Meru, Avaya deploy mother of all WLAN networks
Meru and Avaya have begun deploying what may be the largest private wireless LAN network in the country...
IBM targets carrier SOA, Web 2.0
IBM this week rolled out new products focused on helping service providers leverage Web 2.0-style technologies to more rapidly design and deploy new services...
Internet could clog networks by 2010, study says
User demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2010, according to a study released today by Nemertes Research...
Privacy concerns grow
Technology that enables service providers to know more about what their customers are doing online is constantly improving...
Open wide
Using Web 2.0, Web services and SOA to beat Internet competitors at their own game...
40G at last for Verizon
The long-anticipated move to a 40 Gb/s backbone network arrived last week for Verizon Business...
DPI holds promise as content protector
Although deep packet inspection (DPI) technology has become controversial as a means for service providers to offer tiered services or base the way they treat Internet traffic on the nature of the application, continued developments in this arena are a strong indication that DPI is likely to become more important to network operators in the coming years. Read more of this DPI special report...
What's brewing at Building B?
The new company has a unique way to get telcos into video quickly...
Broadband at low frequencies
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
CloudShield joins P2P shaping parade
Even as Comcast and vendor Sandvine take heat for peer-to-peer traffic shaping, deep packet inspection vendor CloudShield debuted its own platform last week that leverages DPI for prioritizing P2P packets...
VON: Alcatel-Lucent CTO calls for P2P hybrids
BOSTON--Offering a “plumber’s view” of current and future networking trends, Paul Mankiewich, Alcatel-Lucent’s chief technology officer for North America, told VON attendees of the need for telcos to engage with an emerging class of mesh-centric service providers, adopting an approach that combines the best elements of peer-to-peer and traditional networking...
VON: HD over copper a “non-issue” for AT&T
BOSTON--AT&T will have no problems doing multiple streams of high-definition (HD) video over its U-verse network at scale, Jeff Weber, vice president of products and strategies at AT&T operations, asserted in a speech here at the VON show today...
VON: IPTV providers forced to prove ‘quality of experience’
BOSTON--Service providers once thought building networks with 99.999% reliability was all they needed to do, until delivering data services required them to also offer quality of service. Now IPTV is pushing them even further, requiring service providers to deliver quality of experience (QoE), Tektronix Vice President of Marketing Lyn Cantor told a Telephony IPTV Workshop audience here today...
Privacy, piracy and deep packet inspection
The controversy that has blossomed over Comcast’s use of deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to rate-shape peer-to-peer traffic comes at an awkward time in DPI’s life cycle. Read more of this special report on DPI...
TelcoTV: Reporters’ Notebook
ATLANTA--AT&T is constantly bombarded with questions about the capacity of its U-verse network, given that it will rely on fiber-to-the-node technology and copper connections into the home...
Verizon gives a glimpse of futuristic FiOS apps
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--As its FiOS network nears the end of its fourth year, when it was projected to pass 7 million households, Verizon this week gave the media a glimpse of what has been going on behind the curtains to add new functionality to the system...
TelcoTV: Comverse builds converged IPTV apps
ATLANTA--Comverse is not the first name that pops to mind when you think of IPTV, but the company does, in fact, have a history in the consumer video business, having developed the user interface for LodgeNet and other hotel video services, as well as being well-established in wireless applications, including ring tones, messaging and more...
TelcoTV: DSL Forum restructures spec releases
ATLANTA--The DSL Forum, a group that has grown beyond its DSL roots into broadband deployment, today unwrapped a new structure for its work and a Release 2.0 version of its industry benchmarks and milestones...
TelcoTV: AT&T previews IPTV’s future
ATLANTA--Based on Peter Hill’s preview of what AT&T Labs has in store for IPTV, most of its new content draws heavily on the ‘IP’ part of the product...
TelcoTV: CEOs share IPTV lessons learned
ATLANTA--Transforming a company from a traditional telco into a modern converged communications and entertainment provider is no small task, but you don’t need to tell this to the CEOs who are already taking their companies through the revolution...
