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Avaya Takes Networking Lead in SPB
At Interop Las Vegas 2013 Avaya was demonstrating their real-world Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) solutions and while interoperating with Spirent, HP and Alcatel-Lucent. Many of you will remember when Avaya was actually the enterprise division of Lucent before the company...
Momentum Continues in WebRTC Space
Last year, TMC and its partners launched the first WebRTC conference in the world and the market reacted enthusiastically with a sold out exhibit hall and a standing room only crowd. I tell you this because I haven’t seen...
MWC 2013 Day One Trends
After a day of meetings there are some strong takeaways from the first day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Interestingly devices played a large and yet small factor in my analysis. First off The Sony Xperia Z tablet was...
Thoughts on Alcatel-Lucent
One of the greatest challenges incumbent companies face is the ambivalence and corporate politics incumbency breeds and it only gets worse in what we call the age of acceleration where competitors arise faster and technologies shift more quickly than...
Chinese Government Funds Global Telecom Roll Outs Through ZTE
With global uncertainty the norm, many carriers have struggled to get financing for new infrastructure projects and in fact they have been a bit hesitant to spend on areas other than wireless where ROI is much more predictable. Subsequently, the...
Mobile Profits are Skyrocketing as 67,000 Are Laid Off
Mobile is not your father’s tech space. Over the past two years, profits from the top eight mobile vendors has risen from $5.3 billion to $14.4 billion for a whopping increase of $9.1 billion and all this while over 67,000...
In Israel, Venture Capital Gets Disrupted
Israel is legendary as a tech powerhouse – the entire IP communications market owes its success to engineers from this middle-eastern country where compulsory army training has a side benefit of immersing the population in engineering specifically applicable to communications....
Will Corporate Welfare Slow International Trade?
Nortel’s bankruptcy some years back was due to a host of reasons including price competition from the likes of ZTE and Huawei. Consider that while the world’s telecom equipment manufacturers were acquiring companies during a growing telecom bubble, these two...
The Most Comprehensive Interop 2012 Video Interviews
In case you missed Interop 2012 in Las Vegas and even if you were there – I have some really good news for you. TMC was there and we shot about seven hours of the most important and engaging interviews...
Speed Freak: Alcatel-Lucent FPE 400 Gbps Network Processor
Alcatel-Lucent has just released the world's fastest network processor the FPE at 400 Gbps which uses half the power and ups transmission speed by a factor of four meaning service providers now have the ability to provide faster connections to...
GENBAND Completes Cedar Point Acquisition
Analysts liken Charlie Vogt the CEO of GENBAND (pictured) to John Chambers and his presentation style and confidence shined through at the company’s recent Perspectives event which I live blogged. It was at this conference where I realized Charlie would...
Alcatel-Lucent Turning the Corner?
After a number of years and some challenging times after the merger - Alcatel-Lucent the combination of New Jersey-based Lucent and Paris-based Alcatel is turning the corner making a quarterly profit and displaying more confidence about its future. Kevin O'Brien...
Alcatel-Lucent: Mobile Data to be Sold at a Loss
Alcatel-Lucent has a dire warning for wireless carriers and investors… You just aren’t going to make money from wireless broadband. The timing couldn’t be better <sarcasm> to get the news as global carriers are pouring billions into their 4G networks....
Anana Enables Social Networking Dial-Tone
It was only a matter of time – social networking has permeated so many aspects of our lives that almost one-in-five divorces cite Facebook as part of the reason for the split! Moreover, in some countries a single text message...
ITEXPO West 2010 Keynotes Kick Off
Daniel Locklear Senior Director of LTE Solutions for Alcatel-Lucent kicked off ITEXPO/4GWE keynotes to a standing-room only crowd. Much of the discussion focused on the future of wireless - TD-LTE, LTE, WiMAX, etc....
Latest News from Plantronics and Alcatel-Lucent
I just happened upon the latest Internet Telephony newsletter and these articles are worth a read. The Maryland headset story is focused on another state mandating hands-free driving but what makes it interesting is that Maryland drivers have the second-longest...
How a Contrarian CEO Beat the Optical Bubble Burst
Advanced Fiber Systems or AFS was recently sold to Zayo Group and straight shooting CEO Dave Rusin just sent out the following letter about stepping down. As he mentions below - over 1,500 telecom companies went bankrupt this past decade...
Special Offer on Optical Education
Dear readers - check out this special offer on Lightwave ONE education collocated with ITEXPO and hosted by Lightwave Magazine:For a limited time, save 50% on a 3-day pass to Lightwave ONE (only $498) or purchase a 1-day pass for...
ITEXPO West 2010 Keynote Update
I wanted to be sure you were aware of all the exciting keynotes at ITEXPO West 2010, Oct 4-6 in Los Angeles. In addition to the below , Phil Edholm (Vice President, Innovation and Technology Strategy) at Avaya will be...
ITEXPO West 2010 News and Interviews
ITEXPO is almost here - and there will be lots of news broken at this event based upon what my team tells me. In addition, some of the early news on the event is beginning to break and I hope...
Genband Perspective 2010 Live Blog
CMO Mehmet Balos takes the stage and gives overview of the day - the goal is to better explain the company's goals and future. President and CEO Charlie Vogt takes stage 2/3 of marquee SPs in 80 countries use Genband....
Startup Camp at ITEXPO Announces Jeff Bonforte, XOBNI CEO as Keynote
One of the more exciting events taking place at ITEXPO earlier this year was StartUp Camp as it was a single place you could visit to learn about the absolute coolest vendors trying to break into the communications space. In...
Google in Your Brain and ITEXPO Update
For some reason when I hear Sergey Brin wants Google to be the third half of my brain I feel a bit freaked out. Partially because they already know what everyone wants, desires - how often we search for our...
Alcatel-Lucent Outlines Next Generation Communications
Having recently purchased a Sony Dash which I still need to take out of the box, I am obviously intrigued by the idea of devices which allow widgets to run on them. Apparently Alcatel-Lucent too is enamored with the concept...
Google Gmail VoIP, Cloud Computing and Other News August, 25 2010
It's been a busy day in the world of tech news as Google who already has a telecom service in Google Voice has expanded it into Gmail with a two-pronged goal of making it easier to call via Google's network...
