Verizon’s Mark Wegleitner gives us the skinny on why he considers FiOS an IPTV service, and what advantages FiOS has compared to AT&T’s U-verse. He also weighs in on 100-Gig networks, WiMax competition, and usage based pricing for broadband services.
Telus CTO Ibrahim Gedeon says there’s more to life than just transport savings when a carrier switches to an all IP network. He offers some advice for carriers on that front, elaborates on what Google can’t do, and offers his point of view on metered broadband pricing and WiMax as a landline threat.
Sprint-Nextel’s Atish Gude gives us a preview of what kinds of devices and services will be coming to Baltimore and other markets starting in September. He also elaborates on Sprint’s claim that WiMax will be a game-changer in terms of broadband pricing and availability
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
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.
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.
Executives from Mintera, NEC, and Verizon talk about some of the latest developments in optical systems deployments – and how the market as a whole is holding up
<i>Light Reading</i> editor Phil Harvey and <i>Unstrung</i> site editor Dan Jones discuss the possibility of usage-based pricing for broadband services with LRTV host Fritz Nelson
