Telecommunications Americas articles from July 2002

Telecommunications Americas archives from July 2002

VoIP, again. (Commentary).(Voice over IP telephony)
July 1, 2002... As someone who keeps up with industry trends, I was disappointed, but not particularly surprised, at the responses from panelists participating in the service provider roundtable hosted by Telecommunications[R] at Supercomm last month in...

VoIP ain't easy, Reality Check panelists say. (For Starters).(Voice over IP)
July 1, 2002... For the last several years VoIP has been a buzz word, but like everything in telecom there's always reality beyond the hype. At the Reality Check: Rethinking the Metro Network roundtable hosted by Telecommunications(r) magazine at Supercomm,...

Whiling away the hours. (For Starters).(new cell phone entertainment services)
July 1, 2002... Don't just use the cell phone for phone calls-play games on it and watch movie clips, too, software companies say. Nextel subscribers nostalgic for their youthful days spent playing Intellivision video games on the family TV can now...

The right address. (For Starters).(Web site addresses)
July 1, 2002... Having a certain Web site address may not be the guarantee of success that some companies hoped. Take www.socks.com, for example -- please. But one dot.com still in business, NeuStar, hopes to make a go of selling personalized Web site...

Building an all-purpose network. (For Starters).
July 1, 2002... On its home page, Masergy Communications bills itself as a provider of customer-controlled networks. But if the Irving, Texas, start-up, which has about $57 million in funding, was in the business of giving advice it might say something like...

Long live broadband.
July 1, 2002... The high-tech industry has played a pivotal role in transforming the United States into an information society. The Internet has changed business and family life and the telecom industry has taken center stage in the national economy. The...

Hitting the sweet spot: managed voice services present a huge opportunity for service providers. Can they capitalize?(time division multiplexing)
July 1, 2002... In the TDM-based Centrex world, end user choices for voice services were as limited as vanilla and chocolate. As a result, service providers' TDM-based Centrex offerings lost out to premises-based PBX solutions, which increasingly offered rich...

Band-aid or broadband? A converged packet-based network breaks the remote terminal bottleneck. (Spotlight: DSL Grows Up).
July 1, 2002... Increasing demand for broadband continues to place pressure on LECs and other service providers to upgrade their access infrastructure. As pressure grows, carriers are encountering a bottleneck in cost-effectively deploying broadband and DSL...

Hit the road, jack: intelligent NIDs get DSL modems out of the house. (Spotlight: DSL Grows Up).(Network Interface Devices)
July 1, 2002... Successful mass deployment of any service has always relied upon standardized network equipment with a regimented, disciplined process of installation, deployment and support. DSL services have rolled out in a different fashion, with a variety...

Independent's day: can IOCs make a business case for DSL? (Spotlight: DSL Grows Up).(Independent operating companies)
July 1, 2002... Residential and business customers continue to demand greater bandwidth at economical prices. In fact, consumers say they want broadband more than any other communications service they now receive, according to a recent IEC study. DSL service...

Sharpening the edge: mini-DSLAMs can deliver bundled services and grow market share until FTTH becomes reality. (Spotlight: DSL Grows Up).(mini-DSL access multiplexers; Fiber-to-the-home)
July 1, 2002... Market success is achieved by controlling one of two primary interfaces: the content interface or the physical interface. Microsoft already commands the content interface, but competition is intense for the pipe that runs between the service...

Ready to roll: with its punch list complete, SHDSL is poised to take on the business market. (Spotlight: DSL Grows Up).(symmetric high-density DSL)
July 1, 2002... Despite the unsettled nature of the telecom industry, over the last year SHDSL (symmetric high-density DSL) technology has become ready for prime time. SHDSL captures the best of a wide range of earlier broadband technologies, such as ADSL,...

Gimme give! Bringing five 9s reliability to the IP network edge. (Network Edge).
July 1, 2002... As business IP emerges as the predominant element in network traffic, progressive service providers are positioning themselves to deliver the mission-critical, IPdriven services (e.g., electronic data interchange, e-commerce and VoIP) demanded...

SentitO's NEO: a flexible, IP-based next-gen switch. (2002 Product of the Month).(SentitO Networks ships NEO Services Switch)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... www.sentito.com There is no "Groundhog Day." Start-ups that don't get it right the first time likely won't be given a second chance. But service providers will be glad that the people who founded Salix Technologies didn't give up on...

Converged VoCable. (Product Spot).(Cedar Point's SAFARI Communications' Media Switching system])(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Cedar Point Communications www.cedarpointcom.com Many expect the next-gen cable network will be a fully distributed architecture with multiple elements. And while this architecture has gained ground, Derry, N.H.-based Cedar Point has...

Optical Ethernet. (New Products).(Atrica Coarse WDM)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Atrica www.atrica.com It's a direction that many say makes sense--skip SONET and put Ethernet directly over DWDM to increase fiber capacity. While some Ethernet vendors have married Ethernet with Coarse WDM, Atrica claims it has the...

CPE-based RPR. (New Products).(Luminous Networks E-Series)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Luminous www.luminous.com If RPR (resilient packet ring) is such a hot technology that brings the best SONET features to a packet network, then why keep it bottled up in the metro network? It needn't be that way, which is why Luminous...

Optical edge grooming. (New Products).(Metro-Optix CityStream 5000)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Metro-Optix www.metro-optix.com With Release 2 of the CityStream 5000, Metro-Optix has added VT1.5 wideband cross-connect capabilities to its bandwidth manager targeted at the optical network edge. As a result of the upgrade, the...

Ethernet-based DSLAM. (New Products).(Net to Net Technologies upgrades IPD12000 and IPD4000 DSLAMs)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Net to Net Technologies www.nettonet.com To support the oncoming full service copper network, Net to Net Technologies has released a 24-port ADSL module and given its Ethernetbased DSLAM greater uplink bandwidth with the addition of a...

Multi-service switch. (New Products).(WaveSmith Networks DN 7100)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... WaveSmith Networks www.wavesmith.com For some time WaveSmith Networks has said that existing ATM switches have gotten somewhat long in the tooth. The Acton, Mass., startup is backing up the talk with its DN 7100. Intended to compete...

Metro optical transport. (Product Spot).(Photuris)
July 1, 2002... Photuris www.photuris.com It has stayed off the radar, but Photuris hopes its optical transport solution will set the company apart from the competition in the interoffice and regional markets. Photuris may have the edge on both...

Off-line.
July 1, 2002... Trying to sell products to carriers these days is kind of like trying to orbit a spaceship around a black hole, says Jay Borden, president and CEO of OSS vendor Granite Systems, who says he plans to spend some time adding up the aggregate debt...