Telecommunications Americas articles from September 2004

Telecommunications Americas archives from September 2004

White flag or sound decision?(Commentary)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 1, 2004... Life is full of ironies: As I visited The New York Times website for fodder for this commentary, I did a quick search for recent articles on AT & T. Alas, even on its own search, Ma Bell couldn't escape the competition; the search engine was...

Time to grow.(Commentary)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 1, 2004... Some modestly good news from In-Stat/MDR: According to a recent report, service provider capex will finally see a slight uptick in 2004--2 percent over 2003 levels. It's not much (well, actually it is if you count it in millions of dollars),...

Managed services: a Trojan Horse opens the way.(For Starters)
September 1, 2004... No single product or service is a "Trojan Horse" that will get a carrier or service provider into an enterprise's business space as a managed services provider, a panel of industry executives agreed at a panel hosted by Telecommunications[R]...

Softswitches: interworking, vendor maturity key.(For Starters)
September 1, 2004... Forget technology or fancy architectures. "The best softswitch solution is the one that the customer wants to buy," Ken Pecot, Nortel Networks' general manager of carrier VoIP, said at the "Class Wars: The New Opportunity for Softswitches"...

Telecommunications@SUPERCOMM2004.(For Starters)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Telecommunications[R] magazine was everywhere at SUPERCOMM as the staff hosted five roundtable sessions, an awards breakfast for our 10 Coolest Companies of 2004, and the hot, hot, hot 10 Hottest Technologies Pavilion. Clockwise from top left,...

Full circle: IEEE approves RPR standard.(For Starters)(Resilient Packet Ring)(Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers)
September 1, 2004... "Complementing, not competing." This, says the RPR (Resilient Packet Ring) Alliance, is the mantra of any embedded carrier looking to offer new services while augmenting its existing infrastructure. Soon carriers will be able to take advantage...

Customer support a key challenge for wireless operators.(For Starters)
September 1, 2004... Wireless carriers operate in a commodity environment with pressures of rolling out new products and services in one-sixth the time of their wireline counterparts. At the same time, customer satisfaction and retention are critical. How can...

Living on the edge: multiservice edge devices are all the rage again--and this time carriers are serious.(Cover Story)
September 1, 2004... As the telecom industry awakens from its nuclear winter, the ghost of concepts past--delivering multiple layers of services over a converged IP/MPLS network--is being resurrected in the form of a MSE device. Gone, however, is any resemblance to...

An ounce of prevention: proactive security through a managed service benefits providers and customers.(Network Edge)
September 1, 2004... Today's businesses operate on a heterogeneous infrastructure of IT assets such as servers, storage and internal networks. Increasingly, business reach and capability are extended through connectivity between internal IT assets, the Internet and...

Creating community-based VPNs: IP-VPN technology enhances the delivery of content-rich interactive services.(Virtual Private Network Service)
September 1, 2004... Tremendous challenges face service providers as ILECs/CLECs, IXCs, ISPs, cable and wireless operators vie to offer business and residential markets the most extensive package of services at the best price. Voice service revenue is no longer a...

Moving beyond managed security: providers are using network-based services to build more efficient enterprise productivity models.(VPNs Take Off)
September 1, 2004... The face of business is changing, placing new demands on business' communications networks. Today's corporate network must not only reach mobile executives as they travel from city to city, it must also extend to the remote outposts that...

Turin networks' TE-100 takes multiservice to the edge.(TraverseEdge)
September 1, 2004... There's no getting around it: Ethernet and SONET are effectively colliding in the ever-evolving metro access edge network. But where the telecom bubble mentality might have called for an "out with the old, in with the new" revolutionary...

Next-gen SONET.(New Products)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ADC www.adc.com ADC introduced its new LoopStar 800 SONET access system, which allows service providers to deploy and manage TDM and Ethernet services to end users from a single platform. The scalable LoopStar 800 system enables...

Fiber-to-the-X.(New Products)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Amedia www.amedianetworks.com With a new management team and focus in hand, Holmdel, N.J.-based Amedia is confident that its QoStream solution is a fresh approach to FTTP. Consisting of four product elements--PG1000 Premises Gateway,...

Power Racks.(New Products)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Power Quality One www.pq1.com Power Quality One has introduced its new Power Rack CPS series. The medium DC power rack is intended for telecom applications requiring compact, efficient and flexible power supplies with 200- to 2400-amp...

Uni-gen packet platform.(New Products)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Excel Switching www.xl.com Excel Switching has emerged with a set of new platforms that will provide a roadmap for both wireline and wireless carriers to effectively expand and personalize their service offerings, while at the same...

IP DSLAM.(product introduction)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... PacketFront www.packetfront.com Listening to its FTTH customers, who said they couldn't afford to lay fiber every-where, Stockholm-based PacketFront is moving into the DSL space with the launch of a high-performance IP DSLAM that...

Virtual private services.(LE-54v Access Portal)(LE 311v Access Concentrator)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... World Wide Packets www.worldwidepackets.com The advantages of a core MPLS network are well-known; now it's clear that operators want to extend the benefits of that MPLS core to the subscriber. With that challenge in hand. World Wide...

Offline.
September 1, 2004... Growing up on the South Side of Chicago wasn't easy for Allied Telesyn President and COO Howard Kamerer. Gangs, violence and drugs were everywhere, and basketballs, footballs and base-balls seemed to be just about the only way to escape to a...