This is non-show related, but a very fascinating release nonetheless. Hmm, that's twice today I've used the word "fascinating" - one of Spock's favorite one liners. Must be the Star Trek Marathon I watched a few days ago. Anyway, this is a pretty cool release discussing how students build a home powered entirely by the sun.
Below is a copy of the press release NYIT STUDENTS BUILD THE HOME OF THE FUTURE.
NYIT STUDENTS BUILD THE HOME OF THE FUTURE
With 100 Percent Solar Power, This House Will be ‘Run by the Sun'
Old Westbury, NY, Feb. 23, 2005: The countdown has begun! In just nine months, students from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) will descend on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to unveil their vision of the home of the future - one that is totally "run by the sun."
NYIT is one of 19 colleges internationally - and the only university in the metropolitan area - selected as a finalist in the global 2005 Solar Decathlon Competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
"The Solar Decathlon is to architectural, engineering, interior design and communications students what the Olympics are to athletes," said Dr. Alexandra Logue, NYIT vice president of academic affairs and provost. "It is a test of talent, commitment and endurance. It requires the unique ability to tackle 10 exacting requirements while designing, building, and operating an attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house."
The trek to the National Mall began for NYIT students more than a year ago. At that time, becoming a finalist in the competition was just a dream. But after intensive research by teams of students on ways to integrate environmental systems with living systems, the dream took shape.
"We brought together a panel of professors to review students' proposals and very quickly realized they had come up with a truly innovative, and somewhat risky option," said Professor Michele Bertomen. "Instead of proposing the traditional use of batteries to convert and store solar power, our students suggested using hydrogen fuel cells, which are non-polluting and absolutely guarantee that our solar house will be self-sufficient."
Electricity from a roof-mounted photovoltaic system is used to separate hydrogen from water through electrolysis; the hydrogen will be stored and later used to power a fuel cell that produces electricity and heat on demand.
Dubbed "Green Machine/Blue Space," the NYIT students' design consists of two main structures joined by an enclosed sunspace. The Green Machine structure contains most of the house's mechanical systems, as well as kitchen, bathroom, and roof garden for growing food and collecting rainwater. The Blue Space structure is designed for sleeping, relaxing, or working.
NYIT's Green Machine/Blue Space also is designed as a "talking house." Visitors to the National Mall, where NYIT's house will be displayed in a Solar Village in fall 2005, will be provided with handheld computers that can be used to obtain more information about specific technologies used in the house. By scanning bar codes placed around the home, visitors also will be able to activate a short video or voice recording describing a particular feature of the house.
Funding for NYIT's Solar Decathlon entry comes from a variety of sources, including NYIT's students, faculty and staff who raised thousands of dollars, and key sponsors including:
> Long Island Power Authority, which has a long history of supporting student activities at NYIT;
> Nationally recognized architectural firms: Burton, Behrendt & Smith; di Domenico + Partners; Ted Moudis Associates; Milrose Consultants; and Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners;
> Major construction and contracting supply firms: Turner Construction International; Stalco Construction Inc.; TRS Container Corp. and Continental Lighting;
> Top furniture and hardware suppliers: Hafele, Hybrids+Fusion and Geiger;
> And additional support from National Photovoltaics; Plug Power Inc.; Symbol; Marvin Windows; Super Enterprises; Metropolitan Archives and Media Street, Inc.
Additional fundraising activities are planned to help cover the costs associated with this $500,000 project. In fact, during the spring and summer months, as the model solar house is constructed on NYIT's Old Westbury campus, there will be several opportunities for Long Islanders to show their support by attending open-house events. According to Pam Bottge, NYIT's Director of Development, opportunities are still available for corporate sponsorships or contributions of goods in kind. Interested organizations are asked to contact her at 516-686-7848 or pbottge@nyit.edu.
"Our Solar Decathletes are tomorrow's engineers, architects, researchers, business managers and homeowners," said Bertomen. "As an educator I can't think of anything more valuable than supporting their unique vision for living under the sun. Their project is a great example of nature and technology joined together in ways we've never even imagined."
Primary sponsor of the Solar Decathlon is the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which has again partnered with its National Renewable Energy Laboratory as well as national sponsors BP, American Institute of Architects, National Association of Home Builders, and The Home Depot.
About NYIT
NYIT is the college of choice for more than 12,000 students currently enrolled in more than 100 courses of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees from eight schools, including engineering, architecture, business, communication arts and medicine. A private,
independent college, NYIT embraces an educational philosophy of career-oriented, professional education for all qualified students, and supports applications-oriented research to benefit the greater global community. Students attend classes at NYIT's Manhattan and Long Island campuses, as well as online and in a number of programs throughout the world. To date, more than 64,000 alumni have earned degrees at NYIT.
Facts at a Glance
• NYIT is one of 19 colleges internationally - and the only university in the metropolitan area - selected as a finalist in the global 2005 Solar Decathlon Competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
• NYIT's interdisciplinary approach brings together talented students from its eight schools - including architecture, engineering and technology, communications arts and business - in a multidisciplinary program to design the home of the future; one that is totally "run by the sun."
• NYIT's winning strategy is based on two unique approaches:
1. Hydrogen Fuel Cell: Break away from the traditional use of batteries for harnessing a house's solar power. Instead, employ a risky but exciting option of fuel cells, which are non-polluting, produce electricity and heat on demand, and absolutely guarantee that the solar house will be self-sufficient.
2. Design: Dubbed "Green Machine/Blue Space," the NYIT students' design consists of two main structures joined by an enclosed sunspace. The Green Machine structure contains most of the house's mechanical systems, as well as kitchen, bathroom, and roof garden for growing food and collecting rainwater. The Blue Space structure is designed for sleeping, relaxing, or working.
• NYIT's solar house also will feature state-of-the-art interactive technology. Visitors to Green Machine/Blue Space will be handed a Symbol Inc. Pocket PC with a bar code scanner. As they walk through the house, they will be able to scan many unique household items to learn more about ways that NYIT employed solar technologies in its design.
• A core group of students is enrolled in classes specifically created for the Solar Decathlon competition, and designed to help them develop ideas, and build and test the solar house.
• Cost of participating in the Solar Decathlon competition is estimated at $500,000. Monies are being raised through a combination of generous sponsor contribution, grants and student fund raisers.
• NYIT's model house will be on display at the Solar Village on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in fall 2005, when an overall winner of the Solar Decathlon 2005 will be selected.
• NYIT is the college of choice for more than 12,000 students currently enrolled in more than 100 courses of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees from eight schools, including engineering, architecture and design, business, communication arts and medicine. A private, independent college, NYIT embraces an educational philosophy of career-oriented, professional education for all qualified students and supports applications-oriented research to benefit the greater global community. To date, more than 64,000 alumni have earned degrees at NYIT.
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Check out Rich Tehrani's blog entry from yesterday about Popular Telephony announcing Commoca and Texas Instruments agreement to embed Peerio in color IP Telephony terminals. The news was made to coincide with the "opening day" of Internet Telephony Expo. I can't wait to see Popular Telephony's product live in action on the exhibit floor!
I would have blogged Popular Telephony's news yesterday, but I was too busy trying to get these damn Linksys WRE54G wireless expanders/extenders to work so I could extend the WiFi range at Internet Telephony Expo. Yes, in addition to VoIP blogging, writing TMC Labs reviews, and managing TMC's computers, I along withVahid Hashemian are responsible for configuring the show's WiFi network. So you know who to complain to if WiFi doesn't work. Maybe I shouldn't have admitted to being the WiFi guru? Ahh too late now. Cat's outta the bag.
You would figure Linksys (now Cisco) would be a plug and play affair - after all, Linksys targets the home consumer.
Well, let me tell ya, it was anything but plug and play. The WRE54G has two LEDs that are both supposed to be blue (though nothing in the manual tells you this, an exhibitor said he has one at home and it's supposed to be all blue). The units we had had installed had one blue light and one red light each. After some tinkering, Vahid and I got it to work, but still we had 1 red light and 1 blue light. I then upgraded the firmware on the WRE54G and finally was able to get both lights to be blue, but only on the unit closest to the access point.
Unfortunately, we were only able to use 1 extender. We thought maybe we could place an extender every 30 feet and it would amplify the 2.4Ghz radio frequency, but alas, we couldn't get more than 1 extender to work. Looks like unlike cellular phones which can "hop" from tower to tower as you drive, these extenders don't work like that. As far as we could tell, only 1 extender can communicate with the main access point (AP).
Fortunately, we have multiple APs, so we'll just wire up the weak spots where needed.
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In any event, I was watching Smallville last night and saw the "Get Lex" Verizon Smallville Sweepstakes. Basically, the Verizon/Smallville sweepstakes rules are as follows:
Smallville's
secrets can soon be yours!
Watch Wednesday, February 23rd, 8/7c and tell us Lex's email password for your chance to win a walk-on role in the Smallville 2005 season premiere!
Verizon Wireless customers, you can break into Lex Luthor's email account!
On Wednesday, February 23, 8/7c watch the Smallville episode, "Sacred" to get Lex's password. Then send the password as a text message to the shortcode 438539 ("GET LEX") from your Verizon Wireless mobile phone.
You'll be logged in to receive Lex's emails directly to your Verizon Wireless phone. You will also be automatically entered for a chance to win a walk-on role in the Smallville 2005 season premiere!
When you're connected to Verizon Wireless you're always tapped in!
I have to say, this is a very interesting new way of building customer loyalty. Of course, I'm not that much of a Smallville fan to switch from my Sprint cellphone to Verizon just to play this sweepstakes, but I'm sure there are some teenager Smallville fanatics that might. Actually, this is just the first gauntlet thrown down by Verizon - if this sweepstakes is successful and Verizon does it again with other popular TV shows and the other cell phone companies don't follow, then it may give Verizon the "cool" and "hip" edge to help get the valuable teenage demographic.
Interesting analysis from the Cato Institute regarding government, DRM/copyright, and P2P (peer-to-peer networks).
Marriage of peer-to-peer networks and digital rights management is a better solution
WASHINGTON - Recent controversies over file-sharing and copyright policy have spawned hot debate in the courts and the halls of Congress, but a study issued today by the Cato Institute argues that government interference in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks would hinder technological evolution. A better solution, according to the report, would be for government to step aside and allow the market to find a solution through digital rights management (DRM).
In Peer-to-Peer Networking and Digital Rights Management: How Market Tools Can Solve Copyright Problems," Michael A. Einhorn and Bill Rosenblatt illustrate how P2P technology and DRM can coexist peacefully in a market system, essentially quashing the complaints of consumer advocates who argue that DRM puts too much control in the hands of copyright holders.
"By preserving property rights made possible through new market techniques, DRM encourages producers to innovate because they are more certain of an eventual reward," the authors argue. As evidence, they offer the case of iTunes, Apple's pay-per-download music service that launched in 2003. "The percentage of U.S. downloaders who actually paid for a song at one point or another increased from 8 percent to 22 percent in the first 12 months after the launch of iTunes," they write.
Einhorn and Rosenblatt argue that these market operations are greatly preferable to government technology controls or mandatory compulsory licensing schemes for both producers and consumers. They write that "an overly protective system of copyright is a detriment in the eyes of consumers who have grown accustomed to a range of copying capabilities, legally fair or not."
Ultimately, the authors conclude that "the government should act to protect property rights, including copyrights, but it should not pick winners or discourage any technology from competing in the new marketplace."
Einhorn is author of Media, Technology, and Copyright: Integrating Law and Economics. Rosenblatt is president of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies.
Policy Analysis no 534: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3670
Contact:
Adam Thierer, director of telecommunications studies, 202-789-5211
Kristen Kestner, media relations manager, 202-789-5212, kkestner@cato.org
Evans Pierre, director of broadcasting, 202-789-5204, epierre@cato.org
Someone spotted my recent word-spotting blog entry (pun intended) and emailed me about anouther word-spotting solution. In my previous blog entry, I joked about the CIA and NSA being able to eavesdrop and perform wordspotting on conversations. Well, if I am reading the press release correctly, it appears that the CIA is using (shhh!!! don't tell anyone) CallMiner for word spotting. Actually, technically the CIA is investing in In-Q-Tel which just signed an agreement with CallMiner. But this sounds like one of those "wink wink" jobs where the CIA is indeed working with CallMiner but through a third-party (In-Q-Tel).
Anyway, here's an excerpt of his email: followed by the press release.
"CallMiner goes beyond word-spotting to understand context of the discussions.
Because 100% accurate speech-to-text at commercial-necessary speeds is still a
pipe dream, knowing context is critical to discerning what is really being
discussed…
It’s still early, but in addition to the government endorsement, CallMiner also won the key private industry partner bakeoffs. See Continental Witness Callminer Speech Analytics"
Hmmm, understands context. So it can figure out if I say "Angelie Jolie is da' bomb" vs. "I want to bomb Angelie Jolie's house"? Interesting..
He also point me to this recent release:
CallMiner Announces Agreement With In-Q-Tel for Speech
Analytics Technology
Tuesday February 8, 10:51 am
ET
FORT MYERS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2005--CallMiner Inc., a leading provider of speech analytics software designed to uncover business intelligence from recorded calls, today announced it has signed a strategic investment and development agreement with In-Q-Tel, a private venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In-Q-Tel joins existing CallMiner investors Inflexion Partners, Intersouth Partners, and Village Ventures. Financial terms of the agreement are not disclosed but include enhancements to CallMiner's speech analytics toolset.
"CallMiner's state of the art technology for mining information from recordings offers a robust set of applications to gain insight into recorded interactions," said Gilman Louie, President and CEO of In-Q-Tel. "We have tapped CallMiner's expertise in the development of speech analytics applications to serve in the United States national security interest. In-Q-Tel is excited to support CallMiner and benefit from their progress in speech analytics."
Every year, hundreds of millions of recordings are made for quality and statutory requirements. The recorded data is largely ignored since the economics of manual listening is prohibitive, or the volumes of calls render the task impossible. CallMiner's technology solves this by using state-of-the-art speech recognition and patent pending conversion technologies to listen to recorded phone conversations to create minable databases. Without CallMiner's technology, this data is inaccessible.
"We aim to create more context and more intelligence to both enterprise and government organizations from our speech analytics suite," said Jeff Gallino, CEO of CallMiner. Partnering with In-Q-Tel to bring value to the US government broadens our leadership position in the speech analytics market."
About CallMiner
CallMiner is a leading developer of solutions that assist contact centers in the analysis of recorded calls. CallMiner's core application automates the process of converting calls into searchable text and statistics for mining and gathering business intelligence. CallMiner's advanced tool set enables contact center managers and executives to conduct ad-hoc queries and analyses of agent and customer interactions, while providing insight into what customers are saying and how agents are responding. Since CallMiner's tools are easy to use, managers in marketing, sales, customer service and other organizations can now analyze mission critical information contained in recorded calls in real-time. Leading institutional investors including Inflexion Partners, Intersouth Partners, and Village Ventures backs CallMiner. For additional information about CallMiner, Inc. visit www.callminer.com, or call 239-573-9670.
About CallMiner Application Suite
The CallMiner Analytics software suite enables call centers to rapidly identify, target and report what was said in recorded calls. Without CallMiner, critical business intelligence remains inaccessible. The CallMiner suite is installed alongside existing call recording hardware and can convert any volume of recorded calls to relational databases for analysis and reporting. The CallMiner application suite enables analysis of 100% of call center recordings without the need to manually listen to calls, effectively eliminating a roadblock to synthesize potentially valuable information. CallMiner's applications provide companies with insight into to what customers are saying and provide management with visibility to potential issues and opportunities residing within existing calls data. Analysis of agent/customer interactions provides actionable intelligence for management to help reduce call center operational costs, and provide a better customer experience.
About In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel is a private, independent, not-for-profit venture group funded by the CIA. Launched in 1999, In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States national security interests. Working from an evolving strategic blueprint that defines the CIA's critical information technology needs, In-Q-Tel engages with entrepreneurs, established companies, researchers and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that pay out in superior intelligence capabilities for the CIA and the larger Intelligence Community. Learn more at http://www.in-q-tel.org.
I was wondering why my MSN Messenger wouldn't logon today. Well apparently, I wasn't the only one experiencing an outage with MSN Messenger.
Microsoft confirmed today that a "significant" number of its MSN Messenger users have been experiencing intermittent outages for about a day.
Microsoft remained vague on the nature of the outage, blaming it on an "isolated issue that we've located in the data center," according to a company spokeswoman and would not elaborate on when service would be restored. Microsoft said the outage is affecting MSN Messenger users across many countries, but Microsoft would not disclose the number of users affected.
This latest outage comes just days after security monitors discovered the Bropia worm was using MSN Messenger to spread. The Microsoft spokeswoman denied the outage was caused by the worm.
A state court in Kansas has given the go-ahead to shareholders to wage a class action battle against Sprint, its CEO and its directors for breach of fiduciary duty. Potential liability in the suit could be as high as $10 billion. The central allegations relate to the conversion of two tracking stocks --FON and PCS --in a skewed manner that unfairly benefited certain directors, rather than the company's shareholders. The suit is brought by institutional investor Carlson Capital.
Potential liability against company estimated between $5 billion-$10 billion
The lawsuit centers on the company’s handling of a complex conversion of stock in which two separate tracking stocks – PCS and FON – were “recombined” into a consolidated common stock, bringing substantial profit to directors and management at the expense of other shareholders left out of the transaction. Law firm Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., which represents lead plaintiff institutional investor Carlson Capital, L.P., a private money management fund, estimates damages conservatively between $5-10 billion. The case is expected to move into discovery without further delay and is scheduled for trial in early 2006.
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65% Performance Boost & 10GigE Support Demonstrate Benefits of Open Arroyo OnDemand Architecture
PLEASANTON, Calif. - February 7th, 2005 - Arroyo Video Solutions, Inc., which recently unveiled its first product, Arroyo OnDemand, - an industry-leading, open architecture solution for video on demand (VOD) - is today announcing two industry firsts. First, Arroyo is announcing support for native 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) interfaces, delivering unprecedented levels of scalability to meet ramping VOD demand. Second, surpassing its own record 3,000 streams/industry-standard server, Arroyo OnDemand running on the latest industry-standard Intel hardware is now able to deliver up to 5,000 3.75Mbps video streams per 3RU (rack unit) server, a new industry record.
"Arroyo stands for industry leading solutions delivered on 100% open architecture hardware platforms," said Arroyo's President and CEO Kim Kelly. "Taking advantage of the latest volume server platforms from Intel, we are now able to deliver up to 5,000 streams per server and 65,000 streams per rack, almost twice the performance of the proprietary hardware platforms our competitors offer."
"As their performance requirements grow, video operators are moving rapidly from 1GigE- to 10GigE-based transport architectures," added Arroyo's Co-founder and CTO Paul Sherer. "By integrating 10GigE boards built by other vendors into our industry-standard platform, we are able to easily and rapidly respond to operators' needs for speed, performance and scalability. Competitors offering proprietary platforms simply cannot keep up with the advancements the computer industry delivers - nor with the needs of the operators."
10GigE Transport Scales VOD Networks
The accelerating popularity of VOD is imposing rapidly increasing loads on operators' networks. 10Gigabit Ethernet technology offers a 10-fold scaling in capacity versus 1 Gigabit Ethernet, enabling a single fiber to carry up to 2,500 3.75Mbps video streams and reducing the number of network paths operators have to manage by 10-fold. Combined with its rapidly improving prices, this scalability and manageability are making 10GigE the technology of choice for operators' video transport requirements.
Arroyo is the first vendor to offer native 10GigE support for VOD. Native 10GigE support delivers hard dollar savings for operators, as well as making on-demand networks far easier to manage and to scale. Arroyo's Video Platforms are uniquely suited to 10GigE support because of their industry-leading performance. Able to deliver up to 5,000 3.75Mbps video on demand streams per industry-standard server, each Arroyo Video Platform can fill two 10GigE network interfaces.
With a choice of 10GigE interface boards available from the networking industry, it took Arroyo just a few months to integrate support for 10GigE into Arroyo OnDemand. Plus, operators choosing Arroyo OnDemand gain tremendously from the rapidly improving price performance of industry-standard 10GigE technology. Equipping an Arroyo Video Platform with 10GigE interfaces costs less than $5,000 today, yet delivers savings more than 10 times as large.
Raising the Performance Bar
Running on Intel's latest volume hardware, Arroyo OnDemand now offers up to 5,000 3.75Mbps streams per 3RU industry-standard server, and up to 65,000 streams per rack. Equivalently, it delivers up to 1,250 15Mbps high-definition streams per server and up to 16,250 hi-def streams per rack. This figure effectively raises the bar for on-demand performance, offering almost twice the density of even the most proprietary competitors, about five times the performance per server of any vendor using industry-standard hardware and is a 65% increase from the record-setting 3,000 streams Arroyo OnDemand achieves running on previous generations of Intel servers.
Today's announcements demonstrate the powerful advantages of Arroyo's focus on open hardware. Operators choosing Arroyo can select the most appropriate servers and network interfaces based on their performance requirements and can mix and match these seamlessly. Operators can also be confident that as they expand and evolve their networks, they will stay at the forefront of technology and performance. And operators can be assured that new high performance capabilities can be integrated into existing networks easily, without expensive, disruptive forklifts which are characteristic of proprietary solutions.
About Arroyo Video Solutions
Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Arroyo Video Solutions offers video operators a unique, network-centric on-demand architecture that uses 100 percent open-standard hardware platforms. The company's flagship product, Arroyo OnDemand, separates storage and streaming into different industry-standard servers and employs Arroyo Video Accelerator technology, which improves operational performance ten-fold over other leading video services companies.
Arroyo is a privately held company funded by leading Silicon Valley venture firms DCM - Doll Capital Management and Foundation Capital; and by Time Warner Investments and Comcast Interactive Capital, the investment arms of two of the nation's largest media companies. For more information, please visit www.arroyo.tv.
With "blockbuster telecom mergers" all the rage in the news and the blogosphere, I thought it would be worth sharing Instat's take on it...
Top Telecom Brands Battle it Out for Business: AT&T and Verizon Rank High
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., February 1, 2005 - Today's business telecom marketplace is more competitive than ever. Major providers, both fixed-line and wireless, are merging, cable operators are attempting to increase their reach into the business market and systems integrators are targeting the budding managed-services market. As such, survival in this industry will hinge on products, prices and preference, and not necessarily in that order. Recent In-Stat research, (http://www.in-stat.com), shows that key providers have already begun to carve out meaningful brand "footprints," or brand reach, in varying segments of the US business market and that customers have begun to develop a preference for a few key brands. However, for the major telecom brands, like AT&T, increasing brand reach, and, more importantly, defending its position, will be critical to long-term success in the future.
"Marketing messages may be deafening buyers in the cacophony of vendors selling similar services. Brand relevance is the only thing that will allow messages to truly resonate with customers today." says Kneko Burney, a Chief Market Strategist for In-Stat. "To simplify their buying process, business customers are establishing 'preferred' vendor relationships and are focusing on buying multiple services from these preferred brands. As a result, the top priority for providers today should be to establish closer, more preferred relationships with customers - not simply following the pack in pricing and/or new product introductions." Burney emphasizes the importance of targeting and establishing preference among key segments: small business, mid-sized business, enterprise, and in specific vertical industries, not just with general business.
A recent survey by In-Stat has also found that:
- AT&T Wireless and AT&T (wireline only) were the top ranked national brands in all business segments. Of more interest, Verizon appears to be emerging as a major contender from the brand reach perspective, even in the broader national market.
- Of the regional operators, BellSouth appears to be the most preferred brand in its region across all sizes of businesses. In contrast, MCI is commonly perceived by business decision-makers as "unstable financially." In the middle market, in particular, more than one-third, 35%, of respondents indicated such.
- Across segments, the AT&T brand was the best-defined and generally associated with leadership. However, because this company has such dominant brand reach already, it is definitely vulnerable to attack from emerging or expanding brands, particularly Sprint, Verizon and SBC.
The report, "Darwin Laughs: Exploring Brand Preferences for Network and Managed Services in the US Business Market, Part Four: US SOHO Businesses (1 to 4 Employees)" (#IN0401320SH),examine several aspects of key telecom and competitive provider's brands in the US business market: reach, value, preference and perception. The combination of these is believed to give insight into the potential success or failure of providers in this market in the long-term. Brand perception data is presented for each of the providers. To purchase this report, or formore information, please visit: http://www.in-stat.com/catalog/Ecatalogue.asp?ID=43