Telecommunications Americas articles from November 2003

Telecommunications Americas archives from November 2003

All aboard: session border controller train on track.(For Starters)
November 1, 2003... For anyone that attended the VON (Voice on the Net) show in Boston recently, wherever you turned there was a buzz around session border control/session controllers (SBCs/SCs). But beyond being just another VoIP-related buzzword to add to your...

Now that's progress: Carrier hanging tough after five years.(For Starters)
November 1, 2003... Five years shouldn't seem like a long time in the telecom industry, but somehow it does. For Progress Telecom, which celebrated its fifth anniversary last month, every day is a day the competitive carrier has beaten the odds. Editor in Chief...

Uncorking the bottleneck: IP Networks thinks Gig.(For Starters)
November 1, 2003... Admittedly not every customer has a need for gigabit or multi-gigabit bandwidth. But when it comes to enterprise customers demanding those types of capacities, it could be that carriers with a SONET infrastructure may be at a disadvantage. At...

To port or not to port.(For Starters)
November 1, 2003... The wireless industry's LNP (local number portability) mandate is set to go into effect Nov. 24. But will it? At least three senators have expressed concern that some wireless carriers might employ stall tactics to delay porting because of...

Telecom research: where's the support?(Industry Forum)
November 1, 2003... The attempts to stimulate competition at all levels of telecom--the rationale for the breakup of the Bell System--have had mixed results. The biggest disappointment in this grand plan to bring competition to telecom, however, has been the lack...

Avoiding the domino effect: as disaster recovery moves to center stage, carriers embrace the SAN extension market.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2003... TO A CYNIC, not just humans but nature, too, might seem to be conspiring to up-end the digital economy. With 9-11 not yet a distant memory, the fading of summer witnessed massive power outages in the United States, Canada and Italy, an...

SIP takes charge; service providers are viewing Session Initiation Protocol as the dominant enabler for next-gen services.(Network Edge)
November 1, 2003... As competition from wireless and cable providers heats up, wire-line service providers may respond by deploying a VoIP core network to reduce overall network costs and offering advanced IP-based services to retain profitable voice subscribers....

Finally ready for prime time: multiservice consolidation over MPLS now makes technical and business sense.(Network Core)
November 1, 2003... Despite some false starts, network convergence may have arrived. While consolidation efforts with ATM ultimately stalled, multi-service consolidation on IP/MPLS-based solutions are reaching the stage of technical and business viability. ...

Dirty data? Deal with it! Discovery and reconciliation help make inventory systems more accurate.(Service Provisioning)
November 1, 2003... Flow-through provisioning is like Social Security reform: necessary but challenging. The goal is to permit easy, rapid provisioning of services in a smooth, uninterrupted flow from order to design to assign to activation to billing. With the...

Ceterus Networks intros Universal metro Ethernet.(Telecommunications 2003 Product of The Month)
November 1, 2003... Who says metro Ethernet services have to be delivered over fiber, or nothing? With over 90 percent of businesses out of reach of the nearest strand of fiber, Allen, Texas-based Ceterus Networks thinks there's a new opportunity to provide metro...

DOCSIS 2.0 module.(New Products)
November 1, 2003... ADC www.adc.com Soon existing ADC CUDA 12000 CMTS customers will be able to take advantage of the benefits of the emerging DOCSIS 2.0 standard with the release of a DOCSIS 2.0 module. Based on Broadcom's DOCSIS 2.0 chipset, the new...

Fibre Channel extension.(New Products)
November 1, 2003... Cisco Systems www.cisco.com With RBOCs and IXCs aggressively rolling out next-gen metro SONET networks to capture SAN (storage area networking) market dollars, Cisco has developed an SL-Series interface for its existing ONS 15454 MSPP...

Second-gen softswitch.(Product Spot)
November 1, 2003... Telica www.telica.com In a move aimed squarely at cementing its place in the large carrier market, Telica has launched what it calls a second-generation softswitch. The company's PLUS (Plexus Unified Service Architecture) platform,...

Switch fabric module.(New Products)
November 1, 2003... Extreme Networks www.extremenetworks.com For any metro network service provider, any sort of network downtime equates to lost revenues. So it should be of no surprise that Extreme Networks is increasing the uptime for its Black-Diamond...

Wireless voice testing.(New Products)
November 1, 2003... GL Communications www.gl.com With wireless number portability looming large over every carrier network and 61 percent of wireless users willing to switch to gain better quality, improving wireless voice quality has never been more...

Fiber to the premises.(Product Spot)
November 1, 2003... AFC www.afc.com With a well-entrenched base of IOC and RBOC customers in tow, AFC feels it has an edge over its competitors to gain a significant portion of the latest FTTP RFP set by BellSouth, SBC and Verizon. Unlike other vendors...

Mobile WLAN.(New Products)
November 1, 2003... Kineto Wireless www.kinetowireless.com With recent studies indicating that more than 30 percent of mobile phone use is indoors, and that subscribers use their mobile phones for almost 20 percent of their total home calls, Kineto...

Remote DSL diagnosis.(New Products)
November 1, 2003... SPIRENT Communications www.spirentcom.com Traditionally, remote broadband testing required multiple devices for test access and operation along with matching requirements for COs or serving exchanges. Spirent Communications, however,...

Offline.
November 1, 2003... While the telecom market as a whole may be dribbling along the bottom right now, showing some signs of improvement but nothing definitely sustained, Tekelec sees diversification as the way to ensure its own continued growth. For one thing,...