Telecommunications Americas articles from March 2002

Telecommunications Americas archives from March 2002

Long road ahead. (Commentary).
March 1, 2002... When interviewing service providers for this month's cover story on operational expenditure issues, a startling trend emerged: Even though at the most basic level they offer three types of services--voice, data and video--there was no clear...

E911: some shine, but most carriers still falling flat. (Global News).(FCC's Phase II caller location requirement met by Sprint PCS and Verizon)
March 1, 2002... WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Two carriers have implemented E911 services in a pair of markets, creating a gap between those emerging as leaders in meeting the FCC's Phase II caller location requirement and those seen as dragging their feet. Sprint...

Fiber access for masses still on drawing board. (Global News).
March 1, 2002... LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va.--Forget about DSL or cable modems. What consumers really want is fiber-optic transmission--the speed of it anyway. Because of price and other issues, though, it appears mass-market FTTH (fiber to the home) will remain in the...

Dog eats dog. (News Briefs).(telecommunications industry acquisitions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Telecom vendors are snapping up the competition. Alcatel said it will acquire Astral Point Communications, maker of SONET metro optical systems for 9 million of its shares, or about $135 million. Tellabs completed its acquisition of Ocular...

Seed money. (News Briefs).
March 1, 2002... Several companies announced new rounds of funding. Gluon Networks pulled in $50 million to aid its rollout of converged switching and access systems for local service providers. Mesa Communications, developer and owner of communications towers,...

Change at the top. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Recent telecom executive moves include the appointment by Convergent Networks of new CEO and President Surya Panditi as its president and CEO. John C. Thibault, who formerly held those positions, will remain chairman. Lucent Technologies also...

Join the club. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Several technology trade groups announced expansion in membership or new partnerships. The ATM Forum and the MPLS Forum said they had formed a joint ATM Forum/MPLS Forum to collaborate on ATM/MPLS internetworking, with the ultimate aim of...

Spectrum reallocation boosts TDD. (Global News).(FCC's recent move to allocate unpaired TDD (time division duplexed) spectrum)
March 1, 2002... WASHINGTON, D.C.--With cellular carriers facing finite spectrum allocation and pressure for new revenue, the FCC's recent move to allocate unpaired TDD (time division duplexed) spectrum could be a means for them to squeeze more out of what they...

Satellite industry can survive. (Industry Outlook).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2002... Broadband access revenue to soar. A market for global broadband connectivity will emerge. All the satellite industry has to do is improve price, performance and service, according to Pioneer Consulting. The total worldwide market for broadband...

Network upgrades. (News Briefs).
March 1, 2002... New equipment buildouts include Telia International's completion of the North American of its international fiber network using Lucent Technologies' DWDM optical networking product, the WaveStar OLS 400G. China Netcom is deploying Luminous...

Wireless connections. (News Briefs).
March 1, 2002... Eyeing the big growth expected in the Asia Pacific region, expected to be home to more than half the world's mobile users by 2004, Openet Telecom, a maker of: data mediation software announced, a systems integrator partnership with China's...

Start-up fundamentals. (Current).
March 1, 2002... The irrational exuberance of 2000 is a fond memory. That year ideas were plentiful, talent was abundant, and money flowed like the river Styx: fast and cold with no apparent end. Start-ups popped up like dandelions, pushing technology smaller,...

Handsets: a rebound on tap. (Viewpoint).
March 1, 2002... Reality has set in and many cell phone manufacturers have lowered their expectations, perhaps too much, While close to 400 million handsets were shipped in 2001, vendor estimates for 2002 fall between 420 million to 460 million. The euphoria...

Back talk: a conversation with Tom Evslin of ITXC Corp.
March 1, 2002... Tom Evslin chairman and CEO of ITXC, founded the company in 1997 after being the point person who designed AT&T's internet strategy then launched and ran AT&T's WorldNet service in the 1970s. Evslin founded a mainframe software development...

Perfect timing: network synchronization keeps pace with technological advances.
March 1, 2002... Timing is everything, whether it concerns marriage proposals, touchdown passes or telecom networks. With telecom, synchronization is an old subject--carriers know they need it and will continue to need it. But as networks expand and...

Opex R: service provides scramble for ways to soothe the money burn.
March 1, 2002... Times have changed, and quickly. Many service providers and equipment makers have fallen by the wayside and for the survivors the watchword is cost control. The first signs of cost cutting were brutal: Massive layoffs and capex plans halved...

Enabling the new mobile ecosystem: mobile operators must mine their networks for new services that can drive higher profitability and return their investments. (Focus On: The Wireless World).
March 1, 2002... We are on the threshold of advanced mobile networks, but since the telecom market implosion operators must play by a new set of rules that demand rapid, clear return on infrastructure investment. In markets where mobile operators have committed...

The wireless Internet: ready, set, secure; connectivity is not enough. Customers must be confident that their transactions and data are secure and private. (Focus On: The Wireless World).
March 1, 2002... Convergence is on the horizon: the Internet, voice, VPNs, handsets, PDAs, all are coming together thanks to tremendous investments in infrastructure and wireless networking technologies. There's no doubt that go-anywhere wireless data...

On the backswing: as operators deploy 2.5G and 3G services, wireless backhaul emerges as a strong solution. (Focus On: The Wireless World).
March 1, 2002... Deploying 2.5G and 3G networks is an enormous, expensive undertaking. Operators are faced with this task while margins for their core voice services fall. Adding to that pain is growing Wall Street skepticism over the revenue potential for the...

Share and share alike: carriers rethink their spectrum options. (Focus On: The Wireless World).
March 1, 2002... With competition for wireless subscribers as cut-throat as it is, the concept of sharing has never been close to the heart of U.S.-based wireless operators. Spectrum scarcity looms near and the price tag for owning networks is on the rise....

The highs and the lows: using low- and high-frequency bands in fixed wireless access networks creates the best of both worlds. (Focus On: The Wireless World).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Fixed wireless access allows quick deployment of broadband services to business and multi-dwelling residential buildings not served well by DSL, cable or fiber. With the right business model, fixed wireless access can meet the economic...

A fresh approach for the metro: RPR present a complementary approach to myriad networking technologies. (Network Edge).(resilient packet ring)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Carriers today are looking at a range of technologies to relieve the metro bottleneck, including RPR (resilient packet ring), which is currently being standardized by the IEEE 802.17 working group. So what exactly are the relationships among...

Nokia Broadband's D500 a graceful ATM-to-IP DSLAM solution. (2002 Product of the Month).(Evaluation)
March 1, 2002... www.nokia.com With all the hype surrounding the all-IP converged network, service providers and vendors have realized that migration likely will be a three-step evolution: ATM, a hybrid ATM/IP network and then ultimately all-IP. Since...

Next-gen VoIP gateway. (Product Spot).(Network Equipment Technologies SHOUT2500)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... net.com www.net.com Building on its emerging service provider focus, net.com has announced its second-generation product: SHOUT2500 VoIP gateway. Smaller than its predecessor, the SHOUT1100, the 2500 integrates a gateway, IP and TDM...

ATM multiservice concentrator.(RAD Data Communications' ACE-2002 ATM multiservice concentrator)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... RAD Data Communications www.rad.com While the mantra for all-IP continues to sound, the majority of today's service providers have an embedded base of ATM still capable of delivering service. RAD Data Communications has responded with...

Fiber-to-the-user.(Alcatel 7340 Fiber-to-the-User fiber transmission equipment)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Alcatel www.alcatel.com The latest installment of fiber-to-the-x market involves Alcatel and its 7340 fiber-to-the-user solution. Well suited for greenfield network builds or overlay networks to complement Alcatel's DSL and DLC...

IP-based cable telephony.(Lucent Technologies' iMerge NCS Gateway)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Lucent Technologies www.lucent.com With many predicting 2002 to 2003 as the proving ground for VoIP over cable, vendors are moving fast with solutions to meet this demand. The latest arrow to be fired is Lucent's with the third version...

SIGTRAN monitoring. (New Products).(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... NetTest www.nettest.com If anything can be said about the emerging SIGTRAN (Signaling Transport Protocol), it's that it brings the best of the PSTN and IP worlds together. To minimize the risk of deploying SIGTRAN converged networks,...

5-product rollout.(GL Communications' Network Surveyor, Analog Test Set, Digital Central Office Switch Simulator, GR-303 Protocol Analyzer, SA Bits Protocol Analyzer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... GL Communications www.gl.com GL Communications has added five new products to its portfolio of PC-based test and analysis equipment. The * Network Surveyor, for the continuous monitoring of security, fraud detection, alarms, remote...

Remote configuration.(Zhone Technologies' Access Node Universal 9000)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Zhone Technologies www.zhone.com Zhone has added a remote configuration enhancement to its Access Node Universal 9000, a DLC that supports both narrowband and broadband services. With the enhancement, the Universal Edge 9000 Remote...

Off-line: industry leaders share their opinions, philosophies of life and off-hours interests.
March 1, 2002... When Arun Bellary worked at Bell Labs, George Hawley, a vice president there, was his boss and mentor. "I worked for him at Optilink/DSC, where I learned about discipline, strategic thought and technology adaptation, "Bellary said. On one...

SUPERCOMM gives you one global venue to see what's ahead for your infrastructure. (Exhibitors, Experts, Exact Answer).
March 1, 2002... The Exhibitors: The leading companies and the latest service provider technologies, assembled from around the world. As a service provider leader, you must keep up with a global industry that's constantly changing. Regardless of any...

Learn from the leaders.(Calendar of Events)
March 1, 2002... FREE KEYNOTES AND PLENARIES TAKE PLACE JUNE 2 - 6 AND WILL FEATURE: SUPERCOMM Plenary Panel -- Global Communications Strategies Sunday, June 2, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Chairperson: Scott K. Erickson, Senior Vice President, Sales &...

A guide to SUPERCOMM's educational programs.(Calendar of Events)
March 1, 2002... Free Programs As a communications leader, you need a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of the industry. You need a sense of worldwide trends as they pertain to your discipline and company. That's why SUPERCOMM offers you expertise via...

Certifiable products.(Cisco Systems' uBR7246VXR bridge/router)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Cisco Systems said it won DOCSIS 1.1 certification for its cable modern termination system, the uBR7246VXR, part of Cisco's platform for delivery of IP services over, cable infrastructures. Other vendors lately winning DOCSIS 1.1 certification...

OSS abroad. (News Briefs).(back-office projects)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... U.S. service providers may be trimming their budgets, but carriers overseas have recently announced a number of new back-office projects. One 2 One, the U.K. wireless network owned by T-Mobile International, is now using Convergys' new...