Delivering mobile infrastructure into emerging markets is a key goal for many established suppliers. But the emergence of innovative eastern suppliers like Huawei and ZTE puts this goal at ...

CRM licensed application vendors are interested in catching onto the momentum that has enabled CRM ASPs to defy market declines. However, in order to respond to the ASP success, licensed ...

Despite chipset evolution and loop bonding technologies enabling higher-speed DSL services, loop reach is still an important factor in determining DSL service "eligibility," but new solutions may eliminate DSL's biggest ...

The Java Community Process announced this week that JSR 168, the Java portlet specification, had passed the Final Approval Ballot. While JSR 168 has a number of limitations, its approval ...

UMTS, the heir apparent of GSM mobile wireless technologies, is being encroached upon by operator deployment of EDGE and public WLAN services. With EDGE offering 384 Kbps and PWLAN ...

GSM operators in the Americas will largely follow an EDGE-oriented data migration path through the medium-term. EDGE, and even UMTS, cannot compete with CDMA2000-EV data - operators will need ...

BT's Wi-Fi gurus are ignoring the cynics and steaming ahead with its hotspot rollout in the UK. No one's making money from Wi-Fi yet - not even BT - ...

Tibco and Sonic are engaged in an acrimonious legal dispute over the publishing of benchmarks. Are open benchmark standards the answer, or is integration simply too complicated for standard benchmarks? ...

SSL VPN vendors are introducing features that directly compete with traditional IPsec VPNs. SSL VPNs have certain advantages over IPsec solutions, but some SSL VPN vendors are reinventing the ...

Some optical vendors with financial resources are trying to grow out of the spending slump by acquiring companies in other markets. This approach requires time as well as money, and ...

Most Tier 1 vendors are definitely staying in the DWDM game, and several are moving forward with aggressive development to change the competitive landscape in 2004. This could wind up ...

PON vendors position in response to the RBOCs, which positioned their own PON intentions while waiting on the FCC, which did not fulfill the RBOCs dreams - so it's back ...

While router sales are up and reports of carriers running out of capacity on portions of their IP networks may be true, service providers have enough capacity-pinching techniques to delay ...

Following the dot.com implosion, an argument that Wi-Fi hype may be followed by a market collapse is gaining ground in the media. Providing real world value to end-users and ...

In geographies where top-tier PBX and voice applications vendors are not dominant, they must distinguish their products and services by creating offerings that are not otherwise available from established heavyweights ...

Speculation abounds about why Merrill Lynch is replacing its Cisco Call Manager with an Avaya system, and what that says about the soundness of IP telephony. But the only lesson ...

Metro SDH platforms are leading the market into the next generation. If you want to see what transport networks may look like in the future, just take a look at ...

802.20 standards proceedings promise to bring mobility to IP-based, high-speed wireless networks. The simplicity of a "flat" IP network shines when compared to the hierarchy of CDMA or GSM, ...

The JCP has put JSR 168 up for public review. This marks an important milestone for this particular standards effort, although it is unknown what changes, if any, will ultimately ...

WAN DWDM has too many competitors per dollar of revenue, and the expected consolidation's failure to materialize raises fundamental questions of whether solutions are always the solution, and if the ...