November 6, 2006
COVER STORY
Consumer takes Control
Gary Baker is not surprised to see video content exploding on the Internet he saw this trend coming. Two years ago, Baker founded ClipBlast, a company...
EDITOR'S LETTER
Non-linear logic
Try to make sense of this collective assessment of the latest round of earnings reports: Cable TV firms are gaining telephony subscribers like never before,...
FORWARD MOTION
Big fish scour the OSS pond
Inventory management once was a specialized application in the operating support system arena, with companies like Cramer Systems, Granite Systems, MetaSolv...
Telco systems' M&A moves
When Israeli firm BATM Advanced Communications acquired Telco Systems in 2000, it purported to marry its own strong products with Telco's strong sales...
Cheaper by the globalization
Nokia's phones are getting cheaper. Maybe not in the U.S. or in Western Europe, but in Africa, the Middle East, India and China, Nokia is selling phones...
VDSL chip leader falls from grace
After running away with the VDSL chip market, Ikanos Communications hit a wall last month, potentially shaking up the sector. In early October, a range...
Is access line loss slowing?
Recent third-quarter earnings reports produced what seems to be a conundrum. On the one hand, cable companies reported record growth for their service...
NGT still looking for its Golden era
New Global Telecom topped off a six-week flurry of strategic change last week with the sale of its General Telecom division. The move helps the Golden,...
Sprint eases into Rev. A
Sprint has upgraded its first market to CDMA's latest and greatest, giving the people of San Diego access to the fastest 3G technology yet. But while...
Canepa sets Extreme course
Two months after being named CEO of Extreme Networks, Mark Canepa had to report the Ethernet equipment vendor's fourth-consecutive quarter of year-over-year...
Outsourcing hits product engineering
Outsourcing, or research and development of products and services once was seen as a crime against the nature of telecom, which traditionally saw innovation...
OPINION
Beyond the cautionary tale
A few years ago, I attended a management-training program, which had as its required reading the book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done...
More TV, less time
In the two years that a digital video recorder has been a part of my household, a subtle but distinct change has taken place in the viewing habits of...
Bride of OSS
With all the moxie she could muster, my favorite trick-or-treater this year told me, I'm the Bride of Chucky, in case you didn't know. And with a toss...
INNOVATION
Moving to VDSL3
As the telecom industry cuts its teeth on VDSL2, a small group of telecom companies, led by Israeli equipment maker ECI Telecom, is taking the next step,...
IMS
Still tethered
Embarq, the independent telco recently spun off from Sprint, hasn't publicly announced a strategy for IP multimedia subsystem deployment, like market...
WHAT'S NEXT
Building a better device
Mobile wireless broadband networks are enabling a nearly infinite number of applications to work on handsets. Video, music downloads, high-speed Internet...
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