With femtocell trials underway and broad deployments planned for next year, vendors are ramping up their messaging and highlighting their innovations. How, exactly, tough issues such as installation and interference ...

MNOs are now demonstrating a clear wholesale partner preference for supermarket and other high-street brands with their own, established retail chains. The 'pan-European MVNO,' however, is still nowhere in sight. ...

It is fashionable to be a 'bit-pipe' again. Data pricing, both national and roaming, tumbled significantly in Europe in Q1 2008. This report contains a market overview, analyst review, near ...

Reconfigurable add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) and mesh topologies figure prominently among optical transport service providers, but competitors still find it easier to drive down costs than to get clients hooked on ...

SMB contact centers are once again providing opportunities for significant growth. Taking advantage of discounts offered due to the economic slowdown, SMBs are more open to spending IT dollars, and ...

Due to the acquisition of leading BI vendors such as Business Objects, Cognos, and Hyperion, market consolidations continue as non-BI specialists seek to augment their own BI portfolio and capture ...

Voice and messaging are becoming cross-device services that require new infrastructure integration levels and they will require new business models. Competition from cable and utility operators with FTTH infrastructures will ...

The market for firewalls and VPNs continues to transition into one of unified threat management and defense. While the concept still makes enterprise customers nervous, vendors are delivering better security ...

The anti-x market continues to consolidate, with a heavy emphasis on anti-spam, Web security, reputation services, and basic DLP protection, as security and infrastructure providers aim to curb the surge ...

Broad adoption of network access control (NAC) solutions has been slower than expected and this has lead to a thinning of the vendor herd. This report contains a market overview, ...

The component pieces within the security management market are systematically being brought together to deliver broader risk and compliance management solutions. This report contains a market overview, analyst review, near ...

IPS technology remains the most prevalent security platform within the traditional network infrastructure, and IPS speeds continue to increase in support of Web 2.0 applications. This report contains a market ...

Attitudes are changing in the world of mobile media, and business service models with them. There's still much to define, refine and tweak, but standards, hardware, software and service models ...

The North American market for Class 5 replacement with traditional ILECs and rural IOCs is plagued with upheaval as CopperCom exits the Class 5 alternative market and Taqua rises like ...

The DI market continues to consolidate as database and applications vendors, as well as data integration specialists, continue to strengthen their data integration capabilities through aggressive acquisition strategies. This report ...

Revived by strong IP telephony conversion, growth in emerging markets, and new technologies, the long-term outlook for the large contact center market is good. However, near-term growth in the largest ...

Mobile voice still provides the bulk of enterprise mobility revenues; carriers offer pooling plans, Push To Talk, wireline/wireless bundles and more recently, PBX extension services to bring cellular voice into ...

While a mature discipline, Database technology continues to evolve with new vendors, in particular those with column-oriented architectures, entering the fray. Data warehouse appliances have moved from a niche offering ...

Demand for switched Ethernet services is impacting all aspects of the transport network, and access equipment is not immune. The latest metro access trends include integrated switching and WDM while ...

The SME PBX market abounds with solutions for all customer types. Developers must balance traditional SME ease of use and cost priorities against increasingly sophisticated functionality. This report contains a ...