Telecommunications Americas articles from July 2001

Telecommunications Americas archives from July 2001

Mixed Times.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
July 1, 2001... With due apologies for mangling that memorable line from Dickens, you could say that while these may not be the best of times, they're not the worst either. Take last month's Supercomm 2001 show in Atlanta. The event is probably a fair...

Avaya Challenges Lucent Grip with Network-Hosted Solutions.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-- When Lucent spun off its corporate networking business last year to form Avaya, the service provider market was booming and Lucent was taking a lean, mean approach to its core networking business. Ironically, while this...

Small Markets Jump to VoB.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... DSL top choice. Shipments of VoB (voice over broadband) gateway equipment totaled $53 million in 2000, according to a new RHK study. Jetstream led the market with a 29-percent share, followed by CopperGom, 28 percent; Accelerated Networks, 21...

In the Metro.(Infonetics Research)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Worldwide revenues for intelligent optical network hardware are projected to total $10.3 billion in 2001, a 60-percent rise over 2000, according to a recent report from Infonetics Research. A big bulk of it comes from the metro and regional...

Billing World.(AT and T chooses Convergys)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Providers call talk about next-gen services until they are blue in the face, but until they can bill for them, forget about it. AT&T Wireless appears to have taken this to heart, selecting Convergys Corp. to support its deployment of 3G...

SBC Drives Broadband to Customer's Doors.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... SAN ANTONIO, Texas--Feeling the threat of an unregulated cable industry, SBC is leading the drive to bring telephony-based broadband to smaller businesses and residences. The cable industry now has 75 percent of the broadband market and,...

By the Numbers.(high-end router market)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Q1 sales in the high-end router market declined 10 percent quarter over quarter to $753 million, according to a recent Dell'Oro Group report. Cisco and Juniper continue to hold the bulk of the market share with 59 percent and 38 percent,...

The Chosen One.(Teleglobe, Broadwing contract)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Teleglobe has selected Broadwing's all-optical switched network as its provider for Teleglobe's network in the United States. Under the agreement, Broadwing will provide Teleglobe with the industry's first nationwide 10 Gbps wavelength services...

Wolves Howl at the CLEC Door.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... NEWARK, N.J.--Telecom companies are feeding off the bones of fallen CLECs like hungry jackals. In March, AT&T bought NorthPoint Communications' assets--but not its customers--for the rock-bottom price of $135 million. Now international callback...

More Stats.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The little guys are making some headway. According to a report from Infonetics U.S./Canadian Tier 3 service providers will grow slowly, spending $1.02 billion on network equipment in 2005. According to the research group, carriers plan to...

Riding the Light.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The optical announcements keep coming. Sycamore and Utfors, a pan-Nordic carrier, announced the opening of a major network route connecting Stockholm and Helsinki using Sycamore's SN 10000 ultralong-haul transport platform. A portion of the...

Back talk.(Rob Shanaban of Conversant Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... A Conversation with Rob Shanaban of Conversent Networks Rob Shanaban co-founded Conversent Networks of Marlboro, Mass., in June 1998 alongside cable entrepreneur Robert Fanch serving as president and COO initially and eventually taking on...

ITC ^ DeltaCom.(sticks to original business plan)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Finding the Right Niche At a time when many service providers are revisiting their business plans, ITC DeltaCom plans to hold course. The West Point, Ga.-based carrier has built a 10,000-mile fiber network and provides a broad range of...

Outsourcing Storage: Part-time Help.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Although SANs are all the rage, storage service providers are finding too much room at the inn. Internet content and corporate data seem to breed like rabbits. To cope, businesses can add servers or deploy new Fibre Channel technology to...

A new wave of optical equipment aims at driving down the economics of metro, long-haul networks.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... New Age Optical Player Even as carriers make the transition from 2.5-Gbps channels to 10-Gbps channels in the network core, optical equipment vendors are at the threshold of delivering 40-Gbps wavelengths. Listen carefully, and you'll even...

ENUM: Mapping the PSTN to IP.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... Can a phone number really be the single point of contact for any service? While initial efforts to converge the PSTN and IP networks held great promise, the world is still waiting for true integration. The answer, however, may be right in...

So Long Bits, Hello Services.(using MPLS (multiprotocol label switching))(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
July 1, 2001... With MPLS, scalable routing and intelligent optical switching, raw capacity can be converted into revenue-generating services. The Internet offers immense scalability and adaptability for a seemingly endless array of applications. The...

Bye-Bye Best Effort.(using SDM and MPLS platforms)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
July 1, 2001... QoS assurance for MPLS-enabled IP VPNs moves closer to reality. It's understandable why service providers see MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) as a promising technology for their IP-VPN infrastructures. Overcoming the Internet's...

The Metro Gets Smart.(Optical packet nodes)(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... Optical packet nodes integrate IP and optics for optimized performance. To handle specific metro network requirements, nodes must accommodate tremendous bandwidth and be smart enough to perform requisite functions. Several intelligent...

The IP Equation in the Mobile Internet.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
July 1, 2001... Accommodating IP data and mobile networks requires a fresh, integrated approach. IP networks weren't designed to track mobile users, and today's mobile networks weren't designed to carry packet data. Yet the birth of the mobile Internet...

How Do You Spell 'Customer'? SERVICE.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
July 1, 2001... To make money, traditional providers must offer a selection of premium content and applications. When market analysts and finance experts refer to current economic conditions, they speak about "market confusion." In an era dominated by...

Getting in Tune.(tunable optical networks)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Chien-Yu Kuo Stephen Rose OXCs and ROADMs are enabling the tunable optical network. WDM has introduced a new degree of freedom into optical networking. When initially used as a mechanism to relieve fiber exhaust, wavelength selection...

Focus on the Subscriber.(subscriber management)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... As more providers become involved, service-centered subscriber management keeps everybody happy. While offering a compelling market opportunity, the increasing adoption of broadband and the introduction of value-added services require...

Catena Networks: POTS +DSL on Every Line.(Catena Networks CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier)(Product Development)
July 1, 2001... With a potential market the Yankee Group predicts will grow from 2.8 million subscribers in 2001 to more than 10.5 million in 2005, two key things are holding back mass scale deployment of broadband DSL service: high capital and operations...

Lucent Technologies.(developing Lucent Technologies Stinger MRT for remote DSL)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... www.lucent.com Lucent is taking DSL to remote customers with its ATM-switch-based Stinger MRT (micro remote terminal) model. Its trunking options enable it to be deployed in remote terminals and in MTU, MDU and hospitality segments....

Airspan Networks.(announce Airspan Networks AS4020 wireless access product line available in 2002)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.airspan.com Airspan Networks has announced the AS4020, an IP-based wireless access product line for network operators and ISPs seeking to compete against ILECs with monopolies over last-mile wireline access to customers. Designed for...

Terawave Communications.(Terawave Communications TW-150 RT passive optical networking equipment)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.terawave.com The bandwidth bottleneck plaguing consumers and businesses as they wait for DSL may loosen some with the deployment of PON (passive optical networking). New PON equipment from Terawave Communications is designed to let...

Acterna.(NetOptimize Capacity Manager for Data Networks network management software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.acterna.com To help carriers better monitor the QoS, Acterna has introduced a new OSS solution for keeping track of components in DSL, ATM, frame relay and VoIP networks. The NetOptimize Capacity Manager for Data Networks helps...

ONI Systems.(ONLINE2500 Optical Edge Service Platform)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.oni.corn ONI Systems says its new ONLINE2500 Optical Edge Service Platform cuts the cost and size of multiservice WDM equipment, combining multiwavelength transport with managed wavelength services in a compact, two-rack unit chassis....

P-Cube.(SE10000 and SMP IP service engine suite)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.p-cube.com Sunnyvale, Calif.-based P-Cube's IP service engine suite--SE1000 (service engine) and SMP (service management platform)--gives providers a new method to handle network deployments. These solutions enable providers to manage...

WaveSmith Networks.(DN4100 and DN2100 switches)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.wavesmithnetworks.com WaveSmith Networks says its DN line of switches offers service providers the opportunity to migrate to next-gen IP/MPLS services while continuing to make use of existing ATM systems. The product line consists of...

Tyco Electronics.(AccessEthernet Ethernet-to-the-home solution)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.tyco.com The new Ethernet-to-the-home solution from Tyco Electronics lets carriers and MSOs provide homes and businesses with Ethernet connections of 1 Mbps to 100 Mbps. Comprising customer premises and street cabinet equipment tough...

Pelago Networks.(Odysea service creation family)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.pelagonet.com Pelago Networks says its new Odysea service creation family lets local providers introduce new services more quickly and cheaply. The solution consists of the Odysea SCE, a Java-based visual service creation environment;...

BigBand Networks.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.bigbandnet.com BigBand Networks introduced new modules for its Broadband Multimedia-Service Router (BMR), which is designed to help MSOs provide customers with content and interactive services. The two new modules for the BMR, which...

Lucent Technologies.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.lucent.com Lucent is extending the power of the Lucent SpringTide 7000 IP service delivery platform to wireless networks. The move, part of the Lucent Flexent wireless IP core network architecture announced in March, will enable mobile...

XACCT Technologies.(intelligent software agents)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... www.xacct.com XACCT has released new intelligent software agents to enhance the capabilities of its N2B (network to business) platform. By providing information on how and what Layer 2 (data link layer) through layer 7 (application layer)...

SS8 Networks.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.SS8.com SS8 Network has leveraged its expertise in IP signaling to deliver a solution that allows end-users to be reached via a single number regardless of whether the end-user is using a fixed/mobile phone, PC or pager. The SS8...

Advanced Switching Communications.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.asc.com The move to 3G wireless networks won't happen right away; carriers will still need to offer services over existing network infrastructure. To help manage the transition to 3G, Advanced Switching Communications says its...

Tollbridge Technologies.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.tollbridgetech.com Cable companies that also aspire to he telephone companies have a new piece of equipment to use: Tollbridge Technologies' TB300 PSTN gateway, which links the DOCSIS (data over cable service interface specification)...

[0] ONI Systems.(OPTX Software Suite 4.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... www.oni.com ONI Systems says the latest release of its OPTX Software Suite, 4.0, lets network operators automate the provisioning of services that run across multiple subnetworks--including rings and the long-haul core--in one step. The...

Off-Line: Industry leaders share their opinions, philosophies of life and off-hours interests.(Osmo Hautanen CEO of Fenix Enterprises)(Company Operations)
July 1, 2001... Osmo Hautanen excels at transforming unknown brands into market leaders within highly competitive environments, but that doesn't mean be's not scared. "Part of winning is the fear of losing, "he said. "That's what gets me out of bed quickly and...