Telephony has a nice recap of Ciena’s earnings report yesterday. In speaking about Ciena’s revenue drop and the continued decline of carrier capital expenditures, CEO Gary Smith said something that really piqued my interest. Though carriers set their annual budgets last Fall, they have apparently moved to making spending decisions “on a monthly basis.” That […]
This week Telephony wrote about some new figures Analysys Mason released on the cost of 4G, bringing in one of the firm’s analysts to weigh in on it. The data concludes that an LTE network can deliver data 3 times as cheaply as some of today’s HSPA networks but Terry Norman, the analyst quoted, so wisely […]
In this month’s issue of Telephony, Kevin Fitchard explores a topic that is near and dear to my heart - flat network architectures. The article examines how many carriers are moving toward this structure as a way to more efficiently process the deluge of data that needs to flow through their networks, for the simple […]
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off yesterday, but even the biggest and flashiest consumer technology show of the year isn’t immune to the economic meltdown happening around us. Attendance is down this year, for both exhibitors and attendees, and the promise of new products at the show hasn’t bolstered performance predictions for tech […]
In The Economist’s recent technology quarterly, one of the articles presented differing opinions on whether the world’s networks are prepared to handle the coming “exaflood” of data (an exabyte is one billion gigabytes). Currently, global Internet traffic ranges from five to eight exabytes a month. Nemertes and other research organizations are predicting the demise of […]
It seems that Comcast is taking the first steps toward implementing data usage caps, a move that the FCC is not too happy with.
This Spring, Comcast began testing technology in select markets that slows down connections for its heaviest bandwidth users, with hopes of fully implementing the system by the end of the year. This […]
In two words: transformation and customer experience (Ok, that’s three – but two ideas). This buzz was bandied about by service providers, integrators and vendors alike, and it was no surprise to me that Telstra and BT were mentioned this week in the same breath more than once, as the pioneers with the courage to […]
Steve Lohr wrote a great article about the growth of Internet congestion on Thursday in the New York Times. In the article, Steve focuses on the Internet traffic jam from the consumer perspective but I was struck more by the issues Internet congestion raises on the business side. The fact that high-bandwidth services like video […]
On Friday, Paul Taylor published a column in the Financial Times extolling the value of femtocells. While Taylor focuses mostly on the benefits femtocells bring consumers (e.g., better cell coverage at home and in the office, removal of the last real stumbling block to cutting your wireline connection), I was struck by the benefits to […]
Verizon Wireless has set March 19 as the date it will release the first version of its open network service specs. As c|net’s Marguerite Reardon points out, the pricing of the “Any Device, Any App” service is still up in the air (no pun intended):
“But even though Verizon appears to be embracing the network openness, […]
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