July 14, 2008
COVER STORY
Intel's wireless dreams
Intel is certainly no stranger to the wireless industry. It made its mark in the Wi-Fi business with the introduction of the Centrino platform in 2003, but over the last five years it has been projecting itself beyond the wireless LAN world...
EDITOR'S LETTER
Seasonal slowdown
There have been years when I personally have bemoaned the fact that the telecom industry ignored the dog days of summer and kept zipping along, generating news and industry trends at the same frenzied rate as in March or September....
FORWARD MOTION
Is CDN the next frontier?
AT&T announced in late June that it is creating a separate division and new services for its Digital Media Solutions operation, and beefing up its funding is just the first salvo in what is likely to be a bigger push by service providers into the content delivery network space....
Next step for Covergence
Last week Covergence, a 5-year-old maker of session border control and management gear, named James Moran its new CEO....
Broadband wireless access connections continue to grow, but where's the WiMAX?
There are almost 2 million consumer broadband wireless connections in the world, but only a fraction of them are WiMAX connections....
SDPs get standards treatment
Service delivery platforms have been touted as the be-all-end-all for new service delivery, but even as vendors talk them up, key standards bodies continue to better define what SDPs are — and are not....
Does PLM make sense for service providers?
If carriers need new platforms for delivering services — most likely in the form of still-emerging service delivery platforms — do they also need new platforms and processes for managing the service creation life cycle?...
In the spotlight: Entone CEO Steve McKay
In today's living room, it is not an extreme scenario to have 10 to 12 devices surrounding a television. And with most households owning upward of four TV sets, the number of set-top boxes required is proliferating....
Slowdown feared in enterprise VoIP
Is the enterprise voice-over-IP market getting soft? That's the subject of a lot of industry chatter leading into earnings season, which should provide some answers....
OPINION
Rethinking mobile's social explosion
The social-networking wireless revolution is coming; brace yourself and your business model! … OK, there's still time to prepare. But when the floodgates open during the next 10 years...
Broadband's free ride?
It seems we haven't learned our lesson from municipal Wi-Fi. City after city in the U.S. has proved that “free broadband for all” schemes don't work....
INNOVATION
Chasing SMS
For service providers — especially mobile operators — short message service alternatives are worth watching, not only for the threat they pose, but also for paths they are paving for next-generation messaging....
WIRELESS
Navigating LBS business models
Knowing where consumers are has proved to be vital information, not just for those in the location-based services ecosystem, but also for consumers themselves....
FIBER
FTTH out of steam?
A fiber-to-the-home architecture has long been regarded as the endgame for telecom service providers — the one sure way of future-proofing networks for whatever services develop going forward....
WHAT'S NEXT
Narrowing the innovation gap
The winds of change are blowing through the mobile industry. Maybe it's mobile penetration — now at 85% — forcing the need for new strategies....
