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02/01/2009
IMS Status Report
Alternately praised to the heavens and dragged through the mud, IMS – in part or as a whole – is edging closer to reality.
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01/29/2009
Execs Talk Tech at WICT Event
A couple of themes emerged at the Rocky Mountain Women in Cable Telecommunications "Tech It Out" conference in Denver on Tuesday. Several speakers mentioned the "anytime, anywhere, on any device" theme that garnered so much buzz at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show. Generational differences were also a recurring theme at the WICT gathering. Sherisse Hawkins, […]
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01/27/2009
Exfo Distributes PMD Testing
Test and measurement (T&M) tools tend to follow deployment curves. First roll out the new technology, then figure out how to troubleshoot it. But for increasingly high-speed optical networks, the opposite may prevail. It’s a matter of how the spreading of pulses can create a loss of signal and how the margin for error narrows […]
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01/26/2009
Plugfest Touts IMS
The IMS Forum upped the ante for Plugfest 6, which took place last week at the UNH InterOperability Lab in New Hampshire. This go-around there were three IMS core networks – one standard open source core and two put together in what was described during a media briefing as a vendor mix and match. Two […]
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01/22/2009
Hosted Voice Speeds Past the Competition
Optimum Lightpath, the division of Cablevision Systems that offers Metro Ethernet services to business customers, has launched a new product – Lightpath Hosted Voice. Hosted Voice’s claim to fame is that it will provide up to five times the bandwidth offered by competitors for voice and Internet service. In Optimum Lightpath’s service area, which covers […]
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01/20/2009
SCTE Canadian Summit
Who the heck goes to Canada in February? The SCTE, apparently. The Society’s Canadian Summit is scheduled for Feb. 3-4 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Ontario. Asked about the event’s timing, SCTE VP of Marketing and Business Development Deb Swann simply replied, "The Canadian Summit program committee felt that this time of year, although […]