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Rates Technology Inc.

April 19, 2005

I have been hearing more and more rumblings in the VoIP industry regarding Jerry Weinberger of Rates Technology Inc. (RTI). I don't get too many people coming to me about patent issues so when I heard about this company, I decided to delve into this potential story a bit more. What intrigued me is that apparently RTI has no products... They exist to collect revenue from other companies.

I did some research and found that Rates Technologies has sued Nortel, Sharp Electronics and others.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Open Source, Rates Technology, SIP, Science, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Carrier Broadband Forecast

August 19, 2005

According to DITTBERNER's Worldwide Q2 2005 Broadband Access (DSL) Shipments Analysis, the worldwide market for DSL ports shipped increased by over 25% over last quarter to 17.38 million DSL ports. Of these, 22% were IP-DSLAMs, with Huawei Technologies, Alcatel and UTStarcom as the leading players in this market for the quarter.

The considerable increase in the volume of DSL port shipments demonstrates operators’ enthusiasm in building access networks capable of delivering new applications such as IP-TV, video-on-demand, and triple-play services.

The quarterly analysis concluded that operator CAPEX in the North American region is now moving from DSL to FTTX, while elsewhere service providers are upgrading to ADSL2+.

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EVDO Rev A

August 19, 2005

David Sims writes a great piece on CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A technology and it is faster as you would expect that traditional EVDO. Verizon and Lucent are trialing this new technology and I can’t wait till it comes out. I can’t tell you how many times this network has saved me in the last year or so since I have had it.

Revision A enables users to receive data (forward link) at speeds of theoretically up to 3.1 Megabits per second, and send data (reverse link) at speeds of theoretically up to 1.8 Mbps. I suppose these terms are Lucent wireless speak for upload and download.

Now I was never able to reach theoretical speeds before the upgrade and I am sure I wont be able to with the upgrade. All I can ask for is that I get a proportional speed jump and I will be happy.

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Rates Technology and Alcatel

August 25, 2005

In my blog entry on Rates Technology Inc I mentioned Alcatel as in default. Specifically:

After it became impossible to get them covered, RTI recently filed suit for willful patent infringement against Centrepoint Technologies, Inc. for much less money than Mitel and Alcatel (they certainly are a smaller company).

Mitel Networks was sued for $945 Million; Alcatel was sued for $1.155 Billion; and their default is pending in USDC EDNY. Hello Direct, GN Netcom and GN had been sued by RTI for patent infringement, and they recently settled with RTI; the terms are being kept confidential

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Since that time I have learned the court has vacated the default meaning it is now in the hands of California courts since Alcatel sued Rates Technology Inc. first in California.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, IMS, IPTV, JITC, Open Source, Rates Technology, SIP, Science, Speech Technologies, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX, Wireless

Katrina’s Silver Lining

August 29, 2005

It goes without saying that the world feels terrible for the people in Katrina’s path. I can not imagine a more horrific experience than being in winds that are over 100 miles per hour and even if you escape the hurricane itself by leaving town, the fear of not knowing whether your belongings are in tact when you return has got to be terrible. I have lived through a few hurricanes myself but after seeing the footage this morning, what we’ve experienced in Connecticut seems mild in comparison.

As I browsed the web this morning I noticed some commentary on Cybertelecom.org regarding New Orleans that discussed what might happen if there is significant telecom damage as a result of the hurricane. The theory is that if the copper was destroyed, this could turn out to be a good thing for the residents in BellSouth territory stricken by this calamity.

You see BellSouth could end up rewiring the city with fiber instead of copper.

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Fiber And VoIP In New Orleans

September 11, 2005

USA Today does a really good job with their technology stories. They really understand what is happening in telecom and other areas of technology and their reporters deserve a lot of credit. I recently added USA Today to my RSS reader and was blown away with the recent story I read titled Rebuilt New Orleans could be cutting edge. The general idea is that New Orleans can be a model city with fiber and IP and VoIP to every home.

Posted in Broadband, Technology, VoIP, WiMAX

Hotel Bandwidth Rant

September 23, 2005

All I can say to Andy is Amen.

PS: My most recent hotel experience had internet access that didn’t work at all. Thankfully I don’t need to complain as Andy did it for me.

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WiFi vs. Electricity

September 29, 2005

While WiFi speeds get faster and faster one has to wonder if there will be any competition to WiFi networks in our future. For example WiMAX may eliminate the need for WiFi as we can just access signals from the service provider directly. Another option is ultrawideband a wireless standard which will allow up to 500 mbps of throughput at some point.

Yet another threat to WiFi is using your electrical socket. I am not referring to BPL or broadband over power line where data is transmitted by electric companies but instead allowing your electrical wires to transmit broadband signals and thus potentially eliminating the need for WiFi in homes.

The convenience factor of wireless is certainly something that cannot be matched by using the electrical sockets but with laptops constantly needing to be plugged in after a few hours of use anyway, will it be easier in the future to just stay plugged in?

Now I am not ready to give up WiFi any time soon but there are likely applications for this technology where WiFi just doesn’t reach or where the throughput of WiFi is not good enough or where there is interference or where too many people need to get on a limited amount of wireless frequencies.

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Jumping On BPL

October 4, 2005

If broadband over power line technology takes off, the world will be a much better place., Sure the technology works in trials but there have got to be a hundred variables making this a difficult concept to pull off on a large scale. I remember back in he late nineties I wrote articles about VoIP over cable and cable engineers used to send us letters to the editor telling us it would never happen.

Obviously these engineers were wrong. Similarly many people tell me BPL has many hurdles to overcome. They are probably right but if there is money in it, perhaps it makes sense for electric companies to look for new revenue opportunities such as voice over BPL.

I just read that Manassas, VA will be one of the first cities to roll out this exciting new technology and I wonder how well it will work.

Posted in Broadband, Technology, VoIP

IPTV Future

October 6, 2005

I agree with this report that IPTV is the future. Furthermore that Internet delivery companies such as Yahoo! like organization are more of a threat to established players than the telecom companies. The scary thing is if cable and phone companies are really monopolizing bandwidth delivery...

Posted in Broadband, Consumer Electronics, IPTV, Technology, VoIP

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