VON Articles

Settling With eBay, Skype Looks to Prove Itself

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:33:01 PDT

The deal between between eBay (EBAY) and the founders of Skype to settle a hornet’s nest of litigation brings to a merciful close one of the longest-running and more operatic dogfights in recent years in Silicon Valley: the battle over the technology at the core of Skype’s peer-to-peer based VoIP service. ...(815 words)

As Latin American Market Grows, Challenges Keep Pace

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:41:37 PDT

It’s no secret that service providers in Latin and South America are building and expanding their broadband and wireless networks at a feverish pace. There’s so much demand – broadband alone saw a compound annual growth rate of 48 percent between 2003 and 2008, one of the highest in the ...(721 words)

What Comcast-Cimco Pairing Could Mean for CLECs

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:13:35 PDT

The ongoing weak economy has proven one fact in telecom: Businesses – SMBs and enterprises alike – turn to IP services when forced to crimp spending. The trend has especially been a boon for the CLECs that focus on SMBs. Such a boon, in fact, that cable wants in on ...(502 words)

As Providers Interconnect, Barriers Remain

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:58 PDT

The race for a truly seamless interconnection exchange between carriers and service providers heated up considerably this week with dueling announcements from Equinix, an established provider of interconnect services, and start-up CENX, which says it has created the world’s first Carrier-Ethernet exchange.Those developments join a range of initiatives, from major ...(851 words)

Internet’s Legacy: VoIP, Wireless Mediocrity & Congestion

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:54:52 PDT

In 1961 the Soviets sent a man into space, sparking the U.S. Department of Defense to form the Advanced Research Projects Agency, tasked with making sure we didn’t get left behind in the space wars. And it was 40 years ago, on Oct. 29, 1969 that ARPA sent the first ...(1006 words)

Internet Growth Needs ‘One for the ROADM’

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:06:33 PDT

If fiber-optic transport networks are the highways of the Information Age, then optical switching provides the intelligence at the intersections. And because the traffic keeps getting heavier and less predictable, the traffic lights have to keep getting smarter.Optical switching has gone through many transitions over the years, but it remains ...(713 words)

Verizon the Latest Telecom Provider to Talk Up M2M

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:13:09 PDT

Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) sees a big sales opportunity in machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, even as revenue from its wireless and FiOS business failed to dazzle analysts and investors. Verizon executives didn’t speak too much of the M2M angle on Oct. 26 during the company’s third-quarter 2009 earnings call, but the brief ...(432 words)

Net Neutrality: FCC Opens Pandora’s Box

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:06:07 PDT

By now, the telecom industry is more than familiar with the FCC’s new net neutrality push, highlighted by the Oct. 22 release of a 107-page notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to codify open Internet access as law. Two of the most contentious parts of the rules up for comment affect ...(764 words)

Cox Stresses Broadband Role in Education

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:07:23 PDT

SUPERCOMM — Just about every keynote speaker at SUPERCOMM has mentioned education and the important role broadband will play in it. However, Cox Communications president, Patrick Esser, made it the focal point of his speech.Education is important at two levels when it comes to broadband, Esser said. First, there is ...(756 words)

Chopra: National Innovation Strategy Depends on Smart, Secure Infrastructure

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:53:29 PDT

SUPERCOMM — The nation’s chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, addressed the crowd at SUPERCOMM in Chicago and said President Obama’s innovation strategy is depending on them.Chopra, CTO of the U.S. and Associate Director for Technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, stressed the need for a ...(762 words)