363), VOIP services (3693), VOIP software (593), VOIP VPNs (26), Wholesale (215)
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