Telecommunications Americas articles from June 2002

Telecommunications Americas archives from June 2002

What if? (Commentary).
June 1, 2002... "We are aware of multiple equipment companies that have been told either explicitly or implicitly that their prospects would be much better if they could get a larger, well-established company to sell and service their exciting new products,...

DSLAMs: uprising in the works. (For Starters).
June 1, 2002... Knock it if you must, but the DSLAM market is set for some steady growth the next few years. The successful deployments of remote DSL CO equipment in Europe, China, Korea and Japan and DSLAM vendors' integration of new technologies will drive...

Coming attractions. (For Starters).(CinemaNow runs a Web site offering movies either as streaming media or a download)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Enron s 20 year exclusive deal to deliver Blockbuster videos on demand to SBC, Verizon, Qwest and other DSL customers failed miserably. But other video-on-demand schemes might prove more long lasting. CinemaNow, which is backed by Lions Gate...

On the record with worldcom's Kerry McKelvey. (For Starters).(Kerry McKelvey, president of WorldCom's broadband solutions group)
June 1, 2002... With 13 markets deployed, WorldCom is encouraged by the next-gen, non-line-of-sight broadband wireless solutions it has in trials. Kerry McKelvey, president of WorldCom's broadband solutions group, talked to Telecommunications [R] about the...

Bandwidth junkies. (For Starters).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... U.S. service providers looking to keep consumers online long enough to sop up excess network bandwidth might follow the example of British Telecom, which is testing its luck with online gambling. BT's AOL-like openworld service, which...

See you in court. (For Starters).
June 1, 2002... Smelling blood in the water, law firms are on the hunt for plaintiffs to join class-action suits filed on behalf of disgruntled telecom investors. Enron and Global Crossing may be receiving most of the attention for their accounting...

It your clothes could talk. (For Starters).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Looking for the latest trade show tchotchke? France Telecom may have it: The carrier's R&D labs have designed the prototype for a flexible screen made of woven optical fibers capable of downloading and displaying static or animated graphics...

Full coverage. (For Starters).
June 1, 2002... Trade shows these days always swarm 'with cell phone users. To make sure wireless coverage at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans gets done right, the center decided to do it itself. The facility has set up its own common wireless...

Feed the monster: web services seen as means of increasing network traffic. (For Starters).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Carriers naturally want to boost traffic on their networks. One sure-fire way: run more third-party applications over them, according to Kinzan, a provider of Web services software. NTT's DoCoMo service sets a perfect example. Thousands of...

Net to Net[TM] Technologies. (Corporate Profile: Advertisement).
June 1, 2002... Quick Take Founded in 1998 by Ken Latimer, Net to Net Technologies began with a singular vision: to provide the DSL market with a simpler, more cost-effective approach to DSL networking. Net to Net now delivers that vision with an entirely...

Why 3G wireless?(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... 3G wireless seems to be all about new technology, multibillion-dollar expansions and high-wire international finance deals with little or no discussion of service offerings or value propositions. Surely investors know what this could lead to,...

Catena Network. (Corporate Profile: Advertisement).(Company Profile)
June 1, 2002... Quick Take Catena Networks builds innovative broadband access systems that enable facilities-based telecommunications carriers to achieve mass-market deployment of integrated POTS and broadband DSL services, and integrate their separate...

A conversation with Mark Cortner of TalkingNets. (Back Talk).(Interview)
June 1, 2002... Mark Cortner is vice president of marketing for TalkingNets. Prior to joining the company, he was director-of-strategic partners marketing at Winstar Communications and beld positions at TLC where be led the marketing efforts of an internal...

Who's better suited to deal with the MPLS migration path? (Cross Talk).(Multiprotocol Label Switching)
June 1, 2002... Router Vendors will lead the Way For ATM, a Step-By-Step Process Ross Callon, Juniper Networks With the continued growth of the Internet, it's clear the world is trending toward greater and more ubiquitous public communications. It is...

No pain maximum gain: Carriers have myriad technologies to help ease the spectrum crunch.
June 1, 2002... In mobile wireless, there's one inescapable truth: spectrum is finite. Couple that with a shift in Wall Street's expectations and ongoing growth in minutes of use in voice and data, and the drive to maximize existing infrastructure is...

Multirouter technology changes everything: rethinking the router's fundamental role replaces virtual solutions with real ones. (Network Core).
June 1, 2002... While incremental changes to router technology have made them faster, denser (number of interfaces) and generally more efficient, the router's basic monolithic architecture, in which a single processor performs all routing calculations, hasn't...

Optical sees the light: next-gen management helps mesh optical networks reach their potential. (Optical Networking).
June 1, 2002... According to predictions of just a few years ago, we should now be surrounded by terabit, self-switching optical meshes capable of delivering nearly unlimited bandwidth to every doorstep. Of course, in this vision, demand would be equally...

Raising the bar: SLAs are easy to promise, but can be difficult to meet. Here's how to keep wholesalers honest. (Network Management).
June 1, 2002... It's no secret that the telecom industry relies on SLAs as its official external measurement of service quality. SLAs exist for the simple reason that service providers don't naturally provide customers high service quality. Providers didn't...

Free spectrum: wide-reach DWDM systems offer pay-as-you grow options, plus Tier 2 and Tier 3 access. (Optical Networking).
June 1, 2002... Today's forward-looking carriers are less preoccupied with bleeding edge technology and full overlay networks and more interested in lowest-cost-per-link bandwidth growth that also offers opex relief. That means low first cost and lowest loaded...

Smoke signals: increased control plane intelligence becoming critical in the metro. (Optical Networking).
June 1, 2002... Metro networks have become hotbeds for technical innovation, driven by changing traffic patterns, the continued transition from voice- to data-dominated networks, and a customer concentration that offers higher potential revenue. With 60...

Helping VoIP blast off: new IP systems will solve the peering problem. (Network Edge).
June 1, 2002... Ubiquitous VoIP call capabilities from public-to-private networks or private-to-private networks are only possible with native IP peering. However, interconnecting networks is a stringent task--one with which today's VoIP equipment...

Building a better billing model: real-time service controls are key for wireless service providers. (Wireless).
June 1, 2002... Data services represent a potentially vast new wireless market, one that could grow fivefold to one billion users worldwide by 2004. Both consumer and business users want access to their favorite wireless applications, games and data services,...

Vivace Networks' Viva takes up Layer 2 services, IP challenge. (2002 Product of the Month).
June 1, 2002... www.vivacenetworks.com Carriers currently opt for different devices, often from separate vendors, if they want a Layer 2 switch and an IP router. It undoubtedly then is an ambitious play for any vendor to claim to excel in both areas. But...

Terabit class routing. (New Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... Juniper Networks www.juniper.net Looking to surpass Cisco and join upstarts like Pluris and Avici, Juniper Networks has stepped into the terabit routing ring by releasing what it calls the T series router. The T640 incorporates seven...

Multi-service DSLAM. (New Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... ADC www.adc.com Looking to enhance its DSLAM market status, ADC has introduced version 3.0 of its Avidia DSLAM platform. With support for G.SHDSL symmetric business service, the Avidia 3.0 is also a 24-port ADSL subscriber module that...

Hitless free space optics. (New Products).(AirFiber introduces AirFiber 5800)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... AirFiber www.airfiber.com AirFiber wants to break the perception that SLAs are not possible with free space optics. The AirFiber 5800, a protocol-agnostic product that has up to 1.25 Gbps of total capacity, is a fault-tolerant system...

DSL backhaul. (New Products).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Catena Networks www.catena.com As copper providers move to a triple play of voice, video and data, bandwidth backhaul is ever more the concern. Catena Networks, with a DS3 configuration element for its CNX-5 broadband DSL system, may...

Standalone MTA. (New Products).(Message Transfer Agents)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Com21 www.com2l.com With 2003 predicted to be the year for VoIP over HFC, Com21, which recently introduced a DOCSIS-based CMTS system, is building a VoIP MTA (multimedia terminal adapter). Compatible with the PacketCable MGCP/NCS...

Session aware networking. (Product Spot).(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... Acme Packet www.acmepacket.com Until now, attaining all-IP nirvana has been hindered by peering methods requiring IP-to-TDM conversion across multiple network hops, resulting in degraded Qos. Woburn, Mass.-based Acme Packet's Net-Net...

ASIC-based Internet security. (New Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... NetScreen www.netscreen.com NetScreen is scaling up its ASIC-based security systems with its 5000 product series. Based on its integrated security process GigScreen-II ASIC, NetScreen 5000 can provide up to 12-Gbps firewalls and...

Stressing SIP. (New Products).
June 1, 2002... RADCOM www.rad.com To deal with SIP's rising presence in the public network, RADCOM has enhanced its VoIP Performer suite with its MegaSIP simulator, a carrier-based solution that generates high volume SIP-based traffic for voIP...

Virtual data centre management. (Product Spot).(Inkra Networks Inkra 4000, 1500)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2002... Inkra Networks www.inkra.com Although data center growth has certainly boomed in recent years, managing one continues to be a challenge, Fremont, Calif.-based Inkra Networks, which has done beta testing in several carrier networks...

Offline.(Tellium CEO Harry Carr)(Interview)
June 1, 2002... Salespeople need to stay positive, as any self-help book will tell you, and CEOs aren't any different. So while Tellium chief Harry Carr readily admits the market for telecom equipment sales is the worst he's seen in his 24 years in the...

Hot start-ups 2002: when the going gets tough, the tough get going. These upstars are living proof.
June 1, 2002... IT'S NO TIME TO BE A START-UP, according to many in the industry. In times of economic plight, carriers tend to curl up and get cozy with established vendors whom they know will be around for the long haul--or at least that's prevailing theory....