Verizon frame relay services offer wide regional, national, and international geographic reach, comprehensive features, and competitive SLAs. However, the de-tariffing of its higher-speed local services makes comparisons more difficult. ...

Nortel's BCM remains an impressive SMB telephony offering, particularly for Norstar customers looking to upgrade. However, Nortel needs to explain how the platform fits into its overall unified communications ...

Verizon ATM services offer wide regional, national, and international reach, comprehensive features, and competitive SLAs. Verizon received forbearance for its FCC tariffed regional services in 2007, making competitive comparisons ...

Given its command of the router market, competitors will be threatened by Cisco's packaging of call processing into access routers, but CME's positioning as a converged solution limits its appeal ...

Alcatel-Lucent continues to enhance OmniPCX Office, delivering enterprise-class applications to smaller businesses that differentiate the Alcatel-Lucent PBX in an over-crowded SMB market. This report contains insight and analysis of ...

Juniper's T-series offers the high performance needed to meet the demands of IP core networks. Recent T-series traction includes NTT Communications for double network capacity on the same footprint, and ...

KEYMILE's MileGate series is purpose-built to address fast-growing IP applications, including triple play services, and it gives KEYMILE a clearly differentiated access platform to address a wide range of carrier ...

Huawei's Net Engine 5000E multi-chassis cluster can grow up to 10 Tbps of switching performance and it offers a full suite of IP services to meet the demand of service ...

Cisco's recent additions to the 7600 router include new enhanced Ethernet service modules, integrated session border control, and an intelligent services gateway (for PDSN/GGSN gateways) to address emerging service provider ...

Cisco's 7600 is the cornerstone of its service provider IP NGN edge offering. A steady stream of performance and feature enhancements (to support emerging NGN network requirements) earned Cisco 56% ...

A flurry of recent customer announcements illustrates Infinera's market success. However, recent feature enhancements aside, Infinera needs to deliver on its PICs roadmap to improve the DTN's efficiency when transporting ...

The Alcatel-Lucent 5020 Media Gateway Controller-8, which has found significant traction in the core of fixed and wireless networks, is also an essential transitional component toward the company's IMS-based technology. ...

Alcatel-Lucent's 1660 SM differentiates itself by offering ATM interface and switching support for backhaul applications. However, the 1660 SM lags behind some competitors in terms of supporting increasing capacity ...

While Ericsson's OMS 1600 goes beyond basic MSPP functionality to support switched Ethernet services, the lack of MPLS and RPR stands out as a knock against the system's ability to ...

While Cisco's ONS 15454 offers operators several advanced features including comprehensive Ethernet functionality, DWDM support, and ROADM, the platform's small low-order switch matrix and limited STM-1 capacity detract from its ...

Despite a comprehensive list of DWDM and Ethernet capabilities, NSN's hiT 7070 is lagging in terms of some fundamental MSPP functionality, including client interface capacity, power consumption, and footprint. ...

With enhanced interface support and robust TDM and Ethernet switch fabrics, the XDM-300 enhances ECI's competitiveness in the metro edge SDH market. However, high power consumption and the lack of ...

Cisco's XR 12000 Series routers combine the strengths of IOS XR with new hardware such as IPoDWDM, which extends the solution to the network's edge with a 10 GigE shared ...

THUS' IPT portfolio is a work in progress as it consists of just IP Trunking and Managed IP PBX services. IP Centrex services have been on the road map for ...

The Tellabs 8860 multiservice router belies the company's overall commitment to broadband, as it is not a purpose-built product for the more granular subscriber IP edge services market, and only ...