News & Analysis
3/17/2010  -  Alongside a revamp of its fixed-switch portfolio, Cisco promises future standards to let enterprises prioritize video traffic
3/17/2010  -  Telco trying to block MSO from importing three high-end Scientific Atlanta/Cisco set-tops, claiming they infringe several Verizon patents
by Steve Donohue
3/17/2010  -  Wimax Forum India's chairman wants to see Intel jump into India's spectrum auction to rival Qualcomm's move
by Gagandeep Kaur
3/17/2010  -  Mobile chip giant plans to bid for broadband wireless access spectrum in India to help introduce TD-LTE to the country
3/17/2010  -  The first wave of 1x23 wavelength-selective switches will get demo time at OFC/NFOEC next week
3/17/2010  -  New license rules and spectrum allocation could lead to mobile mayhem in the land of caipirinhas
3/16/2010  -  Telco and satellite TV subs will remain in the gallery when Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and other big MSOs tee up 3D coverage of the Masters next month
Most Recent Post: Gabriel Brown... Good to know. I thought OldPOTS had been using that new voice-to-text app. on Android.
by Steve Donohue
3/16/2010  -  FCC aims to spark a competitive set-top market by requiring all TV service operators to start using a dumbed-down bridging device by 2013
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... We'll have more on all the reactions soon, but, as expected, the NCTA had something to say on this element of the draft...
3/16/2010  -  The National Broadband Plan suggests re-allocating 120MHz of TV spectrum, among other auctions, to try to address the US spectrum shortage
3/16/2010  -  The process that will end with the auction of 3G spectrum in India has begun, so what's up for grabs?
by Gagandeep Kaur
3/16/2010  -  Competitive carrier edges ahead of incumbent SingTel in mobile broadband services battle with dual-carrier deployment
3/16/2010  -  MSO agrees to pay FCC $25,000 and to conform to several 'compliance measures' to settle a spat tied to switched digital video rollouts
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ANALYST NOTES
Aditya Kishore, Senior Analyst
The surge of 'over the top' Internet video has only begun, and it threatens to have huge repercussions for network operators
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Guy Zibi (Analyst at large)
A close look at what makes prepaid operators successful lends support to the Bharti-Zain deal.
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Ray Le Maistre
India 3G: Aircel Preps Bid
Ray Le Maistre
3/17/2010  -  1:55 PM Reports suggest Aircel will apply to take part in the 3G spectrum auction
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Jeff Baumgartner
Weighing the FCC's Gateway
Jeff Baumgartner
3/17/2010  -  12:15 PM The NCTA doesn't hate on it, while DirecTV thinks the approach would hinder, not hasten, set-top innovation
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Gagandeep Kaur
So Who's Pals With Qualcomm?
Gagandeep Kaur
3/17/2010  -  9:40 AM Speculation already rife about Qualcomm's TD-LTE friends in India
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Phil Harvey
The Broadband Plan: Vendor Viewpoint
Phil Harvey
3/17/2010  -  6:45 AM Adtran's Gary Bolton says the FCC's latest opus is 'inspirational'
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Carol Wilson
Does 'Free' Have a Second Act?
Carol Wilson
3/16/2010  -  5:40 PM The FCC has the fun task of convincing the broadcast industry to give up spectrum it's always used for free – does that ever work?
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Jeff Baumgartner
The National Broadband Plan
Jeff Baumgartner
3/16/2010  -  11:10 AM Here it is — start your downloads...
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Special Features
Carrier Ethernet Global Interconnect Service Provider Interoperability Test
Carsten Rossenhövel
EANTC and ancotel tested six European service providers for their readiness to interconnect Carrier Ethernet services through ENNI
Who Makes What: RESTful Service Delivery Platforms
Tim Hills
If apps are the new POTS, SDPs are the new digital switches. So who's making them?
New Product Recap: February 2010
Tim Hills
Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from last month
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Is 100G Transport Closing the Window on 40G?
Danny Dicks
While 10-Gbit/s systems still dominate optical transmission system shipments, bandwidth demand is spurring network operators to accelerate their timetables for migrating to 40G and 100G technologies
The Rush Toward SPIT
Ray Le Maistre
The deployment of Service Provider IT (SPIT) systems is going to be crucial for operators, but they need to put their skates on
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OTT Video: Service Providers Face a Gathering Storm
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Alcatel-Lucent (6209), AT&T (2968), BellSouth (849), BT (1322), Cablevision (674), Cisco (6286), Comcast (2090), Cox Communications (923), Deutsche Telekom (834), eBay (Skype) (352), Ericsson (1947), France Telecom (996), Google (952), Huawei (1308), Intel (1832), Juniper (2210), Microsoft (1658), Motorola (3001), Nokia Siemens Networks (2717), Nortel (4012), NTT (183), Siemens (1362), Sprint (2041), Telefonica (508), Time Warner Cable (1041), Verizon (3580), Vodafone (1785), Yahoo (343)

4G/LTE (Sponsored by Cisco)
3G Evolution (251), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (246), Carrier WiFi (2716), CDMA (3G) (3772), China Mobile (40), Core Network (817), EV-DO (264), Femtocells (519), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (127), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (148), GSM/EDGE (2480), HSDPA/HSUPA (780), IMS Core (107), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (1049), Messaging (130), Messaging (303), Mobile Advertising (148), Mobile location (98), Mobile Music (131), Mobile TV (222), Mobile Video (284), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (2001), Mobile/Wireless (6580), Municipal networks (110), Packet Core (136), Presence management (46), Radio Access Network (2909), Services (2679), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (126), Transmission (95), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (63), UMTS(3G) (421), Video services (4250), Videophone (198), Vodafone (1785), Voice Core (75), VOIP software (701), WiMax (1122), Wireless Backhaul (476), Wireless LAN (364)

Broadband
Access devices (282), Access equipment (2227), Access technologies (2416), Access test & measurement equipment (132), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (402), Cable Modems (750), Carrier WiFi (2716), Content/software downloads (244), Docsis (1166), DSL (2541), DSL chips (241), DSLAMs (709), Ethernet PONs (168), Femtocells (519), Free-space optics (39), FTTx (3651), Home gateways (678), Internet Video (1005), IPTV (3608), Media adapters (26), Microsoft (1658), PON (1469), Satellite (538), Video services (4250), VOD (2799), Yahoo (343)

Cable
Access equipment (2227), Access technologies (2416), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (758), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1153), Cable Modems (750), Cable/MSO equipment (2840), CableLabs (522), Cablevision (674), Comcast (2090), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (295), Cox Communications (923), Digital content (1302), Digital rights management (382), Docsis (1166), DVRs (737), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (228), FTTx (3651), Gaming consoles (72), Head-ends (242), Home gateways (678), IPTV (3608), Media adapters (26), Middleware & business support systems (932), Network DVR (112), PacketCable (132), PON (1469), QAM (331), Residential (856), Set-top boxes (1762), Stored video servers (392), Time Warner Cable (1041), TV (3954), Video equipment (2506), Video services (4250), Video software (1408), VOD (2799), VOIP services (3831), Wavelength services (319)

Ethernet
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1473), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (301), Access devices (282), Ciena (66), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (112), Ethernet chips (601), Ethernet equipment (2296), Ethernet over copper (239), Ethernet PONs (168), Ethernet services (1985), Ethernet technologies (587), Ethernet test & measurement equipment (184), Multipoint (143), Multiservice edge equipment (148), Multiservice provisioning platforms (628), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (379), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (264), Point-to-point (153), Powerline (90), Resilient Packet Ring (173), Sonet/SDH (1054), Tellabs (16), Wireless Backhaul (476)

IP & Convergence
Activation (427), Anti-virus (31), B-RASs (232), Billing systems (803), Cell/WLAN (83), Centrex (200), Circuit emulation (16), Conferencing (139), Contact centers (38), Content delivery network (CDN) (417), Content/software downloads (244), Converged access (112), Core Network (817), Customer relationship management (319), Data Integrity (132), Denial-of-service attacks (50), Edge routers (1727), Element management systems (91), Encryption (157), Endpoint security (80), Enhanced voice (90), Enterprise (654), Fault management (127), Firewalls (118), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (834), GMPLS (79), IMS (1126), IMS Core (107), Interactive advertising (235), Internet Video (1005), Intrusion detection & prevention (104), Inventory management (221), IP equipment (1283), IP software (405), IPSec VPN (854), Layer 3 VPNs (211), Media gateways (371), Mediation systems (265), Messaging (130), Middleware (129), Mobile/Wireless (6580), MPLS (1805), Multicast (38), OSS (3387), OSS test & measurement (1120), Performance monitoring (407), Planning tools (84), Policy control (333), Presence management (46), Product Management (82), Provisioning (626), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (133), QOS (356), Residential (856), Revenue assurance & fraud management (397), Security (1929), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (358), Service management (299), Service-oriented architectures (325), Services (2679), Session border controllers (409), Signaling gateways (114), SIP (417), Softswitches (1107), SSL VPN (917), Telepresence (217), Traffic managers (843), URL filtering (66), User authentication (81), Video services (4250), Videophone (198), VOIP equipment (3471), VOIP services (3831), VOIP software (701), VOIP test & measurement equipment (147), VOIP VPNs (32), Web services (138), Wholesale (227), Wireless LAN (364), Wireline/Wireless (68), XML (52)

Mobile Backhaul
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1473), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (301), Access devices (282), Cell/WLAN (83), China Mobile (40), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (112), Core Network (817), Ethernet equipment (2296), Ethernet over copper (239), Ethernet PONs (168), Ethernet services (1985), Ethernet technologies (587), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (127), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (834), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (148), IMS (1126), IMS Core (107), Mobile/Wireless (6580), Optical amplifiers (352), Packet Core (136), Point-to-point (153), QOS (356), Speciality fiber (98), Tellabs (16), Transceivers (1275), Transmission (95), Transmission fiber (420), Vodafone (1785), Voice Core (75), Wavelength services (319), WiMax (1122), Wireless Backhaul (476), Wireless LAN (364), Wireline/Wireless (68)

Optical Networking (Sponsored by TeraXion)
40-Gbit/s transmission (478), Alcatel-Lucent (6209), ATM switches (334), Core optical switches (771), CWDM (291), DWDM (1859), Ethernet technologies (587), Huawei (1308), Long-haul WDM equipment (682), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1202), Metro WDM equipment (798), Multiservice edge equipment (148), Multiservice provisioning platforms (628), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (379), Multiservice switches (397), Mux/demuxes (300), Optical amplifiers (352), Optical channel monitors (94), Optical components (2857), Optical components test & measurement equipment (119), Optical equipment (2300), Optical switches & crossconnects (402), Optical technologies (439), Optical test & measurement equipment (898), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (264), PON (1469), Resilient Packet Ring (173), Sonet/SDH (1054), Sonet/SDH chips (362), Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1601), Switches & OADMs (408), Transmission fiber (420), Variable optical attenuators (141), Wavelength services (319)

Service Provider IT (Sponsored by Nokia Siemens Networks)
Activation (427), Anti-virus (31), Application servers (200), Billing systems (803), Carrier managed (92), Cloud computing (144), Content/software downloads (244), Customer relationship management (319), Data Integrity (132), Denial-of-service attacks (50), Digital content (1302), Element management systems (91), Encryption (157), Endpoint security (80), Fault management (127), Firewalls (118), Grid networking (83), IMS (1126), IMS Control Layer (36), IMS Service Layer (36), Interactive advertising (235), Intrusion detection & prevention (104), Inventory management (221), IP software (405), IP technologies (1517), IPSec VPN (854), Managed Services (77), Media gateways (371), Mediation systems (265), Messaging (303), Middleware (129), MPLS (1805), MPLS (696), OSS (3387), OSS test & measurement (1120), Performance monitoring (407), Planning tools (84), Policy control (333), Product Management (82), Provisioning (626), QOS (356), Revenue assurance & fraud management (397), Security (1929), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (358), Service management (299), Service-oriented architectures (325), Services (2679), SSL VPN (917), Telepresence (217), URL filtering (66), User authentication (81), Vendor managed (70), Web gateways (66), Web services (138), XML (52)

Video
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (246), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (758), Cable TV chips (312), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (295), Content protection (324), Digital rights management (382), DVRs (737), Gaming consoles (72), Internet Video (1005), IPTV (3608), Middleware & business support systems (932), Mobile TV (222), Network DVR (112), P2P (271), Satellite (538), Set-top boxes (1762), Stored video servers (392), Telepresence (217), TV (3954), Video equipment (2506), Video services (4250), Video software (1408), Videophone (198), VOD (2799)