September 1, 2009
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Welcome to Connected Planet
Learn what this new magazine will cover directly from our editors. As a publication, Connected Planet focuses on the real-world ways in which the combination...
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HOME SWEET INTERHOME
If these walls could talk is a common expression, but if these walls could text, learn and respond to their residents' queries is when things really get...
MEDNET
As the largest integrated health care provider in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, Sentara Healthcare already had a network solution...
TECHNOLOGY
OUTSOURCING INDOOR COVERAGE
When building a university campus in the middle of the Everglades, one must not only contend with the soaring heat and oppressive humidity, but also the...
SOLUTIONS
How to build a virtual telco
Telecom service providers today are chasing new opportunities to bring network-delivered managed services and solutions to a variety of markets and industries...
Broadband Scarcity and Stimulus Spur Community Networks
Around the country, ad hoc groups are forming at the local, state and regional level made up of disparate entities colleges, hospitals, libraries, counties,...
OPINION
Is exclusivity synonymous with innovation?
In my past two years covering telecommunications, Apple's iPhone has been at least somewhat responsible for driving most of the trends I have written...
FINAL WORD
The smart grid opportunity
The smart grid may just become the next big opportunity for providers of both telecom services and equipment the questions are when and how much. According...
ARTICLES
IP carrier spending to tick up again next year
Not surprisingly, carrier spending on wireline IP technology contracted in 2009, but spending on IP and IP multimedia subsystem platforms is expected...
Transforming the mobile base station
Harmful carbon dioxide emissions from mobile base stations today total 22 megatons, but that could be reduced by 30% to 15.6 Mt by 2014, according to...
Handset-makers near the bottom
The bottom line for handset-makers in Q2 was that nimbler companies had greater shipment volumes while others continued to decline. Adjusting in Q2 meant...
TELEHEALTH: THE SOLUTION FOR MEDICAL FREQUENT FLIERS
While many people think of telemedicine as a relatively new phenomenon, Sentara Healthcare has been running a TeleHealth program for the past 10 years...
2009: Summer of (Open) Love?
While the U.S. media was celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock a time of peace, love and rock n' roll the telecom industry was making even more...
Google, Apple and the Virtual Handset
Chances are you don't use, or know anyone who does use, Google Voice, the search giant's call management/forwarding service (formerly known as Grand Central)....
AT&T, Level 3 round out top 5 CDNs
ATT and Level 3 Communications scored well in a recent assessment of content delivery network (CDN) providers conducted by the Yankee Group, taking fourth and fifth ......
Some CLECs see recovery beginning
Solid results from some competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) in the second quarter suggest a recovery has begun for some CLECs while others continue to struggle....
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