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 ...

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 ...