Kontron @ NXTcomm Booth SL4123 – Be more NIMBLE. Beat your
competitors to market with the Kontron OM9020, a new ATCA
server-storage
2-slot solution with Intel-based multi-core processing and the
market’s sole 1.5TB iSCI over 10GbE ATCA blade. Supports 300 SD
movies
and scales easily to a redundant 14-slot ATCA CO platform for 1,800
movies on 9TB of storage...more...
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NXTcomm08 promises to talk about what is, rather than what could be.
Nowhere is this more important than in the oft-hyped, oft-disappointing
arena of fixed/mobile convergence (FMC). At this year’s conference,
exhibitors will tell you that FMC -- and the more general idea of
convergence -- is today being defined by the services it enables, not
by
the paltry array of devices available today. And, they’ll tell you,
there is cause for optimism.
According to ABI Research, the FMC market is set to expand to 250
million users by 2012. The research firm believes 2008 will be a year
of
trials as femtocell technology begins to become available and operators
look to move into commercial deployments. FMC can come in the form of
service integration as well -- one phone number, one voicemail to
check,
one bill to pay. As such, these millions of users won’t necessarily
be
using FMC devices.
“When people see only two handsets out of 14 [for FMC], that is going
to narrow the market interested in this application,” said Andrew
Randall, vice president of marketing for MetaSwitch. “That is pretty
well-recognized, but that will evolve. You’ll see more and more
handsets getting these capabilities, so that wireless carriers can
offer
it across the range of products they stock. The other area of interest
is around the wireline carrier’s approach to FMC. In particular, some
of the market research we’re seeing is that people’s key concerns
are not around having a single device.”
From the customer perspective, Randall said the real issue is merging
separate identities rather than devices. Consumers are tired of
maintaining three separate numbers and checking their voicemail on
their
work phone, home phone and cell phone. They want the discontinuity
addressed so that they are only picking up their messages once from one
number. “From the user experience, it is all about how do you make
the
telecommunications services more joined up across the wireline and
wireless world,” he said.
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Kontron @ NXTcomm Booth SL4123 – You are a system architect.
You need to design a new server-storage system for a FMC CONTENT
DELIVERY application for edge or CO networks. You seek something that
offers real versatility and true practical scalability. Fiber channel
storage is too costly and complex to scale, and proprietary platforms
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Comverse announced a new version of its core billing platform today
featuring a single data model and product catalog, new capabilities
that
will allow service providers to take a more strategic approach to
billing and feature bundling, the company said.
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Alcatel-Lucent was a double winner as NXTcomm announced its 2008
Eos
Awards, honoring companies for the best new technologies or enterprise
solutions in 12 categories of wireless, broadband and next-generation
technologies for public and enterprise networks. Here's a list of
winners and finalists.
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Sprint and Clearwire’s renewed engagement didn’t just boost
WiMAX’s profile in the U.S. According to global vendors, it
enormously
benefited WiMAX worldwide, giving operators who were on the fence about
WiMAX the confidence to deploy their networks.
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Embarq’s severance of its partnership with Sprint Nextel for the
wireless portion of its bundled offerings raises questions about to
what
extent the company will remain true to the strategy of fixed/mobile
convergence laid out by former CEO (now Sprint CEO) Dan Hesse. But
viewed in combination with similar moves from cable operators (which
dissolved their Sprint partnership) and SureWest Communications (which
exited the wireless business this year), it also raises questions about
the business models surrounding wireless and wireline bundles.
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Kontron @ NXTcomm Booth SL4123 – Subscriber services like IPTV
and video on demand, along with a slew of social networking sites –
Facebook, MySpace, Salesforce.com, Google/You-Tube, among others –
are
all part of an escalating trend where more content is being stored on
the network. And YOUR CARRIER CLIENTS absolutely cannot afford a
deployment time of 18-24 months...more...
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Fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) is another telecom victim of the
hype
cycle. The technology gets promoted, marketed and heralded as game
changing; the buzz wears off; the benefits emerge followed quickly by
the return of a second wave of hype; reality sets in; and the hype dies
down yet again.
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Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson talks to Meredith Flynn-Ripley, CEO of
Integra5, about the company's latest converged services platform suite
of applications, being shown at this year's upcoming NXTcomm show in
Las
Vegas.
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In a VoIP environment, voice quality is still a paramount concern.
New technologies make management of it even simpler for service
providers. This paper reviews some of the issues that impact voice
quality in packet-based carrier networks, and considers potential
solutions.
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Service availability is of paramount importance to any provider of
real-time services, like Voice-over-IP (VoIP). One major U.S.-based
service provider understands firsthand that the ability to test product
robustness, availability and security (RAS) has a direct, measurable
impact on the bottom line.
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This paper looks at the challenges faced by network-based operators
in today's rapidly evolving communication market place. It outlines the
key considerations for operators to effectively compete in this market,
and it introduces the Alcatel-Lucent Transformation Advantage Framework
for business, services and network transformation to guide operators
through vital, large-scale changes.
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