Telecommunications Americas articles from April 2004

Telecommunications Americas archives from April 2004

Ready to roll.(Commentary)
April 1, 2004... Are things finally looking up for telecom? At least one prominent financial analyst thinks so. "On the margin, things are getting better, and we've reached an important inflection point," says Lehman Bros. telecom analyst Steve Levy. In early...

Vendors search for the right access mix.(For Starters)
April 1, 2004... Even before any RBOC has spent a dime to upgrade its network to support voice, video and data, their influence is already changing the dynamics of the broadband access equipment market. While the U.S. broadband market has been until now solely...

Music with a ring to it.(For Starters)
April 1, 2004... It happens all the time. You hear a song in the airport, train station or bar and it gets stuck in your head. Even more annoyingly, you don't know the title or artist. MusiKube promises some relief--although it won't get the song out of...

VoIP providers: the more, the merrier?(For Starters)
April 1, 2004... By the time cable and telco players get into the residential VoIP business, will there be many subscribers left to enroll? Yet another player--with a potentially large subscriber base--has moved into the space with a barebones offer that...

Rethinking the rack.(For Starters)( RackFrame)
April 1, 2004... Remember the erector sets you had as a kid? You know, there were three or four standard pieces, and with them you could build everything from a 1/400 scale of the Eiffel Tower to an airplane. Move that concept to the telecom space, and you've...

VoIP: an end to international tariffs?(Industry Forum)
April 1, 2004... It's true that the Internet really paved the way for making telephone calls cheaper. Carriers such as Net2Phone have long been offering PC-based calls as low as one cent a minute for domestic calls. In fact, in many countries, you can walk into...

Back in the saddle: false starts behind them, MSOs seem ready to jump into VoIP.
April 1, 2004... Cable operators are finally doing more than stepping into the VoIP waters and quickly retreating with a scream. Really. They all say so. Every big MSO will at least trial VoIP this year, and many will roll out service with "black...

10 Hottest Technologies.(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... It's funny how this industry works: The slightest inkling of a recovery, and suddenly technology is sexy again. In truth, although many carriers and vendors slashed R&D dramatically, technology development never really went out of vogue....

Rethinking services.(Industry Forum)(Reliability Of Telecommunications industry)
April 1, 2004... Traditionally, telecom infrastructure companies have relied on products rather than services to drive growth. They have used product price and features to deliver value, while services have been viewed as supporting activities, at best. ...

Product of the month Telecommunications[R] 2004: Juniper networks' M320 tackles the Multiservice Edge.
April 1, 2004... www.juniper.net Once effectively a collection of individual networks dedicated to specific services, e.g. frame relay and ATM, the service provider network edge is moving toward a common, multiservice intelligent network that can preserve...

Media server.(New Products)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Convedia www.convedia.com As more wireless operators move to offer IP-based services such as push-to-talk, Convedia is integrating Multimedia Resource Function (MRF) for 2.5G and 3G wireless networks into its media server platforms:...

Enhanced edge.(New Products)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Laurel Networks www.laurelnetworks.com Laurel is moving its ST2000 up the edge stack with its ShadeTree 3.0 service-enabling system software enhancement. Available now, ShadeTree 3.0 provides a high-performance LNS (L2TP network...

Advanced Session Control.(New Products)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NexTone Communications www.nextone.com As the Session Control/Session Border Control concept continues to move out of its nascent stage, NexTone Communications is stepping up the capabilities of its offering with FlexControl, a suite...

Ethernet over copper.(Product Spot)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Actelis Networks www.actelis.com Where some may see a lack of fiber as a problem, Actelis Networks sees it as an opportunity to deliver high-bandwidth Ethernet services over the copper wire already in every building. Racking up a...

EPON.(Product Spot)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Salira Optical Networks www.salira.com Balancing the efficiency of Ethernet with the legacy TDM world has proven to be a winning strategy for Salira Optical Networks, and Salira is moving on the promise with Release 2.2 of its 2000 EPON...

Offline.
April 1, 2004... Certainly the market for IP routing products appears to be gaining strength. More conservative telcos are taking an interest in a technology that only start-up carriers in the past embraced as a means of keeping operating costs low. But are...