Telecommunications Americas articles from November 2002

Telecommunications Americas archives from November 2002

Who are you listening to? (Commentary).
November 1, 2002... Telecommunications[TM] magazine's recent Reality Check: Service Providers Speak conference in Chantilly, Va., was designed to give an insider's look into the minds of service provider technology executives, i.e., where their tight capex budgets...

Worldly goals: overseas outsourcing takes off. (For Starters).
November 1, 2002... Maybe globalization can help save the telecom equipment market. With carrier accountants holding vice-like grips on infrastructure spending, vendors finding it tough to survive see developing markets like China and India as places of...

And two become one: Equant integrates Global One. (For Starters).
November 1, 2002... Differences in culture can sometimes evaporate the optimism of a merger, and combining two networks has its own challenges, Following a complex business deal, a new Equant was created in July 2001 that includes the former Global One joint...

Forum drives off-the-shelf product development. (For Starters).
November 1, 2002... No one can say the telecom industry lacks innovation, but what often holds deployments back is a lack of open elements, To break free of the largely proprietary nature of such elements and drive faster service provider adoption, the Service...

Incumbent carriers get the runaround. (For Starters).
November 1, 2002... Big name local and long-distance providers may feel a little threatened by a new service provider called Amerivon. It's now offering unlimited local toll and long-distance calls for $19.95 a month, with no extra fees. The catch: customers...

Will Metro Ethernet make it? (Business Networks).
November 1, 2002... Is metro Ethernet dead or not? Metro Ethernet service was widely and loudly heralded as the salvation of the networking industry. Then Yipes, the most prominent proponent, went bankrupt. Consequently, all the heralds proclaimed metro Ethernet...

Rethinking ROI. (Industry Forum).
November 1, 2002... Plunging stock prices, high-visibility bankruptcies and just plain tough economic conditions have forced service providers to severely restrict their infrastructure expenditures. As a result, vendors of all types--hardware, software, even...

At your service: are enhanced offerings the recipe for success?
November 1, 2002... Ah, ENHANCED SERVICES. They are often spoken of in hushed tones, as one would speak of a Gandhi, a Beethoven, a Michael Jordan. And yes, in this difficult market, when everything hinges on service providers' success in generating revenue from...

Getting to the core: three factors justify using MPLS in public and private networks. (Network Core).
November 1, 2002... Traditionally, reducing network operation costs on the carrier side would not resonate with enterprise or service provider customers without the associated cost reduction in product or service offerings. Today it is a major factor in network...

Access granted: MPLS-VPNs are the key enabler for Open Access. (Spotlight).
November 1, 2002... Possible legislation, proven revenue benefits and competitive pressures from other broadband providers have made Open Access increasingly important to cable MSOs. Open Access, the process of supplying DOCSIS data subscribers with a choice of...

Gaining control: service control drives revenues in MSO IP networks. (Spotlight).
November 1, 2002... Cable operators have successfully deployed high-speed cable modem service to millions of homes. Now operators must move beyond providing commodity broadband access by introducing differentiated services and implementing the service control...

Getting down to business: providing trunked voice line service for SMBs a huge opportunity for cable operators. (Spotlight).
November 1, 2002... Over the past seven years, cable operators have spent $50 billion on network upgrades, driving fiber deeper into the network and increasing bandwidth capacity. As revenues from residential video and cable modem subscribers have leveled off due...

Photuris V32000: a two-pronged metro solution. (2002 Telecommunications Product of the Month).
November 1, 2002... www.photuris.com For a variety of reasons, including cost and complexity of engineering the network, the deployment of DWDM in the metro isn't occurring as fast as was earlier expected. Start-up Photuris has taken up the challenge with an...

High-speed wireless. (New Products).
November 1, 2002... ADTRAN www.adtran com For those carriers who don't want to bear the cost and provisioning time of traditional wired T1 links from their competitors, ADTRAN's TRACER 4305 and TRACER 4206 5.8 GHz unlicensed fixed wireless products will...

Multi-service switching. (New Products).
November 1, 2002... Cisco Systems www.cisco.com Three years after shelling out a cool $6.9 billion for next-gen SONET switch pioneer Cerent, which became the Cisco ONS 15454, Cisco has unveiled a beefier product with its ONS 15600. Cisco believes the...

Fiber-speed copper. (Product Spot).
November 1, 2002... Actelis Networks www.actelis.com No matter how much everyone would like to drive fiber to every home and business, reality dictates otherwise. But with a good amount of copper in the ground, Fremont, Calif.-based Actelis Networks is...

Compact Class 4/5. (New Products).
November 1, 2002... CopperCom www.coppercom.com CopperCom is looking to take advantage of the IOC (independent operating company) telephone market with the introduction of its CSX 1000 next-gen Class 4/5 switching system. Offering the same capabilities...

Wireless media switch. (New Products).
November 1, 2002... Cyneta Networks www.cyneta.com To give wireless operators and their customers the benefits of an always-on IP wireless network, La Jolla, Calif.-based Cyneta Networks has debuted its Intelligent Packet Control Node, a wireless content...

SONET etension. (Product Spot).
November 1, 2002... Fujitsu www.fujitsu.com Fujitsu Network Communications has released a small footprint unit for carriers that want to extend their SONET network to provide a handful of DS1 or DS3 lines to small businesses and MTUs. The idea behind the...

Compact DSL video. (New Products).
November 1, 2002... NextLevel www.nlc.com Leveraging its traction in the video over DSL market, NextLevel Communications has released a compact version of its USAM-SSE (Universal Service Access Multiplexer-Single Shelf Enclosure) that gives telcos a...

Broadband access gateway. (New Products).
November 1, 2002... Nuera www.nuera.com Designed for broadband service providers that want to deploy IP-based telephony service before a complete Class 5 softswitch is available, Nuera's ORCA RDT-8 provides interworking between broadband MSO and xDSL...

Off line.
November 1, 2002... If independent operating companies haven't cut their spending like other telecom carriers, it's because they never had budgets to begin with, jokes Charlie Vogt, CEO and president of next-gen Class 5 switch maker Taqua. His company has...

The best is yet to come.
November 15, 2002... A lot has happened in the broadband access arena over the past few years. DSL has overcome (most) of its reach limitations and line quality problems. Gable modems have conquered (most) of their security and shared medium issues. And broadband...

DSL spells j-o-b-s for rural areas.
November 15, 2002... Frequently, we in the technology business can be quite myopic in focusing only on the bits, bytes and bandwidth of our particular arenas of interest. Although such obsessive concentration helps drive breakthroughs and technical innovations,...

Last-mile morass: is UNE-P really the lynchpin for competition?
November 15, 2002... Suppose in War World II that Hitler had managed to retake Paris instead of ultimately crumbling to the Allies. Will local competition suffer the same fate? If you ask competitive service providers and RBOCs alike, the stakes are that high as...

Virtualizing DSL delivery: providers need to make the leap from broadband conduit to service delivery.
November 15, 2002... Broadband access using DSL technology is still in its infancy and going through a series of growing pains. From its inception, DSL has been widely viewed as a way to satiate the needs of Internet power users. These end users have no problem...

Triple time: can VoIP give MSOs the edge over the RBOCs?
November 15, 2002... Since the technology boom of the mid-'90s, cable operators have been talking about offering telecom solutions to their customers. For Cox and AT&T Broadband, both of which made the decision to deploy CBR (constant-bit-rate) telephony more than...

Favorite cousin? CWDM is becoming a compelling alternative for business access.
November 15, 2002... The business services market represents a lucrative opportunity as expanding applications drive the need for increased premises connectivity. Corporations already operate a wide range of communications equipment, and over the years their needs...

From DSLAM to VSLAM: video switching enhances DSL access systems for a triple play of voice, video and data.
November 15, 2002... Service providers are looking for ways to increase their revenue per subscriber with existing infrastructure. They're also looking to enter new service markets with minimum risk, while finding new service solutions that allow them to remain...

Beam of light: free space optics proving to be a quick fix for fiber-starved areas.
November 15, 2002... A major hospital in the Pacific Northwest needed broadband for its growing medical center campus. Fiber is laid all over the place in the town where the hospital is located, but a major interstate freeway separates the medical center from the...

Making the connection.
November 15, 2002... The inability to connect high-speed enterprise LANs with high-speed WANs is preventing the widespread deployment of advanced broadband applications. What's the solution? The term "bandwidth gap" has come to mean a number of different...

Off line.
November 15, 2002... If all companies have three CEOs before they go public, as the saying in the venture capital business goes, then Jim Hjartarson could count for two of Catena's. While remaining executive vice president of engineering and CTO since...