Telecommunications Americas articles from April 2003

Telecommunications Americas archives from April 2003

Coming around again. (Commentary).(Editorial)
April 1, 2003... Every year, choosing our 10 Hottest Technologies usually turns into one of our Top 10 Headaches. Perhaps we put a little bit too much pressure on ourselves, but the goal has been to highlight for our readers the 10 technologies that will blow...

Movin' on up: Kennedy plots aggressive course for Tellabs. (For Starters).(Ed Kennedy, president of Tellabs Operations)(Interview)
April 1, 2003... Ed Kennedy, who came to Tellabs via its acquisition of Ocular Networks in January 2002, was recently named president of Tellabs Operations and executive vice president of Tellabs, promotions that put him in charge of all aspects of the...

Ethernet dominates CompTel metro talk. (For Starters).(Competitive Telecommunications Association )
April 1, 2003... What's going on in the metro? A lot, and a lot more growth is coming if you believe market prognostications. The hot spot right now is Ethernet services, but the question on every service provider's mind is how the heck to make money off those...

Con Edison extends service to underserved SMBs. (For Starters).
April 1, 2003... To earn respect in the communications business, you have to not only show up, but also prove you're worthy of that respect. New York-based Con Edison Communications has certainly earned it, Since its inception in 1999, the company has gained a...

Longest Wi-Fi connection makes the record books. (For Starters).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... They have the world's tallest man and the world's largest pancake; now Guinness World Records has officially recognized the longest distance achieved using WiFi connectivity. The record--310 km--belongs to Alvarion and The Swedish Space Corp....

AT&T tops in IP-VPN services. (For Starters).
April 1, 2003... AT&T was the market leader last year for managed IP-based VPN services, outpacing second-place WorldCom by a full percentage point, according to a recent IDC report. IDC estimated that of the $2.3 billion that enterprise customers spent on...

Last-mile breakthroughs.
April 1, 2003... Despite the deep industry recession and muddled public policy, much innovation in access network technology is taking place. More than 40 companies--start-ups to established players--are developing systems that incorporate a wide range of...

The great grid revolution: no longer limited to research projects, grid computing is catching fire. But what does the future hold?
April 1, 2003... It's been a long wait, but the grid science projects of the 1970s, '80s and '90s have finally matured into commercially viable business computing (and network) infrastructures. No longer merely a means for researchers to harness the power of...

10 Hottest Technologies: the new mantra; maximize your investments.
April 1, 2003... The mantra for 2003 is making more out of what you've got, and no place is that more true than in telecom. Gone are the days when service providers deploy the latest and greatest just because it is the latest and greatest. While service...

Maximum flexibility: two drafts offer unique capabilities for building Layer 2 VPNs. (Network Core).
April 1, 2003... Layer 2 VPNs and Pseudo Wires present a way to support ATM, frame relay or private line services over an IP/MPLS infrastructure. This capability has become increasingly important as providers begin to consolidate their various networks onto IP...

VDSL: short but sweet.
April 1, 2003... With downstream data rates of up to 52 Mbps, VDSL is the fastest version of DSL available today, enabling applications such as digital broadcast video, video on demand, Internet access and multiple lines of digital telephony. By providing high...

Celite Systems' DSL headend: driving efficient DSL delivery. (2003 Product of the Month).(CS200 and CS400 broadband head-end access platforms)
April 1, 2003... www.celitesystems.com Faced with high deployment costs, telcos have not been able to drive the price of DSL service under $30 a month to reach mass market penetration. If DSL is to have a chance against cable, service providers need a new...

Copper-based metro: Actelis Networks. (New Products).(MetaLIGHT 100E system)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... www.actelis.com While the metro Ethernet market is certainly compelling, the reality of high costs of laying fiber to buildings is often something too much to bear for providers and customers. Actelis is giving service providers the...

High-density multiplexer: ADTRAN. (New Products).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... www.adtran.com. ADTRAN is giving service providers a better way to manage their DS1 business with its MX2820 high-density multiplexer. The MX2820 can free up a carrier's already-crammed rack space with one chassis that can support up to 18...

Wireless backhaul: Alcatel. (New Products).(7390 LMDS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Alcatel www.alcatel.com. Alcatel is taking its 7390 LMDS wireless backhaul solution up a notch with the release of its Quad El multimode terminal. Featuring embedded Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA), this latest terminal can reduce...

Edge router: Cisco Systems. (New Products).(7301 series)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... www.cisco.com Cisco is taking IP/MPLS services to the customer network edge with the release of its 7301 series router. As a single-rack unit router built for customer edge applications such as Internet campus gateway or service provider...

Multi-protocol testing: Ixia. (New Products).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... www.ixiacom.com Ixia has integrated a number of new routing protocols to enhance its performance test suites with support for IPv4 and IPv6 routing (BGP, OSPF, ISIS and RIP), MPLS signaling protocols (LDP and RSVP-TE), L2 (Martini draft),...

Edge concentrator: Seranoa Networks. (Product Spot).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... www.seranoanetworks.com. Should edge aggregation be an expensive proposition? Boxhorough, Mass.-based Seranoa Networks doesn't think so. With the launch of its WANport T3 Edge concentrator, a line of IP-aware Layer 2 switches, the company...

Next-gen cross-connect: Tellabs. (Product Spot).(Tellabs 5500 NGX)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... www.tellabs.com What's the next step if, as a vendor, you're best known for grooming traffic in order to make more efficient use of network bandwidth? Why, you might add transport and data bandwidth management capabilities to your DXC...

Off line.(a talk with Danny Briere, CEO of TeleChoice)(Interview)
April 1, 2003... The telecom industry is actually a lot sicker than most people realize, according to Danny Briere, CEO of consulting firm TeleChoice. "I think that people want it to be better and they're using whatever indication they can to try to say it's...