Category: Alan Weissberger
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Sprint to use Clearwire’s TDD-LTE to augment its own LTE network
The squabbles, break ups and make ups between Sprint and Clearwire have become worthy of a prime time soap opera. Sprint has been reselling Clearwire’s mobile WiMAX network (CLEAR) and offering its own branded “4G” smart phones along with a Samsung tablet that works on CLEAR and Sprint’s 3G network. But earlier this month, Sprint announced it wouldn’t be supporting…
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XO Communications Leads Competitive Carrier Upsurge in Business Ethernet Services
Introduction Business customers are buying Ethernet services from legacy and competitive carriers as well as from MSOs. Cost effective performance, simplicity of operations, scalability and the ability to use the same access technology as in the enterprise LAN are somme of the reasons for this uptake. In addition to the extra bandwidth and the variety of…
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Role of Telecommunications & Benefits of Cloud Computing (ITU-T FG Cloud)
Editors Note: This article is based entirely on the October 7, 2011 ITU-T FG Cloud document “Cloud Benefits” which is based on their recent meeting in Seoul, South Korea. We have not provided any editorial content or opinion on this work in progress. The article is provided as further background information for the October 12th IEEE ComSocSCV…
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Cloud Networking- Provider & Vendor Perspective- at IEEE ComSocSCV Oct 12 meeting!
Introduction In a pure Public Cloud based model, applications reside in a multi-tenant environment and are accessible via the public Internet. Amazon’s EC2 is an example of such a Public Cloud. Yet there are concerns about security, privacy, failure recovery and performance when using the public Internet to deliver Cloud Compute and Storage services. In…
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Global Telcos come to Silicon Valley In Search of Innovation and Partnerships
Introduction: Global mobile app downloads will reach nearly 18 billion this year with sales of $15.1 billion, nearly triple last year’s revenues, according to Gartner Research. How much of that $15.1B went into the pocket of carriers (versus Apple and Google)? We would expect that number to be close to zero! Having missed the first…
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Critical Challenges for Wireless Telcos to be Explored at Sept 22 IEEE ComSoc/ SIPA Panel Session
Thurs Sept 22 IEEE/SIP event at HP Cupertino (see description below) will hit AT&T and Sprint with request for comments on the greatest challenges they face as wireless telcos. Here’s the short list I’ve prepared: Preventing network saturation from the explosive growth in mobile data traffic. Potential solutions include data offload to WiFi hot zones/ Femtocells,…