June 27, 2008 2:21 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
AT&T,
VideoAT&T is about to begin a trial roll-out of a U-verse service that could deliver two HD streams at once, something that hasn’t worked up to now. There are several ways in which AT&T is looking at this, one through increasingly aggressive compression and the other through upspeeding the...
June 27, 2008 2:14 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Open source,
Web 2.0Telcos are apparently working harder to make their APIs suitable for a broader range of web developers, providing more Web 2.0-like or “RESTfull” interfaces (an acronym for the normal interaction between web clients and servers). We believe that the move is positive in that it shows the...
June 26, 2008 8:33 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
IP advertising,
Online advertising,
Social networkingTwitter, the “What are you doing” less-than-texting concept, is gaining a lot of buzz, users and funding. Monetizing any social network has proved difficult, and Twitter’s simple approach makes it harder than usual to see how ads might work there, but it still raises a troubling question for...
June 25, 2008 6:28 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Fixed-mobile convergence,
Integrated devices,
Wireless broadbandT-Mobile is launching its broadband voice @Home service throughout the US, which prepares them for an agressive FMC position. French telecom carriers are also expected to push harder on FMC and wireline broadband expansion as the consolidation in the market finally draws to a close, but that we...
June 23, 2008 2:21 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cabling,
Cox Cable,
FTTH,
VerizonCox Cable has issued an RFI that includes requests for PON/RF distribution with high-speed broadband, very similar to the FiOS model of Verizon. The RFI leaked last week at NXTcomm but had been rumored even before that show. It is apparently a true RFI, meaning that there is no immediate...
June 20, 2008 7:27 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Carrier Ethernet,
MPLS,
PBTNXTcomm 08 was an interesting show, something a lot better than some of the disasters that followed the breakup of the SuperComm partnership, but far less than SuperComm in its prime.
<p>We believe this is due not as much to the show as to the industry; infrastructure doesn’t have buzz...
June 19, 2008 7:29 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
AT&T,
DSL,
VerizonVerizon says it will make its top-tier FiOS service, a 50/20Mbps pipe available over its whole footprint, which would make Verizon users some of the most empowered in the western world. The move comes as cable MSOs prepare an assault on DSL in further commercials.
<p>The combination of...
June 19, 2008 12:52 AM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
RoutersHuawei may have a reputation for being just a price leader, but that’s enough to propel significant growth outside China and pull it into the DSL port shipment lead over Alcatel-Lucent. We believe that Huawei is not so much a competitor as a fall-back when there is no real “competition”,...
June 12, 2008 2:56 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Carrier Ethernet,
Nortel,
PBT,
VerizonNortel has announced a PBB win at Verizon, the same provider who reportedly said it would not be using PBT. SInce PBT is officially PBB-TE and is a simple upgrade from PBB, we believe the sequence of events here shows the overall lack of media sanity on key technology issues.
First, Verizon's...
