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Top Ten Video Sharing Websites


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August 14, 2006 : How 45 Internet video sharing services stack up, from the point of view of someone wanting to post videos rather than just look at someone else's

The Decline & Fall of Nortel Networks


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January 21, 2009 : Nortel may never be the giant it once was, but the company has never failed to fascinate us, as a look back at more than eight years of Light Reading coverage shows

Light Reading's 2012 Leading Lights Finalists


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October 1, 2012 : Here are the finalists for the industry's most prestigious awards program, the Leading Lights

Top 10 Telecom Markets: Latin America


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February 25, 2009 : Top regional markets in 2008
  • Telecom revenues
  • Service penetrations
  • Operator trends
  • New Product Recap: November 2012


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    December 10, 2012 : SPIT dominates our monthly new-product roundup

    Light Reading's 2012/2013 Salary Report


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    October 29, 2012 : Here's our annual presentation of the global telecom industry's views on pay, working conditions, the economy and technology

    Testing Cisco's Mobile Core, Data Center & Business Services


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    September 7, 2010 : The second part of our mobile megatest puts Cisco's mobile core offering and its applications services to the test

    All-Optical Switching Tutorial, Part 1


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    October 24, 2001 : A down-to-earth description of all-optical switches
    * What they are
    * What they do
    * How they work

    IMS Guide


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    March 24, 2005 : Answers to frequently asked questions
    * What it is
    * Why it's hot
    * How it works
    * Who would use it

    Who Makes What: Optical Components 2004


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    February 2, 2004 : Help create Light Reading's optical components taxonomy
    * Where's your firm?
    * Where's your product?
    * Stage one of survey

    Who Makes What: Optical Components 2007


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    February 13, 2007 : Help create our latest taxonomy of components and modules:
    * Where is your company?
    * Where are your products?
    * Who are your competitors?

    New Product Recap: October 2012


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    November 6, 2012 : Wireline revenge! Lots of new offerings on the cable/broadband front this month

    Who Makes What: LTE Equipment


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    May 7, 2009 : Addressing the 3GPP next-gen mobile standard:
  • Manufacturers
  • Product trends
  • Are you there?
  • A Guide to PBT/PBB-TE


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    April 3, 2008 : Acronym soup or super network?
    * What?
    * Why?
    * Vendor roundup

    Top Ten: IPTV Carriers


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    January 14, 2008 : We name the world's 10 biggest IPTV service providers by subscriber numbers, and take a look at some middleware and penetration stats

    Who Makes What: Telecom Service Brokers


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    March 1, 2010 : Service brokers go from zero to hero
  • Suddenly they're everywhere
  • What are they?
  • Who does them?
  • Tispan: IMS Plus


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    July 17, 2006 : A guide to the architecture that extends IMS to non-SIP applications
    * Why that's important
    * What's now standardized
    * Challenges to come

    VOIP vs PSTN


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    June 30, 2004 : Can voice-over-IP be as good as (or better than) the public switched telephone network?
    * Reliability
    * QOS
    * Manageability

    Testing Cisco's Media-Centric Data Center


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    June 11, 2009 : Is Cisco’s solution ready for the future service provider data center? We tested:
  • Data center convergence
  • In-service software upgrades
  • Control plane failover
  • And more...
  • Who Makes What: OSS


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    July 9, 2003 : Help create Boardwatch's taxonomy of operations support systems
    * Where do you fit in?
    * Who's in your space?
    * Stage 1 of sector survey

    Internet Core Router Test


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    March 6, 2001 : In the first head-to-head comparison of 10-Gbit/s routers:
    * Juniper's M160 outpaced Cisco's 12416 in seven out of the 16 tests
    * They tied in five, and Cisco won in four
    * Charlotte's Networks and Foundry Networks failed to place

    Resilient Packet Ring Technology


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    August 15, 2002 : A primer on the technology that could prove key to metro networks
    * What it is
    * How it works
    * Why it’s important

    Telcordia's Osmine Goldmine


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    October 20, 2000 : Telcordia's OSS monopoly pop quiz:
    * Stifles competition
    * Limits RBOC expansion
    * Enriches Telcordia
    * All of the above

    Testing Cisco's Next-Gen Mobile Network


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    August 30, 2010 : In part one of a huge testing program, we put Cisco's IP backbone and IP radio access network (RAN) to the test

    Who Makes What: GPON Equipment


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    August 15, 2008 : Help create our taxonomy of GPON Equipment:
    * Where is your company?
    * Where are your products?
    * Who are your competitors?