GENBAND Is Driving Network Evolution
GENBAND is a leading supplier of next generation IP gateway and
application platforms that enable fixed and mobile network service
providers to rapidly deploy new multimedia services. GENBAND's
gateways
are at the heart of several 3GPP, standards-based femtocell solutions,
enabling the secure transport of femtocell calls over VoIP/broadband
wired networks. www.genband.com
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It may be some time before we think of the networks of Verizon
Communications and Verizon Wireless -- or those of AT&T and AT&T
Mobility -- as single unified platforms, but NXTcomm08 vendors are
looking to help them down the convergence path. The first stop on the
way is the femtocell.
While femtocells are most often thought of as a means for wireless
providers to expand capacity and coverage, they represent one of the
first technologies to actually link the wireline network to the mobile
network. Femtocells act like mini-base stations, transmitting and
receiving as a tiny cell site at a home or business, but they connect
back to the network using a DSL or cable modem connection. Many
wireless
operators aren’t using femtocells as a convergence technology, merely
commandeering the home broadband line as backhaul for their wireless
service. But there is an opportunity to meld the wireless and the
standard array of home network services with wireless.
“Most vendors tend to think of femtocells as shrunk-down
macro-cellular towers,” said Alan Lefkof, corporate vice president
and
general manager of Motorola’s broadband solutions group. “We have a
carrier business, but we also have a large home networking business.
We’re taking all of the software we’d normally put in the home
gateway and putting it into the femtocell.”
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GENBAND Is Driving Network Evolution
No matter where you are, GENBAND’s portfolio of market leading media
gateways and applications are ready to guide your network evolution.
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Motorola said it plans to initially build its Long Term Evolution
platform for the 700-MHz and 2.6-GHz frequencies, targeting spectrum
held by major US and European cellular operators.
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Hoping to redefine the struggling metro Wi-Fi space, multiservice
access provider Zhone Technologies today officially launched SkyZhone.
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In its latest effort to unify wireline and wireless services,
Verizon Business now offers enterprise customers a single portal from
which to manage both accounts.
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Six vendors and operators have agreed to collectively pool their
patents related to WiMAX in an effort to create a transparent
intellectual property environment that encourages the WiMAX embedded
devices market.
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Sprint said it will use network access control technology from
Bridgewater Systems to control access to its planned Xohm WiMAX
network.
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NXTcomm typically isn’t the first trade show that comes to mind
for wireless news and announcements, but that is starting to change as
it becomes harder to talk about any part of the telecom industry
without
wireless creeping into the discussion.
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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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The telecom industry has gone through a period of incredible
innovation in the last 10 years, resulting in mass proliferation of
wireless, broadband and the rise of the Internet. Will that innovation
continue? And will the next 10 years be productive as the last? Bell
Labs vice president and head of research Gee Rittenhouse discusses the
telecom network of 2018 with Telephony senior editor Kevin
Fitchard.
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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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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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