Telecommunications Americas articles from October 2001

Telecommunications Americas archives from October 2001

A Shot in the Dark.(Editorial)
October 1, 2001... I had to laugh recently when I received an e-mail and follow-up voice mail from a PR firm looking for my predictions on how ILECs and RBOCs will upgrade their CO equipment over the next 12 months. The survey, obviously commissioned by a...

Gigabit Ethernet Goes Continental.
October 1, 2001... ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-- Ethernet-based metro service providers and long-haul carriers seem to be looking increasingly to each other as a way to extend their networks. An example is the recent agreement between Broadwing and Telseon that will enable...

Lucent Back on Top.(according to Dell'Oro Group)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Lucent is again king of the optical equipment market, at least for one quarter, according to the Dell'Oro Group. During Q2, Lucent captured the largest market share--21.1 percent--of the $4 billion global optical market, supplanting Nortel,...

Undersea Success.(KMI Corp. report)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Four times more undersea cable kilometers will be activated worldwide in 2001 and 2002 than in 2000, which was in itself a record year for investment and undersea fiber deployment, according to a report from KMI Corp. In 2000, Tycom and Alcatel...

A Real First for Qualcomm, Nortel.(live 3G CDMA2000 1X mobile IP call)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Forget what you heard before: This week Qualcomm and Nortel announced the industry's first successful end-to-end, live 3G CDMA2000 1X mobile IP call. The call was performed in Nortel's wireless interoperability lab in Richardson, Texas, using...

Tier 2 Carriers Get Efficient.(according to Infonetics Research)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... U.S. and Canadian Tier 2 service provider expenditures will grow more than 170 percent from $2.1 billion in 2001 to $5.7 billion by 2005, according to Infonetics Research. Many Tier 2 carriers in the United States and Canada failed over the...

Security Helps Carriers Gain New Customers.
October 1, 2001... DENVER--Businesses are now buying more than just network services from carriers, they're buying security, too. The latest move has Qwest offering around-the-clock Web site monitoring through a partnership with Veridian. The company already...

Cable Telephony Taking Its Time.(according to Cahners in-Stat)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Even though the technology standards arid certification processes have been in place for years, the roll out of IP cable telephony has taken longer than the industry anticipated, according to Cahners in-Stat. The research firm projects that it...

Integral Access, Taqua Team.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Taqua Systems and Integral Access successfully completed product interoperability, including full. GR-303 compatibility, between the two switching platforms: Taqua's Open Compact Exchange and Integral Access' PurePacketNode multiservice access...

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK.(according to Frost and Sullivan study)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Local Wholesale Voice Thrives No slowing down. Since the adoption of the 1996 Telecom Act, the local wholesale voice market has seen significant growth, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan study. The market generated $4.2 billion in...

IP VPNs Lead Strong IP Services Market.(according to a Current Analysis report)
October 1, 2001... STERLING, Va. --Demand for IP services including VoIP, IP Gentrex, IP call centers, IP VPNs, unified messaging, applications hosting and Internet access is growing, according to a Current Analysis report. Leading the charge are IPVPN services...

Switching, Routing Markets Down But Not Out.(according to Infonetics)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Q2 worldwide revenues for service provider core and edge switches and routers totaled $2.06 billion, a 19-percent drop from Q1, according to Infonetics. The research group, however, continued to forecast a rosy future: The market is predicted...

Mirrors, Bubbles and White Mice.(switching)
October 1, 2001... At Supercomm this year, Telecommunications [R] magazine and Current Analysis sponsored a Light Wars shoot out that generated some terrific sound bites. With any luck, one of the most important points made by the service provider participants...

Soybeans, Pork Bellies and Bandwidth.
October 1, 2001... Bandwidth is rapidly becoming a commodity. Service provider efforts to create a competitive market for network equipment by insisting on standards-based solutions has created network infrastructure that now permits trading, production and...

Structural Separation: A Risky Scheme?
October 1, 2001... Structural separation has been heralded by some as local competition's savior. Others bill it as a risky scheme that could cause irreparable damage. The push for structural separation is propelled by the idea that only a level playing field can...

back talk.(interview with Dan Hunt of HunTel.net)(Interview)
October 1, 2001... A conversation with Dan Hunt of HunTel.net Dan Hunt is president of HunTel.net, the ISP arm of Nebraska-based rural LEC HunTel. He started at HunTel as a lineman in the summers during the high school. After attending Luther College in...

Free Space Optics: The Missing Link.(Technical)
October 1, 2001... FSO may break the metro network's ongoing bottleneck. When Brian Andrew, president and CEO of e-xpedient Inc., a competitive service provider that delivers 100-Mbps Internet access to businesses in six markets, went looking for metropolitan...

Moving Into the Light.(Tunable lasers)(Technical)
October 1, 2001... Tunable lasers offer flexibility and cost savings for lighting dark wavelengths in the metro. To meet the burgeoning traffic demands of cities and regions, metro network operators are turning to the same optical networking technologies...

Finally, End-to-End Qos.(MPLS (multiprotocol label switching))(Technical)
October 1, 2001... MPLS to the rescue. Different applications require different levels of QoS. Since applications are IP-based and reside on the end hosts, the network must support end-to-end IP QoS. Most service provider networks today use ATM as the...

SIP Drivers the Urge to Converge.(session initiative protocol)(Technical)
October 1, 2001... Session Initiation Protocol unlocks true potential of value-added services. Show me the money! That's what carriers are demanding as they stare at a global IP infrastructure that's just not delivering. Old business models that drove...

Reinventing the Metro.(metropolitan area network)
October 1, 2001... A few years back, legal problems stemming from the busy signals its Internet subscribers constantly heard almost sunk a fast-rising ISP star that now is AOL Time-Warner. Today a variety of high-speed, last-mile technologies are jockeying for...

Choose Your Routes Carefully.
October 1, 2001... Traffic patterns, design and fiber choice all play key roles in leasing metro routes. The metro is still one of the most congested places in the network. While long-haul broadband networks are nearly ubiquitous, by the time highspeed...

Rolling With the Punches.(Technical)
October 1, 2001... Carriers must be able to implement new technology and services at a moment's notice in the MAN. MANs are nothing new. But since these local metro networks are proliferating and being optimized with data-friendly technologies to meet the...

A Better Switch Grows the Metro Core.(Technical)
October 1, 2001... If properly tweaked, the existing SONET-based infrastructure can blossom. While capacity in the long-haul network and the local loop has increased substantially over the last three years, capacity in the metro network continues to...

Converged Platforms Get Real.(Technical)
October 1, 2001... By collapsing functionalities into one box, carriers get the best migration path to next-gen networking. Current market conditions are forcing today's carriers to focus on the bottom line and to implement back-to-basics business...

Ethernet Makes Its Mark.(Technical)
October 1, 2001... With RPR and its subsets, Ethernet is finally carrier-class. Ethernet is now poised to extend its reach into the MAN. This will greatly assist today's carriers in offering seamless, LAN-to-WAN connectivity services to enterprise customers....

Bountiful Wavelengths.(narrowband channelizers)(Technical)
October 1, 2001... Narrowband channelizers are changing the game in the metros. What if wavelengths were a commodity? A provider could afford to run WDM channels from the CO to every customer premises. This "wavelength-per-user" architecture has many...

Any Service, Any Port, Any Time.
October 1, 2001... It's time to migrate to a dynamic metro core. Over the last few years the metro core has undergone significant changes in function and bandwidth requirements. Originally a simple feeder network that took traffic from the metro access and...

Virtual Access Redefines Service Delivery.
October 1, 2001... www.virtualaccess.com Service providers want to leverage their connectivity to customers to sell more than just one service. CoSine Communications' IPSX switch, Lucent's SpringTide and Nortel's Shasta platforms were the first wave of...

Lightchip.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... www.lightchip.com The Optical Wavelength Manager (OWM) from Lightchip is a system on blade for monitoring the health of optical channels. The company believes that the OWM will be particularly useful to carriers because of the more complex...

3Com.
October 1, 2001... www.3com.com 3Com has introduced its Office Connect Gateway family to help service providers and businesses leverage a converged data/voice DSL service set. It allows service providers to deploy voice and data services to businesses over...

Acterna.(Acterna TestPad 2000 Base Station and Air Interface Test Module)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... www.acterna.com With the growth in capacity of wireless networks, network troubleshooting becomes an even more daunting task. Acterna's TestPad 2000 Base Station and Air Interface Test Module (BAT) is portable and can detect RF...

Carrier Access.(Carrier Access Adit 600)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... www.carrieraccess.com Carrier Access has stepped up the functionality of its Adit 600 platform with enhanced remote management capabilities and router service card features. These features enable carriers to manage their Adit 600 over an...

BayPackets.
October 1, 2001... www.baypackets.com In today's telecom environment, rapid service delivery means everything, BayPackets takes that to heart with its Rapid Service Introduction System, which decouples service intelligence from the underlying switching...

Crossbeam Systems.(Crossbeam Systems X40 Network Application Concentrator)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... www.crossbeamsystems.com As large data centers begin to swell in bandwidth and security requirements, IDG predicts that the Gigabit firewall market will grow at 54 percent CAGR. It's a new opportunity for start-ups such as Crossbeam...

Sylantro Systems.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... www.sylantro.com With enhancements to its softswitch, Sylantro says service providers can have extreme flexibility with capabilities such as full on-net routing of call traffic, E911 call routing, resource management and fail-over routing...

Nexsi Systems.(Nexsi Systems Nexsi 8000 CSS (content services system))(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... www.nexsi.com Colocation space providers and traditional service providers need value-add, Layer 4-7 content services to break from the crowd. San Jose, Calif.-based Nexsi Systems Nexsi 8000 is a CSS (content services system) that...

Spirent Communications.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... www.spirent.com With the emergence of storage service providers, Fibre Channel-based SANs (storage area networks) gain continual adoption. To capitalize on this trend, Spirent Communications has released a new test suite to measure the...

Off-Line.(Mike Thurk, of Ericsson Datacom's thoughts on mentoring)
October 1, 2001... "I believe strongly in formal mentor programs and learning from people who have done it," declares Mike Thurk, president of Ericsson Datacom Inc. "I've had an influential mentor in every company in which I've worked. The first was my supervisor...