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Basil Alwan tackles questions about deep packet inspection, routing startups, whether optical and Ethernet will ever be truly united, and how Alcatel-Lucent’s platforms are prepared for IPv6.
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo says his company’s wireless network will be able to deliver 42 Mbit/s on the handset by the end of 2009. “We’re not waiting” on ubiquitous 4G networks, he says.
Jim Hansen, SVP, Network Services for Embarq, says IPTV’s economics don’t always make sense and he talks about how Embarq plans to fend off competition from WiMax services.
XO’s CTO Randy Nicklas discusses the demand for 100 Gbit/s services and elaborates on why one single, big backbone pipe may not yet be as smart a buy as several smaller bandwidth connections.
Executives from Ericsson, Telus, and others weigh in on the economics of IPTV. Are transport savings enough to justify an all IP experience? And once we have an all IP network, then what?
Heavy Reading analyst Sterling Perrin discusses the US market for telco TV and talks about the advantages cable has over telcos, and vice versa, as all are trying to penetrate and dominate the market for consumer video services
NXTcomm 2008 is history and the show’s executive director explains what the show tried to accomplish – and several attendees weighed in with their thoughts as well
With its plans underway to hook up every home with fiber, Singapore is a very exciting place to be at the moment if you're in the telco space. But as Ericsson's country manager Ann Emilson tells LRTV, these developments will have a far-reaching impact across the whole region, especially when it comes to IPTV
Net Insight's video transport solutions are well known in the broadcast world. But as Bergt Hellstrom tells LRTV, increasingly it is telco service providers who are now talking to him as IPTV ramps up in Asia
Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd. is keen to engage and learn from other carriers as it embarks on its video services strategy. The carrier's VP of business development and multimedia services, Roger Chen, says Far EasTone is about to embark on an initial test of IPTV services, with some receiving the trial service across a DSL line and others over a WiMax connection
Singapore operator MobileOne Ltd. (M1) is looking forward to being part of the island's iN2015 initiative to hook up every home with fiber, a move that will help the 3G service provider break into the fixed services world. M1's CEO Neil Montefiore’s excited about becoming part of Singapore's new breed of ServCo as M1 moves from its mobile services base into the fixed line world. There, the planned 1 Gbit/s of access capacity per household will enable a whole raft of services, such as multiple channels of high-definition (HD) TV and online gaming
Top execs from Ericsson AB and Hitachi Telecom (USA) Inc. discuss several aspects of interactive content’s standout qualities and what it means to carrier networks.
There's no holding back Ericsson's Jan Wareby when it comes to the new multimedia opportunities enabled by today's networks. Across both the fixed and mobile worlds, and not least when it comes to TV and video services, Asia is at very the heart of the latest developments
ECI’s chief marketing officer, Laura Howard, explains the effect convergence is having on carrier networks and how systems vendors can do more to go green
Tandberg CEO Eric Cooney, TIA President Grant Sieffert, and Ericsson North America CTO Arun Bhikshesvaran comment on the state of targeted advertising and its impact on next-generation communications
Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan reveals his findings after researching the IPTV market in Asia, And when it comes to video in Asia, carriers there are more focused on offering video services over mobile devices than their western counterparts.
BT's Maria Pardee says there's a new network required for the new ways that people are communicating. The future, for network operators, is all about adding value to the network
How do broadband providers continue to make a business selling connections when speeds are going up, and prices are constantly falling? We asked Embarq's SVP of strategy, Dennis Huber, and he fills us in on how value is added to broadband and what the next wave of video services will include.
Comcast CTO Tony Werner has a lot on his plate these days. In this LRTV interview, he articulates Comcast's strategy on tru2way, the transition away from analog cable channels, and the introduction of WiMax as a possible service in the future. He also provides his perspective on how Comcast is managing its peer-to-peer traffic via a protocol-agnostic approach.
