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05/24/2013  -  CEO Bob Stanzione sees big replacement cycle starting for home devices this year
05/24/2013  -  The cable overbuilder sheds video, data and voice customers in Q1
05/24/2013  -  Also in today's EMEA roundup: Telecom Italia defers fixed-line decision; Portugal Telecom profits down; Huawei prospers in Middle East
05/23/2013  -  Bob Metcalfe and friends gathered at the Computer History Museum, appropriately enough, to talk about the past and future of Ethernet
Most Recent Post: Ray Le Maistre... Thanks for the pic tour, Craig -- that was quite the exalted company!
05/23/2013  -  The grid networking company says it's got a 40M-user software-defined networking deployment with ... well, of course they're not saying
05/23/2013  -  Two international agencies create common standard for IPTV content rights metadata
Ray Le Maistre
Ray Le Maistre
05/23/2013  -  A combination of liquid applications and virtualization power could be interesting
05/23/2013  -  Also in today's regional roundup: Virgin lands Sky deal; Ericsson's landmark; Wayra in Prague; Soros invests in UK altnet; Swisscom boosts 4G; Ipanema's CIO survey
05/23/2013  -  On the 40th anniversary of Ethernet, Silicon Valley's golden generation discusses the US's innovation gap – assuming there is one, that is
Most Recent Post: Craig Matsumoto... Clayton Christensen has an interesting point related to this: "We’ve encouraged managers to measure profitability based on a return on net assets, or return on capital employed. That encourages companies...
Sarah Reedy
Sarah Reedy
05/23/2013  -  Mobile app developers, once the object of wireless operators' affections, are now an afterthought
Most Recent Post: SarahReedy... I agree, Mordy, in that it does make sense to home in on a few areas of strength. The carriers would have me stress that they are not abandoning developers...all...
05/22/2013  -  The newly public company is making a big push to woo the enterprise with new pricing plans and services
05/22/2013  -  JLo bought some much-needed sparkle to a lackluster CTIA show as she and Verizon attempt to cater to a growing Latino mobile demographic
05/22/2013  -  Cloudscaling's $10M B round also gives Juniper an SDN foothold in the cloud
05/22/2013  -  DVR pioneer reports biggest MSO subscriber gains in seven years
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SCTE Cable-Tec BLOGS
Craig Matsumoto
Comcast joins Google in asking for a flexible-rate optical standard, rather than 400G or terabit, but that's easier said than done
Craig Matsumoto
Forget Pi Day. Let's talk about optical milestones and the legacy of Nortel
Craig Matsumoto
Intel is grabbing 100G headlines, but it's still not time for optical suppliers to push the panic button
Craig Matsumoto
8:30 AM The company talked about this big North American customer. The deal finally happened, and there aren't many guesses as to who it is
Ray Le Maistre
5:00 PM I'll see your 100Gbit/s and raise you a terabit
Ray Le Maistre
1:45 PM KPN cranks up to 400Gbit/s with Huawei
Ray Le Maistre
7:15 AM Customer praise and a Finisar nugget
Ray Le Maistre
7:15 AM Could DTN-X deal be back door into Vodafone?
SCTE Cable-Tec Column
Solutions to 10 Service Provider Pain Points 02/03/2011
Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi gives us his take on how to fix the 10 'pain points' causing havoc in service-provider networks
Eslambolchi: 10 Service Provider Pain Points 01/14/2011
Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi lists 10 things that are causing havoc in service provider networks
Is 100G Transport Closing the Window on 40G? 03/05/2010
While 10-Gbit/s systems still dominate optical transmission system shipments, bandwidth demand is spurring network operators to accelerate their timetables for migrating to 40G and 100G technologies
100G Hits the Ground Running 02/19/2010
Soaring demand for bandwidth is driving telecom equipment makers, silicon developers, and optical component vendors to accelerate timetables for 100-Gbit/s Ethernet products
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ANALYST NOTES
Gabriel Brown
A new Light Reading initiative explores how – and why – network operators can scale and accelerate investment in Wi-Fi
By Graham Finnie
The policy control market is poised to more than double over the next five years, as operators put policy at the heart of their strategic thinking
Research Services
REAL WORLD RESEARCH
U.S. Wholesale Ethernet Market Forecast
This report analyzes and projects the growth of the wholesale Ethernet segment over the next four years. It forecasts the wholesale Ethernet market through 2016, analyzed by purchasing service provider types, service topologies, geographic domains and bandwidth levels. The report also profiles 11 major service providers that offer wholesale Ethernet.
Managed M2M Platforms: Quick Fix vs. Long-Term Solution
This report looks at the M2M platform providers that are developing (predominantly) managed propositions that support telecom operators to sell M2M services. It reviews their solutions, their progress to date and whether they are likely to be long-term partners for telecom operators. The report profiles 11 leading M2M platform vendors.
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