Service Delivery News & Analysis
The coming IP video wars
The battle lines are being drawn up among equipment providers, telecom operators and solution builders. IP video is real, and 2010 will be its coming-out party....
Cinnabar, USMetro prepare six-city cloud-managed LAN
Cinnabar Ventures (OTCBB: CNBR) is getting ready to leverage its pending acquisition of a small Florida CLEC and its own development-stage Web-based operating system into a six-city rollout ...
How Global Crossing is offering WAN optimization
The carrier launched WAN optimization as a new managed service worldwide today...
How Terremark keeps its colo and data centers green
Increasing energy efficiency in data centers is a never-ending challenge. And the task is more complex for providers that have to split their facilities between data centers and colocation facilities, like Terremark (NASDAQ:TMRK)...
Verizon fights for 40% FiOS penetration, two-day deployment
This year Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) will finally complete the fiber-to-the-premises network it began building in 2004, and it is already focusing harder on customer penetration within that footprint, which the company is finding surprisingly difficult in part due to persisting operational hurdles, particularly in deploying fiber to apartment dwellers....
Genband’s Mehmet Balos on Nortel bid
Genband’s chief marketing officer, Mehmet Balos, spoke with Connected Planet about the implications of the company's bid for Nortel's carrier VoIP business...
The State of IP
It's been years since IP slowly but surely began infiltrating into mainstream carrier networks. In 2010 it's poised to make its biggest impact ever....
Cisco on Starent: Mobile play wedge into massive IP opportunity
Networking giant closes $2.9 billion deal for mobile IP core vendor Starent, creates new dedicated mobile IP unit...
Nortel: 100G today, 100GE next year
100G leader Nortel will join router vendors in the race to 100-Gb/s Ethernet but won’t threaten them...
IBM, HP make major telecom cloud plays
IBM lands customer win while HP details new communications-as-a-service offerings ...
TV viewing reigns despite recession, Deloitte says
Despite the fear of video cord-cutting, the television set survived — even thrived — in 2009 as the economic recession took its toll...
Verizon goes live with 100G
The ‘vast majority’ of Verizon’s US network will skip 40G...
TM Forum: From IT big bang to global opportunity-hunting
This week’s conclave of service provider IT/back-office experts was focused on new services and markets – and how to enable them right now...
AT&T exploring usage-based mobile data pricing
Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega says AT&T is educating customers on data consumption patterns in preparation for possible future pricing models...
MobileIron introduces the enterprise app store
As smartphone users become comfortable with app stores, enterprises could use the same principle to distribute, monitor and control data services to their employees...
TM Forum: HP debuts policy server to drive ‘real-time BSS’
Also on tap: improvements to data retention and revenue management platforms...
New group asks large enterprises for cloud input
The TM Forum’s new ‘buyer’s council’ to learn how service providers can better serve businesses’ emerging cloud requirements...
Telcos seek role in mass of OTT experiments
Telcordia exec predicts train wreck as telcos look to replace linear programming with monetizable online TV...
TM Forum: Qwest eyes over-the-top, cloud to compete with AT&T, Verizon
Pragmatic strategy aims to compete without owning IPTV, wireless networks...
Force10 brings Ethernet’s cost to MPLS core
As promised this spring, Force10 Networks is adding MPLS capabilities to its ExaScale core switch router this month, promising to bring Ethernet economics to the MPLS core....
