The digital home market for some companies has existed as a mythic space for which competition is limited and the end result is a black box, but users' demands for ...

After years of threatening to invade the hosted application server space, IP PBXs are becoming legitimate alternatives to carrier-specific solutions from BroadSoft, Netcentrex, Sylantro, and others. ...

After years of threatening to invade the hosted application server space, IP PBXs are becoming legitimate alternatives to carrier-specific solutions from BroadSoft, Netcentrex, Sylantro, and others. ...

MEF's carrier Ethernet certification efforts are moving towards the QoS aspects, now that vendors and service providers have the ability to deliver MEF-compliant services. MEF-14 could help accelerate the ...

The battle between hosted telephony solutions and IP-PBXs for control of the high-end of the enterprise market was over before it really started. Hosted application servers have taken a more ...

The battle between hosted telephony solutions and IP PBXs for control of the high-end of the enterprise market was over before it really started. Hosted application servers have taken ...

The Super Bowl was yet another fumbled opportunity for the Big Four carriers, with none of them successfully highlighting multimedia content. Unfortunately for them, Mobile ESPN proved to the world ...

ATCA promises to revolutionize gear development and deployment. However, platform reuse is already common and ATCA is relatively new. An IT ecosystem addressing new technologies and processing demands should make ...

Microsoft brings obvious strengths to the security market (as well as a few more subtle ones), but it also suffers from some unique liabilities. ...

Nordic carriers have outlined their NGN strategies in recent weeks. They are pragmatic and focus on upgrading the core network to IP while retaining multiple access network technologies to ...

Security products have lived in blissful isolation for decades, but for a host of reasons this is all about to change as enterprises more forcefully demand a more holistic and ...

Sarbanes-Oxley continues to be criticized, although many organizations are finding benefits in implementing SOX controls. As a result, there may be some uptick in SOX-related spending in 2006, particularly in ...

If 2005 was the Year of Smoke and Mirrors, 2006 will be the Year of the Identity Crisis. New technology will continue to kick up plenty of hype, but ...

The recently announced Ethernet Alliance is a laudable industry effort to bring Ethernet advocacy and information into focus, but its broad coverage and scope threaten to make it difficult to ...

With the New Year come new opportunities and challenges for EM carriers and vendors; here is our analysis of industry trends and our predictions for products and services that will ...

CES 2006 has come and gone: 150,000 attendees, three cabs, and plenty of mobile device news. Here's a recap of who was there, who wasn't, what they showed off, and ...

Composite Applications form a new type of application development built on an SOA. However, the term has become muddied by vendors who want to sell their existing tools. Everyone would ...

Threat protection vendors face a wave of technical and competitive threats throughout 2006 and beyond. ...

The New Year brings with it a multitude of new opportunities - not to mention some major challenges - for the mobile operators. We highlight the top ten issues and ...

The market is flooded with pink RAZRs, super-thin Samsung sliders, and $900 Nokia phones with accents "found in luxury timepieces." Are fashion phones a fad? How long will the trend ...