In an ultra-competitive and over-supplied wireless infrastructure market, is there any future for smaller 4G vendors?
Panasonic gets the green light to market two tru2way-powered HD screens at retail in time for the 2008 holiday season
With Verizon as its flagship customer, Fujitsu tries its Flashwave hand in Europe, though it knows it has its work cut out
Moo!
Chinese vendor unveils two new optical boxes, including a 1.28 Tbit/s DWDM switch and a 10 Gbit/s GPON prototype
This isn't Kansas, anymore – Nokia announced plans to buy Montreal-based mobile messaging specialist OZ
Huawei and Vodafone unveil development of a software-defined radio for a multimode GSM/WCDMA base station
People don't like consumption caps. Sorry, Comcast
But survey says some may be willing to pay for guaranteed QOS for applications
Deep packet inspection threatens a fundamental right to privacy
Cellular operators, laptop makers, and chipset suppliers join forces to promote devices with embedded 3G mobile broadband
How Sprint's WiMax plans got here from there
An old optical name takes to the air
What’s next for Dish Network?
And pre-empts the 'CablePC?'
Sprint finally launches first WiMax network in Baltimore
Preparing for the flood
Consolidation in the content delivery space could be imminent, according to attendees at Streaming Media West last week
Analyst says Dish Network is in store for a rough ride in 2009 after AT&T picks DirecTV as its long-term satellite TV bundling partner
AlcaLu's Ben Verwaayen fails to thrill
Broadband service provider is powering Yalp!, its free Internet video hub, with a Cisco platform that cooks in Adobe's Flash platform
ADVA unveils a WDM-PON system that aggregates backhaul traffic and enables symmetrical 100 Mbit/s broadband access
Big day for Baltimore
Percentage of people who watch broadband video streamed through a Web browser doubles
Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week
The startup has laid off some hardware staff but says it's hiring on the software and applications front
Nokia Siemens Networks expands its carrier Ethernet portfolio with new products and reveals a 'secret sauce' development
Despite some growing acceptance, peer-to-peer still isn't a go-to technology for video distribution
BlackBerry maker is still the dominant leader in US smartphone sales and is making headway around the globe
CSG is pitching a Silverlight-based system designed to help studios, TV nets, and other content owners sell and promote videos via the Web
Will the cable industry's coming 'Radio Frequency over Glass' standard drive MSOs to put more fiber in their diet?
Judges give him a 1.28
The Android phone won't be alone for long, as other vendors are believed to be working on devices
'We just wanted a really large number'
Dr. Richard Green is to retire in late 2009, meaning CableLabs will be seeking a new chief for the first time in its 20-year history
Also adds encoding to suite of services
It's a big optical week for the carrier, which is releasing some trial results
Recent months have seen a sizzling Ethernet service edge market and a dazzling array of carrier Ethernet switch/router product news
Look at the bigger picture
Originally priced at $1.3B, the 700 MHz D Block of spectrum is used by police and firefighters
News-hounds befuddled, but impressed
NetVideo investments provide a hedge for the future
Former Atrica stalwart joins AlcaLu's IP division
New place-shifting device can send hi-def streams outside the house – provided you have a relatively beefy 1.5 Mbit/s upstream connection
Who might buy Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks division? We surveyed executives from the carrier Ethernet sector – they said Huawei
Analyst report adds more color to talk that Android devices could be available for WiMax networks in 2009
Roku's not just for Netflix any more, ISP execs warn of tiered pricing, The AP goes with thePlatform, and teens ditch TV for the Web
Microwave transport specialist gets in the WiMax game
Ethernet player lands COLT gig
Chile's wine industry takes a hit
DesignArt chip busts barrier to $100 femtocells
Some execs say service providers may have to implement tiered pricing to deal with the explosive growth in streaming video
Bob Evans is trying to kill you
Belgium gets a better backbone
With help from some friends
While some companies are determined to bury PBT, the connection-oriented Ethernet technology refuses to lie down
Former SCTE chief John Clark has found himself a new gig
Researcher says cable MSOs are poised to wage a wireless war in the Great White North in the coming years
Guessing from the sidelines
Picture this: A data-friendly phone for the rest of us
CBS's Moonves talks CNET and the power of the Internet at IAB's MIXX Conference
Commission scuttles a fact-finding mission originally triggered by the AOL-Time Warner merger and the now-defunct AOLTV service
With a 100-Gbit/s transmitter and aims on pluggable modules, Santur tries to fend off the tunable-laser competition
Carrier says concerns about its FiOS network are 'considerably overstated'
Comcast and Insight report progress in the wake of last week's big storm
European Commissioner reveals data roaming cuts
I feel more secure already
Photos and more
Ciena scores an Ethernet backhaul win as Sprint selects the vendor's PBB-TE-based Ethernet gear for its Xohm WiMax network
It's debate season: my debate with Clearwire
DECE takes on digital music distribution
8.17 million and counting…but the market for one-way CableCARD products remains predictably stagnant
The monster tender looks even bigger
MSO supplies FCC with details about Comcast's new network management system and a plan to install it everywhere by year's end
Japan's Softbank selects the NEC femtocell solution with the Ubiquisys home access point and will launch services in January
Major league bigness is a big part of Extreme's big new carrier Ethernet switch, which is big, real big
Alcatel-Lucent fills out its wireless backhaul portfolio with the launch of a single-unit multiservice edge aggregation box
BT pulls 2Wire into its FTTx plans
The newly formed Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem consortium could have far-reaching implications for technology vendors
A new report suggests that Verizon is slow to get its grounding fixes off the ground
A holiday spectacular brings the RIM Bold
India: land of extrapolation
DECE may be more than just a publicity stunt – the group's formation signals the acquiescence to multiplatform content consumption
But avast! One wench threatens to ruin it all
Spanish cable operator joins the growing European Docsis 3.0 club that's piling broadband pressure on the telcos
Maybe it's finally time to pay attention
Prepare for global hotness
Cisco is bolstering its unified communications arsenal with the acquisition of presence and messaging applications specialist Jabber
The latest Light Reading Live! conference has ATCA vendors discussing what's behind the growing adoption of the standard
Vignette intros industry-specific CMS platform
4G today, gone tomorrow?
Shipments of E-MTAs have been rising steadily and could eclipse cable data modem shipments for the first time this year
The wireless carrier said it will have 3G networks in 21 markets by mid-October, and 27 markets by the end of the year
Amazon.com announced its entry into the content delivery scrum with a service it expects to launch by the end of the year
There are plenty of ways to work up a sweat in Amsterdam, and we photographed a few of them at IBC
Nortel's 4G reputation gets a boost
Heavy Reading analysts react as Nortel announces plans to sell its optical and carrier Ethernet businesses
As the Foundry acquisition nears, Brocade is talking up big plans for data center Ethernet
Energy consumption has emerged as a major concern for telecom and data center network operations
On the super collider thingy...
Nortel's looking for an exit out of 4G, as well as getting out of the carrier Ethernet and optical markets
The battle with Juniper begins
Backhaul gets ready for its closeup
Single-handedly hampering productivity
Mobile ad-funded startup has a good first year
Cablevision trumps Verizon with WiFi
Short answer: About as much as Tellabs
Shares slide 40% on Nortel's new look for 2008
Telecommuting vs. tethers
Nortel issues a profits warning, plans further cost cutting, and announces plans to sell its Metro Ethernet Networks division
As Foundry prepares to get glommed by Brocade, here's a trip down memory lane
Liberty Global's UPC Netherlands has launched a 120 Mbit/s broadband service based on EuroDocsis3.0 gear, and plans further European deployments
HD is no longer that high-def, BitTorrent rakes it in, and Next New Networks gets a new CEO
The latest Light Reading interview examines the optical company's dual-CEO plan
The P2P-technology company pulls in a third round of funding
Google demos the Android operating system on a handset for the first time in Europe at the Google Developer Day event in London
Broadband quality is as important as penetration when considering the value of high-speed Internet access to a country's e-health
European regulators meet today to start work on frequency plans for the digital dividend spectrum that will be key for future 4G networks in the region
Genband's acquisition of NextPoint heralds the arrival of the integrated SBC/media gateway
Folks surprised by Nokia’s recent market share warning just haven’t been paying attention
Media gateway masters now seek God Box grandeur
Routing giant takes a $2M stake in an analytics company founded by two Cisco biggies
90% of the devices being certified on Verizon's 'open' network project are machine-to-machine gadgets
Apple and Disney are left out in the cold
Amid a raft of announcements, Cisco takes a bold move toward vendor accountability
Thomson's new CEO Frédéric Rose has axed the executive in charge of the company's telecom and cable business within days of joining
Cisco announces a new and improved cell site router for IP/Ethernet backhaul
The regional carrier is seeking to double its coverage by 2010, and is pushing new features like prepaid wireless broadband
Fritz Nelson gets all loved-up in Amsterdam for IBC 2008. It’s not all clogs, cheese, and canals though. IBC is the biggest broadcast show in the world and now has real relevance to the IPTV market. Ericsson’s Eugene Sarmiento and Peter Linder, Akamai’s Suzanne Johnson, Accedo’s Fredrik Andersson, and Open IPTV Forum’s Monika Gadhammar take us by the hand to guide us through the maze
India represents the world's biggest telecom opportunity, but broadband penetration continues to proceed at a snail's pace
Anyone got a nuclear winter shelter?
The founder and CEO of triple play service provider Inuk Networks talks about Igloo, the virtual set-top box for PCs and Macs
Akamai’s Suzanne Johnson talks about global content distribution and the increasing use of high-definition video on the Internet
Ericsson’s head of IPTV sales development talks about the company’s new middleware offering and how it can help operators converge telephony, PC, and television services
Security gets the 'virtualization' treatment as Juniper rolls the flexible SRX platform into the carrier security services sector
From bombsite to DreamWorks
Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff sits down for a cozy chat with Unstrung at CTIA
There are only three weeks to Contentinople's second live event, Envivio gets $25M, and Inuk goes with Move to stream video on PCs
Widespread confusion and uncertainty in the packet-optical transport market will cause delays in deployment
Brain death? Pshaw! Have another dose of photos from this week's wild and wooly CTIA
Microsoft stakes a pitch in the IPTV targeted advertising platform market with additions to its Mediaroom platform
It's a hi-def screen lover's dream here...
Round was led by HarbourVest Partners and Atlantic Bridge Ventures
Or fat makes you smart...
Even at Cisco, life is unfair
A collection of industry heavyweights from opposite sides of the ring give us their own opinions on what the future of IPTV will be over the coming year. Topics include convergence, 21st-Century networking, targeted advertising, 4G, net neutrality, and the 100G network.
We laughed, we cried, we rode around in a broadband van
Microphone still missing from the iPod Touch
Mobile ideas for the enterprise
BSNL and Bharti Airtel unveil their FTTH plans at Light Reading's broadband strategies event in New Delhi
Texas Instruments' 8-channel Docsis 3.0 chipset to converge a cable operator's high-speed data offerings with video services
The content protection players have converged on the IBC show in Amsterdam, with Verimatrix leading the DRM news charge
Company's share of online video keeps growing
Charter's estimate of Docsis 3.0 costs gives some insight into what Comcast might end up spending
With a phone in his hand
October un-surprise! CEO Basilie confirms expected US launch date for 3G phone
Cablevision COO says 'remote-storage' DVR will debut commercially in early 2009, but isn't ready to reveal pricing and packaging options
The FCC reports on Wilmington
A new CFO and a former Groovester...
For customer service, they prefer to crawl the Web
Clearwire takes WiMax for a spin in the streets of San Fran
The broadcast/IPTV show in Amsterdam is still a work in progress
I left my hat in San Francisco
BT exec says there's only one way to find out if its planned FTTC/VDSL model will fly, and that's to get on with a deployment
2.5GHz spectrum allows McCaw to take on the big boys again
The NCTA warns that a new breed of wireless broadband devices can wipe out digital cable services
The vendor is undaunted despite revealing that Comcast will look elsewhere for future VOD gear
NBC and iTunes's reuniting may signal a shift to a market-based system
But CEOs from Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon can't agree if that frontier will spell a gold rush or the bad ol' days of the wild west
Time for a policy change
New Heavy Reading survey shows that hosted applications continue to promise future growth opportunities
T-Mobile makes a strategic investment in Israel-based femtocell chip startup Percello
The latest in Ethernet services rumors
We all goin' to Hell
The old 'spilled beer' excuse no longer works on traffic cops
TWC reaffirms it will deploy Docsis 3.0 methodically
Text updates from a two-day quick visit to the Bay Area
No, seriously. They're changing the name back... We're not kidding
Canadian device mavens intro first ever flip phone
It's square-eyes time in Amsterdam for us Europeans
The Swedish giant challenges the likes of AlcaLu, Microsoft, and Thomson with a new IPTV middleware solution
The MSO has started to trim back analog channels in the Detroit area, as it did last year in Chicagoland
The other big US telco beats cable to the punch with a home-networked digital video recorder
NBC and iTunes are back together again
Submit CTIA shots to our slideshow for a chance to win all the coffee you can drink... for $25
But the US is slowly catching up to the rest of the world, according to a new report by Akamai
A PBT box gets an ATCA rebirth
Text updates from a two-day quick visit to the Bay Area
All the latest news and rumors from India, where BSNL is set to open bids for its monster $9B, 93M-line GSM/3G gear tender
Lesson No. 1 from the early DTV transition in Wilmington: People procrastinate
Growth is at least a quarter away, but that doesn't stop the stock from climbing 14%
Vodafone split its emerging markets business into two units and hires a new CEO for Europe
Google makes another infrastructure play, and this time its dollars go to a satellite backhaul startup targeting emerging markets
When Apple cuts the cheese...
BigBand is targeting cable MSOs and telcos with a video platform that envisions a personal, 'unicast' world of the future
NBCU, NFL stream Sunday Night Football live with Adobe Flash
Sources within AudioCodes say the company has reduced the headcount at its Netrake session border controller significantly
The nation's 135th largest market gets the prized position of digital TV lab rat
The startup with yet another TCP fix has landed some big customers and is eyeing the CDN camp
Heavy Reading has put together its first quarterly market tracker devoted to the cable industry's next-gen video, data, and voice initiatives
Femtocells could be the way for WiMax operators to cost-effectively deliver high-capacity data services, finds a new Unstrung Insider report
The agency is expected to take up at its Sept. 25 meeting Martin's proposal that the entire D block be eligible for sale for $750 million
The mobile WiMax market shows positive signs of growth on a worldwide level, partially due to lower technology costs
Wilmington, NC, flipped the DTV switch today – here's a pic
Putting lipstick on a barracuda
Using technology from its strategic partnership with BitGravity, Tata is ready to take its content delivery network services global
CEO says new HD-DVR box for cable MSO distribution is on track
At CEDIA, CE giant demos a tru2way-enabled TV running off Comcast's cable system
An early look at the new look
Hooking up every home in the UK with point-to-point fiber would cost £28.8 billion ($50.8 billion), according to a new report
Sycamore withers further with a $15M quarter, but is sticking to its packet/optical guns and continuing to increase its R&D spend
Akamai has opened an office in Seoul and hired industry veteran Chung Yun Yeon to lead market development there
The world's largest phone vendor warns it will lose market share in Q3 in the face of price slashing competition
Partnering for an online portal can get operators all the content they need, but could lead them into the dreaded 'dumb pipe' role
Cindy Christy, head of AlcaLu's America's Region, resigns for personal reasons
Higher cable VOD spending helps server and software firm beat Wall Street expectations and post a year-over-year profit
Delay in the TiVo-Dish spat causes TiVo shares to dip
'I give you Adelphia and this is the grief I get?'
Not yet, but the RIM 3G device could hit these shores in October
Amazon will allow users to watch movies instantly
The P2P case takes a predictable turn as Comcast appeals the FCC's order
Coverage is king, but his reign is a spotty one
Just-published order says systems with limited subscriber bases and plant capacity will get a reprieve from dual must-carry requirements
Improved coverage to eliminate 3G 'notspots' is seen as the single most important driver of the business case for femtocells
The New York State Attorney General has taken an interest in FiOS
Ciena's CEO Gary Smith believes the Tier 1 carrier capex hiccup that has hit his company's outlook won't last long
Greek politicians tout $3B fiber network
In case you have a pile of cash to burn on rentals and buys, here's what you can load up on before hitting Comcast's 250 GB ceiling
Arris gets more than a bit of luck from the Irish...
With Bell Canada on board, Nortel is claiming 21 wins for its 40-Gig technology in less than a year
MSO completes the 'initial phase' of a WiFi installation that provides free wireless Internet access to its cable modem customers
A slowdown in Tier 1 carrier business has hit Ciena's fourth-quarter outlook, sending the vendor's share price down 16% in early trading
In a new NDS study, 70 percent of users say they 'can't live without' a DVR
Early adopters won't be prisoners of WiMax for long, as Sprint promises a dual-mode CDMA-WiMax card will let them roam by year's end
The powerful Symbian-powered smartphone features push email, WiFi, GPS, 16 GBytes of internal memory, and costs nearly $800
CDN roundup, leadership shifts, and Google's Chrome are all on today's Contentinople
Verizon takes its 100G trials program to the next level with a 1,000km+ runout on its Richardson, Texas, network
What role can the telecom industry play in helping to advance America's education goals?
The MSO can activate Moto's 'privacy mode' in its digital terminal adapters, but that could stir up trouble with the FCC
Go to iTunes for music, movies, OSS podcasts...
Counters report that blames it for starting one of the fires that raged in the San Diego area last year
The peer-to-peer technology company announced a few new additions and promotions
Some denizens of Philadelphia are cynical about WiMax
Redknee arranges $10M facility to fund acquisitions
Juniper's former CFO gets a new day job
India's state-owned operator BSNL is ready to issue another mobile WiMax tender
Early results from our new poll show that a majority of readers believe Ben Verwaayen is the right choice as the new AlcaLu CEO
Satco and DVR pioneer hope to make sweet hi-def music together... sometime in the second half of 2009
Vendor upgrades Universal Edge Resource Manager to support the on-demand architectures of Comcast and Time Warner Cable
A speaker lineup leak courtesy of our events department
Symbian is still the very top of the mobile OS pile, but unit growth is slowing
15M by the end of the year
Coming September 9th
What the geeks are drooling over this week
Convergys's billing business could go it alone with its very own stock ticker
A new security blade for BladeCenter is the latest ammo in Big Blue's telecom push
China Mobile wants to start LTE trials, but has to wait on chipset and equipment availability
What if BT ditches WiMax for LTE?
Stay stupid, live longer
Being bloated does not make one a 'world leader'
Google unveils beta version of its browser, Chrome
Former BT chief Ben Verwaayen is the new CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, a role he has coveted for a long time, according to industry sources
As some of Europe's leading operators enter the next phase of their IPTV deployments, the region's telco TV players head to IBC
AlcaLu's stock climbs as Quigley fever spreads
Chip vendor Runcom raises $10 million to help bolster its current mobile WiMax business and fund its expansion into LTE and femtocells
