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Posted in May 2012

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FastWeb: Another IPTV Flameout


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May 31, 2012 : 5:25 PM Italian company pioneered IPTV in 2001 but is pulling the plug this year as subscribership wanes
Comment: Re: A bit of clarity - cnwedit May 29, 2012

Back to the Future on Unbundling


Rewired - Carol Wilson - Comments (3)
May 29, 2012 : 11:50 AM TM Forum's Willetts sees US and Western Europe failing at broadband because regulators and financial analysts are stuck in old patterns

Microsoft: A Company of Many Clouds


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May 24, 2012 : Consumer clouds and B2B clouds litter the Microsoft landscape, but the software giant is serious about service provider clouds as well

Betting on Brokers


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May 24, 2012 : 6:00 AM Service brokers can play an important role in application innovation

NetCracker's Suite Spot


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May 23, 2012 : With Convergys deal done, software firm sets its sights on total OSS/BSS play for differentiated services

CHR Promises Big Savings for Telcos in Need


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May 23, 2012 : CHR guarantees 5 to 25 percent savings for cash-strapped rural telcos who adopt its cloud or managed services programs

The Cloud Backlash


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May 22, 2012 : 9:05 PM Service providers and large customers are deploying cloud services but avoiding calling them 'cloud services.' And the point is?

Is Innovation Too Tough for Big Telecom?


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May 22, 2012 : TM Forum is focused on innovation acceleration but industry experts say dramatic culture change is needed to make that happen
Comment: Got it! - cnwedit May 22, 2012

Willetts Unzips Telecom Future


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May 22, 2012 : Survival means finding visionary leaders willing to take chances and somehow convincing Wall Street and regulators that it'll be okay

What I'm Looking for in Dublin


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May 21, 2012 : 2:30 PM It's not the Guinness brewery tour or the ghosts of the 1916 Easter Rising but some cloud management solutions

Network Efficiency Trumps Speed, Says AT&T


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May 18, 2012 : 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

CDNs & Cloud Drive XO Towards 100GigE


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May 18, 2012 : XO CMO Don MacNeil sees content of all kinds and data center interconnectivity driving his wholesale business, which in turn is driving the operator towards 100Gbit/s Ethernet

Fiber Shortage Will Slow LTE


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May 17, 2012 : Less than one-fourth of cell towers in the US have fiber connections today, says Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. Without fiber, 4G networks will be bandwidth starved

Optical Transport Traffic Up, Spending Flat


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May 17, 2012 : Service provider transport networks are handling massively more volume, but spending has yet to surpass Sonet/SDH spending

Enterprise Wi-Fi is Booming, But Complex


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May 10, 2012 : Accenture can't hire people fast enough to help enterprises engineer industry-specific Wi-Fi networks. But will carriers benefit?

Cricket Muves to the Music


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May 9, 2012 : Muve exec sees unlimited music becoming as essential to wireless service as texting and voice mail
Comment: Re: Verizon SDN - cnwedit May 8, 2012

Verizon Sees a Cloud-SDN Connection


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May 8, 2012 : Verizon's Stuart Elby says the drive to the cloud is also driving service providers headlong into software-defined networking

Putting Policy & SDM to Work


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May 8, 2012 : Light Reading Live! event tackles the deployment of policy and subscriber data management systems that enable personalized mobile services

Cincinnati Bell Partners to Form Quicker Clouds


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May 7, 2012 : Cincinnati Bell partners with Apptix and Parallels so it can provide small and medium businesses with cloud services quickly

XO Keeps Cloud in the Family


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May 1, 2012 : Remember Concentric? The name is back in the headlines (not literally) as XO makes its move on the cloud services market