Telecommunications Americas articles from May 2003

Telecommunications Americas archives from May 2003

Getting bullish on BT. (For Starters).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... In early April, BT launched a new company logo, replacing the BT piper that had represented the company since 1991. The re-branding coincides with BT's refocused approach on delivering advanced services to multinational corporations, an area...

A Q&A with Chuck Pol, COO, BT Americas.(Interview)
May 1, 2003... Q: Brands are very important to a company Why the change? A. We've changed not just the brand, but also what we stand for. The piper really didn't represent where our company has come to over the last few years. We felt that "A Connected...

Customers give thumbs up to ClearPath VPN service. (For Starters).
May 1, 2003... Except for a few holdouts, it seems that just about every established service provider has added MPLS-based IP VPNs to its arsenal of offerings. So is there still room for an upstart in this business? Apparently ClearPath Networks seems to...

With the flick of a wrist. (For Starters).
May 1, 2003... Straight from script of "Get Smart": Japan's NTT DoCoMo soon will start selling a Personal Handyphone System (PHS) mobile phone dubbed the Wristomo that's worn around the wrist and snaps off to become a regular handset. The Wristomo, made by...

SUPERCOMM 2003 road to recovery.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... It's baaaacccck. Yes, it's SUPERCOMM time again and once more, all eyes will be on Atlanta as the industry gathers for an intense week of meetings, demos, sessions and hopefully lots of wheeling and dealing. In the next several pages, we'll...

Fine-tuning the future. (Supercomm 2003 Preview).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... The biggest issue in the telecom industry today isn't the machinations in Washington or on Wall Street, or the debates around too much or too little bandwidth. The real imperative facing service providers is the same as it's always been:...

Pat Russo. (Supercomm 2003 Preview).(Interview)
May 1, 2003... Lucent top gun Pat Russo, who kicks off the IEC's luncheon keynotes on Monday, June 2, at SUPERCOMM, returned to the company in early 2002 after a stint as the head of Eastman Kodak. By assuming Lucent's top role, and her subsequent appointment...

Driving seamless mobility: can Wi-Fi and mobile networks really be integrated? (Supercomm 2003 Preview).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... While pioneering Mom and Pap operators may have sown the seeds for Wi-Fi deployments in hotels, airports and coffee shops as a short-range wireless data connection solution, the real opportunity may lie in the hands of the mobile network...

Smooth sailing: if service providers want to leverage the MPLS network, they might want to look again at its TE part. (Supercomm 2003 Preview).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... The buzz currently is very much about tunneling Layer 2 services (Ethernet, frame relay, etc.) across an MPLS backbone and delivering MPLS-based IP VPNs, which is sure to be showcased by the MPLS Forum at its SUPERDemo next month at SUPERCOMM....

Bill Smith. (Supercomm 2003 Preview).(Interview)
May 1, 2003... Bill Smith says his company's drive is to take advantage of IP technology to deliver more revenue-generating services that offer customers an integrated communications solution, from managed IP telephony to IP VPNs. Here's what he has to say...

Hong Liang Lu. (Supercomm 2003 Preview).(Interview)
May 1, 2003... For Hong Lu, the key to having continued success in the telecom market is standing out from the crowd by not producing 'me too' products that simply compete on price. And with over 300 installed customers in the areas of wireless, IP-DSLAMs and...

Come together: Metro Ethernet struts its stuff in superdemo. (Supercomm 2003 Preview).
May 1, 2003... As long as Ethernet technology was confined to the LAN, it was straightforward and well understood by an enterprise's MIS department. But then, starting a few years ago, service providers such as Cogent and Telseon (now a part of OnFiber...

Caspian's Apeiro: super-fine IP routing. (2003 Product of the Month Telecommunications).
May 1, 2003... www.caspiannetworks.com What if you could support the most delay-sensitive services on purely an IP network? You could give it the QoS supported by ATM's switched virtual channels, except that your IP network would be able to scale far...

Tellabs. (Metro Transport).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... www.tellabs.com The focus on optical transport has clearly shifted from the backbone to the metro network, and Tellabs is heeding this call with the release of its own CWDM solutions for metro access. With Feature Pack 1.4, Tellabs has...

Motorola. (EVDO Wireless).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... www.motorola.com While wireless operators continue to struggle to balance new revenue with bottom line opex costs, the less painful path toward new service deployments the better. Motorola is providing such a solution for its existing GDMA...

Tektronix. (3G Testing).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... www.tektronix.com The key to the build out of any cellular network, especially 3G, is the ability of operators to reuse as much of their existing network infrastructure as possible. Tektronix may have an answer with the release of its IMA...

Zhone Technologies. (Product Spot: Integrated DSLAM/DLC).
May 1, 2003... www.zhone.com Zhone Technologies is positioning itself to become a major force in the DSIAM market with the release of its high-density Raptor DSLAM product family. Leveraging its Single Line Multi-Service architecture, the Raptor will...

Offline.
May 1, 2003... Having signed on more than 50 independent local exchange carriers as customers since its founding in 1999, Petaluma, Calif. based vendor Calix has its eye on a certain other group of telcos: the RBOCs. A maker of hardware that combines the...