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		<title>NSN-Alvarion OEM Agreement Has Huge Strategic Implications</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction: According to a press&#160;release issued today on Alvarion&#8217;s web site,&#160;Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will resell Alvarion&#8217;s latest mobile WiMAX/ IEEE 802.16e gear to its current and prospective WiMAX customers.&#160;The Alvarion equipment to be resold includes the BreezeMAX Base Stations, ASN Gateways and 4Motion Element Management System.&#160;NSN will provide deployment, management and maintenance services for the products and will leverage its proven multi-vendor capabilities for a most efficient and smooth solution. &#34;We are pleased to expand our long standing relationship with Nokia Siemens Networks,&#34; said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. &#34;For certain operator customers, we believe this collaboration will deliver a strong business case through the most advanced, best-in-class WiMAX network solution that leverages Nokia Siemens Networks&#8217; solid experience in local market execution and support capabilities &#8212; key elements that fit well within our Open WiMAX strategy.&#34; &#160; Alvarion continues to win new WiMAX business all over the world. &#160;For specifics, please visit:&#160;http://alvarion.com/presscenter/pressreleases/.&#160; Alvarion is considered to be a stable company that offers transparency through it&#8217;s public listing on the Tel Aviv and NASDAQ stock exchanges.&#160;Alvarion was burned by the deal with now bankrupt Nortel, which caused earnings to take a hit.&#160;The partnership with NSN should help them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3G-HSPA, Mobile Linux and Open Source are the Big Winners in Intel-Nokia Technology Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel referred to it as &#34;this year&#8217;s most significant collaboration in our respective industries.&#34;&#160;The&#160;Intel-Nokia strategic partnership will &#34;align and shape the next generation of mobile computing.&#34;&#160;But it was very difficult to extract any tangible take always from the press conference announcing the partnership.&#160;That&#8217;s because no specific products were identified and no time frames were given to see the results of this highly acclaimed collaboration. &#160; To a large extent, the press conference was a lot of hand waving and gesturing, without providing anything of substance that we might expect from such an important strategic relationship.&#160;This is the third time in the last decade that Intel and Nokia have announced a partnership, with the previous two attempts not producing much if anything at all.&#160;So the industry might have a right to be skeptical this time.&#160;Nonetheless, it certainly sounded exciting.&#160; &#160; Anand Chandrasekher, Sr VP and GM of Intel&#8217;s Ultra Mobility Group stated, &#34;The leaders in both computing and communications are coming together to accelerate innovation while driving exciting new revenue opportunities.&#160;Intel and Nokia are joining forces to announce a long term strategic relationship that will align and shape the next generation of mobile computing.&#34; &#160; We are all aware that smart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New apps and smart phones to drive demand for 4G mobile networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now believe that smart phones and &#34;all-in-one&#34; gadgets will drive the need for more bandwidth and QOS and accelerate mobile network movement to 3.5G&#160;(EVDO, HSPA, mobile WiMAX, etc) and 4G (LTE and Advanced WiMAX- IEEE 802.16m). UK&#160;research firm Mobile Squared reports that Apple to hit 1 billion app downloads on April 23rd!&#160; Please see: http://www.mobilesquared.co.uk/?p=593 They observe that the number of downloads from App Stores is growing exponentially: Apple is now experiencing average daily downloads of 5.1 million apps and requires another 38 million apps to reach 1 billion. At this download rate, the billion mark will be surpassed in a few days. At the start of December Apple announced that it has passed the 200 million download mark. And this was promptly followed by a similar announcement of 500 million downloads by January 19th. We would expect to see the same growth from other smart phone and &#34;all-in-one&#34; gadget makers (e.g. RIM, Palm, Nokia, etc) who have started their own on-line app stores. Many of the new apps will require massive amounts of bandwidth, e.g. video sharing, multi-media conferencing, interactive games, Video on Demand, real time broadcast video, Location Based Services, etc. The amount of bandwidth and real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCA Panel Session: Femtocells and their consequences for Mobile Broadband Technologies</title>
		<link>http://viodi.com/2009/03/21/wca-panel-session-femtocells-and-their-consequences-for-mobile-broadband-technologies/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=wca-panel-session-femtocells-and-their-consequences-for-mobile-broadband-technologies</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background:&#160; Femtocells are low power 3G/4G cellular base stations which can be thought of as wireless Access Points (AP&#8217;s). Instead of a WiFi Access Point we&#8217;re all familiar with, a femtocell could be a UMTS, CDMA/EVDO, LTE, or Mobile WiMAX Access Point, depending on the underlying mobile network technology.&#160;The bi-directional voice and data traffic is taken off the respective wireless network and placed on the Broadband Internet connection at the home or office.&#160;Femtocell suppliers claim they&#8217;ll be capable of communicating at 3G (HSDPA) and 4G (LTE, mobile WiMAX) speeds, depending on the bandwidth of the broadband Internet connection (which could be a bottleneck). &#160; Femtocells will provide mobile handset and notebook PC coverage in a home or business with typically 2- 4 simultaneously active users.&#160;Picocells are larger APs designed for enterprise use, with higher output power, to handle more simultaneous users.&#160;No changes are required to the handset, notebook PC, or other mobile devices, [the SIM card in a mobile device might be programmed to authenticate the user].&#160;&#160; The residential and enterprise femtocell markets have very different requirements and operators will likely target one of those market segments.&#160;Some carriers see the need for enterprise femtocells creating a bigger market opportunity than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of 2 Meetings:  Mobile Telecom in Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.&#160; SVC Wireless March 10th Meeting: Mobile in Crisis- How to Survive and Thrive through the Economic Tsunami With the current credit crisis, economic meltdown, and stock market crash, both business and individuals are facing significant challenges: Big corporations are cutting cost and downsizing workforce while startups are struggling with shrinking market and drying capital sources. The soft job market makes people more cautious about the future. But crisis and downturns can lead to significant opportunity. Here are a few areas to consider: &#160; In the upcoming era of Mobile Internet, who will be the next Google? How will the landscape of mobile ecosystem look like after the storm retreats? What will be the next killer apps to drive the changes? How can companies save cost without hurting their business and even improve their business? &#160; In this informative panel discussion, moderated by Earl Lum of EJL Wireless Research, several industry professionals discussed various aspects of the mobile ecosystem and share their vision about future growth opportunities. Speakers Richard Lim, Managing Director, GSR Ventures Junbo Liu, Executive Vice President, VanceInfo Technologies Michael Mace, Principle, Rubicon Consulting Bill Maggs, Head of Developer and Partner Engagement, Sony Ericsson Satya Mallya, Director, Personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Mobile WiMAX- is it really mobile (or only for wireless fixed line access)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over one year ago, I wrote an article titled: Will the real mobile WiMAX please stand up: http://www.viodi.com/newsletter/061000/article2.pdf The claim then was that IEEE 802.16e (AKA Mobile WiMAX) would be primarily used for fixed line BWA. Not much has changed in the last 18 months. Recently, there&#8217;ve been some encouraging announcements from Clearwire, Digital Bridge , and several overseas wireless service providers.&#160; However, the overwhelming majority of WiMAX deployments continue to be for fixed BWA.&#160; True mobile WiMAX service has been hampered due to several factors: a scarcity of native mode WiMAX devices, developing countries urgent need for fixed BWA, and the uncertainty of mobile VoIP (over mobile WiMAX) availability and roaming. Where are the Native Mode WiMAX devices and MIDs? The WMAX Forum says there are 480 WiMAX devices in development &#8211; by over 80 vendors. But we know of only one native mode WiMAX device &#8211; the Nokia 810 Internet Tablet Computer. We&#8217;ve heard a lot from INTEL about embedded WiMAX in Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), but we haven&#8217;t seen any MIDs hit the market yet. While several notebook PC&#8217;s with embedded WiMAX chip sets have been announced, we don&#8217;t know of any available. Instead, dongle attachments are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTTP/ FTTH emerges as the winner for Delivery of Triple Play service bundles to the home-  GPON gains market traction!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background The United States is third among the world&#8217;s economies in the total number of FTTH households at 3.3 million, and is in 10th position in the global ranking with 2.9 percent market penetration. What&#8217;s most encouraging is that the US continues to experience the highest rate of growth of any economy in terms of FTTH subscribers &#8211; doubling the number of connections year over year. This is due largely to FiOS&#160;deployments by market leader Verizon (VZ)&#160;and to ongoing buildouts by more than 600 smaller independent network providers across the country. &#34;Aggressive FTTH deployment in the US has created a lot of buzz about this exciting technology, and the word of mouth from early FTTH subscribers is driving growth and fueling further deployments.&#34;&#160; For more information, please see: www.ftthcouncil.org As we predicted several years ago, GPON has become the preferred last mile delivery technology for FTTP, with BPON, EPON and point to point optical Ethernet losing market share with declining sales. The nascent GPON market posted healthy growth worldwide in 1Q08, driven by service provider investments in broadband access networks, according to market research firm Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com).&#160; Even VZ is moving FiOS new installs to GPON with trials offering&#160;100M [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the market for Carrier Ethernet- metropolitan and/or rural areas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 25th Update:&#160; Carrier Ethernet Thunder from Light Reading + PBT based Backhaul in SPRINT&#8217;s Xohm Undoubtedly, this piece is intended to promote&#160;Light Reading&#8217;s&#160;Ethernet Expo next month in NYC.&#160; However, it has some useful market share numbers from the leading vendors, e.g. Cisco&#8217;s share has dropped to below 50%, while Alcatel-Lucent is in 2nd place.&#160; Light Reading claims &#34;there has been a thundering of CESR-related product and feature news in recent months.&#34;&#160; Judge for yourself:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=164629 Provider backbone transport (PBT, also call provider backbone bridging, or PBB) will be used for backhaul in Sprint&#8217;s new Xohm WiMAX network. Sprint is using gear from Ciena (and Clearwire is, too, according to Unstrung).&#160;&#160;In this scenario,&#160;the WiMAX MAC frame&#160;is enveloped in a PBT frame and transported over fiber optic cable.&#160; PBT is&#160;based&#160;on an emerging standard for&#160;IEEE 802.1 &#34;service provider&#34; MAC bridging that has been in the works for many years (I participated in the initial debates in early 2002!).&#160; PBT is an alternative to MPLS-TP (IETF and ITU work in progress)&#160;for a scalable Carrier Ethernet network. &#160; http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/pbt-earns-backhaul-role-sprints-xohm/2008-09-24?utm_medium=nl&#38;utm_source=internal&#38;cmp-id=EMC-NL-FT&#38;dest=FT &#160; http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=164372 &#160; PBT: Alive &#8216;n&#8217; Kicking The MPLS camp is determined to write PBT&#8217;s obituary. Even former supporters of the controversial Ethernet technology, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unhealthy Industry: Telecom reports indicate continued contraction in revenues and growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just analyzed recent reports from telecom companies, we conclude that the telecom recession/ depression continues. Revenues are falling way short of expectation, growth is limited to mobile data, and profits are minuscule with the exception of Verizon (VZ). But even at VZ, the growth seems to be coming almost entirely from new wireless data services for mobile subscribers, while customer installations for FiOS seems to be stalling (despite the huge build-out cost and heavy promotion). Perhaps the most important earnings report tidbit was that VZW (a joint venture between VZ and Vodafone-UK) said its churn rate &#8212; the pace at which customers defect to other carriers &#8212; fell to 1.1 percent from 1.2 percent in the previous quarter. By comparison, Sprint Nextel has a churn rate of 2.45 percent. Comment:&#160; With all the consolidation that has taken place in telco land- both in the network operator and equipment spaces- one would expect profit margins to be a lot higher, due to less competition and the power of scale. But they aren&#8217;t. The industry seemed to be a lot healthier in the late 1990s when competitive carriers were expanding their business to both enterprise and residential customers. But alas, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IEEE ComSoc-SCV Workshop: Location Based Technologies and Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary of Location Based Technologies and Services Workshop [June 19, 2008, Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport]&#160; Alan J. Weissberger IEEE ComSoc- SCV Secretary and Program Chair Backgrounder: &#160; Yankee Group tele-briefing report on Location Based Services and Technologies: http://viodi.com/2008/06/13/location-based-services-and-technologies/ Speaker Remarks 1. Dave Reid, Director of Business Development, SiRF Technology Inc.&#160;http://sirf.com/ &#160; The world is on the go (which implies that mobile telecom services and devices will grow rapidly).&#160;SiRF believes that location awareness brings convenience to our lives.&#160;SiRF is predominantly a (fabless) semiconductor company- with the largest market share of discrete GPS chips and related intellectual property.&#160;SiRF powered mobile devices include personal navigation devices (PNDs), handheld GPS receivers, smart phones, feature phones, personal media players (PMPs), and in-dash car navigation systems.&#160; &#160; There are many types of Location Based Services (LBS&#8217;s) being deployed and being considered by network operators: navigation, social networking, location based advertising, mobile commerce, transportation, child locator, pet tracker, etc.&#160;New mobile broadband networks, like WiMAX, will be location enabled; so will new devices, including Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and even location aware watches.&#160;Applications and content are intersecting and this will lead to innovative new mobile services with location awareness.&#160;Enterprise customers have led applications in location [...]]]></description>
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