April 28, 2008

Panning for MDU gold

By Carol WilsonApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Major telcos are targeting apartment dwellers for video services, spurred on by an FCC ruling and a new kind of fiber...

Meeting the market

By Carol WilsonApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Inside the telecom industry, we tend to focus on big technology trends and innovations that ultimately have little relevance in the consumer or business worlds...

Surfing the TV

By Sarah ReedyApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

It is hard to imagine surfing the Internet without a search engine, yet this remains the only option for television viewers seeking a similar experience...

Barry strikes back

By Kevin FitchardApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

As Barry West, 4G president and chief technology officer for Sprint, began his keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association's conference, he couldn't help taking a jab at his chosen technology's detractors...

Nextlink kicks off spectrum clearinghouse

By Kevin FitchardApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Looking to lease some high-frequency spectrum but don't want to pick up the phone? Nextlink, XO Communications' wireless subsidiary, may have just what you're looking for...

SMS, 411 latest to go free

By Rich KarpinskiApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

First came free (ad-supported) voice-over-IP calling. Now even more telecom services are going the free route, including short message service, along with an ever-growing array of free 411 providers...

Channeling VoIP sales

M5 Networks, a competitive service provider serving medium-sized companies with hosted voice over IP and advanced features, is finding success selling through IT consultants who provide data network support to small- to medium-sized businesses...

Nortel pushes into SOA, Web services

By Rich KarpinskiApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Nortel Networks is best-known as a networking equipment vendor, but with its Agile Communications Environment initiative launched last fall with IBM it is making a big push into service-oriented architecture and Web services technologies...

Gambling on Utopia

By Ed GubbinsApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Municipalities participating in Utah's 11-city wholesale fiber-to-the-premises project, Utopia, are being asked to double down on that investment in the face of its current financial shortfalls...

Who needs Washington?

By Ed GubbinsApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

A nuclear bomb set off in our nation's capital could instantly eradicate our federal government. Generations of Americans have accepted that fact and lived with the threat -- maybe in part because an alternative wasn't easily imaginable...

Putting the squeeze on HD

By Carol WilsonApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Coming late to a market is not usually a sign of innovation, but as Thomson makes a U.S. push with its SmartVision IPTV system, the global video company is banking on doing things better than the existing players...

EXFO's IP acquisition spree

By Ed GubbinsApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Optical test equipment and service-assurance supplier EXFO made two acquisitions this month: Brix Networks, which focuses on voice over IP in provider networks, and Navtel Communications, which focuses on IP multimedia subsystem equipment in vendor labs. Etienne Gagnon, vice president of product management and marketing for EXFO, described the company's plan to Telephony...

IPTV standard-bearer

By Carol WilsonApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

The DSL Forum might not seem like the obvious organization to tackle IPTV standards, but based on its work delivering end-to-end visibility into broadband networks via its TR-069 standard, the global group is now firmly focused on IPTV quality of experience as well...

Green packets and broadband

By Kermit RossApr 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Five global forces drive growth and transformation. They are at work everywhere, albeit at varying levels of intensity, and they will change the telecommunications world...