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Posted in November 2010

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Global Crossing Decries Toll Booths


LR Cable News Wire Feed - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 30, 2010 : Backbone provider calls on the FCC to sponsor a working group to formalize peering
Comment: iPhone Signaling - Craig Matsumoto November 30, 2010
Comment: Re: Inphi IPO - Craig Matsumoto November 30, 2010
Comment: Inphi IPO - Craig Matsumoto November 30, 2010
Comment: Level 3 vs. Comcast - Craig Matsumoto November 30, 2010
Comment: Marvell Phone Call - Craig Matsumoto November 29, 2010

Marvell Gets Off the Hook


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 29, 2010 : Even so, the lesson remains: When leaving someone a voice mail, don't make it sound like you stole things from them
Comment: Aw crud - Craig Matsumoto November 24, 2010
Comment: Re: Control Plane - Craig Matsumoto November 24, 2010
Comment: Brocade Q1 - Craig Matsumoto November 24, 2010
Comment: Control Plane - Craig Matsumoto November 24, 2010
Comment: Re: Vendors? - Craig Matsumoto November 24, 2010

WDM-PON Gets the Red Light


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
November 24, 2010 : 7:30 AM Why a Florida muni turned down the technology (take a guess)

Cisco, Cyan Think Beyond the Box


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (8)
November 23, 2010 : The dream of a multivendor control plane is slowly coming to life. Cisco even says it's doable now
Comment: Zeugma - Craig Matsumoto November 23, 2010
Comment: Re: that's the truth - Craig Matsumoto November 19, 2010
Comment: Re: vendors or users? - Craig Matsumoto November 19, 2010

Rumor: T-MPLS Group Gets Shouted Down


Rumors - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (28)
November 18, 2010 : The debate over T-MPLS and MPLS-TP is alive and kicking, and sometimes yelling, as evidenced by a 12-minute argument at this week's IETF meetings
Comment: Re: AT&T speed - Craig Matsumoto November 17, 2010

Xilinx Preps for 400G


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 17, 2010 : In showing off 28G transceivers, the company says it's prepped for the post-100G era
Comment: AT&T speed - Craig Matsumoto November 17, 2010

Florida Muni Gets the Greenlight


LRTV TelcoTV - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 17, 2010 : The city of Dunnellon, Fla., is building a fiber broadband network without using tax dollars or stimulus funds

Motorola Plays Host to Microsoft IPTV


LR Cable News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (9)
November 17, 2010 : Helping to push Microsoft's Mediaroom to smaller telcos, Motorola is building a hosting service for the IPTV software
Comment: Intel Capital - Craig Matsumoto November 16, 2010

Intel Votes for Verismo


LR Cable News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 16, 2010 : The Internet video startup raises $17M and gets the Intel Capital seal of approval
Comment: Next-next-gen backbone - Craig Matsumoto November 16, 2010
Comment: Re: More T4000 - Craig Matsumoto November 15, 2010
Comment: More T4000 - Craig Matsumoto November 15, 2010
Comment: Strasburg - Craig Matsumoto November 15, 2010
Comment: Nortel earnings - Craig Matsumoto November 15, 2010

Cisco (Finally) Adds P-OTS


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (9)
November 15, 2010 : It's not an updated ONS 15454 but an entirely new system aimed at replacing Sonet/SDH transport

Juniper Updates Core Routers


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (12)
November 15, 2010 : The T4000 (almost) delivers on the core-router upgrade Juniper promised in February

Brocade Flattens Out


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 15, 2010 : New switches create an Ethernet fabric that steals some data-center thunder from Juniper
Comment: Re: CSCO is so retro - Craig Matsumoto November 12, 2010
Comment: Re: CSCO is so retro - Craig Matsumoto November 12, 2010
Comment: Re: CSCO is so retro - Craig Matsumoto November 12, 2010

F5 Starts a Delivery Business


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 12, 2010 : 6:10 AM The company thinks its policy work is vital to carriers, but carriers don't always know what to do with it

Is Cisco's Q1 Contagious?


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (8)
November 11, 2010 : When Cisco's quarterly forecast comes in disappointing, investors start getting nervous about the rest of tech
Comment: Cisco's Down - Craig Matsumoto November 10, 2010
Comment: Joe Jensen's Killer App - Craig Matsumoto November 10, 2010
Comment: Android guy - Craig Matsumoto November 10, 2010
Comment: Re: Android Bake Sale - Craig Matsumoto November 10, 2010

TelcoTV 2010: Cable Wrestles With IP Changes


TelcoTV News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
November 10, 2010 : IP video might make things easy and fun for consumers, but you can't say the same for small cable operators trying to keep up
Comment: Re: RUS is a basket case - Craig Matsumoto November 10, 2010

TelcoTV 2010: RUS Sends Friend Request to FCC


TelcoTV News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
November 10, 2010 : The FCC lost an ally in its efforts to revamp the US's Universal Service Fund. Maybe the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) can fill the gap
Comment: Download vs. streaming - Craig Matsumoto November 9, 2010

Altnet Rewinds to VoD Downloads


TelcoTV News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
November 9, 2010 : It's not all about streaming, you know. Opanga's variable-speed downloading will soon get its first practical test from Mexico's Axtel

Ethernet Management Looms


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
November 8, 2010 : 5:15 PM Strangely enough, there's more to life than 100G
Comment: Metcalfe's New Gig - Craig Matsumoto November 8, 2010

EENY 2010: Packet vs. Optical


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (13)
November 5, 2010 : 8:00 PM Could the two sides join forces for packet/optical good? Probably not
Comment: Footnotes - Craig Matsumoto November 5, 2010
Comment: Re: Xbox launch - Craig Matsumoto November 5, 2010

Opnext Reports Q2


News Wire Feed - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
November 4, 2010 : Company reports a net loss of $14.4M on revenues of $86.4M

EENY 2010: Overture Gets More Optical


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
November 4, 2010 : The company's newest boxes extend its reach to the edge and put a new emphasis on plain old Ethernet
Comment: Xbox launch - Craig Matsumoto November 4, 2010

Photos: Xbox Sucks Us In


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
November 4, 2010 : 7:50 AM Do we care about Xbox Kinect? No. Do we have NYC photos anyway? Oh my yes

EENY 2010: 100G Complaints Continue


100G News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (14)
November 4, 2010 : A nonstandard optical module looks awfully compelling in the face of 100G prices, panelists say
Comment: Etherman! - Craig Matsumoto November 3, 2010
Comment: Re: Where is Don Keck? - Craig Matsumoto November 3, 2010

EENY 2010: Telx CEO Eric Shepcaro


LRTV Interviews - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 3, 2010 : Telx's CEO talks about the new Ethernet exchange business, the rise of cloud services, and a particular Google rumor

EENY 2010: SLAs Get Their Day


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
November 2, 2010 : 5:25 PM Service monitoring isn't as exciting as Terabit Ethernet, but could be a battleground for vendors
Comment: Transport Border Node - Craig Matsumoto November 2, 2010
Comment: Re: T-MPLS - Craig Matsumoto November 2, 2010

EENY 2010: Broadcom Debuts 100G Switch


100G News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
November 2, 2010 : Fruit of the Dune acquisition, the new switch fabric paves the way for 100Tbit/s multichassis switches, Broadcom claims
Comment: T-MPLS - Craig Matsumoto November 2, 2010

EENY 2010: AT&T Gets to 40G


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
November 2, 2010 : 12:45 PM 40G services are here; an Ethernet exchange deal isn't

MPLS-TP Delays Keep T-MPLS Alive


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (20)
November 2, 2010 : The MPLS-TP standard has been slow to arrive, and the longer it takes, the stronger the T-MPLS case sounds
Comment: Q4 not Q1 - Craig Matsumoto November 1, 2010

Fujitsu Readies 100G Optics


100G News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6)
November 1, 2010 : Continuing a 100G trend, Fujitsu is developing its own optical modules for the Flashwave

Cloud Watch: Intel, Oracle Chip In


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
November 1, 2010 : New labs, new investments, new partnerships, and the end of the overhype cycle fill this week's cloudy review

Triggering a New Control Plane


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (10)
November 1, 2010 : 4:00 AM Someday, someone's going to develop a multivendor control plane. We think