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For the past several years, US and European equipment manufacturers have viewed China as the massive land of opportunity, with its astounding subscriber growth rates and relatively underdeveloped telecom infrastructure. But now, the Chinese are looking to the world and are proving themselves to be the major threat, armed with not only lower costs, but also increasingly high-quality gear and customer service. Part One of our China documentary features leading analysts and service providers on the US and Europe's reaction to China's inroads into their own home turf.
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.
On the final day of Supercomm 2005, LRTV sits down with Ciena CTO Steve Alexander, ZTE VP Joe Zhou, and the president of Siemens's carrier networks division, Harald Braun. Also, we report live from the WiMax Forum stand, and the Metro Ethernet Forum talks about how it is broadening its reach. Finally, TIA president Matt Flannigan gives us some reasons to look forward to Globalcomm 2006.
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.
Alcatel president Mike Quigley, UTStarcom CTO Bill Huang, United States Telecom Association president Walter McCormick, and other newsmakers top the day's highlights of Supercomm 2005. Broadwing, Telco Systems (BATM), and Fine Point Technologies make announcements at the show. Meanwhile, Heavy Reading and Sun Microsystems walk us through the emerging world of service delivery platforms.
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.
Until now, industry discussion of broadband has tended to focus on the network required to support the applications: Is it passive or active? Ethernet or IP? Fiber or copper? Wireless or wired? And so on. The problem with this approach is that it puts the network cart before the applications horse – the really interesting and important element of broadband service is the ways in which people will use it, not the network that it runs over. In this LRTV documentary, we reverse the polarity on this debate, focusing on the applications and how they are influencing the development of the broadband market.
