October 1, 2009
COVER STORY
Finding telecom's link in the value chain
Avoiding the dreaded “dumb pipe” syndrome requires much more than just adding value to services. It requires reinventing business models....
UPFRONT
Clearwire finding fiber alternatives
There is suddenly a race to see who can get fiber to the cell tower fastest. Verizon has committed to building carrier Ethernet to 90% of the towers used...
Over-the-top TV finds a business model
Over-the-top television has been predicted to cause video cord-cutting, but not typically to make money doing it. That could change as revenue from the...
Hadoop's brain power
In many ways, cloud computing looks like not much more than glorified Web site and application hosting. Yet in other, probably more important, ways it...
Broadband stimulus: The first round
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has released a handy searchable online database of first-round broadband stimulus applications, revealing more details about the 2,200 bids it has received so far...
Control4 gets some looks
CONTROL4, a Utah firm with a home automation platform and more than 1 million ZigBee-enabled products shipped, is seeing increased interest from service...
Airline Wi-Fi takes flight
Wi-Fi is starting to take off at 10,000 feet in the air, as well as earn the adulation of travelers. According to a survey of business travelers conducted...
APPLICATIONS
TAKING THE WIRESOUT OF IPTV
Independent telco Consolidated Communications is among the first IPTV providers to remove the wires from its digital TV service through a partnership...
APPLYING TECHNOLOGYTO GETTING MEDICAL TESTS RIGHT
One of the major targets of enabling health care to be more efficient is making sure patients get the right kind of medical testing done and that no unnecessary...
TECHNOLOGY
Debating 40G and 100G economics
Two years ago, carriers complaining about the cost of networking equipment based on 40-Gb/s interfaces threatened to leapfrog the technology and migrate from 10 Gb/s links directly to 100 Gb/s links...
SOLUTIONS
OPERATORS PIECE TOGETHER THE M2M PUZZLE
Wireless operators have decided to stake their claim in the mobile telematics market. In one sense, it was a market they were never absent from those...
OPINION
The walled garden lives on
Recently at 4G World, Kris Rinne, senior vice president of architecture and planning for AT&T, said the growth in wireless data services has reached its...
FINAL WORD
The network is the phone
It's time for operators to dust off one of the more insightful aphorisms of the 1990s and apply it with a bit of a twist to the coming expansion out of...
EDITOR'S LETTER
Value begins at home
I've spent much of the last two months writing about matters such as in-home monitoring of the chronically ill, using technology to prevent seniors from...
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