Telecommunications Americas articles from January 2004

Telecommunications Americas archives from January 2004

Cable & Wireless exits U.S. via Chapter 11.(For Starters)
January 1, 2004... Cable & Wireless has reached an agreement with Gores Technology Group on the sale of "substantially all" of its U.S. assets for $125 million, although the agreement is dependent on a number of conditions being met. One of these is that the...

Telcordia gears up for the next 20 years: with the 20th anniversary of divestiture this month, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) also celebrates two decades. Matt Desch, Telcordia's president and CEO, says the best is yet to come--for the company and for the industry.(For Starters)(Interview)
January 1, 2004... Q. No one in the industry is looking beyond two to three years, so I won't ask you to project what the next 20 will look like, but when you look out on the horizon, what do you see in terms of industry structure? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Lucent: attacking the cable market through services.(For Starters)
January 1, 2004... Lucent Technologies is building on its cable strategy, but don't expect the vendor to run out and buy a CMTS (cable modem termination system) vendor anytime soon. "We've had our chances to do that and passed on all of them," says Dave Dial,...

Mass market competition: a mirage? 20 years after divestiture, the competitive waters are as murky as ever. Broadband is the biggest morass of all.(telecommunications transmission technology)
January 1, 2004... From a cold, hard money perspective, the payoff's been dismal, to put it mildly. High bandwidth to subscribers that would enable faster Internet access, VoIP and video is still a distant goal. Despite an estimated $150 billion in combined...

20/20: Visions for 2004 and beyond; What does the telecom future hold?(Interview)
January 1, 2004... According to several of the service provider executives we interviewed for this year's 20/20 Visions cover story, looking more than 18 months to two years out is something done only behind closed doors, at night and in whispered voices. Yet...

Advent Networks launches compact broadband Switch/Router.(Product of the Month Telecommunications[R] 2004)
January 1, 2004... www.adventnetworks.com Contrary to popular belief, there's a lot more to a cable operator's existing HFC plant than meets the eye. And for the capex-constrained cable operator that may have held its commercial service plans back due to the...

CWDM switch.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Allied Telesyn www.alliedtelesyn.com Clearly, CWDM (coarse WDM) is the technology of choice where service providers are fiber constrained. As the first in a series of new products to bolster its ongoing focus on the service provider...

Service-Built Edge.(Product Spot)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Juniper Networks www.juniper.net To achieve enhanced performance from a routing platform, a service provider should not have to suffer a lack of scale, says Juniper Networks. Juniper has responded to this need with its M7i and M10i...

Next-gen messaging.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Data Connection www.dataconnection.com Data Connection has introduced MailNGen, a voice mail, e-mail and fax messaging solution that supports both traditional TDM connectivity and VoIP on industry-standard hardware. MailNGen gives...

Broadband provisioning.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Incognito Software www.incognito.com The burgeoning market for advanced IP services brings added complexity to broadband networks. To help MSOs better deal with this complexity, Incognito Software has introduced Broadband Command...

Compact base station.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Lucent Technologies www.lucent.com Let's face it: Every wireless network has coverage gaps. To fill in coverage in those hard-to-reach areas that don't justify a full-blown base station such as airports, office buildings or sports...

VoIP switch/gateway.(Product Spot)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Quintum Technologies www.quintum.com Quintum Technologies has introduced a new line of its Tenor DX VoIP products that can simultaneously extend Tenor's capabilities and 'transparent installation' to support larger PBXs utilizing...

Usage-based access.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Nortel Networks www.nortelnetworks.com Regardless of the access medium, the true promise of broadband networks is not merely speed, but rather a self-service network that allows users to customize how they get their bandwidth...

Layer 4-7 testing.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Ixia www.ixiacom.com Ixia has introduced a purpose-built Application Load Module (ALM), an integrated hardware and software platform to deliver stateful Layer 4-7 transactions, enabling high performance, high capacity and test...

10GigE over copper testing.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Spirent Communications www.spirentcom.com Spirent has debuted what it calls the industry's first 10GigE over copper test interface based on 10GBASE-CX4, the IEEE draft standard 802.3ak. The test interface runs on Spirent's SmartBits...

Offline.
January 1, 2004... Telecom is unquestionably the largest industry in the world bar none, based on revenues and capital expenditure, says Sameer Padhye, the head of service provider marketing worldwide for Cisco Systems. That means that any downturns that may have...