7/2/2009 - Industry sources say one of Nokia Siemens Networks's new WiMax partners is specialist vendor Alvarion
7/1/2009 - Italian broadband player to raise new capital and renew its domestic focus as the EU clears the sale of its UK triple-play operations
6/30/2009 - There's a good reason Nortel's hanging on to its LTE intellectual property, reckons one analyst – it could be worth $2.9 billion!
6/30/2009 - As rivals boost their capabilities and find new friends, NTT flexes its international muscles with an acquisition and service enhancements
6/26/2009 - Nortel's wireless sale doesn't include its key LTE access patents. So what's it going to do with that intellectual property – develop 5G?
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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
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?
Sylwia Boguszewska (Analyst)The new entrant will have an edge over current operators as the first mobile operator to provide 3G services.
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IPTV 2.0: Delivering the IP Promise
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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 (683), MPLS (1737), 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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