Telecommunications Americas articles from September 2005

Telecommunications Americas archives from September 2005

The new managed services menu.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 1, 2005... Proactive security offerings, application-level XML devices, homeward-bound triple-play packages. These are all items you're starting to see on operators' managed services menus in an effort to evolve this market beyond managing networking...

Today's smartphones: better than TV?(SmartVideo Technologies Inc. pairs with E! Entertainment Television Inc. and Fun Little Movies)
September 1, 2005... There was a time when no one wanted to be called "smart aleck" or "smarty pants." Those were pejorative terms meant to knock the know-it-all down a peg or two. Today, there's no such thing as being too smart. We even have smartphones--or smart...

Waiting an eon for an AON.(application-oriented networking from Cisco Systems Inc.)
September 1, 2005... Things don't happen as fast in networking today as they did in the glory days. Perhaps that's because today we're dealing with reality and not hype. There's little inertia in positioning, but a lot more in product. Take Cisco's new...

Building the managed services blueprint: from the enterprise to homeward bound.(Cover Story)
September 1, 2005... Before you can define the new blueprint for managed services, you need to redefine the word "building." When managed services first arrived, the building was a corporate headquarters or branch site, and the service covered the provisioning,...

TDMoIP: the core network question.(Time Division Multiplexing Over Internet Protocol)
September 1, 2005... Fixed-bandwidth, leased-line TDM services were the mainstay of private networking until the 1990s. Still sold today, they range from 56-kbps data-phone digital services to T1/E1, T3/E3 and SONET. These days you're politically incorrect if...

Telcos come to bat in converged services ball game: can they take a late-inning lead?(telephone companies)
September 1, 2005... Like power hitters sitting on juicy fast-balls, carriers have the chance to hit one out of the park and capture the lead in the converged wireless/wireline services game, if they time things just right. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If they...

Norse pipeline works wireless data.(Norse Petroleum US Inc.)
September 1, 2005... Gas gathering system Norse Pipeline's deployment of a wire-free remote monitoring effort that replaces a longstanding and time-consuming manual process is proof that wireless data services are alive and well in machine-to-machine (M2M) business...

Brix Networks' BrixCare Self-Service: taking the VoIP quality test.(PRODUCT of the Month 2005)
September 1, 2005... www.brixnetworks.com Targeting top customer concerns, Brix Networks has announced a VoIP quality measurement and reporting application designed to help any service provider cut subscriber acquisition and supports costs. The package,...

Conferencing software.(Vapps)
September 1, 2005... Vapps www.vappsinc.com Vapps has added features to its voice conferencing software that lets service providers tailor conference sessions on a customer-by-customer basis. This is done via a SIP-enabled, VoIP-native conferencing...

Offline.(Kevin DeNuccio )(Interview)
September 1, 2005... Like many high-tech companies, Redback Networks fell on hard times a few years ago during the telecom market crash, but despite the quarterly losses, job layoffs, and other effects of financial restructuring, President and CEO Kevin DeNuccio...