Level 3 has made great strides in overcoming the integration and provisioning issues that plagued the carrier in 2007. Now they need to sustain the momentum on the enterprise side ...

Carrier Ethernet is increasingly a top priority for flexible and cost-effective data WAN services. Enterprise network service providers face a serious strategy rethink for evolving their legacy solutions to ...

On many fronts - capacity, sizing, IP support - Nortel's EBSC falls short of competitors. Yet, capacity is strong, space efficiency is respectable and Nortel's strong CDMA market position ...

QSC has a very flexible VoIP package with IP Centrex, VoDSL and hosted IP PBX. It also has services based on the DT's network to improve its reach. Yet, ...

Arcor has a well-rounded IP Telephony for German SMEs. While Vodafone has taken over the carrier (and may drop the brand), Arcor does not have a strong mobile integration piece ...

In the past six months, COLT has introduced SIP Trunking into its product suite. This holds advantages in helping customers reduce their ISDN estate, enhances their ability to support a ...

When Samsung began updating its CDMA portfolio several years ago, there was hope that its BSC would get a facelift. It did, but the changes were not enough to ...

Motorola's IP BSC benefits from a unique architecture and the use of IP at its core. Unfortunately, limited upgrades and limited capacity conspire against its ability to provide investment ...

Huawei has not targeted CDMA2000 as a strategic focus in the way its Chinese compatriot ZTE has. Regardless, its CDMA BSC claims performance metrics that anyone would find impressive - ...

Juniper continues to advance its IP and edge routing portfolio of solutions, providing scalable platforms to address service provider multi-play solutions, but faces sustained, effective competition from Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, and ...

Mazu Networks has broadened its behavior-based, performance, and availability solutions to ensure the delivery of critical business services as the company targets network operations as well as security teams. ...

BT Global Services has a solid enterprise mobility value proposition. However, the momentum and profile of key services such as BT Corporate Fusion and MobileXpress has slowed down over the ...

Symantec continues to make progress in integrating and more effectively bundling its broad portfolio of products, particularly at the endpoint. This report contains in-depth analysis of the company, including strengths ...

Fortinet delivers its first database security appliance, based on technology it acquired with IPLocks. The vulnerability assessment appliance is the first of a series of planned appliances. ...

Cisco continues to build out its footprint in the security space via acquisitions, partnerships, and product development. Its strong partnership with VMware suggests that providing security to virtual environments will ...

Virgin Media has changed more than its name in the last few years; the company is a modern cable operator with a comprehensive quad-play offering, plans for DOCSIS3.0 rollouts and ...

AT&T has advanced its product portfolio with new UC products, such as conferencing and collaboration. It can deliver OCS as a managed service on a bespoke basis, and has extended ...

Orange Business Services offers global coverage and recently launched a strong mobile access product, improved its FMC strategy and advanced its UC strategy with plans to launch Microsoft OCS this ...

BT has also been putting together the pieces for Onevoice making the service 'modular', supporting additional vendors, improving coverage in Latin America, and sharpening the capabilities of BT Onevoice mobile ...

Verizon Business became one of the first to offer UC on an international basis. It has expanded its SIP trunking and offers a broader portfolio for European enterprises and has ...