Telecommunications Americas articles from September 2001

Telecommunications Americas archives from September 2001

Another S.O.S. for OSS.(Editorial)
September 1, 2001... When I read the story told by Pioneer Consulting analyst Laurie Gooding on page 39, I had to laugh. At one point or another everyone has something go wrong with an aspect of their telecom services that involves the OSS. When you throw cellular,...

HFC Gets New Lease on Life.(Advent Networks' Ultraband fiber transmission equipment)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... WESTFORD, Mass./ AUSTIN, Texas--While fiber-to-the-X may be the Holy Grail for ubiquitous broadband access, current capital constraints are preventing cable MSOs from deploying these solutions. Recognizing that shared 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps service...

Cash on the Barrel.(BayPackets receives $19.5 million in second-round funding)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Not everyone in the telecom industry is suffering from a cash crunch. BayPackets, developer of a network independent system designed to let carriers introduce new services easily, says it received $19.5 million in second-round funding for a...

Light at End of Tunnel.(Alcatel and Lucent Technologies sign contracts)
September 1, 2001... Demand for additional network capacity keeps growing, judging by optical networking deals announced recently. Alcatel signed a number of new contracts, including a $100 million agreement to upgrade the Southern Cross Cable Network, which...

Big Market for IP VPNs.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Market research firms agree: IP-VPN providers will see big growth. IDC and Analysys predict a jump in revenues as businesses take advantage of the lower costs, flexibility and ease of deployment that IP VPNs offer compared to private lines:...

No Strings Attached.(SK Telecom will use Nortel Networks' OPTera Connect DX switch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Wireless equipment makers announced a number of overseas contracts, bearing out new research showing strong infrastructure growth amid flat handset sales. Greek operator' Mediterranean Broadband Access, for example, will deploy a fixed-wireless...

ATM Revenues Continue to Soar.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Up, up, and away. U.S. ATM services revenue will top $1.6 billion in 2001, a 45-percent increase over 2000, according to Vertical Systems' ENS 2001 service. By 2004, revenue generated from U.S. ATM carrier-based services is projected to grow to...

CALEA Deep in Court Quagmire.
September 1, 2001... WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Another deadline extension looms this month for carriers that must bring switching facilities into compliance with the CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Agencies) Act. But September 30 will probably fade...

MariTel Set to Deliver Ship-Shape Services.
September 1, 2001... NEW YORK--VHF, the operating band for radio and television, not only delivers local news to families at the dinner table, it lets mariners communicate with ships, bridgekeepers, or--in case of distress--with the Coast Guard. Compared with...

Assets for Sale.(Furukawa Electric and Corning pay $2.75 billion for Lucent Technologies' Optical Fiber Solutions business)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Among recent telecom acquisitions, Furukawa Electric and Corning agreed to pay $2.75 billion for, Lucent Technologies' Optical Fiber Solutions business, with Furukawa acquiring the major portion of the business, and Corning paying $225 million...

Good Hosts.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Hosting service providers saw a big chunk of their customer base wiped out thanks to the "dotcom bomb," Infonetics Research says, but spending on e-business infrastructure will still rise from $6.5 billion this year to $8.8 billion by 2005, as...

OSS on Track.(Orange France offers VoIP services)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Service providers undertaking new OSS projects include Orange France, the top cellular provider in France, which licensed Convergys' Atlys billing and customer care solution, and Canada's Telus, which plans to use XACCT Technologies'...

Metro Buildout.(Metro-Optix's CityStream bandwidth manager)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Various service providers have announced plans to upgrade their MANs, including XO Communications, which said all of its 62 U.S. markets now offer OC-12, OC-48 and OC-192 capacity. Louisiana-based integrated service provider Network USA,...

New Colocation Ruling Has Something For Everyone.(FCC's new colocation rules)
September 1, 2001... WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Only time will tell whether the FCC's new colocation rules will help or hinder competition. While the commission recently eliminated rules requiring CLEC-to-CLEC cross-connects and CLEC choice of CO space, the debate over its...

Wireless Broadband Keeps on Chugging.(carriers Winstar, Teligent and Advanced Radio Telecom declare bankruptcy)
September 1, 2001... Downturn in the telecom industry has degraded the wireless broadband sector's potential and minimized some of the industry's success. Bankruptcy declarations by LMDS (local multipoint distribution service) carriers Winstar, Teligent and...

MPLS Branches Out.(Westelcom to provide data and packet voice services over DSL)
September 1, 2001... In upstate New York, Westelcom is in the process of firing up its broadband network. A unit of a nearly 100-year-old rural telephone company, Westelcom intends to avoid the pain and death that have befallen some of its CLEC brethren, "We're...

Breaking the One-Size-Fits-Mi Mentality.
September 1, 2001... Although the wired world's circuit-to-packet migration has had its troubles, wireless IP migration aces a bigger challenge: The Internet did not evolve with a wireless medium in mind. So how do you scale incumbent systems to the demands of...

Piecing Together.(operations support systems development)
September 1, 2001... When the people of Babylon sought to build a tower with its top in the heavens, so the story goes, God stymied their work by confusing the language of the workmen, so they could no longer understand each other. That's the way things have been...

PONs: Ready, Set, Go!
September 1, 2001... As fiber optics have proliferated in the last few years, backbone Capacity has scaled to new heights, and metro networks are scaling as well. However the access network is still one giant bottleneck. Enter PON (passive optical networking)....

Building an OSS Model for Cable.
September 1, 2001... The billions of dollars invested in communications infrastructure are making the vision of interactive communications and services a fact. Whether it's manifested by transoceanic fiber networks, Microsoft TV or a programmable network processor,...

DSL Finds Path to Growth, Convergence.
September 1, 2001... Driven by the proliferation of new multimedia applications and increasing overall traffic levels, service providers have undertaken extensive modernization of their core networks with pervasive deployment of high-bandwidth, optical transport...

The Case for Optical Ethernet.(new last mile technology)
September 1, 2001... As network capacity triples annually to keep pace with exploding demand for bandwidth-intensive applications, backbone networks designed for voice traffic are strained to their limits. For both technological and economical reasons, the future...

Broadband Stags in the Game.
September 1, 2001... Market fluctuations and the demise of many DSL providers have created the misperception that broadband access is going the way of the dotcoms. In truth, there is a wide spectrum of wins and losses worldwide, Neither technology nor market demand...

Voice, Video and Data Challenge the MAN.(metropolitan area networks, Gigabit Ethernet)
September 1, 2001... Next-gen services come e alive with GigE and application-a ware routers. Most telecom professionals share the vision that the MAN of the future will afford near limitless transport capacity and allow for seamless delivery of coveted...

Network Migration: Evolution, Not Revolution.
September 1, 2001... A new call model opens the control fabric to all types of traffic. There is much ado about the promise of an all-IP optical network, but what about that multibillion-dollar investment the RBOCs and many other carriers have made in services...

Raze Technologies: One-Stop Wireless Broadband.
September 1, 2001... www.razetechnologies.com While most broadband wire less plays have been data only, Plano, Texas-based Raze Technologies has built its SkyFire wireless broadband system from the ground up as an integrated voice/data solution. Whereas other...

Wireless T1 Device.(ADTRAN Tracer 4103)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Adtran www.adtranwireless.com Adtran introduced a new license-free digital microwave radio as part of its line of Tracer products. The Tracer 4103 combines baseband processing and radio frequency conversion in one rackmount chassis,...

Broadband Access QoS.(Teradyne NetFlare tester)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Teradyne www.teradyne.com Teradyne says its new Internet test system, NetFlare, lets service providers quickly identify whether connectivity and performance problems in consumer broadband services have their root in the access network,...

SONET/SDH Subrate Multiplexers.(from Sorrento Networks)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Sorrento Networks www.sorrentonet.com New SONET/SDH multiplexers from Sorrento Networks consolidate 155-Mbps, 622-Mbps and 2.5-Gbps SONET/SDH traffic onto a common wavelength for transport over the company's GigaMux DWDM optical...

DWDM Optical Amplifier.(Altamar Networks Orion)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Altamar Networks www.altamar.com Aiming to meet the needs of nextgen DWDM networks, which will let operators route, tear down and reuse wavelengths at will, Altamar Networks unveiled the Orion optical amplifier. This product lets users...

Multirate DSL Tester.(Acterna Testpad)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Acterna www.acterna.com Acterna says technicians can now use its Testpad DSL Broadband Services Module to deploy SDSL and SHDSL, two high-speed symmetrical DSL services. The module already offers DSL test capability for ATM loopback;...

Tough Terminal.(Quantum Bridge Q8600)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Quantum Bridge www.quantumbridge.com Quantum Bridge has released an environmentally hardened QB600 intelligent optical terminal that is designed to withstand temperatures from -40 degree centigrade to 75 degrees centigrade. The QB600,...

Services Tuner.(from ONI Systems)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... ONI Systems www.oni.com ONI has added a bit-rate tunable wavelength interface to its optical transport platforms for metro/regional networks. With a single interface, carriers or their customers can software provision just about any...

Dense DCS.(software from Alcatel)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Alcatel www.alcatel.com New software from Alcatel allows carriers to increase the number of DS3/STS-1 ports supported by the system matrix positioned as much as half a kilometer from the input/output bay. Further, as a result of the...

Copper Qualifier.(Spirent Communications CopperMax/Nomad)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... Spirent Communications www.spirent.com To speed the rollout of DSL services, Spirent has announced a solution that includes a new portable remote test unit called the CopperMax/Nomad and two OSS modules. The CopperMax/Nomad and the...

IPSX Gets More Bite.(CoSine Communications' IPSX 9500 network switch)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 2001... CoSine Communications www.cosinecom.com CoSine, one of the early vendors to introduce a platform that enables the delivery of value-added services within the network, claims to now have the only multigigabit IP service switch with the...

Off-Line.
September 1, 2001... Blessed with several mentors, Naser Partovi has "also been lucky to have the right ones at the right time in my career, "he said. The first taught him the importance of understanding how a business operates: "I learned a lot by actually getting...