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Faced with a growing North American customer base, one European carrier ventured outside its home market for a U.S.-based colocation provider that would meet demand for local, affordable and flexible connectivity options.
Business – Colocation centre – Colocation – United States – Telecommunications
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With mobile data traffic skyrocketing, carriers must ease wireless network congestion and improve QoS. Netsnapper’s software offering combines data traffic offload, compression and seamless switching in one platform to try to help.
Quality of service – Wireless network – Business – Mobile Computing – Smartphone
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Network equipment vendors trying to sell telecom carriers on network-based service layer architectures that don’t clearly point to high-level strategy and revenue potential may have already lost the battle to the data center and IT vendors with server-based content strategies.
Data center – Network – Data Communications – Earth Sciences – Site Management
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Fiber expert David Hashman details launched power and receive sensitivity specifications for gigabit packet optical networks and active Ethernet point-to-point networks.
Ethernet – Passive optical network – Data Communications – Business – Broadband
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U.S. cable operators are making free Wi-Fi hotspots in select cities part of their customer retention strategy — a move expected to eventually evolve into revenue-generating services based on or tied to Wi-Fi.
Business – Wi-Fi – Customer retention – United States – Data Communications
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Until killer IPv6 services and applications are driving demand, consumers aren’t interested in being IPv6 ready, a Stratecast study shows. This leaves carriers that want to charge for IPv6 addresses with a dead-end strategy.
IPv6 – Protocols – IP – Internet Protocol – RFCs
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The global femtocell market is poised for explosive growth, but operators say it won’t become lucrative without tying femtocells to new services based on location and presence.
Business – Femtocell – Market research – Mobile phone – Marketing and Advertising
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Legacy telecom geographic information systems (GIS) keep track of operators’ physical plant. But smaller, more database-centric telecom network planning tools that evaluate demographics, usage behavior and local bylaws enable carriers to be smarter about their edge network build-out, particularly for rolling out wireless broadband infrastructure.
Geographic information system – Wireless – Broadband – Business – Services
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After years of shrugging off calls to develop and implement an IPv6 transition plan, operators have begun to ready their networks to support the next-generation Internet protocol. But a successful IPv6 migration requires more than just upgraded router software.
IPv6 – Internet Protocol – Protocols – IP – Router
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Cable operator Bresnan Communications is migrating to a converged next-generation network — with voice, video and data all over IP MPLS — to simplify telecom network management and reduce operational expenses.
Multiprotocol Label Switching – Internet Protocol – Business – Network management – Telecommunication
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