Big OSS projects go live
By Rich Karpinski
Operations support services “transformation” projects are beginning to move off the drawing board and into production, with executives behind those efforts warning colleagues they'll take longer than expected, fail without employee and exec level buy-in, and put greater pressure on IT to contribute to top-line growth, according to service providers at the recent B/OSS World Show in Chicago
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Jangl to dead pool; execs, assets to Jajah
By Rich Karpinski
That’s one less “j” Web VoIP provider for service providers to worry about. But with subscriber claims seemingly easier to come by than revenues, it’s not clear the Jangls, Jajahs and Jaxtrs of the world have incumbent service providers quaking in their boots just yet, anyway....
Active Ethernet grows in PON's shadow
By Ed Gubbins
When it comes to fiber-to-the-home technology in North America, passive optical networks get all the attention. But FTTH based on active Ethernet technology is quietly growing more prevalent...
MEF to streamline wholesale Ethernet services
By Ed Gubbins
The Metro Ethernet Forum continues its important work on a range of industry standards fronts. Perhaps one of the forum's most auspicious efforts is its most recent one: the formation of a new wholesale access group assembled to author a set of standard procedures for ordering Ethernet services on a wholesale basis...
Adva aids Ethernet handoff
Adva Optical Networking introduced a new demarcation device designed to manage the interface between carrier networks....
