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Telecom Roundtable: Surviving the Rough Economy
Panelists at the TM Forum’s Management World Conference this week agreed the economy will get worse before it gets better. They also agreed it is no time to stop investing in the network.Rob Rich, managing director of TM Forum’s Transformation Information Resource Center, led panelists Zenas Hutcheson, senior managing director of Vesbridge Partners LLC; Keith Willets, chairman and CEO of ...(More)
11/21/2008
Behind the Scenes of Automated Testing
One of the core tenets of the scientific method is that experiments and tests must be repeatable. That holds true whether testing takes place in the labs of the University of New Hampshire or Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Inc. or Juniper Networks, Joliet Junior College or One Communications Inc. Preferably, when running millions of iterations and variations, the testing must ...(More)
11/20/2008
IPTV Testing Process More Than Meets the Eye
If you think deploying IPTV ends with the purchase of all the software and hardware components that make up the long, complex and tightly interrelated delivery and support ecosystem, think again.Telco TV deployers have taken rigorous pre-testing measures in laboratories, and with employees as guinea pigs, to ensure their video service and enhancements don’t collapse the fragile IPTV foundation that ...(More)
11/20/2008
SES Backs Out of Managed, Turnkey IPTV Market
Three years after SES Americom Inc. announced its managed, turnkey IPTV package before a wide-eyed throng of mid-tier, small and rural telcos at TelcoTV 2005, the company is comprising its IP-PRIME service of only content delivery via satellite, with all else passed off to vendor partners.Perhaps because the goal was overly ambitious, SES pulled out of the managed turnkey IPTV ...(More)
11/20/2008
WiMAX Gets Down to Business
WiMAX has been a player in the business market for some time now, but never really enjoyed the high-profile hype-machine treatment that the idea of 4G for the consumer has gotten. WiMAX carriers Sprint-Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. have led the way in terms of fomenting the dialogue around the technology, and the main point goes something like this: consumer ...(More)
11/19/2008
VoIP Embraces Open Application Development
The trend toward data applications and Internet-delivered SaaS is beginning to impact the VoIP landscape, with VoIP platform providers BroadSoft and Sylantro Systems both opening up their environments to third-party developer ecosystems, and companies like Ribbit providing a way to add voice to other applications. The result? An integration of voice and Web 2.0, leading to innovative mash-ups that service ...(More)
11/18/2008
Ahead of a Dismal Christmas Shopping Season, Wireless Banks on Smartphones
Despite fears that the Christmas season for handsets is shaping up to be nightmarish for cell phone makers thanks to the global credit crisis and worsening U.S. economy, smartphone makers are forging bravely ahead.As you might be aware, third-quarter results from the top five handset makers worldwide left much to be desired: Nokia, Motorola Inc., LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson ...(More)
11/17/2008
At FCC, Reform Lobbying Revolving Around .0007 Rate
Despite a lame duck presidential administration, plenty of interest groups are lobbying the FCC in advance of its Dec. 18 meeting. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has made it clear he won’t spend his last weeks in office doing nothing, as evidenced by his leaning on the cable industry and his intent to again try to address an intercarrier compensation/Universal Service ...(More)
11/17/2008
Busy Obama Has Tech Policy on Agenda
President-elect Barack Obama has spent the week since he was elected tapping advisers for his new administration. Among them will be a CTO who will act on Obama’s vision of nationwide broadband availability. Indeed, technology is a crucial cornerstone of Obama’s platform. He has said he plans to make government more open – video streaming, Wikis and other cutting-edge components ...(More)
11/13/2008
Apple’s Next Target – Portable Games
You’ve seen the Apple Inc. (AAPL) commercial that shows the new iPhone being used to play a game called Cro Mag. Well, Apple did not just randomly select this particular application to demonstrate the iPhone. In fact, the company, having now achieved king status in the cell phone market, is looking to conquer the handheld games empire.Nintendo DS and Sony PlayStation ...(More)
11/12/2008
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