9/2/2010 - O2, Deutsche Telekom, and Virgin Media are in today's potpourri of European telecom news
 by Paul Rainford
9/2/2010 - Verizon Wireless's rumored prepaid smartphone plans are only a tactic, not the start of a real prepaid strategy
9/1/2010 - Shocking news! Indian government allocates 3G spectrum on time
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
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Mobile Money Machines
Mobile handsets are on track to become a primary component of basic business transactions worldwide.
ANALYST NOTES
Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst
The analyst ventures into Infinera's cleanroom for a closer look at photonic integrated circuit production
Leslie Arathoon (Director of Product Development)Smartphones will be the fastest-growing segment and will make up more than half of all sell-throughs by 2015.
REAL WORLD RESEARCH
Turnkey Networks: The Future of Managed & Professional Services
Over the past decade, network operators have increasingly relied upon managed services to contain costs and simplify network management. This report examines the current and future state of managed services, examining the portfolios of 18 telecom vendors, consultants, IT specialists, outsourcing specialists, and systems integrators that compete in this market.
Mobile Payments: Opportunity in the Run-Up to 4G
This report evaluates mobile payment systems, including their adoption rate, supported applications, and major components. It analyzes companies that offer technologies and/or platforms targeting customers wanting to implement "mobile payment" systems. The report also evaluates current offerings and discusses the challenges companies face as mobile networks progress toward 4G implementation.
LATEST RESEARCH UAE: Fiber Deployments Will Boost Uptake of Pay-TV and VoIPThe UAE telecom market generated $6.1bn in service revenue in 2009 and can look forward to healthy but not dramatic growth between 2010 and 2015. The fastest significant growth segments will be broadband Internet and mobile data. A key change over the next five years is the switch from copper to fiber fixed-line infrastructure that is currently underway and due to be completed by 2011.
Jitter
Rapid changes in an optical signal
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Events
Ethernet Expo
Tuesday & Wednesday, November 2 & 3, 2010
Hilton New York, New York
White Papers SPONSORED CONTENT
Resource Library SPONSORED CONTENT
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| Companies |
Alcatel-Lucent (6357), AT&T (3262), BellSouth (851), BT (1402), Cablevision (758), Cisco (6461), Comcast (2353), Cox Communications (1020), Deutsche Telekom (886), eBay (Skype) (360), Ericsson (2070), France Telecom (1055), Google (1101), Huawei (1421), Intel (1859), Juniper (2258), Microsoft (1730), Motorola (3149), Nokia Siemens Networks (2852), Nortel (4046), NTT (206), Siemens (1362), Sprint (2141), Telefonica (592), Time Warner Cable (1136), Verizon (3876), Vodafone (1880), Yahoo (353)
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| 4G/LTE |
3G Evolution (391), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (269), Carrier WiFi (2767), CDMA (3G) (3865), China Mobile (79), Core Network (852), EV-DO (294), Femtocells (612), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (147), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (252), GSM/EDGE (2554), HSDPA/HSUPA (879), IMS Core (136), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (1444), Messaging (333), Messaging (150), Mobile Advertising (205), Mobile location (117), Mobile Music (170), Mobile TV (341), Mobile Video (370), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (2152), Mobile/Wireless (7190), Municipal networks (115), Packet Core (191), Presence management (51), Radio Access Network (2962), Services (2819), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (151), Transmission (119), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (84), UMTS(3G) (519), Video services (4522), Videophone (205), Vodafone (1880), Voice Core (102), VOIP software (747), WiMax (1231), Wireless Backhaul (599), Wireless LAN (394)
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| Broadband |
Access devices (305), Access equipment (2309), Access technologies (2461), Access test & measurement equipment (133), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (423), Cable Modems (840), Carrier WiFi (2767), Content/software downloads (254), Docsis (1343), DSL (2694), DSL chips (249), DSLAMs (713), Ethernet PONs (176), Femtocells (612), Free-space optics (40), FTTx (4164), Home gateways (720), Internet Video (1280), IPTV (3790), Media adapters (30), Microsoft (1730), PON (1605), Satellite (588), Video services (4522), VOD (3046), Yahoo (353)
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| Cable |
Access equipment (2309), Access technologies (2461), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (807), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1216), Cable Modems (840), Cable/MSO equipment (2908), CableLabs (592), Cablevision (758), Comcast (2353), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (321), Cox Communications (1020), Digital content (1406), Digital rights management (422), Docsis (1343), DVRs (867), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (258), FTTx (4164), Gaming consoles (83), Head-ends (272), Home gateways (720), IPTV (3790), Media adapters (30), Middleware & business support systems (1074), Network DVR (135), PacketCable (142), PON (1605), QAM (363), Residential (880), Set-top boxes (1961), Stored video servers (425), Time Warner Cable (1136), TV (4474), Video equipment (2610), Video services (4522), Video software (1510), VOD (3046), VOIP services (3958), Wavelength services (342)
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| Ethernet |
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1491), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (373), Access devices (305), Ciena (100), Circuit emulation (19), Converged access (132), Ethernet chips (619), Ethernet equipment (2444), Ethernet over copper (251), Ethernet PONs (176), Ethernet services (2108), Ethernet technologies (639), Ethernet test & measurement equipment (197), Multipoint (167), Multiservice edge equipment (154), Multiservice provisioning platforms (632), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (384), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (274), Point-to-point (183), Powerline (93), Resilient Packet Ring (175), Sonet/SDH (1066), Tellabs (32), Wireless Backhaul (599)
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| IP & Convergence |
Activation (442), Anti-virus (39), B-RASs (236), Billing systems (864), Cell/WLAN (86), Centrex (205), Circuit emulation (19), Conferencing (160), Contact centers (39), Content delivery network (CDN) (453), Content/software downloads (254), Converged access (132), Core Network (852), Customer relationship management (373), Data Integrity (165), Denial-of-service attacks (67), Edge routers (1786), Element management systems (109), Encryption (176), Endpoint security (100), Enhanced voice (106), Enterprise (682), Fault management (147), Firewalls (138), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (848), GMPLS (80), IMS (1163), IMS Core (136), Interactive advertising (306), Internet Video (1280), Intrusion detection & prevention (123), Inventory management (237), IP equipment (1337), IP software (422), IPSec VPN (867), Layer 3 VPNs (236), Media gateways (387), Mediation systems (283), Messaging (150), Middleware (143), Mobile/Wireless (7190), MPLS (1831), Multicast (41), OSS (3574), OSS test & measurement (1155), Performance monitoring (468), Planning tools (112), Policy control (401), Presence management (51), Product Management (104), Provisioning (666), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (133), QOS (365), Residential (880), Revenue assurance & fraud management (428), Security (2003), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (388), Service management (340), Service-oriented architectures (347), Services (2819), Session border controllers (428), Signaling gateways (123), SIP (433), Softswitches (1134), SSL VPN (931), Telepresence (247), Traffic managers (868), URL filtering (82), User authentication (99), Video services (4522), Videophone (205), VOIP equipment (3536), VOIP services (3958), VOIP software (747), VOIP test & measurement equipment (150), VOIP VPNs (33), Web services (155), Wholesale (242), Wireless LAN (394), Wireline/Wireless (74), XML (54)
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| Mobile Backhaul |
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1491), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (373), Access devices (305), Cell/WLAN (86), China Mobile (79), Circuit emulation (19), Converged access (132), Core Network (852), Ethernet equipment (2444), Ethernet over copper (251), Ethernet PONs (176), Ethernet services (2108), Ethernet technologies (639), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (147), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (848), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (252), IMS (1163), IMS Core (136), Mobile/Wireless (7190), Optical amplifiers (356), Packet Core (191), Point-to-point (183), QOS (365), Speciality fiber (106), Tellabs (32), Transceivers (1315), Transmission (119), Transmission fiber (426), Vodafone (1880), Voice Core (102), Wavelength services (342), WiMax (1231), Wireless Backhaul (599), Wireless LAN (394), Wireline/Wireless (74)
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| Optical Networking (Sponsored by TeraXion) |
40-Gbit/s transmission (509), Alcatel-Lucent (6357), ATM switches (336), Core optical switches (780), CWDM (296), DWDM (1890), Ethernet technologies (639), Huawei (1421), Long-haul WDM equipment (734), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1232), Metro WDM equipment (835), Multiservice edge equipment (154), Multiservice provisioning platforms (632), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (384), Multiservice switches (404), Mux/demuxes (304), Optical amplifiers (356), Optical channel monitors (96), Optical components (2926), Optical components test & measurement equipment (127), Optical equipment (2448), Optical switches & crossconnects (409), Optical technologies (459), Optical test & measurement equipment (916), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (274), PON (1605), 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)
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| Service Provider IT |
Activation (442), Anti-virus (39), Application servers (210), Billing systems (864), Carrier managed (200), Cloud computing (299), Content/software downloads (254), Customer relationship management (373), Data Integrity (165), Denial-of-service attacks (67), Digital content (1406), Element management systems (109), Encryption (176), Endpoint security (100), Fault management (147), Firewalls (138), Grid networking (95), IMS (1163), IMS Control Layer (41), IMS Service Layer (44), Interactive advertising (306), Intrusion detection & prevention (123), Inventory management (237), IP software (422), IP technologies (1541), IPSec VPN (867), Managed Services (132), Media gateways (387), Mediation systems (283), Messaging (333), Middleware (143), MPLS (1831), MPLS (700), OSS (3574), OSS test & measurement (1155), Performance monitoring (468), Planning tools (112), Policy control (401), Product Management (104), Provisioning (666), QOS (365), Revenue assurance & fraud management (428), Security (2003), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (388), Service management (340), Service-oriented architectures (347), Services (2819), SSL VPN (931), Telepresence (247), URL filtering (82), User authentication (99), Vendor managed (130), Web gateways (71), Web services (155), XML (54)
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| Video (Sponsored by Cisco) |
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (269), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (807), Cable TV chips (350), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (321), Content protection (409), Digital rights management (422), DVRs (867), Gaming consoles (83), Internet Video (1280), IPTV (3790), Middleware & business support systems (1074), Mobile TV (341), Network DVR (135), P2P (278), Satellite (588), Set-top boxes (1961), Stored video servers (425), Telepresence (247), TV (4474), Video equipment (2610), Video services (4522), Video software (1510), Videophone (205), VOD (3046)
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