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Slide Shows: Slide Show: CommunicAsia 2008 - 6/20/2008 4:00:00 PM
Visual splendors from the CommunicAsia 2008 show in Singapore
Slide Shows: Slide Show: CommunicAsia 2008, Part II - 6/25/2008 11:40:00 AM
More visuals from the CommunicAsia 2008 event in Singapore – IN COLOR!!
News Analysis: Ex-Nortel Execs Charged With Fraud - 6/19/2008 3:40:00 PM
Remember Frank Dunn? He and two others are facing criminal charges going back to Nortel's restatements of 2003
News Analysis: Former Broadcom CEO Surrenders - 6/5/2008 5:30:00 PM
Henry Nicholas surrendered to authorities today after being indicted for drug possession and stock-options backdating
News Analysis: Verizon Also Shunning PBT - 6/3/2008 2:00:00 AM
A shrug-off from Verizon, in the wake of BT's reported rethinking of PBT, puts another question mark over the technology's future
News Analysis: Cisco: Video Will Be Half of IP Traffic by 2012 - 6/16/2008 5:30:00 PM
Total IP traffic will reach half a zettabyte that year, according to the Cisco report
Slide Shows: Exclusive Photos: Fire to the Node - 8/10/2007 5:01:00 AM
More exclusive photos from AT&T's equipment cabinet meltdown in Houston
News Analysis: Another Sonus VP Splits - 6/30/2008 4:00:00 PM
Jocelyn Philbrook, VP of corporate marketing and investor relations, hits the road as her is job split up
News Analysis: HP Pumps Up Telco Consulting - 6/25/2008 5:45:00 PM
IT company adds marketing to old consulting practice and wrings a story out of us – d'oh!
News Analysis: Investor Letter Takes Swipe at Sonus - 7/1/2008 5:30:00 AM
Sonus's largest shareholder blames the company's stock performance on management
News Analysis: Xelerated Takes On Broadcom, Marvell - 6/10/2008 5:45:00 PM
An switch chip moves the network processor startup into a battle against the kingpins of Ethernet
News Analysis: Vendors Take Note: Managed Services Matter - 6/30/2008 6:00:00 AM
Cisco still blankets the market, but Juniper is coming on strong as interest in managed services heats up
News Analysis: Telco & Cable Execs Wary of IP Video - 6/5/2008 1:30:00 PM
Verizon, Comcast, and MTV examine the threats of pervasive content distribution at Advertising 2.0
News Analysis: Lumera Soars on Telcordia Results - 6/23/2008 5:40:00 PM
The struggling optical company shows signs of life after its modulator passes Telcordia muster
News Analysis: AT&T Makes CDN Play - 6/24/2008 9:00:00 AM
Goes after Akamai and Limelight with new content delivery and digital media solutions, names partners
News Analysis: Reliance Family Feud Messes With MTN Merger - 6/16/2008 2:30:00 PM
It's brother against brother in a fight to merge Reliance Communications and African mobile operator MTN
Slide Shows: Exclusive Photos: Fire to the Node, Part II - 1/22/2008 1:00:00 AM
Photos from the second AT&T VRAD cabinet explosion
News Analysis: Yahoo Ends Talks With MSFT, Turns to Google - 6/12/2008 5:20:00 PM
Yahoo broke off all talks with Microsoft regarding a deal or alliance and now is reportedly closing in on a search deal with Google
News Analysis: AT&T, Microsoft Electrify Healthcare - 6/23/2008 5:55:00 PM
AT&T, Microsoft, and Covisint are teaming to deliver a nationwide e-health service that will move paper medical records online
News Analysis: UTStarcom Sheds Some Wireless Weight - 7/1/2008 5:30:00 PM
A $240M sale continues UTStarcom's shift away from (most) wireless and more towards higher-margin areas like IPTV
News Analysis: UAE Leads Mideast Telco Connectivity - 6/13/2008 2:00:00 PM
United Arab Emirates leads 19 Arab nations in telecom connectivity, according to Arab Advisors Group
News Analysis: Acme Packet Gets Jittery - 7/3/2008 12:12:00 PM
Acme Packet says its second quarter earnings will fall well below Wall Street expectations due to order delays
News Analysis: LRTV Interview: Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo - 6/25/2008 10:20:00 AM
No need to wait on wireless broadband
News Analysis: Singapore Unveils Digital Hub Vision - 6/17/2008 4:00:00 PM
At CommunicAsia, Singapore's Infocomm authority sets sights on turning island state into 'a digital media and entertainment capital'
News Analysis: CommunicAsia: APAC's TV Times - 6/19/2008 11:10:00 AM
IPTV is already well established in Asia/Pacific, but this week's CommunicAsia event has shown there's room for plenty more growth
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Broadband
Access equipment (1895), Access technologies (2064), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (334), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (852), Cable TV chips (157), DSL (1780), DSL chips (177), DSLAMs (626), Free-space optics (32), FTTx (1626), Gaming consoles (24), Gaming servers (20), Media adapters (8), Municipal networks (97), PON (862), PON chips (169), Satellite (308), WiMax (751), Wireless LAN (336)

Cable Digital
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Chips, Components & Subsystems
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Ethernet (Sponsored by ECI Telecom)
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1307), Access devices (220), ATM switches (332), Circuit emulation (17), Converged access (90), Ethernet chips (484), Ethernet equipment (1574), Ethernet over copper (195), Ethernet PONs (143), Ethernet services (1482), Ethernet technologies (426), Multipoint (116), Multiservice edge equipment (115), Multiservice provisioning platforms (602), Multiservice switches (376), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (179), Point-to-point (120), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (124)

IP & Convergence
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Mobile/Wireless
3G Evolution (130), Carrier WiFi (171), CDMA (3G) (231), Core Network (138), EV-DO (100), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (67), GSM/EDGE (327), HSDPA/HSUPA (267), IMS Core (37), Mobile/Wireless (4662), Packet Core (45), Radio Access Network (179), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (32), Transmission (36), UMTS(3G) (261), Voice Core (18), WiMax (751), Wireless Backhaul (148), Wireless Chips (150), Wireless LAN (336)

Optical Networking
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Security
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Services Software (Sponsored by MySQL AB)
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Test & Measurement
MPLS MPLS test & measurement equipment (11), Test & measurement (1376), OSS Test & measurement (1032), Optical components Test & measurement equipment (92), IP equipment Test & measurement equipment (90), Ethernet equipment Test & measurement equipment (122), Sonet/SDH Test & measurement equipment (1579), Access equipment Test & measurement equipment (110), Comm chips Test & measurement equipment (29), VOIP equipment Test & measurement equipment (138), Optical equipment Test & measurement equipment (818)

Video (Sponsored by Ericsson AB)
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (179), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (530), Content delivery network (CDN) (274), Content protection (180), DVRs (271), Internet Video (345), IPTV (2431), Middleware & business support systems (408), Set-top boxes (991), Stored video servers (256), TV (1948), Video equipment (1995), Video services (3103), Video software (981), Videophone (153), VOD (1739)

VOIP
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