Telecommunications Americas articles from February 2001

Telecommunications Americas archives from February 2001

The Wireless World.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... How far away are we from 3G wireless? The Telecommunications[R] staff gets asked that question quite often by equipment and handset vendors, who wonder just how long it will be before they start winning some serious contracts, and by our...

TRIP: VoIP's New Migration Path.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 2001... EAST HANOVER, NJ.--While exchanging traditional traffic between carriers is no new phenomenon, the move to a VoIP-based network will require a protocol that can route PSTN calls over IP networks. Enter TRIP (telephony routing over IP), which...

Ciena Targets Metro Market.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... To up its stake in the metro optical market, Ciena will acquire Cyras Systems for 27 million shares of common stock, a deal worth approximately $2.8 billion. Cyras' K2 Trans-Metro Optical Platform, available in Q2, performs dynamic traffic...

Lucent, Qualcomm Demonstrate High-Speed Wireless.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Faster mobile access to the Internet is coming. Lucent and Qualcomm recently completed the first live data call at the highest speed specified for 3G networks, 2.4 Mbps, which is up to 165 times faster than current technologies. The companies...

RBOCs, Some ISPs Lead DSL Scramble.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... NEW YORK--RBOCs and wholly owned ISPs are emerging as favored DSL providers and many start-up providers are feeling the heat. The old-fashioned supply and demand equation is not holding up, primarily because meeting the demand is proving...

Ericsson, Juniper Develop Mobile Routers.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Wireless networks may finally be coming up to speed. Ericsson and Juniper Networks have formed a joint venture to produce mobile Internet routers for GPRS and 3G networks. The venture combines Ericsson's work in mobile systems, routing...

Europe's Optical Networking Market Soars.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Growing demand for Internet access will push the value of the European optical transport market to $9 billion this year, according to analyst group RHK. With strong shipments in WDM, SDH and DCS equipment, Europe's optical networking industry...

Lucent Still Playing Catch-up.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 2001... MURRAY HILL, NJ.--Lucent Technologies initially missed the boat on fiber-optic networking, which cost it billions in lost revenues and opened the door for Nortel Networks to take a large lead, with 43.2-percent market share compared with...

Make Way for Packet-based Equipment.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The switch is on. Network operators are increasingly opting for packet-based rather than circuit-switched technology, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. During Q3 2000, circuit-switched equipment still generated the bulk of...

UWCC Searches for Harmony.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) is moving to bridge TDMA and GSM-based 3G wireless networks. In addition to reaffirming its support for TDMA/EDGE 3G wireless systems, the UWCC is now endorsing UMTS (universal mobile...

Migrating Ethernet to the WAN.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... To enable service providers to protect their LAN-based technology investments, Sycamore Networks recently unveiled new technology for running Ethernet services across WANs. Designed for use with the SN 10000 transport platform and SN 3000...

Cisco, Ciena Demonstrate VSR Optics.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Working to define an open specification for VSR optics, Cisco and Ciena have completed 10 Gbps interoperability testing. The VSR protocol, which utilizes Gigabit Ethernet networking technologies and a 12-element array of 850-nm lasers--each...

The Business Case for Metro-Optical Systems.(Technology Information)
February 1, 2001... A strong business case exists for building metro-optical networks based on systems emerging from beta testing. This is fortunate, because Wall Street's recent realization that explosive growth means little unless profits and positive cash-flow...

Actually, 2000 Was All Right.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... We have all heard how the wireless data market has failed to arrive--once again. Be patient. It's coming. Development of networks, content, portals, devices, components, third-party connectivity, middleware and user interfaces has begun in...

Back talk.(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
February 1, 2001... A Conversation with Doug Cater of XO Communications Sam Masud, Senior Technology Editor Doug Carter is senior vice president and chief technology officer of XO Communications, formerly NEXTLINK Communications/Concentric. In this...

Should the application server be bundled with or independent of the softswitch?(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... The recent history of the long-distance market has shown that undifferentiated services sold into a competitive market purely on the basis of lower prices do not provide a viable basis for long-term business success. Subscribers' tendency to...

Offering Managed Telephony Applications Softswitch technology is the solution for GoBeam.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 2001... Over the last few months, a great deal of attention has been focused on the subject of managed telephony services. While there is industry consensus that IP-based solutions are the way to go, the confusion surrounding technologies and product...

Public VPNs: Making the Internet Safe.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 2001... A new breed of products offers more than just Internet access. For service providers this means higher margins and reduced customer churn. About a year or so ago, the fringe of the Internet was in pretty sharp focus as the residing point...

Is OFDM Ready for Prime Time?(Technology Information)
February 1, 2001... The potential is great, but the number of competing factions and lack of standards could put orthogonal frequency division multiplexing on the back burner. What influence OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) will have on...

LMDS Players Still Fine Tuning.(Technology Information)
February 1, 2001... The technology looks promising for places where fiber can't reach, but is anyone signing up for the service? High-frequency fixed wireless broadband services made front-page news in 1998 when the FCC auctioned spectrum for hundreds of...

MMDS Hits the Airwaves.(Technology Information)
February 1, 2001... While cable modem and DSL battle it out, broadband wireless may really be the answer. For all that cable and DSL's fancy marketing campaign promises, end users are still faced with three realities: limited reach, slow rollout and poor...

Enabling a Faster Global Internet via Satellite.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Providing delivery solutions at both ends of the Internet is critical to tackling the World Wide Wait. There is no lack of familiarity with the World Wide Wait. Even with the greater reach and lower costs of high-speed Internet connections,...

Maximizing Carrier Investment in Geolocation Equipment.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 1, 2001... Wireless carriers can use the data gathered by geolocation equipment to revolutionize QoS, making dropped calls and bad connections a thing of the past. In a move that has sparked debate within the wireless industry, the FCC has created an...

MPLS and Optical Interworking.(Technology Information)
February 1, 2001... The control plane--the set of mechanisms that signal and route connections--is the key to success of MPLS in optical networks. MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) is now being viewed as a way to address bandwidth growth and the problems of...

Synchronization: The Key to Mass Market VoIP.(Technology Information)
February 1, 2001... QoS is critical to the broad acceptance of VoIP, and over-provisioning, the short-term solution, isn't the answer. Service providers are migrating en masse to IP-based networks to achieve the convergence of multiple services and multiple...

Tellabs' TITAN 6700: A Switch for All Seasons.(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2001... www.tellabs.com Even though the thrust is toward all-optical networks, switches with electrical cores are generally available and deployed. Tellabs has addressed this dilemma with the TITAN 6700, a system whose initial release will meet...

Multiservice Access Switch.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2001... Nortel Networks www.nortelnetworks.com Nortel Networks CVX 600 multiservice access switch may be the answer for service providers with remote locations constrained by power and space. The CVX 600, with the same functionality of the CVX...

3G Network Tester.(Agilent Technologies' Agilent Advisor)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2001... Agilent Technologies www.agilent.com Aiming to help buyers of new wireless spectrum get up and running as quickly as possible, Agilent Technologies has introduced software for installing, maintaining and troubleshooting 3G radio access...

On-Demand Optics.(Lucent Technologies Optical Services Manager and Lucent Technologies Optical Network Navigation System)(Product Development)
February 1, 2001... Lucent Technologies www.lucent.com A simple network change, which once required an army of technicians to provision, is now moving toward an automated point-and-click process that will facilitate a bandwidth-on-demand environment....

Automated Provisioning.(Syndesis' Optimizer and NetProvision Reporter)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2001... Syndesis www.syndesis.com Syndesis' Optimizer and NetProvision Reporter will enable service providers to make real-time competitive decisions about network operations, resource management and customer service. NetProvision Optimizer...

GPRS Location Register.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2001... TECORE www.tecore.com Banking on GSM's wide adoption as a dominant 3G wireless migration path, TECORE is moving forward with a GPRS home location register. GPRS HLS, a software-defined platform, will enable GSM wireless providers to...

DSL Loop Qualification.(Teradyne's Teradyne Celerity Ti ()(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2001... Teradyne www.teradyne.com Trying to determine if the removal of bridged taps will affect ADSL deployment is like trying to find a needle in the haystack. Teradyne's Celerity Ti (tap impact) system is an enhanced loop qualification...

Messaging Server.(Mirapoint's Messaging M2000)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2001... Mirapoint www.mirapoint.com Internet communications are placing an increasingly large burden on servers, as service providers struggle to find the resources to cope with a blizzard of messages. Instead of running messaging applications...

OSS Integration Platform.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 1, 2001... AP Engines www.apengines.com AP Engines is bridging the OSS gap with its new OSS integration platform. Composed of the AP InterLink Service Creation and AP InterLink Usage Mediation, the platform can automatically deploy next-gen...

Off-Line.(David Brauer vice president of strategic initiatives at GPU Service)(Company Operations)
February 1, 2001... David Brauer has learned something important in his nearly 20 years in the energy industry and he brings that to the table when making telecom decisions in his role as vice president of strategic initiatives at GPU Service Inc. "You must have...