Telecommunications Americas articles from August 2001

Telecommunications Americas archives from August 2001

Pox De Deux.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
August 1, 2001... Normally, lawyers and journalists don't mix. Where we journalists see black or white, lawyers see shades of gray. But I can empathize with Neil Belson, an attorney, who according to the Washington Post, found his typically $30-a-month calling...

Tunable Lasers Ready to Light Up Networks.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... FREMONT, Calif.--If industry buzz proves correct, network equipment targeted at the metro market increasingly will incorporate tunable lasers. Considered a questionable technology until recently, tunable lasers are finding a place in metro...

Raking It In.(new funding for telecom equipment and service providers)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... A range of telecom equipment and service providers announced new funding rounds. Metawave Communications, provider of smart antenna systems for cellular operators, received $91 million in private financing, bringing its total funding to more...

Company Milestones.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... BellSouth has turned on its Multimedia Internet Exchange (MIX) in South Florida. MIX is an optically switched network access point with four access facilities in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. The Internet data exchange service is...

White-Hot Fiber-Optic Testing Market.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... DWDM takes biggest chunk. Fiber-optic test equipment (FOTE) makers are reaping the benefits of service providers' rapid rollout of new fiber-optic systems, according to a new study by market research firm Frost & Sullivan. Worth $1.4 billion in...

New Fiber Connections.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Two recent deals between telecom carriers and providers of fiber-optic capacity indicate demand for bandwidth continues apace. Deutsche Telekom signed a 20-year lease with Metromedia Fiber Network for optical infrastructure and operational...

Tech Spending Solid.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Expect worldwide spending on hardware, software and service tote strong over the long-term, a number of market research firms say. Despite the slowdown in the U.S. economy, Aberdeen Group says global IT spending should increase 9.6 percent year...

60-GHz Band: Fiber's New Alternative.(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.--With all the fiber going into the ground, you'd think every building would have fiber-speed access, but, in reality, much of the long-haul fiber runs are connected to a very small percentage of metro area buildings. While...

Fixed Wireless Thrives.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Notwithstanding financial troubles affecting larger LMDS (local multipoint distribution system) companies and slower than expected introduction of service by MMDS (multichannel multipoint distribution system) players, the fixed wireless market...

Video Developments.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... A few new partnerships promise to help bring new video services to businesses and consumers. Tellabs and Tollbridge Technologies plan to join forces to let cable operators run voice, data and video services over IP-based access networks....

IP Services, Edge Routing Turn Hybrid.(Current Analysis report)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... NEW YORK--The IP services platform market is emerging rapidly and expanding to include edge routers. These intelligent switches are strategically important for realizing the revenue potential of emerging IP services, as providers move from...

Wheeling and Dealing.(acquisitions)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Internet telephony service provider ADIR VoIP Technologies, a spinoff of Net2Phone, plans to pay $48 million for NetSpeak, a developer of software for managing VoIP networks. Thomson Multimedia will exchange 9.5 million of its new shares for...

Network Expansion.
August 1, 2001... New contracts announced by equipment vendors show service providers continue to spend. Communications Options, a facilities-based CLEC providing data and voice services in Ohio, will use softswitch maker Taqua Systems' Open Compact Exchange...

Nortel Covers All Bets in Metro Optics Market.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 1, 2001... BRAMPTOM, ONTARIO-- Nortel Networks owns the lion's share of the metro optical networking market and is intent on retaining its leadership by rolling out new products aggressively and expanding the technology limits for this growing segment of...

FTTH Gains Momentum.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Naysayers may argue that fiber-to-the-home is far away, but the newly formed FTTH Council hopes to change that feeling. Jointly formed by Alcatel, Corning and Optical Solutions, the council's mission is to educate, promote and accelerate the...

NextWave's Comeback.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... NextWave Telecom, currently reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy directives, has hired Lucent Technologies to begin, phased construction of a 3G CMDA-based wireless network in its 95 PCS markets. NextWave plans to build out a full-scale...

Ethernet on the WAN--A Winner?(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... Ethernet may be well poised to displace circuit switching/TDM as the dominant WAN technology. At least 30 companies touted Ethernet-over-the-WAN products at Supercomm and have teamed to promote the concept through a new Metro Ethernet Forum....

Back Talk.(Company Operations)(Interview)
August 1, 2001... A Conversation with David Brauer of GPU Telcom Services Q: As a 50-year old energy company what made GPU death to get into the telecom business? A: This goes back to the energy company setting up a communications network to provide...

We were everywhere at Supercomm 2001.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... If Supercomm 2001 had a subtheme this year, it was definitely "Rains and Trains," compliments of Mother Nature and Telecommunications [R] magazine. Although heavy rains and thunderstorms stormed into downtown Atlanta throughout the show, it...

Out Sourcing Billing: Providers Tread Lightly.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Many love the idea of getting third-party help but find it's hard to let go completely. A service provider trying to put together a best-of-breed billing solution is a little like an auto mechanic trying to combine parts of a Mazda, Toyota...

Fit for Life.(managing the network life cycle)(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... A healthy approach to managing the network life cycle. Unprecedented levels of technological advancement, competition and shifts in investment are causing dramatic changes in the global communications industry. These changes and the...

Giving SLAs Some Teeth.(service-level agreements)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 1, 2001... Truly excellent SLA monitoring takes place at the network edge. Monitoring Internet service performance in real time used to be nearly impossible. Providers would do their best to report on network service levels, but mere backbone speeds...

Guaranteeing the Right Stuff.(GPRS extends current GSM voice-based services)(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... To provide necessary performance levels, GPRS networks must test for QoS before and after deployment. GPRS (general packet radio service) promises high-speed, always-on, high-throughput IP access for mobile customers and has been marketed...

Fine-Tuning 10-GigE Networks.(10 Gigabit Ethernet)(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... As Ethernet spreads its wings, delivering high performance takes on new challenges. 10 GigE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) is considered the missing link between the LAN, MAN and WAN. In the MAN, 10 GigE provides a very high bandwidth alternative...

Squeezing Spectrum.(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... Providers must tackle capacity issues to reap additional revenues. It took six weeks and more than 100 rounds, but U.S. operators in the FCC F- and C-block reauctions last January proved they are still willing to shell out millions and even...

Sticking Close to Home.(Technology Information)
August 1, 2001... As the subscriber loop moves farther away from the Co, testing migrates as well. One of the most pronounced effects of the Telecom Act of 1996 has been the growing variety of methods to deliver traditional voice services or POTS. Recent...

TeraBurst's OMS A Scalable Optical Switch.(OMS 2100 and OMS 2200 network switches from TeraBurst Technology)(Product Information)
August 1, 2001... www.teraburst.com One way to close the great divide between OEO (optical-electrical-optical) and OO (optical-optical) switches is to take the hybrid approach and combine electrical and photonic switching in the same box. This is the route...

Open Access Solution.(Cuda 1200 edge router from ADC)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... ADC www.adc.com With regulatory pressure to bring on open access, cable MSOs will require access platforms that can perform distributed policy routing at the network edge to ensure subscriber ISP preference, service options and lower...

VoATM Access.(Adtran Total Access network switch)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Adtran www.adtran.com Adtran is giving service providers a chance to make more of their existing ATM networks with its total access packet DLC. By converting TDM voice to ATM via a VCP (voice cell processor) carriers can offer VoATM...

Packetized CDMA.(CDMA Packet Data System from Cambia Networks)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Cambia Networks www.cambianetworks.com IP/wireless gateways by companies such as Cambia Networks with its open 3G platform CDMA Packet Data System 1.0 will be key, as mobile wireless moves to further its connection with the existing IP...

Metro Optic Platform.(Alidian Networks OSN 4400 multiplexer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Alidian www.alidian.com Rounding out its family of metro aggregation and transport systems, Alidian Networks has introduced the Optical Service Node (OSN) 4400. With support for its new SONET add/drop multiplexer cards, TDM voice...

Service Creation Platform.(Atreus Systems xAuthority 2.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Atreus www.atreus-systems.com Service differentiation will determine the success of today's service provider. Atreus Systems has responded with xAuthority 2.0, an LDAP directory-based policy management system with modular service...

IP Packet Tandem Switch.(ICS2000 Broadband Switch from Convergent Networks)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Convergent Networks www.convergentnetworks.com In an effort to incorporate VoIP support further into its Cohesion switching product family, Convergent Networks has introduced an IP packet tandem solution to trunk voice traffic over an...

Policy-based Networking.(Dorado Software's Redcell Network Infrastructure 2.0)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Dorado Software www.doradosoftware.com With Dorado Software's Redcell Network Infrastructure software v. 2.0, service providers can provision and activate Layer 1/2/3 services dynamically based on changing real-time conditions. Redcell...

SIP Route Engine.(Dynamicsoft Route Engine telephone management platform)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Dynamicsoft www.dynamicsoft.com Dynamicsoft is looking to provide SIP service with telcograde reliability through its Route Engine version 1.0 that can route calls on 17 IP and PSTN criteria. The system is designed to route large call...

Converged Fixed Wireless.(Harris Corp's ClearBurst MB)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Harris www.harris.com While the majority of first-gen MMDS systems have primarily focused on data, Harris Corp. has moved ahead with ClearBurst MB, an IP-based converged data/voice platform for the 3.5 GHz- and 10.5-GHz frequency...

Photonic Service Switch.(AcceLight Networks' 540)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... AcceLight Networks www.accelight.com AcceLight Networks will debut a new class of optical switching--photonic service switching--with its 540 core photonic switch. Unlike MEMS, liquid crystal and bubble optical switches that are...

Micro VoDSL DSLAM.(Sirius microDSLAM SuD2000-6 and SuD2000-12 DSL modem/multiplexers)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Net to Net Technologies www.nettonettech.com Considering DSL's distance limitations, service providers are moving to extend their reach through the RT (remote terminal) into previously unserviceable areas like business parks,...

Layer 7 MPLS Tagging.(NetReality's WiseWan)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... NetReality www.netreality.com While current MPLS tagging devices perform at layer 3 or 4, NetReality's WiseWan takes it up to Layer 7 with Wise/MPLS (multiprotocol label switching). Wise/MPLS assigns DiffServ priorities to packets...

Off-Line.(John Glazik, Chairman and CEO of Ennovate Networks)(People)(Interview)
August 1, 2001... Industry leaders share their opinions, philosophies of life and off-hours interests John Glazik President, Chairman and CEO Ennovate Networks In 1979, John Glazik left the nuclear industry and became an engineer at Bell Labs....