Access - Analysts
Telco video feeling its oats more than ever
If October’s USTA Telecom 2004 conference turned up the awareness for video over IP, then the recent TelcoTV 2004 conference was very much about how the...
A tale of two trade shows (with apologies to Charles Dickens)
When I attended two recent tradeshows--VON in Boston, the World Series Championship City (and that’s really hard for a native New Yorker and lifetime...
‘Cache and carry’ and other thoughts
As I write this, the USTA Telecom 2004 conference has just concluded. Looking at it with 20/20 hindsight, the conference had two great themes. One related...
The future of ATM and frame relay in an IP world
Remember the debates of IP vs ATM? Those passionate arguments for ATM in the LAN and the WAN eventually withered from the IP blitz. Given the direction...
The telephony equipment market, circa Q2 2004
According to The Eastern Management Group's MonitorSM Report for the second quarter of 2004, total U.S. telephony equipment shipments (TDM and voice over...
Are telcos game?
New revenue options are on their way...
How enterprises might buy new technology
As we exit the summer of 2004, it is clear that the supply side of our industry (vendors and service providers) has been re-focused from cost cutting...
SSL VPNs: The next generation of remote access?
The industry has been buzzing about secure socket layer (SSL) VPNs for nearly three years now. It was hard to ignore the promise of easy and secure remote...
Telco video crosses the chasm
Throughout 2004, the telco video phenomenon has transformed from experiment to reality.Now that many of us are enjoying the more relaxed pace of summer,...
Wireless-to-wireline consolidation: The next step for bundles
Over the last two decades, many tens (or, more likely, hundreds) of billions of dollars have been spent deploying today's nearing- ubiquitous wireless...
Voice over WLAN: Gearing up for primetime
VoIP is an established and rapidly maturing technology. It is less expensive to install and maintain than traditional telephony, and the core equipment...
Optimizing the TV user experience: What the telco video world can learn from cable
With the number and quality of available content and infrastructure choices increasing rapidly, it's clear that telcos can truly begin to select a best-of-breed...
VoIP adoptions continue to grow—and what is hosted IPT, anyway?
According to The Eastern Management Group’s MonitorSM report, 1Q04 signaled a strong acceleration of the transformation of enterprise telephony from TDM...
Give me a break!
There is a lot to possibly dissect this month based on Supercomm buzz. Enhancing everyone’s diets with fiber, all the public policy “stuff” (particularly...
Telco video content delivery heats up
Last time, this column asserted that a showdown was underway between content owners and technology suppliers, with carriers watching from the sidelines;...
An 11-step program for successful enterprise VoIP implementation: Part 2
In last month’s column, I began laying out one view of a successful VoIP implementation roadmap.This roadmap is based upon the Eastern Management Group...
Supercomm before the storm
It has been quite some time since I’ve been this excited about going to our annual industry conclave, Supercomm, which commences the third week in June....
Metro ethernet is on the move
Though they make up only a small portion of worldwide WAN connections and telecom service dollars now, Ethernet-based services are growing steadily. Corporations...
Carriers as spectators in a digital media showdown
Media companies and technology suppliers are embroiled in a showdown regarding control of the media--not “the news media,” but the distribution and consumption...
An 11-step program for enterprise VoIP implementation
In 2004, with voice-over-IP capturing over 35% of all new enterprise voice shipments according to our MonitorSM report, most enterprises will shortly...
