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After 20 years of providing business services, Cox Business is still seeing double-digit growth rates, driven by SMB sales and sustained by a strong local presence, says SVP Phil Meeks
IP Hong, head of Global Marketing, Samsung Telecommunication Systems Business, discusses the electronics powerhouse's advanced network solutions and business status
Verizon thinks its smart CDN, device-specific transcoding, sticky apps and Flex View cloud offering are poised to do battle with whatever OTT players bring
Mike Tighe, the former Verizon executive who recently joined AboveNet as VP of marketing, says history suggests that a 100Gbit/s Ethernet connection will soon become the standard for business customers
TW Cable's Lee Howard explains the company's long road to debugging IPv6 and its decision to choose native dual-stack technology to manage the transition from IPv4
LIME, the Caribbean operation of Cable & Wireless Communications, has implemented a caching strategy to deal with its data traffic deluge, says COO David Crawford, who also talks about customer care and cloud services
The CenturyLink merger is bringing Savvis cloud services to the SMB market, but users are sometimes expecting more than cloud can deliver in its early days
AT&T's John Potter discusses the different requirements for technology and equipment providers as it offers a bigger variety of cloud services and other 'as-a-service' offerings
Tired of throwing money at your Ethernet network? Accedian Networks' NIDeo shows you how you can leverage the best of Carrier Ethernet to assure your mobile backhaul services, monitor network performance, guarantee SLAs and significantly reduce OPEX.
Jeff Schwarz, head of Global Ethernet WAN Product Management at Verizon Business, talks about the applicability of Ethernet connectivity to enterprise users looking at cloud services
In this latest installment of JDSU Industry View, experts from around the world weigh in on the latest optical trends - straight from the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) hosted in Los Angeles, California.
ADVA Optical Networking CTO Christoph Glingener discusses Agile Core Express technology. Added as a coherent layer to its FSP 3000 platform, the new technology is optimized for 100Gbit/s transmission speed and enables service providers to use optical network resources flexibly and on-demand.
Pyramid Research Senior Analyst Stela Bokun highlights the main trends in the global smartphone market, including a look at the growing attraction of cheaper but smarter devices and the success of the Android operating system
EANTC's Carsten Rossenhoevel updates us on the progress of the Advanced Global Interconnect Test Program demonstrated at Light Reading's Ethernet Americas event in New York
Cisco's Jonathan Morgan discusses ways that mobile operators can better monetize their mobile data networks by evolving their business beyond voice to advanced data services delivery.
For World Cup predictions, we hear from the GSMA's Michael O'Hara; Alcatel-Lucent's Ben Verwaayen; Ericsson's Hans Vestberg; Redknee's Lucas Skoczkowski; Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan, Graham Finnie, Gabe Brown, and Adi Kishore; Jeff Yee of Volantis Systems; Mavenir's Pardeep Kohli; Aircom's Darryl Edwards; David Sharpley of Bridgewater Systems; TeliaSonera's Lars Klasson; Michael Hecker of MTS; and Keith Higgins of Aricent
Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie tells Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about the impact of mobile broadband growth on the Policy Control and Deep Packet Inspection sectors
An overview of the challenges that service providers must face when migrating to wireless backhaul infrastructure, as well as the efforts currently underway to synchronize networks via packet synchronization.
An overview of one of the key challenges that comes with the migration of mobile backhaul to a packet-based network: testing and monitoring performance. As well as a look into how carriers can ensure end-to-end service quality assurance to consistently deliver quality services.
Ericsson's Director of Marketing and Sales Support, Michael Gronovius, explains how service providers need to re-invent themselves as multimedia companies in order to stay abreast of the changing nature of the industry, where almost every new consumer offering will involve investing in higher bandwidth
A robust product needs a robust network, and that's just the thing FLO TV, the Qualcomm company, has built, with mobile television in mind. In this interview we get a closeup look at the first FLO TV device and find out what's so special about the network supporting it
Graham Finnie defines policy management and describes the controversy surrounding where in the network it should go. Also, he weighs in on the best way to manage deep packet inspection
Latest news on the GSM standard from the wrong side of the pond with 3G America's Chris Pearson. How Evolved Edge is bringing new innovation to the standard and why HSDPA has the edge over WiMax, especially in Latin America
The new Yipes is a wide-area networking company focused on enterprises, and it sees a much different set of challenges than larger, international carriers, as Keao Caindec explains
An upbeat take on the global enterprise communications market by VSNL’s John Landau. The doldrums have definitely passed and the market is reinvigorated by the expansion of businesses worldwide. John explains their acquisition strategy to transform VSNL into an international player but also how, even now, global operators are not yet truly global. That’s something to look forward to in the next ten years.
The ongoing convergence of data and voice into next-generation networks provides a significant financial benefit through the reduction of capital expenditures. Service providers and enterprises are now offering completely new types of services, making them more competitive and opening up new revenue streams. The key issue is the effective management of these complex service-oriented architectures.
One of the most demanding consumer groups is the Echo Boomers, the under-25 set. This group has been living an all-tech life since day one and spend an estimated $150 billion every year on everything from broadband access to entertainment applications to next-gen wireless connectivity. But how do you fulfil these media-hungry broadband demands by domestic customers?
CEO Christian Pinion opines on GlobeCast's role as a global content aggregator for the delivery of TV to today's, and tomorrow's, networks and platforms. What impact does MPEG 4 have on the business, and what plans are afoot for expansion in the US?
When Michael O'Hara, a guy who has spent most of his career with telecom equipment firms, makes the hop to Microsoft, it's worth asking what he's up to, why he's there, and what he's seeing from inside the software world that might help carriers better plan for new services, like IPTV
In this June 7th interview, Nortel Networks' good-natured chief strategy officer, George Riedel, explains how IMS, IPTV, and WiMax are only first steps to where the company sees its technology opportunities
AT&T's Robin Bienfait says it wasn't a mistake to launch Project Lightspeed without HD, disaster recovery is more than a PR exercise, and she wants a flawless network, dammit!
Mass migrations aren't just for the birds. Paul Reynolds, CEO of BT Wholesale, discusses what his company has to accomplish so that, in the coming months, it can start migrating 150,000+ customers a week to its 21st Century Network
With network convergence and the move to ever more advanced IP-based infrastructures, the need for service providers to optimize their network efficency and service quality has never been higher. LRTV talks to one of the leading players in the test-and-measurement market
Our final day at Globalcomm 2006 features breaking news from Nortel's George Riedel, as well as insights on the broadband market from BT Wholesale's Paul Reynolds, AT&T's Robin Bienfait, Alcatel's Basil Alwan, and Patrick Esser, President of Cox Communications
Operators know that a transformation to IP and IP-based services is inevitable if they are going to survive in today’s ultra-competitive market. This is not solely a matter of revenue generation, but a strategy to stave off competition through a focus on new user-centric broadband services
Verizon Business product manager Peter Konings discusses the changes in enterprise customers' demands for Ethernet services. Months ago, Ethernet access to applications was good enough. Now, Konings says, big businesses are demanding the kind of flexibility that only end-to-end Ethernet services can provide.
Noam Lotan, President and CEO of MRV Communications, says the federal communications market is too big to ignore and his company's sizing it up. Also, Lotan discusses why the drop in broadband prices won't necessarily cool demand for access equipment.
Redback's comeback is well documented, but where does the company go next? And what will the role of the edge router be when the Internet embraces video distribution on a large scale? Kevin DeNuccio, President and CEO of Redback Networks, has a few thoughts on these topics, along with some insight on what technologies are missing at the network's edge and why he stuck around when Redback was going through bankruptcy.
At The Light Reading Telecom Investment Conference in December 2005, Stu Elby of Verizon talked with LRTV about some of the major technology areas carriers will be investing in this year. He also explained how separating services from the network benefits a carrier – and how that separation is necessary for convergence.
Joe Weinman, VP of Strategy and Emerging Services at AT&T, delivers his view of the Next-Generation Network, discussing the issues facing both service providers and enterprise users and how AT&T is developing new and innovative solutions for its network and customers. Included are exclusive insights into new developments in enhanced network intelligence and the development of intelligent routing service control points, plus how the Network may become the enabler for Next-Generation Search.
BT's group technology officer Mick Reeve talks about – what else? – 21CN and changing one of the world's largest phone company networks. He also elaborates on BT's controversial decision not to include Marconi as a primary equipment supplier and how he believes phone companies are better positioned to provide an interactive video experience to consumers
With unprecedented manufacturing prowess, the Chinese equipment vendors are winning telecom carrier deals and looking to expand outside of their home market. They're increasingly proving themselves to be the major threat, armed with not only lower costs, but also increasingly high-quality gear and customer service. Part Two of our China documentary features some of the top names in US, European, and Chinese telecom equipment manufacturing, as well as some observations from the largest telecom carrier in Europe.
Mike Quigley, president and COO of Alcatel, opines on fixed/mobile convergence, Alcatel's partnership with Microsoft, what happened to Alcatel's core router strategy, and how WiMax and GPON figure into Alcatel's product and market plans
This lightning fast look back at Supercomm 2005 features more commentary from Cisco's Mike Volpi, Motorola President Adrian Nemcek, and UTStarcom CTO Bill Huang. Also, our entertainment correspondent makes the rounds at the Light Reading party, and a Sun executive explains why a monkey really makes sense as the Light Reading mascot.
LRTV interviews more industry newsmakers, including Cisco Senior VP Mike Volpi and BellSouth CTO Bill Smith. Our coverage also includes news announcements from Veraz Networks, Ceterus Networks, Nortel Networks, and others.
Our Supercomm coverage continues, featuring newsmaker interviews with Kevin DeNuccio, CEO of Redback Networks; Krish Prabhu, CEO of Tellabs; and Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT Wholesale. We also heard show news announcements from ECI Telecom; Sonus Networks; and Sun Microsystems.
Executives from the Telecommunications Industry Association, Pannaway Technologies, PacketFront, CopperCom, Spirent, and Continuous Computing weigh in on what trends and announcements we can expect at Supercomm 2005.
