By all accounts, momentum is growing behind IMS. To take it mass market - beyond early adopter operators and those with fixed-line synergies - mobile vendors will need to ...

ROADM vendors had a lot of overlap in positioning while justifying the need for their emerging class of products. Now they need to put more emphasis on promoting their own ...

As 2G networks were built out, in-building coverage was often seen as a novelty. Now, with 3G becoming a necessity and convergence looming, can in-building coverage models become an ...

Vendors face competitive pressures to meet very aggressive service provider price expectations, but changes in the evolving market place make positioning for wins increasingly possible despite not being the low ...

With an influx of new members, the WiMAX Forum is riding high. However, new members don't ensure the success of any technology and press releases can't quantify commitment. Of course, ...

TeliaSonera plans a 45,000 home rollout of FTTH, but traction elsewhere in EMEA and North America is less encouraging for PON than for DSL. PON vendors need to justify the ...

After a long pause, some vendors are talking 40G again, public demonstrations are underway, and it was a popular topic at ECOC 2004. Is 40G a real opportunity now, or ...

Sending voice in packets is more than just a means of cheap transport. VoIP makes new enterprise applications possible and allows new ways to use existing applications. Service ...

Blinded by their historical mindset, service providers look at VoIP as a network efficiency play and a way to stave off competition. However, service providers can win new service ...

Session Border Controllers are currently at the top of the hype charts. It remains to be seen, though, if SBCs have real staying power or if they are simply ...

A new standard, dubbed EPC-IS, aims to share RFID product information as it moves through the supply chain. The technology could give a boost to RFID, which has been more ...

Hotspots used to be THE application for operator WLAN deployments. New applications have stolen the limelight, and commercial momentum. But, instead of the death of hotspots, this expansion represents ...

Competing approaches to client validation and network access control threaten to divide the industry between Microsoft, Cisco, and third-party solutions, complicating development for all security vendors and frustrating network administrators. ...

Ethernet services are growing, but not as fast as vendors would like - despite many suspected reasons for the delays having gone away. Feedback from a couple of service providers ...

Although few of the enterprise application vendors have shown any interest in the hosted CRM market, they should be buying their way into the space. Without a quick entry, these ...

Carriers increasingly judge transport vendors on their data capabilities, so careful positioning of milestones, progress, and vision for data aware transport is important to maintain credibility in a new optical ...

The softswitch, which has only been around since the late 1990s, is undergoing a major facelift. The industry needs to seize this opportunity to finally bury the softswitch moniker, which ...

There is gathering industry interest in wireless telephony systems that leverage both WLANs and cellular networks. Enterprise WiFi networks are largely unprepared to support voice apps, a situation that will ...

18 months after the buzz began, operators are still trialing PoC solutions and vendors are still wrangling over PoC standards. A new study points to the importance of OMA-based systems; ...

Cingular and Sprint PCS both made their 3G intentions clear with the announcement of an UMTS RFP and a $1 billion commitment to EV-DO (and perhaps EV-DV). The news shows ...