What Comcast/NBCU means for competition
Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and General Electric (NYSE:GE) made their intentions to acquire NBC Universal official this week, creating a joint venture majority-owned and operated by Comcast...
Alcatel-Lucent pushes app tools, vision
As next step in app enablement strategy, vendor moves into the cloud...
Arbor improves IP attack defenses
Arbor Networks today released a new, larger version of its Peakflow threat management platform, beefing up throughput, improving protection against key attacks and setting the stage for service provider migration to IPv6...
SDPs can't be one-size (app store) fits all
The concepts behind service delivery platforms are maturing but the business models must follow to ensure success, TM Forum report finds...
Ericsson: Nortel GSM deal about the voice core
Nortel’s mobile switching business fills the final hole in Ericsson’s North American expansion, giving it a complete wireless portfolio for all carriers and all standards...
IBM opens global telecom dev centers
New outlets in China, South Africa, France and Malaysia drive development-based work...
Defining open mobile
Battles between developers wanting to take advantage of the new capabilities of increasingly powerful 3G networks and carriers needing to maintain control...
Ciena’s Tom Mock explains Nortel auction win
Ciena’s senior vice president of strategic planning sheds light on the deal that will double Ciena's size...
Allot debuts content filtering DPI app
At times controversial, deep packet inspection is at its heart a neutral technology – whether it draws attention from critics is a function of how a service provider applies it...
Telcordia readies SI partner deals, solution bundles
As back-office specialist Telcordia closes out a relatively flat – in a good way – 2009, deals with strategic system integration and equipment provider partners and new pushes into wireless and advertising solutions loom in 2010...
Ifbyphone seeking ‘cloud telephony’ carrier partners for voice apps play
Voice app provider Ifbyphone, finding success offering build-on the-fly, pay-as-you go IVR-style apps to SMBs, is on the active hunt for a few good telco partners to offer its services as part of their small business service portfolios...
Amdocs personalization play lands BigPond deal
Australia’s Telstra is deploying personalization technology from vendor Amdocs to add customized mobile news and information services to its BigPond mobile portal...
SetJam, Clicker enter hypercompetitive online TV-guide market
Start-ups targeting the need for search, discovery as programming explodes online ...
Which network will Apple’s tablet flood?
Apple’s tablet will deluge mobile networks when it launches, but which network – if any – it lands on is still unknown...
Amdocs: Telco opportunity in supporting a 'trillion' devices
App stores and best-effort networks are already commodities; the future is in supporting mission-critical and life-saving value adds...
Aricent helps operators, OEMs build better Android devices, apps
The Android ecosystem is gaining traction as Aricent, ARM lend their expertise device makers building to the OS...
F5 tunes traffic switch for mobile network needs
F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV), whose platform helps service providers improve the performance of various network-based applications...
Mobile data users’ biggest fear: Huge overage fees
Mobile operators can use rate plans to help shape customer consumption of scarce mobile broadband data, but with the unlimited usage “genie” out of the bottle ...
VoxOx parent launches full CLEC play
TelCentris, the creator of would-be “Skype-killer” VoxOx – one of the most creative if not widely-adopted Internet VoIP and unified messaging clients – this week launched a competitive local exchange...
Study: Telecom lagging in innovation approach, successes
Telecom service providers are focused too much on making small, incremental changes to their business rather than embracing the kind of innovation that will allow them to compete with...
