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News & Analysis
1/28/2011  -  As it looks to close its acquisition of Motorola unit, Nokia Siemens responds to Huawei's action against Moto
1/28/2011  -  LTE startup speeds up next phase of its spectrum agreement with Inmarsat, and hopes to reveal its wholesale customers soon
1/28/2011  -  Samsung's riding the success of its Android Tab, ZTE has displaced RIM in handset shipments and CostCo gets the Atrix in this week's OS digest
1/28/2011  -  Jilted 40G might have its revenge, as Infinera's downbeat forecast looks like it could last a while
Most Recent Post: Craig Matsumoto... The heart of all this seems to be 40G pricing.  Infinera is saying that, measured by $ per gigabit transported, 40G...
1/28/2011  -  Reactions are pouring in ahead of the Comcast-NBCU closing, including takes on the new logo, the expected culture shock and the cable perks
Most Recent Post: Len Grace... As a no-nonsense and very pragmatic leader Burke will bring fresh-air to the NBCU portfolio. He has a great sense of who...
by Steve Donohue
1/28/2011  -  Acquisition of Terremark could send other global service providers seeking global data center assets
1/28/2011  -  Vendor scores a key nDVR patent tied to the rapid ingest of video. But what's next? Licenses or lawsuits?
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... That's true, rs-dvr doesn't do caching for the copyright reasons you point out, but rs-dvr still needs to handle massive ingest...
1/28/2011  -  Egypt shuts down the Internet, Nokia takes Ovi Maps to China and NSN spruces up O2 in today's roundup of telecom news in the EMEA region
by Paul Rainford
1/28/2011  -  Reports say the country appears to have deliberately severed its ISPs from the global Internet, while mobile operators have suspended services
Most Recent Post: Craig Matsumoto... Looks like mobile and SMS were shut down, too. Doesn't seem to have affected the protests, judging from reports.
1/28/2011  -  Chinese vendor is targeting the US and Western Europe for an onslaught of low-cost, Android-based smart phones
1/27/2011  -  Company shipped 500,000 Windows Phone 7 devices in December. That's a lot, but the growth is nowhere near Android's quickening pace
Most Recent Post: stelabokun... Absolutely, the price is the biggest killer…and the price is such because it’s very expensive for manufacturers...
1/27/2011  -  Verizon aims to advance its enterprise cloud-computing story with a rare acquisition
Newswire Feed
PR Newswire
PHILADELPHIA : Comcast Clinches NBCU Deal - 1/29/2011
DUBLIN: Velti IPOs on Nasdaq - 1/28/2011
OTTAWA: Zarlink Reports Q3 - 1/28/2011
OTTAWA: Motorola Settles With Wi-Lan - 1/28/2011
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA: Sterlite Reports Fiscal Q3 - 1/28/2011
SEOUL: Samsung Reports Q4 - 1/28/2011
DULLES, VA: Verisign Reports Q4, Full Year - 1/28/2011
SAN FRANCISCO : Riverbed Reports Q4 - 1/28/2011
TOKYO: Fujitsu Reports Fiscal Q3 - 1/28/2011
SHENZHEN, CHINA: ZTE Unveils IMS-based PSTN/ISDN Solution - 1/28/2011
REDMOND, WA: Microsoft Reports Q2 - 1/28/2011
Last 10 Posts
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Jeff Baumgartner
The FCC Strikes Back
Jeff Baumgartner
1/28/2011  -  3:45 PM Did Verizon and MetroPCS jump the gun? Does it really matter?
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Craig Matsumoto
Show & Tell: Brocade's Dream House
Craig Matsumoto
1/28/2011  -  3:15 PM It's one thing to build a brand new data center in San Jose. Doing the same thing abroad might be trickier
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Craig Matsumoto
Brocade's Data Center Hunt
Craig Matsumoto
1/28/2011  -  3:05 PM Brocade's Victor Garcia gets ready to build data centers in Europe and India
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Jeff Baumgartner
CableCARD's Mid-Course Correction
Jeff Baumgartner
1/28/2011  -  11:35 AM FCC tweaks new rules so IP interfaces on hi-def DTAs can't be used for MSO-supplied VoD and DVR services – or did they?
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Carol Wilson
Tweet Danger
Carol Wilson
1/27/2011  -  4:50 PM Verizon uses social media like Twitter to remind FiOS customers how to cope during power outages – a good idea but more is needed
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Dan Jones
AT&T: Getting the User View
Dan Jones
1/27/2011  -  2:35 PM What's your experience of AT&T's 3G network now?
Most Recent Post: schlettie... AT&T 3G coverage seems pretty good in Raleigh and surrounding communities.   There are places that I get 3G...
Heavy Lifting
ANALYST NOTES
Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst
VoLTE could set the stage for a more fundamental transition to real-time, rich-media services powered by IMS
Columns
Switch Chips: Silicon Technology Delivers Step Change
Simon Stanley
Advances in high-performance chipsets are enabling a faster migration from Gigabit Ethernet to 10G, 40G and 100G implementations
Timing the Test for Ethernet Backhaul
Robert Poe
Ethernet is becoming the technology of choice for mobile backhaul, but timing and synchronization remains a key problem
Pyramid Points
Mehdi Ben Said (Senior Analyst, AME)
Pyramid Research predicts the pay-TV sector in Africa and the Middle East to grow faster than anywhere else in the world through 2015.
Special Features
CES 2011: New Product Recap
Tim Hills
Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from the 2011 International CES
Bridging the Chasm: A Manifesto
Ray Le Maistre
Integrating networks and IT operations is an essential task for communications service providers if they're to stay relevant
Tru2way: Epic Fail at Retail
Jeff Baumgartner
Tru2way seemed a cable industry & consumer electronics retail force at its International CES debut in 2008. Here's how it flopped
Research Services
REAL WORLD RESEARCH
Exploring Cable Next-Gen Video Services & Strategies
This report examines the advanced video services that cable operators are exploring and testing as the competitive video landscape starts to shift against them. The report offers detailed profiles of five leading US MSOs, exploring their strategies for delivering advanced video, plus 29 technology vendors in the next-gen video market.
A Security Hotspot: Growing Use of WiFi Underscores Network Weaknesses
This report analyzes WiFi hotspot security challenges. It discusses current WiFi security threats and provides an analysis of solutions provided to combat those threats. The report also offers an industry analysis, including expected WiFi security threats. Finally, it surveys the seven leading WiFi security vendors.
LATEST RESEARCH
Managed Services for Enterprises: Telco Operators and Vendors Capitalize on the Need of Businesses to Focus
Managed Services for Enterprises focuses on network-centric managed services offered by operators and technology vendors in areas such as network security, data center, videoconferencing and telepresence to enterprises.
SMBs Flock to Prepaid Services to Save Time, Money
10/40/100-Gbit/s Switch Chips: The Key to Service Delivery
Your Ad Here: Cable's ITV Ad Platforms Open for Business
The LTE Device Ecosystem: 2011-2012 Market Outlook
Rate Plan Innovation: Who's in Charge of Charging?
3G Handsets in China: Identifying the Market Leaders
Online Video Platform Survey: Launching the Internet Video Era
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Events
Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies: Docsis 3.0, Wireless, Fiber & Beyond
Thursday, February 24, 2011
The Cable Center, Denver
Tower Technology Summit (@CTIA)
March 22- 24, 2011
Orlando
Policy Management in the 4G Era
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Orange County Convention Center, Orlando
Ethernet Europe 2011
Tuesday & Wednesday, April 12 & 13, 2011
The London Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel, London
Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies: Making the IPTV Migration
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Westin Times Square, New York City
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10Base-T
An Ethernet format that has a 10-Mbit/s transfer rate
Companies
Alcatel-Lucent (6521), AT&T (3454), BellSouth (853), BT (1509), Cablevision (820), Cisco (6630), Comcast (2571), Cox Communications (1101), Deutsche Telekom (944), eBay (Skype) (368), Ericsson (2208), France Telecom (1112), Google (1236), Huawei (1545), Intel (1882), Juniper (2315), Microsoft (1800), Motorola (3268), Nokia Siemens Networks (2994), Nortel (4060), NTT (234), Siemens (1365), Sprint (2233), Telefonica (643), Time Warner Cable (1250), Verizon (4154), Vodafone (1955), Yahoo (358)

4G/LTE (Sponsored by Cisco)
3G Evolution (472), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (272), Carrier WiFi (2790), CDMA (3G) (3920), China Mobile (96), Core Network (873), EV-DO (306), Femtocells (662), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (150), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (361), GSM/EDGE (2584), HSDPA/HSUPA (931), IMS Core (143), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (1818), Messaging (347), Messaging (154), Mobile Advertising (239), Mobile location (120), Mobile Music (184), Mobile TV (437), Mobile Video (466), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (2260), Mobile/Wireless (7861), Municipal networks (121), Packet Core (213), Presence management (53), Radio Access Network (2972), Services (3146), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (155), Transmission (125), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (88), UMTS(3G) (566), Video services (4873), Videophone (219), Vodafone (1955), Voice Core (108), VOIP software (766), WiMax (1258), Wireless Backhaul (669), Wireless LAN (420)

Broadband (Sponsored by Nokia Siemens Networks)
Access devices (329), Access equipment (2414), Access technologies (2593), Access test & measurement equipment (141), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (439), Cable Modems (895), Carrier WiFi (2790), Content/software downloads (266), Docsis (1471), DSL (2813), DSL chips (254), DSLAMs (719), Ethernet PONs (187), Femtocells (662), Free-space optics (41), FTTx (4666), Home gateways (768), Internet Video (1560), IPTV (3971), Media adapters (32), Microsoft (1800), PON (1740), Satellite (621), Video services (4873), VOD (3245), Yahoo (358)

Cable (Sponsored by Cisco)
Access equipment (2414), Access technologies (2593), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (824), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1258), Cable Modems (895), Cable/MSO equipment (2986), CableLabs (642), Cablevision (820), Comcast (2571), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (342), Cox Communications (1101), Digital content (1532), Digital rights management (464), Docsis (1471), DVRs (963), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (270), FTTx (4666), Gaming consoles (90), Head-ends (288), Home gateways (768), IPTV (3971), Media adapters (32), Middleware & business support systems (1208), Network DVR (153), PacketCable (147), PON (1740), QAM (397), Residential (895), Set-top boxes (2120), Stored video servers (445), Time Warner Cable (1250), TV (4841), Video equipment (2737), Video services (4873), Video software (1628), VOD (3245), VOIP services (4068), Wavelength services (365)

Ethernet (Sponsored by Cisco)
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1503), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (438), Access devices (329), Ciena (125), Circuit emulation (20), Converged access (149), Ethernet chips (636), Ethernet equipment (2576), Ethernet over copper (266), Ethernet PONs (187), Ethernet services (2242), Ethernet technologies (680), Ethernet test & measurement equipment (206), Multipoint (185), Multiservice edge equipment (159), Multiservice provisioning platforms (633), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (385), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (279), Point-to-point (204), Powerline (98), Resilient Packet Ring (177), Sonet/SDH (1078), Tellabs (42), Wireless Backhaul (669)

IP & Convergence
Activation (453), Anti-virus (44), B-RASs (239), Billing systems (921), Cell/WLAN (88), Centrex (208), Circuit emulation (20), Conferencing (160), Contact centers (40), Content delivery network (CDN) (498), Content/software downloads (266), Converged access (149), Core Network (873), Customer relationship management (410), Data Integrity (180), Denial-of-service attacks (72), Edge routers (1832), Element management systems (116), Encryption (184), Endpoint security (108), Enhanced voice (107), Enterprise (692), Fault management (153), Firewalls (143), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (855), GMPLS (81), IMS (1197), IMS Core (143), Interactive advertising (354), Internet Video (1560), Intrusion detection & prevention (131), Inventory management (250), IP equipment (1394), IP software (452), IPSec VPN (868), Layer 3 VPNs (249), Media gateways (402), Mediation systems (293), Messaging (154), Middleware (150), Mobile/Wireless (7861), MPLS (1857), Multicast (44), OSS (3682), OSS test & measurement (1168), Performance monitoring (502), Planning tools (121), Policy control (504), Presence management (53), Product Management (121), Provisioning (698), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (138), QOS (374), Residential (895), Revenue assurance & fraud management (446), Security (2065), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (416), Service management (378), Service-oriented architectures (369), Services (3146), Session border controllers (432), Signaling gateways (127), SIP (441), Softswitches (1147), SSL VPN (931), Telepresence (269), Traffic managers (892), URL filtering (83), User authentication (105), Video services (4873), Videophone (219), VOIP equipment (3581), VOIP services (4068), VOIP software (766), VOIP test & measurement equipment (150), VOIP VPNs (33), Web services (179), Wholesale (247), Wireless LAN (420), Wireline/Wireless (78), XML (56)

Mobile Backhaul
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1503), 100-Gbit/s Ethernet (438), Access devices (329), Cell/WLAN (88), China Mobile (96), Circuit emulation (20), Converged access (149), Core Network (873), Ethernet equipment (2576), Ethernet over copper (266), Ethernet PONs (187), Ethernet services (2242), Ethernet technologies (680), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (150), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (855), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (361), IMS (1197), IMS Core (143), Mobile/Wireless (7861), Optical amplifiers (360), Packet Core (213), Point-to-point (204), QOS (374), Speciality fiber (118), Tellabs (42), Transceivers (1338), Transmission (125), Transmission fiber (433), Vodafone (1955), Voice Core (108), Wavelength services (365), WiMax (1258), Wireless Backhaul (669), Wireless LAN (420), Wireline/Wireless (78)

Optical Networking (Sponsored by EXFO)
40-Gbit/s transmission (517), Alcatel-Lucent (6521), ATM switches (337), Core optical switches (795), CWDM (299), DWDM (1909), Ethernet technologies (680), Huawei (1545), Long-haul WDM equipment (776), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1298), Metro WDM equipment (858), Multiservice edge equipment (159), Multiservice provisioning platforms (633), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (385), Multiservice switches (407), Mux/demuxes (306), Optical amplifiers (360), Optical channel monitors (98), Optical components (2992), Optical components test & measurement equipment (131), Optical equipment (2558), Optical switches & crossconnects (410), Optical technologies (476), Optical test & measurement equipment (927), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (279), PON (1740), Resilient Packet Ring (177), Sonet/SDH (1078), Sonet/SDH chips (371), Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1605), Switches & OADMs (443), Transmission fiber (433), Variable optical attenuators (145), Wavelength services (365)

Service Provider IT
Activation (453), Anti-virus (44), Application servers (214), Billing systems (921), Carrier managed (286), Cloud computing (461), Content/software downloads (266), Customer relationship management (410), Data Integrity (180), Denial-of-service attacks (72), Digital content (1532), Element management systems (116), Encryption (184), Endpoint security (108), Fault management (153), Firewalls (143), Grid networking (114), IMS (1197), IMS Control Layer (47), IMS Service Layer (47), Interactive advertising (354), Intrusion detection & prevention (131), Inventory management (250), IP software (452), IP technologies (1574), IPSec VPN (868), Managed Services (190), Media gateways (402), Mediation systems (293), Messaging (347), Middleware (150), MPLS (704), MPLS (1857), OSS (3682), OSS test & measurement (1168), Performance monitoring (502), Planning tools (121), Policy control (504), Product Management (121), Provisioning (698), QOS (374), Revenue assurance & fraud management (446), Security (2065), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (416), Service management (378), Service-oriented architectures (369), Services (3146), SSL VPN (931), Telepresence (269), URL filtering (83), User authentication (105), Vendor managed (215), Web gateways (76), Web services (179), XML (56)

Video (Sponsored by Cisco)
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (272), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (824), Cable TV chips (397), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (342), Content protection (456), Digital rights management (464), DVRs (963), Gaming consoles (90), Internet Video (1560), IPTV (3971), Middleware & business support systems (1208), Mobile TV (437), Network DVR (153), P2P (281), Satellite (621), Set-top boxes (2120), Stored video servers (445), Telepresence (269), TV (4841), Video equipment (2737), Video services (4873), Video software (1628), Videophone (219), VOD (3245)

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