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Cable Goes Big With Wi-Fi Roaming 5/21/2012  - 
Comcast, Bright House, Cablevision, Cox and TW Cable will let their high-speed Internet customers access more than 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots
Aryaka: WAN Optimization as a Service? 5/21/2012  - 
Aryaka VP Sonal Puri explains how WAN optimization became a cloud-based service and how it fits in with service provider plans to offer higher-quality connections to the cloud. Think of it as a little bit of Akamai and a little bit of Riverbed but sold only as a service
Mobile Money: What's the End Game? 5/21/2012  -  Comment (1)
6:45 AM Wireless operators have partnered up on mobile payments, but it may only be a stopgap until they're ready to tackle the market on their own

Most Recent Post: SReedy... There is a difference between digital and physical purchases. Carrier billing makes sense for app purchases and maybe other...
Casa Puts Heat on Cisco, Arris & Motorola 5/21/2012  - 
Vendor hopes to gain some ground on cable access competitors with its first integrated product for the embryonic CCAP market
Euronews: AlcaLu Offers Managed CEM 5/21/2012  - 
In today's EMEA roundup: AlcaLu's SPIT in spotlight; LR co-founder's proud moment; Kabel Deutschland swallows rival
4G: What's New? 5/21/2012  - 
2:00 AM It's back to Barcelona for the LTE World Summit, where the hot topics will be 4G service creation and new operator business models
Packet-Optical Transport Evolution: In Pictures 5/18/2012  -  Comments (2)
You can't really see software-defined networking, but you can see a bunch of optical networking people talking about it

Most Recent Post: Soupafly... @ mark; Am not sure what to make of your post???  Some parts seem coherent, others less so. - What I would say is...
Management World 2012: More Preview Pitches 5/18/2012  - 
Fancy a chat with Microsoft, Versant or cVidya in Dublin? Check out these swift pre-show pitches
Motorola Doubles Up on CMTS Downstreams 5/18/2012  - 
Moto extends the life of its CMTS as it continues to develop products for CCAP, cable's next-gen access architecture
SoMoClo Descends on Dublin 5/18/2012  - 
The combination of social, mobile and cloud, or SoMoClo, will have Management World attendees exercising their jaws, reckons industry analyst
Network Efficiency Trumps Speed, Says AT&T 5/18/2012  -  Comment (1)
Jim King of AT&T Labs says 100G isn't as important to the company as the optical technology that makes the transport network run smoothly

Most Recent Post: obaut... "On a control plane-based capability at the ROADM layer, we can provision, change, or restore services in seconds.. With...
Juniper's QFabric Lands in Hong Kong 5/18/2012  -  Comments (6)
A deal to put QFabric into a trading network comes as the company pushes to regain Wall Street's confidence

Most Recent Post: Soupafly... Yeah so far they have been slow to get this particular product set rolling.... For once, I have some sympathy for Cisco's...
The Cable Show 2012: To Docsis 3.0 & Beyond! 5/18/2012  -  Comment (1)
TV Everywhere, net neutrality and wireless will be hot topics, but also expect cable's access network to make some big leaps next week

Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... Cisco wanted to clarify the comments it made regarding this notion of a Docsis 3.x project:  “CableLabs is,...
LTE Will Suck as Long as Backhaul Does 5/18/2012  -  Comments (3)
Optical wholesaling seems to be doing well as a business, but that hasn't convinced operators to fiber up more of their cell towers

Most Recent Post: Dan Jones... Well, of course, like any other cellular system. He could have dinged LTE for signaling outages and other assorted issues...
Comcast's Xbox Answers Don't Satisfy Critics 5/18/2012  - 
Also: Cablevision promotes Kanouff; BlackArrow goes system-wide at TW Cable; Arris gateway software weaves in HTML5
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Mobile Money: What's the End Game? 5/21/2012  -  Comment (1)
6:45 AM Wireless operators have partnered up on mobile payments, but it may only be a stopgap until they're ready to tackle the market on their own

Most Recent Post: SReedy... There is a difference between digital and physical purchases. Carrier billing makes sense for app purchases and maybe other...
Context Is King for Network Operators 5/18/2012  - 
7:00 AM This week: Canada’s telecom future, context as king for operators, main themes from LR’s Packet-Optical Transport Evolution Conference
4G: Live in London 5/16/2012  -  Comments (3)
4:00 PM London's first (and only) LTE network gets caught on camera by Light Reading Mobile

Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... Indeed. I expect it will be of the ironic "unlimited" variety, where unlimited means a limit of XGbytes per month...
What We Learned at CTIA 5/15/2012  -  Comments (2)
3:10 PM Small was beautiful, video was mobile and context was creepy at CTIA; but device hunters were out of luck in The Big Easy

Most Recent Post: Craig Matsumoto... > Also, how many more processor cores can you add to a smartphone before you totally kill the battery life? Sext-core?...
Look Out Europe… 5/14/2012  - 
6:30 AM Will AsiaInfo-Linkage be the Huawei of BSS?
Cable's Big Streaming Party 5/11/2012  - 
6:30 PM At The Cable Show, here's one way MSOs will try to show the feds how the cable industry is playing nice with the CE guys
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HONG KONG: Juniper's QFabric Hits Hong Kong - 5/18/2012
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