Telecommunications Americas articles from March 2005

Telecommunications Americas archives from March 2005

Metro Ethernet Services: Paradise found.(Commentary)
March 1, 2005... It seems like ages since service providers finally addressed the big WAN bandwidth bottleneck between enterprise user sites running LANs at 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps and beyond in major cities. Corporate IT long had to do the equivalent of downshifting...

BellSouth Ethernet services debut.(FOR STARTERS)
March 1, 2005... Looking to meet building customer demand for high-speed city-wide services, BellSouth has announced two revamped wholesale metro-area Ethernet offerings delivered over the telco's SONET transport networks. Metro Ethernet is available at...

Broadband access: power line potential.(FOR STARTERS)
March 1, 2005... "Potential means you haven't done anything yet." Former New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Parcells. Though wry, Coach P's words seem self-evident and apply to more than football teams and players. In fact, they easily stick to an...

Which path to profit?(Technical Perspective)
March 1, 2005... Like most businesses, carriers are looking for the right answer to the question of profit and revenue growth. Carriers all agree on the financial destination--success--but they're in turmoil over the right path to take. That confusion has major...

Ten optical technologies that rock! Surviving network planning.
March 1, 2005... With the network equipment spending depression officially over according to the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), service providers are starting to refocus on fast-emerging optical technologies that promise to simplify operation...

IMS: a new spin on convergence: wireless and wireline carriers seek the "eBay" of flexible, responsive user experience.(IP multimedia subsystem)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2005... For all its reliability, the TDM network lacks flexibility to create and deliver services quickly. Carriers had to create rigid silos per service: one each for voice, data, video and special offerings. But with the advent of the IMS (IP...

ATCA flowering from the cracks: a weak economy sets the stage for a new telecom computing architecture.(Advanced Telecommunications Computer Architecture)
March 1, 2005... They may have been right. The Advanced Telecommunications Computer Architecture (ATCA or AdvancedTCA), a radical way of making interoperable baseline equipment components by forcing those who build them to inter-cooperate, was born and nurtured...

Cable gets down to building busine$$: MSOs pump up promotion, technology for $120B market opportunity.(Multiple Service Operator)
March 1, 2005... Cable isn't just about residential video, data and voice service anymore. Seeing the potential for a big score, large cable MSOs are beefing up their efforts to land a variety of business customers by attacking the market with a range of...

Entrisphere's BLM 1500: all-in-one last-mile solution.(New Products)
March 1, 2005... www.entrisphere.com Facing fierce competition from cable, the ILECs' need to overhaul their networks to deliver a set of sticky services has never been more pressing. And while this is a necessity, operators traditionally have been faced...

Wireless bridge.(PRODUCT SPOT)(OS-Spectra)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Orthogon Systems www.orthogonsystems.com Orthogon Systems has announced availability of OS-Spectra, its next-generation wireless Ethernet bridge. The maker of point-to-point broadband wireless system says the product provides a secure...

Optical Ethernet.(PRODUCT SPOT)(Ciena's CN 4350 switch)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Ciena www.ciena.com Though triple plays are truly rare in professional baseball, they're a must in service provider networks. Ciena has announced the CN 4350 Ethernet Service Provisioning Switch, a carrier-grade platform specifically...

Cable telephony testing.(New Products)(IxVoice)
March 1, 2005... Ixia www.ixiacom.com With Time Warner Cable and Comcast going great guns with their packet telephony offerings, it should be no surprise that the test and measurement community is finding new work for itself. Enter Ixia and the latest...

Ethernet NID.(New Products)(R821 E-Services NID)
March 1, 2005... Metrobility www.metrobility.com Once nothing more than the breaking point between the service provider and the customer network, the demarc is becoming the main point of contact to ensure the proper delivery of Ethernet services. This...

Line Power system.(New Products)(Far End Converter from Valere Power)
March 1, 2005... Valere Power www.valerepower.com As telcos move to revamp their existing last-mile networks to deliver converged services by driving the reach of electronics closer to their customer bases, the case for line powering these devices from...

Hybrid Voice Gateway.(New Products)(VoiceFLEX Voice Gateway module )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Zhone www.zhone.com In the drive to IP, the saying for incumbent carriers is still one of evolution, not revolution. Building on the success of its converged last-mile solution set, Zhone Technologies has introduced its VoiceFLEX...

Gigabit storage testing.(New Products)(Hammer PacketSphere XG network emulator from Empirix)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Empirix www.empirix.com Empirix has introduced its Hammer PacketSphere XG network emulator, a full duplex, dual channel Hammer PacketSphere XG network emulator. By doubling PacketSphere's capacity, Empirix provides users with...

Off line.(Skuli Mogensen, founder of OZ Communications)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... Growing up in Iceland, Skuli Mogensen benefited from the kind of freedom kids have when they live someplace with little crime and few strangers. He and his friends could be outdoors from morning until night and not be held back by parents...