AT&T Wireless is on the auction block, with several wireless carriers professing a desire to acquire. Cingular leads the pack, but does a coming together of Cingular and AWE make ...

Publicly communicating upcoming GA dates can be a key element in positioning - if done right, but this tool is a double-edged sword. ...

It's a little premature to start writing the epitaph for the concept of a multi-chassis core router with the ability to scale to several terabits of capacity. Multi-chassis routers are ...

Despite ending 2003 with a flurry of announced services and deployment plans, carriers are at best in the experimental stages of adopting hosted telephony strategies, leaving open the door of ...

Industry consolidations will continue as companies seek to directly control complementary technology; regulatory compliance issues will require data warehouse support; data quality will become an upfront requirement, not an after-the-fact ...

The economy is looking good, and one can expect the portal market to perk up as well. Vendors can expect some technology changes as well as some consolidation. Will ...

Though broadly expected, Verizon Wireless's plan to go nationwide with EV-DO boosts the technology. It should also benefit Lucent and Nortel, though Motorola and vendors banking on EV-DV may need ...

2003 was a tough year in optical networking, but vendors adapted and gained wins by getting back to fundamentals. A few events in 2003 are worth revisiting while developing positioning ...

Among the trends for 2004 will be a resumption of growth in the battered application infrastructure and integration market spaces. Users and vendors need to prepare for the new ...

The trends established in 2003, namely market consolidation, will continue in 2004. This gives CRM vendors two things to think about - how to bulk up on resources and ...

The metro edge market has been, and will remain, very competitive. New entrants are showing up, GFP, VCAT, and LCAS become mainstream and enable MSPPs to compete with metro ...

The demand for collaboration technology is strong. The recent NIH Roadmap will doubtless fuel this demand both within and without the scientific community. Vendors with collaboration technology need to be ...

Vendors looking to emerging applications or market segments to drive additional revenues face greater resistance from service providers in the "post bubble" economy. Recognize the challenge, and invest in pre-sales ...

Start-up ROADM vendors challenge the experience and future of incumbent metro WDM vendors with positioning of technology and promises of better TCO. Both attributes are important, but market mindshare will ...

Although it has created little industry buzz, the shipment of J2EE 1.4 is an important event. Vendors and particularly users will find improvements in Web Services, integration, and management crucial ...

Though EV-DO is just now taking off, CDMA vendors have begun to hype early EV-DV demonstrations with Nokia and Ericsson taking an early lead. Vendors are driven by customer demands, ...

While GSM/UMTS vendors have developed new, cheap gear to address developing markets, CDMA vendors have seized upon the opportunity of CDMA 450. As it creeps into Western Europe, other vendors ...

Arguments over the minutia of PBX architecture are in the process of becoming pass??. IP telephony vendors will need to develop rich, integrated sets of communications applications to remain competitive ...

BellSouth, Verizon, and AT&T all made MSPP vendor announcements in 2003, with established vendors declaring victory. Even though it looks like the MSPP is winning the war, battles that ...

RBOCs like the technology, but it will take time to drive costs toward a compelling business case. Vendors need to leverage subsidized wins while strengthening differentiation on more fundamental ...