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AT&T executive director Martin Silman discusses the carrier's global investment in Ethernet this year. Specifically, he points out how the company's VPLS offering is appealing to industry sectors such as finance, that demand a higher level of control over the connections linking their branch offices and data centers
Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone says 2010 will be a significant year for the evolution of Verizon's 4G network, with LTE being its technology of choice. Also, he says that flat-rate voice and flat-rate data should be considered with different approaches to each. He's not an all-you-can-eat kind of guy
The marriage of mobility and the Internet promises to define the way people view connectivity forever. As devices become intelligent personal mini-computers, consumers will have the full power of the Internet at their fingertips anywhere and anytime, dramatically shaping the way they manage their everyday lives. Nowhere is this playing out more clearly than in mobile commerce, giving our highly mobilized society the ability to pay bills or purchase goods and services on the go. This has the potential to unleash an entirely new economic model, and mobile operators are well positioned to take advantage of this lucrative market, which represents billions of transactions and revenues going forward.
Everyone's fawning over femtocells, but who's really going to put their money where the hype is? What we found at CTIA Wireless 2008 is that the answer really depends on whom you ask – and where in the world they're trying to make a buck. For our complete roster of reports and news on femtocells, click here
At CTIA Wireless 2008, the femtocell was the new 'it' device, the 700 Mhz auctions became the elephant in the room, Fritz Nelson rode a bull, 4G networks were debated and discussed, Sprint's plans came under scrutiny, and Nokia's coffee shop in the sky was hard to top
At CTIA Wireless 2008, the femtocell was the new 'it' device, the 700 Mhz auctions became the elephant in the room, Fritz Nelson rode a bull, 4G networks were debated and discussed, Sprint's plans came under scrutiny, and Nokia's coffee shop in the sky was hard to top
Camiant enables service providers to produce superior experiences for their customers by instructing their networks to deliver exactly the right mix of resources for the application at hand. Camiant prevents both the under-delivery and the over-delivery of resources for applications ranging from simple instant-messaging tools to complex video-enabled telephony services. No matter what the application, Camiant ensures that customers enjoy flawless, reliable performance that today's best-effort networks cannot always render.
