| OMS: We are not a telco, says Xohm
19/11/2008
For more coverage of Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMAX plans, see Telephony’s Xohm topic page SAN FRANCISCO – A day before its ground-breaking deal with Clearwire is finalized, Xohm strategy vice president Rebecca Hanson was here at the Open Mobile Summit stumping for the new operator, insisting that the new Clearwire will be fundamentally different operator than its telco predecessors by offering—at... |
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| Infinera, Juniper, Internet2 team on 100-GigE test bed
18/11/2008
A group of network operators and equipment vendors have agreed to work together to establish a test bed for 100 gigabit-per-second Ethernet technology to help accelerate product development.Level 3 Communications, Infinera and Juniper Networks, together with the research and education networks Internet2 and ESnet, will collaborate on creating a 100-GbE network on which to test live bandwidth-rich... |
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| Management World: Ex-AT&T CTO offers `top 10` vision
18/11/2008
EslambolchiORLANDO -- Noting that he’s not David Letterman, then proving it with a joke (roughly: in the 1960s, people took LSD to shake up a staid world; today they take Prozac to make sense of a mixed-up world), former AT&T chief technology officer Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi offered up his vision for the future of the telecom industry in the form of a top 10 list in his morning keynote at... |
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| MobUI connects VH1 viewers, celebs through mobile IM
18/11/2008
As mobile messaging remains a positive driver in wireless revenue growth, Viacom-owned VH1 and mobile application development company MobUI today launched VH1 Watch and Discuss Live chat in the AT&T Media Mall. The app, which connects VH1 viewers with on-air personalities like rapper-turned-reality-TV-star Flavor Flav, offers group instant messaging (IM) sessions, a form of mobile... |
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| Management World: Transformation still job one for global telcos
18/11/2008
ORLANDO – Business transformation – enabled and in part driven by the move to converged IP networks – remains as important as ever for large, global service providers, and just as challenging. That was the word from the IT and network leaders of four of the world’s largest carriers – AT&T, BT, Vodafone and Telstra – at the Management World show today in Orlando. All four are deep in the midst... |
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| Qualcomm to use WiFi positioning in LBS chips
17/11/2008
Qualcomm is adding WiFi positioning to its suite of chip-level location technologies, announcing today it will compliment its GPS and cellular triangulation technologies with Skyhook Wireless’ software platform.“Qualcomm has licensed our technology and will bake it into their gpsOne chips,” said Ted Morgan, chief executive officer of Skyhook. Skyhook has created a comprehensive database of the... |
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| Hatteras sheds 25% of staff in `best quarter ever`
14/11/2008
Hatteras Networks shed about 25% of its 80-person workforce today, including two vice presidents, to prepare for economic turmoil next year, the company’s chief executive officer, Kevin Sheehan, confirmed to Telephony.The Ethernet-over-copper equipment vendor made the move in response to general economic indicators of a harsh 2009 despite a lack of trouble signs within its own business. In fact,... |
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| TelcoTV: Pannaway says monetize P2P by jamming
13/11/2008
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Wicked-cool jam sessions and virtual LAN parties are just two of the revenue-generating opportunities that can arise when operators open up their networks to peer-to-peer (P2P) activities, according to Mark Carpenter, president of Pannaway Networks. In the same way features like caller ID and call waiting added incremental revenue to the traditional telephony business, digital... |
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| TelcoTV: QoE vendors take opposing views of quality monitoring
13/11/2008
ANAHEIM, Calif. – How quality is addressed in IPTV might depend on where a vendor starts in the network. Two companies, Mariner and Ineoquest Technologies, focus on quality assurance for IPTV services, but they take opposite approaches to monitoring and addressing issues in the service delivery. While both launched new content-monitoring technologies at the TelcoTV show this week, Ineoquest... |
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| TelcoTV: Comtrend offers ADSL2+, VDSL2 gateway
12/11/2008
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Comtrend this week launched a residential gateway device that supports ADSL2+ and VDSL2 services and can serve as a home router on an fiber-to-the-home network through a gigabit WAN port. The CT-5374 WiFi router is intended to create a home network that easily connects devices in the home including local storage, WiFi-enabled digital cameras, set-top boxes and PCs.“Using an... |
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