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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
Nokia's head of entertainment and communications, Tero Ojanpera, says the way of the future is for hardware companies to transform themselves into software and services companies. We've heard that before, obviously, but Nokia actually has some interesting acquisitions and new mobile services with a really global reach that back up all the talk. Check it out!
The company that helped invent ringback tones has already developed a platform for serving mobile video. Now it's concentrating on how the content is portioned out and delivered. And what about open networks? Analisa Roberts at RealNetworks says it's a nice idea, but still a couple of years off from being a significant force in the US
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
Philippe Keryer, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s Mobile Access Division, weighs in on the timeline for LTE, how long 3G networks should be extended, whether CDMA is out of gas, the real benefit of the 700 Mhz auctions, and his division's quest for profitability
How low can they go? Greg Lund from Leap Wireless says the low-cost provider may not cut rates in response to AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint getting into the flat-rate pricing game.
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
On the day of its first anniversary, Nokia Siemens' Sue Spradley looks back on the highlights of the last year and forward to what we can expect in the coming years. Plus the latest on Nokia Siemens' LTE developments including its involvement in the Verizon Wireless LTE trial.
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.
