T-Systems has followed its deals with Airbus and Shell with big renewals with Siemens and Sparkassen Informatik. However, T-Systems' domestic revenues and SME market share are slipping and it must ...

Increased sales of Ciena platforms such as the CN 5060 and CN 3000 and the addition of the World Wide Packets portfolio will help raise its profile, but Ciena still ...

Covad is an established VoIP provider in the SMB market, but it competes against larger carriers and MSOs. Covad's new owners have the capital to increase sales and marketing, but ...

Verizon Business continues to enhance its IP telephony portfolio, most recently adding on-demand VoIP access line sharing. Verizon was an early proponent of VoIP, and today offers a VoIP portfolio ...

The OptiX OSN 3500's strengths focus on traditional MSPP functions including E1/E3/SDH interface capacities and TDM switching. However, the system's relatively weak Ethernet support detracts from its ability to address ...

Qwest OneFlex is a full-featured set of IP telephony services designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of businesses. Qwest must continue to enhance its portfolio to maintain ...

AT&T is bearing additional fruits from past acquisitions. The carrier consolidated its wireline and wireless portals to one site, and supports e-billing across services. Utility computing and managed/hosted enhancements round ...

The mobile applications and middleware markets in Europe are certainly moving beyond e-mail applications - enterprise applications and unified communications coupled with FMC will drive this market further, but it ...

Mobile device management solutions are evolving with more players taking a place in the EM ecosystem. However, device management only partially overlaps with security solutions, so there are still two ...

Nortel was once again the worldwide softswitch sales leader in 2007. The company's challenge for the remainder of 2008 will be to continue to increase the attractiveness of the CS ...

Ericsson continues to leverage the product and marketing differentiators of Redback's SmartEdge MultiService Edge Router platform, but despite hardware and software enhancements, the platform's revenue performance has lagged peers. This ...

Verizon Business is becoming a major powerhouse on the managed services front, particularly in key areas such as managed security and hosted applications such as messaging. This helps the ...

Telekom Austria remains dominant in its home market and whilst Fixed Net revenue is flat, it is increasing data revenues. The operator's search for a 'strategic partner' is a smart ...

IBM continues to capitalize upon its formidable product catalogue and services horsepower to reach new customers through vertical market solutions, new BPM and event processing solutions, and a host of ...

EMC continues to expand the reach of the RSA product portfolio both within the data center and through a broader set of form factors. This report contains in-depth analysis of ...

KEYMILE's UMUX product is a competitive DLC/MSAP platform for ETSI markets, where it has developed a loyal installed base over several years. But in the future, customers will look to ...

Novell continues to mature and expand its identity portfolio, now offering versions targeting SAP environments. This report contains in-depth analysis of the company, including strengths and weaknesess, objective analyst ...

The migration of Deutsche Telekom ICSS' voice business to its Next Generation Voice International platform will have a major impact on the industry and the company needs to keep up ...

Perimeter eSecurity's acquisition strategy continues at pace as the company picks up new businesses that not only add to its services portfolio, but also bring customers to which it can ...

Telecom Italia has pre-empted forced functional separation and remains Italy's dominant player, but domestic revenue is stilted toward declining fixed voice and broadband competition from aggressive alternative operators will continue ...