INTERNET TELEPHONY — September 2010
Broadvox Expands into Hosted Services, Offers Unique Twist on Its Pricing Strategy
"We're focusing our product development… on everything in the cloud"
Feature Articles
An Incremental Approach to LTE
Why and When HSPA+ Makes Sense
If you're a regular reader of INTERNET TELEPHONY, you may remember a March piece I did about how, while there's a ton of talk about LTE and 4G, many wireless service providers expect to invest in 3G for at least a little bit longer. Specifically, the article talked about how AT&T had announced Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as its 4G suppliers, yet stipulated that the 3G equipment it received by those vendors this year would have to be software-convertible to LTE.
A Dip in the Pool
LTE patent Pool Could Advance 4G
Patent pools can simplify licensing, while reducing aggregate royalties and lowering transaction costs, by offering a single license to broad portfolio of essential patents held by different companies. This can reduce IP risk and encourage the use of patented technologies by making overall IP costs more predictable and transparent. With many companies holding significant LTE IP positions, an LTE patent pool will make it much easier for parties throughout the LTE ecosystem to license essential patents through a streamlined method, on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms.
What's New in Security
New Data, Wireless Threats and the Virtualization Angle
Whether we're talking about financial firms, hotels, retailers or the government, no one is safe from those who want to get into their computer systems. And while hacking started out as a hobbyist's game, often involving relatively small numbers of hackers and losses, today hacking is an organized, worldwide, often large-scale, business.
The Hyper-Connected Enterprise
CDNs Go Beyond Web Acceleration
For enterprise communications, the game has changed. The traditional structure of business communications has been disrupted by new levels of mobile connectivity, and companies must adjust. According to Gartner's Diane Morello, "dozens, possibly hundreds of people and parties will have the power to influence company direction, services, products and reputation in the hyper-connected enterprise. They will do so nearly randomly, across global markets, outside official channels and through a nearly infinite web."
Special Focus
TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY Congratulates IPTV Excellence Awards Winners
Telcos in recent years have looked to home video services, often based on IPTV technology, as a way to complete their product bundles and counterbalance some of their losses on the residential wireline side. Meanwhile, the cable companies and DBS outfits have expanded their video offerings and capabilities on various fronts.
Columns
Publisher’s Outlook
Support for Net Neutrality Wanes in Tech Community
Guest Room
Special Access: A Pothole on the Broadband Superhighway
Testing with Tom
Tandberg Movi Review
Next Wave Redux
IPTV - An Evolutionary Dead End
Enterprise View
The End is Near
(the End of 2010, That Is)
Virtualization Reality
Virtualization Changed Servers, But Not the Network
UC Unplugged
Top Three Objections to
Unified Communications and How to Overcome Them
Top of Mind
Where's Broadbando?
Ask the SIP Trunking Expert
IP Communications and the Gulf Disaster
E911 Watch
Are Your E911 Vendors Participating in NG911 Standards Development?
Packet Voice over Wireless
Return on Investment for HD Voice
Integrator's Corner
The Unified Data Center Fabric is Ready
VoIPeering
VoIP Peering - The Rise of the Enterprise Session Border Controller
Convergence Corner
Making Unified Communications Work
Departments
Getting Vertical — Entertainment
Entertainment Vertical Drives Colocation Demand
Open Source
ForgeRock Picks Up Where Sun Left Off
The Channel
Internet Security Outfit Seeks Channel Partners
On RAD's Radar
So You Want to Be an Agent
The Channel Perspective
UC Will Play an Integral Role in Enterprise Mobility of the Future
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