LR Mobile News & Analysis
9/7/2010  -  France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and C&W Worldwide make the running in today's digest of European news bites
by Paul Rainford
9/6/2010  -  Deutsche Telekom opens a registration Website for its new LTE service, as it plans to launch the 4G offer commercially by the end of this year
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... Maybe some other countries cold take a leaf out of Germany's book by stipulating initial LTE coverage in areas of sparse...
9/6/2010  -  Customer screening vendor says mobile money transfers are open to abuse by crooks and terrorists, but industry body dismisses the claims
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... There's no doubt that mobile operators running a banking service will need to be acutely aware of how their service are...
9/6/2010  -  It's a Polish double, plus the latest on C&W Worldwide and Vodafone, in today's roundup of European telecom news bites
by Paul Rainford
9/3/2010  -  Fastweb, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom take the lead in today's roundup of European telecom news bites
by Paul Rainford
9/2/2010  -  O2, Deutsche Telekom, and Virgin Media are in today's potpourri of European telecom news
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... And: Virgin Media CEO Disses DSL...   hittin' em when they're down.  Adam Ant's a nice touch... haven't heard...
by Paul Rainford
9/2/2010  -  Expected 'dual-carrier' speed bump should require less work on the network side, but faster downloads will require newer devices
Most Recent Post: Dan Jones... Its a definite issue but easy to see why T-Mobile is claiming "4G speeds" when other carriers claim they have -- or will...
9/2/2010  -  Verizon Wireless's rumored prepaid smartphone plans are only a tactic, not the start of a real prepaid strategy UPDATED 12:25 PM
Most Recent Post: Dan Jones... They have that launch event on September 16th here in NYC, definitely curious to spend more time with the Galaxy Tab. Although...
9/1/2010  -  Shocking news! Indian government allocates 3G spectrum on time
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... It's not like India to set a 3G deadline and then meet it....  That's not the real; issue, of course. The elephant...
9/1/2010  -  C&W Worldwide, VimpelCom, and Vodafone Germany are doing the business in today's digest of Europe telecom news snippets
by Paul Rainford
9/1/2010  -  T-Mobile USA is promising 42-Mbit/s 3G in 2011, but will only beat AT&T in highest theoretical speeds
Most Recent Post: Dan Jones... Where would they be if they didn't do the speed upgrade? Manhattan is a godawful topology to build out a mobile network...
9/1/2010  -  Telco equipment giant buys a maker of mobile software development tools hoping to help carriers find their apps with both hands
Most Recent Post: brookseven...   I guess I think this is an area where ALU does not provide a lot of valuable insight.  Let me get this straight,...
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NEW DELHI: Akai Joins India's Handset Market - 9/7/2010
LONDON: GSMA Adds to MWC - 9/7/2010
CORK, IRELAND: Vodafone Hungary Picks FancyFon - 9/6/2010
LONDON: BT Releases WiFi App - 9/6/2010
MILTON KEYNES, UK: Smartphones Are the Business for UK - 9/3/2010
MURRAY HILL, NJ: AlcaLu Makes Band 14 LTE Call - 9/3/2010
SHENZHEN, CHINA: Huawei Intros Android 2.2 Phone - 9/2/2010
WASHINGTON: FCC Sets White Space Vote - 9/2/2010
SHENZHEN, CHINA: ZTE Boasts Handset Success - 9/2/2010
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In part one of a huge testing program, we put Cisco's IP backbone and IP radio access network (RAN) to the test
New Product Recap: July 2010
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 Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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 Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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 Tuesday & Wednesday, November 2 & 3, 2010
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 November 9 – 11, 2010
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Companies
Alcatel-Lucent (6358), AT&T (3265), BellSouth (851), BT (1406), Cablevision (759), Cisco (6465), Comcast (2356), Cox Communications (1020), Deutsche Telekom (891), eBay (Skype) (360), Ericsson (2070), France Telecom (1059), Google (1101), Huawei (1424), Intel (1860), Juniper (2259), Microsoft (1730), Motorola (3150), Nokia Siemens Networks (2852), Nortel (4046), NTT (207), Siemens (1362), Sprint (2141), Telefonica (595), Time Warner Cable (1138), Verizon (3880), Vodafone (1886), Yahoo (354)

4G/LTE
3G Evolution (394), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (270), Carrier WiFi (2769), CDMA (3G) (3866), China Mobile (79), Core Network (852), EV-DO (295), Femtocells (612), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (147), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (254), GSM/EDGE (2555), HSDPA/HSUPA (880), IMS Core (136), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (1452), Messaging (150), Messaging (333), Mobile Advertising (205), Mobile location (117), Mobile Music (170), Mobile TV (341), Mobile Video (371), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (2152), Mobile/Wireless (7204), Municipal networks (115), Packet Core (191), Presence management (51), Radio Access Network (2962), Services (2824), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (151), Transmission (119), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (84), UMTS(3G) (520), Video services (4530), Videophone (205), Vodafone (1886), Voice Core (102), VOIP software (747), WiMax (1231), Wireless Backhaul (601), Wireless LAN (394)

Broadband
Access devices (306), Access equipment (2311), Access technologies (2463), Access test & measurement equipment (133), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (425), Cable Modems (841), Carrier WiFi (2769), Content/software downloads (254), Docsis (1344), DSL (2699), DSL chips (249), DSLAMs (713), Ethernet PONs (176), Femtocells (612), Free-space optics (40), FTTx (4178), Home gateways (722), Internet Video (1283), IPTV (3794), Media adapters (30), Microsoft (1730), PON (1609), Satellite (588), Video services (4530), VOD (3051), Yahoo (354)

Cable
Access equipment (2311), Access technologies (2463), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (808), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1219), Cable Modems (841), Cable/MSO equipment (2911), CableLabs (594), Cablevision (759), Comcast (2356), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (322), Cox Communications (1020), Digital content (1408), Digital rights management (422), Docsis (1344), DVRs (867), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (258), FTTx (4178), Gaming consoles (83), Head-ends (272), Home gateways (722), IPTV (3794), Media adapters (30), Middleware & business support systems (1074), Network DVR (135), PacketCable (142), PON (1609), QAM (366), Residential (880), Set-top boxes (1964), Stored video servers (425), Time Warner Cable (1138), TV (4477), Video equipment (2612), Video services (4530), Video software (1515), VOD (3051), VOIP services (3960), Wavelength services (342)

Ethernet
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1491), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (374), Access devices (306), Ciena (100), Circuit emulation (19), Converged access (133), Ethernet chips (619), Ethernet equipment (2450), Ethernet over copper (252), Ethernet PONs (176), Ethernet services (2111), Ethernet technologies (640), Ethernet test & measurement equipment (197), Multipoint (167), Multiservice edge equipment (155), Multiservice provisioning platforms (632), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (384), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (275), Point-to-point (183), Powerline (94), Resilient Packet Ring (175), Sonet/SDH (1066), Tellabs (32), Wireless Backhaul (601)

IP & Convergence
Activation (442), Anti-virus (39), B-RASs (236), Billing systems (865), Cell/WLAN (86), Centrex (205), Circuit emulation (19), Conferencing (160), Contact centers (39), Content delivery network (CDN) (453), Content/software downloads (254), Converged access (133), Core Network (852), Customer relationship management (373), Data Integrity (165), Denial-of-service attacks (67), Edge routers (1788), Element management systems (109), Encryption (176), Endpoint security (100), Enhanced voice (106), Enterprise (683), Fault management (147), Firewalls (138), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (848), GMPLS (80), IMS (1163), IMS Core (136), Interactive advertising (306), Internet Video (1283), Intrusion detection & prevention (123), Inventory management (238), IP equipment (1338), IP software (423), IPSec VPN (867), Layer 3 VPNs (236), Media gateways (387), Mediation systems (283), Messaging (150), Middleware (144), Mobile/Wireless (7204), MPLS (1832), Multicast (41), OSS (3579), OSS test & measurement (1155), Performance monitoring (468), Planning tools (112), Policy control (403), Presence management (51), Product Management (105), Provisioning (668), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (134), QOS (366), Residential (880), Revenue assurance & fraud management (429), Security (2004), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (388), Service management (340), Service-oriented architectures (348), Services (2824), Session border controllers (428), Signaling gateways (123), SIP (433), Softswitches (1134), SSL VPN (931), Telepresence (247), Traffic managers (869), URL filtering (82), User authentication (99), Video services (4530), Videophone (205), VOIP equipment (3538), VOIP services (3960), VOIP software (747), VOIP test & measurement equipment (150), VOIP VPNs (33), Web services (155), Wholesale (242), Wireless LAN (394), Wireline/Wireless (74), XML (54)

Mobile Backhaul
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1491), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (374), Access devices (306), Cell/WLAN (86), China Mobile (79), Circuit emulation (19), Converged access (133), Core Network (852), Ethernet equipment (2450), Ethernet over copper (252), Ethernet PONs (176), Ethernet services (2111), Ethernet technologies (640), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (147), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (848), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (254), IMS (1163), IMS Core (136), Mobile/Wireless (7204), Optical amplifiers (356), Packet Core (191), Point-to-point (183), QOS (366), Speciality fiber (106), Tellabs (32), Transceivers (1316), Transmission (119), Transmission fiber (426), Vodafone (1886), Voice Core (102), Wavelength services (342), WiMax (1231), Wireless Backhaul (601), Wireless LAN (394), Wireline/Wireless (74)

Optical Networking (Sponsored by TeraXion)
40-Gbit/s transmission (509), Alcatel-Lucent (6358), ATM switches (336), Core optical switches (780), CWDM (297), DWDM (1890), Ethernet technologies (640), Huawei (1424), Long-haul WDM equipment (737), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1250), Metro WDM equipment (835), Multiservice edge equipment (155), Multiservice provisioning platforms (632), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (384), Multiservice switches (405), Mux/demuxes (304), Optical amplifiers (356), Optical channel monitors (96), Optical components (2930), Optical components test & measurement equipment (127), Optical equipment (2449), Optical switches & crossconnects (409), Optical technologies (460), Optical test & measurement equipment (916), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (275), PON (1609), Resilient Packet Ring (175), Sonet/SDH (1066), Sonet/SDH chips (367), Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1604), Switches & OADMs (430), Transmission fiber (426), Variable optical attenuators (143), Wavelength services (342)

Service Provider IT
Activation (442), Anti-virus (39), Application servers (210), Billing systems (865), Carrier managed (202), Cloud computing (300), Content/software downloads (254), Customer relationship management (373), Data Integrity (165), Denial-of-service attacks (67), Digital content (1408), Element management systems (109), Encryption (176), Endpoint security (100), Fault management (147), Firewalls (138), Grid networking (96), IMS (1163), IMS Control Layer (41), IMS Service Layer (44), Interactive advertising (306), Intrusion detection & prevention (123), Inventory management (238), IP software (423), IP technologies (1543), IPSec VPN (867), Managed Services (135), Media gateways (387), Mediation systems (283), Messaging (333), Middleware (144), MPLS (1832), MPLS (700), OSS (3579), OSS test & measurement (1155), Performance monitoring (468), Planning tools (112), Policy control (403), Product Management (105), Provisioning (668), QOS (366), Revenue assurance & fraud management (429), Security (2004), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (388), Service management (340), Service-oriented architectures (348), Services (2824), SSL VPN (931), Telepresence (247), URL filtering (82), User authentication (99), Vendor managed (131), Web gateways (71), Web services (155), XML (54)

Video (Sponsored by Cisco)
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (270), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (808), Cable TV chips (351), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (322), Content protection (409), Digital rights management (422), DVRs (867), Gaming consoles (83), Internet Video (1283), IPTV (3794), Middleware & business support systems (1074), Mobile TV (341), Network DVR (135), P2P (278), Satellite (588), Set-top boxes (1964), Stored video servers (425), Telepresence (247), TV (4477), Video equipment (2612), Video services (4530), Video software (1515), Videophone (205), VOD (3051)

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