As consumers increasingly seek direct access to content, service providers will only stay relevant if they build a relationship of trust and deliver products that are simple to use but embrace freedom and mobility, Dan Yost, executive vice president of Qwest, said Monday...
Optical equipment vendors at the NXTcomm trade show this week are now dramatically boosting the capacity of their gear to keep up with the rapidly rising tide of network traffic...
The IMS Forum has finished up round two of its series of plugfests, testing basic services such as short message service, or SMS, multimedia message service, voicemail and video sharing over the equipment of 18 forum members...
The optical cross-connect may have been one of the symbols of irrational exuberance during the telecom bubble, but it may yet make a comeback, according to Emanuel Nachum, vice president of Americas marketing for ECI Telecom...
When it comes to network reliability, the bottom line is the bottom line, according to Monday’s IEC panel, “Increase Network Reliability to Increase Network Satisfaction.” ...
Looking to expand it wherewithal in the service provider market, Cisco Systems has arrived at NXTcomm and unpacked several new service provider deals...
More, more, more. That was the consensus of Monday’s Digital Hollywood roundtable on the implication of connected TVs and set-top boxes (STBs), which panelists said are attracting a wider range of application developers and leading to a broader selection of content available on more than just TV screens...
Industry expectations for the IP multimedia subsystem shouldn’t change, given that more than 75% of service providers worldwide consider it a core architecture for IP-based converged services. But the real market ramp won’t come for another year or more, according to a panel of experts at an IEC “Deploying IMS” panel Monday...
Microsoft yesterday announced a new name for its IPTV platform--Microsoft Mediaroom--that is also available for use as a consumer brand by its IPTV customers, all of whom are major telecom service providers...
Adtran is unveiling at NXTcomm a pair of new broadband loop carriers, or BLCs, aimed at bringing broadband and packet-based voice services to rural areas...
Fixed/mobile convergence, or FMC, software maker NewStep today announced two major agreements that will expand the handset support for its voice call continuity, or VCC, capabilities...
A slew of equipment vendors are unveiling new Gigabit passive optical networking, or GPON, at NXTcomm this week, just as AT&T names its chosen GPON suppliers for deployment next year...
Looking at a half-billion dollar increase in the size of the service assurance market over the next three years and a network increasing in complexity due to convergence, network management and diagnostics provider Tektronix introduced the latest from its next-generation unified assurance platform this week at NXTcomm...
Set in Boston, Martin Scorsese’s movie The Departed includes scenes where mobsters use text messages to communicate as the cops close in. Now VeriSign is using the same technology to help that city’s police fight violent crimes—the first such use of short message service in the U.S...
Although home networks could be a significant opportunity for telecom service providers, substantial hurdles must first be addressed, according to Monday’s session on “The Home Network as IPTV Value Add” sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium...
Three times a year, the IMS Forum conducts interoperability test events called plugfests. Last month, its members gathered at the University of New Hampshire interoperability lab in Durham for the second event. The forum and some of its vendors will be presenting the results of their efforts in the IMS Forum booth at NXTcomm. Manuel Vexler, a member of the board at the forum, spoke with Telephony’s Tim McElligott about the event and about the evolving world of IP multimedia subsystem...
BT’s 21st Century Network project is well under way, but it still has about four years to go, which attests to the sheer scale of the network upgrade and integration challenge the U.K. carrier has taken on. Telephony’s Dan O’Shea recently spoke with Matt Beal, who is in charge of the 21CN project for BT, about the project’s scope, the company’s new test bed and how the 21CN project has stayed on course through recent management changes...
Pieter Poll, chief technology officer for Qwest, will be one of four service provider CTOs headlining the general session panel this week at the ATIS TechThink Technology Conference, co-located with NXTcomm. Telephony Editor-in-Chief Dan O’Shea conducted an e-mail interview with Poll prior to the show to discuss some of the key issues major telcos are dealing with as NXTcomm convenes...
The Dialogic (Booth 1115) SS7AM1 mezzanine card offers high performance and density for signaling, call control, wireless messaging and intelligent network applications on a single AdvancedMC site...
Pitney Bowes MapInfo (Booth 6039) recently released the MapInfo Professional 9.0, the latest version of the company’s flagship application for business mapping and analysis...
Telect (Booth 2851) will unveil a structured cabling solution at NXTcomm, a system that features an innovative configurable central distribution panel that enables triple-play voice, video and data distribution...
Tekno Telecom (Booth 3247) announces its newest product, NetInterConnect, which provides telecommunication carriers the ability to maximize their profitability by recapturing lost revenues due to issues such as phantom, bypass, uncaptured or unidentified network traffic, or incorrect PIU/PLU...
Small form factor board maker Kontron (Booth 3937) is introducing the Kontron ETXexpress-MC, a small form factor board, which will feature up to 800 MHz FSB for outstanding performance...
Tekelec (Booth 5915) introduces its TekCoreSIP Signaling Router (SSR). This capability was developed to provide a core signaling and session framework for the appropriate expansion and optimization of the next-generation network...
Ciena (Booth 6415) introduces its new CN 4200 RS FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform, the latest expansion of its CN 4200 family of products and the flagship products of the company’s FlexSelect Architecture...
Kontron (Booth 3937) is introducing the Kontron AT8404, a PICMG 3.0/3.1-compliant AdvancedTCA carrier board, with four mid-sized AMC slots that support a full range of AMC modules, including TDM interfaces (E-1/T-1, STM-1, OC-3), NPUs, DSPs, processor AMCs and storage AMCs...
Omnitron Systems Technology (Booth 6440) introduces the iConverter GX/TM2, a 10/100/1000 UTP to 1000BASE-X fiber network interface device designed for fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) carrier Ethernet customer premises applications...
The I-Gate 4000 PRO is the flagship media gateway product from Veraz Networks (Booth 6045) and leverages sophisticated in-house digital signal processor technology to enable voice quality at compression rates of up to 16 to 1...
Corning Cable Systems (Booth 4440) introduces the OptiSnap Connector, a field-installable connector that enables the installation of FTTx and other fiber optic networks...
Actelis Networks (Booth 6042) launches its new ML 640 Ethernet Access Device (EAD), which enables service providers to create an intelligent Ethernet access edge with sophisticated bandwidth control, traffic management and QOS features...
Global Mentoring Solutions (6834B) is introducing its new GMS LiveTutor Digital Home to provide advanced customer assistance with software, hardware and digital devices for work, home and play...
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