| 06/17/08 | Consumers to Watch 25% More Video a Day in Five Years Study says video consumption to soar 25% by 2013 By 2013, average video viewing will rise from the current four hours a day to five hours a day, a 25% jump, according to a new study by Forrester Research. The big increase, the report said, will come from people viewing content online, which is expected to build from 10% now to 35% in 2013; on mobile phones or portable devices, from 8% to 15%; and via VOD, from 20% to 45%. Click here to read more. |
| 04/18/08 | AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned that the current systems that constitute the Internet will not be able to cope with the increasing amounts of video and user-generated content being uploaded. "The surge in online content is at the center of the most dramatic changes affecting the Internet today," he said. "In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today." Cicconi, who was speaking at the event as part of a wider series of meetings with U.K. government officials, said that at least $55 billion worth of investment was needed in new infrastructure in the next three years in the U.S. alone, with the figure rising to $130 billion to improve the network worldwide. "We are going to be butting up against the physical capacity of the Internet by 2010," he said. Click here to read more. |
| 04/08/08 | FTTH now being sold to 10M US homes Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is now being marketed to more than 10 million North American homes, according to the latest report from RVA Market Research & Consulting. And FTTH networks pass nearly 12 million homes, or nearly 10% of all the homes in North America. Nearly 3 million homes are connected to fiber, and 770,500 of those (or 26%) were added in the last six months, according to RVA. Click here to read more. |
| 03/27/08 | Telecom well poised to benefit from $70 billion streaming market A new Insight Research study says IPTV, along with streaming video and audio, will generate $70 billion in revenue over the next six years, from both network-derived services and content-derived income. Telecom companies are well positioned to capture a substantial portion of that revenue, according to Robert Rosenberg, Insight president, if they can build business plans that are flexible enough to adjust to shifting revenue trends. Click here to read more. |
| 03/20/08 | Smoothing the Way for Web Video Live streaming video still has its fair share of hiccups, but the industry is working to ensure the supply of bandwidth keeps up with demand. If you've been on the Web in recent days, you've no doubt noticed that CBS is pulling out all the stops to cash in on March Madness. Unlike a year ago, when games were only shown to registered CBS users, all 63 games of this year's NCAA basketball tournament will be available for live streaming to anyone (BusinessWeek, 3/20/08). Click here to read more. |
| 03/06/08 | Blockbuster growth for optical networking market The global optical networking market has reached a new post-2001 high of $US4.4 billion which was driven by blockbuster revenue postings by Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei, according to an Ovum report for the fourth quarter of 2007. The research firm said Alcatel-Lucent posted $1 billion and Huawei $800 million which pushed annual spending to $15 billion. "This figure is $300 million over our optimistic expectation; that isn't pocket change even for Bill Gates," Ovum's VP of optical networking, Dana Cooperson said. While numbers cannot be finalized until ZTE reports its figures in late March, Cooperson said there has been a lot of shifting competitive dynamics due to vendor consolidation and growth in spending across all next-generation product segments that far exceeds declines in legacy gear. Click here to read more. |
| 01/01/08 | Tech briefing: Carrier Ethernet: Making the grade Carriers and enterprises have been moving towards Ethernet network services for some time. Now that trend is accelerating. Ask carriers why they are betting on Ethernet for their enterprise and subscriber services and two main drivers emerge: cost savings and scalability. Add the benefits of a standard platform, and analysts predictions of stellar growth look attainable. But for this to happen additions need to be added continually to Ethernet to make it carrier grade. Infonetics forecasts that the metro Ethernet equipment market will nearly double between 2006 and 2010 to reach US$18.8 billion. Asia Pacific accounted for 37% of all metro Ethernet equipment revenue in 2007, North America for 30%, EMEA 28% and CALA 5%. Click here to read more. |
| 12/21/07 | 2007 Top Ten: Optical Stories Optical networking is back and better than ever, and you don't have to go far to see proof of its resurgence. In fact, you only need travel one more paragraph down this page to bask in the greatness of our top ten biggest optical networking stories of 2007: Click here to read more. |
| 12/10/07 | Consumers Comfortable With Online, Mobile Video Viewing Consumers have grown increasingly comfortable with viewing video particularly TV programming -- on computers and mobile devices instead of their TV set, according to a new survey. Click here to read more. |
| 12/04/07 | Carriers Say Bandwidth Glut Is Gone Yesterday's announcement from XO Communications Inc. (OTC: XOCM - message board) that it was planning to double its network's capacity in 2008 was the latest example of a carrier realizing that, unlike a decade ago, there really is a need for more bandwidth. Click here to read more. |
| 11/19/07 | I Want My iTV But I won't be getting it soon. While the technology is mostly in place, the playersâfrom cable companies to film studiosâcan't agree on how to make it happen. Click here to read more. |
| 11/19/07 | Small telcos feel merger pressure In the wake of major-carrier consolidation, merger activity among small and regional telcos is escalating and should continue next year. CLECs on the coasts are expanding toward the heartland, accepting that, whatever success they may have had thus far, they can no longer stay small or merely regional for long. Click here to read more. |
| 11/16/07 | The Road to 100G Winds Up Carriers A Heavy Reading survey shows there's a lot of uncertainty for carriers looking at 40-gig and 100-gig technologies Click here to read more. |
| 11/16/07 | Google Goes DIY With 10 GigE As it did with servers, Google is reportedly building its own 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches, after concluding no off-the-shelf boxes met all its needs Click here to read more. |
| 11/15/07 | Carrier Demand for 100-Gbit/s DWDM will Develop Before Products are Ready, New Report Finds - SmartBrief Network operators around the world expect to migrate to 100-Gbit/s DWDM technology sometime within the next three years, but equipment suppliers may not have 100G DWDM products ready in time to meet that initial demand, according to a major new report from Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), the market research division of CMP's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com). Click here to read more. |
| 11/15/07 | Optical's Great Leap Forward Forget the talk of another optical bubble; network operators worldwide are clamoring for 100-Gbit/s speeds, and their needs aren't going away. Click here to read more. |
| 11/15/07 | The Future of Optical Transport Networks: 40G & the Road to 100G On the surface, the inexorable migration upwards in telecommunications transmission speeds appears to be a smooth and predictable curve one that has moved neatly up the Sonet/SDH hierarchy from a starting point of 155 Mbit/s to the current 10-Gbit/s standard, with 40-Gbit/s transmission coming in the near future. But this evolution has really come in a series of uneven fits and starts, and with a lot of unexpected turns along the way. It has been anything but easily predictable. Click here to read more. |
| 11/14/07 | Broadband May Become More Popular Than TV for Many in US Within the next three years, more than 16 million US TV households may be using their broadband service more than they use their TV sets today, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). This is one of the key findings of an In-Stat survey of US consumers about TV viewing, media, and online habits, the high-tech market research firm says. Respondents had a broadband connection, a TV set, and were 18 years of age or older. Click here to read more. |
| 11/14/07 | 10GigE Market Growing 10G Ethernet market big and growing fast, says new Infonetics report. Click here to read more. |
| 11/13/07 | Hillary wants a Smart Grid...AEP wants neighbors to help pay for its Smart Grid...Finding out about new transmission just got easier. Senator Clinton wants to spend $150B over 10 years on programs such as 10 Smart Grid City partnerships that would deploy advanced Smart Grid technologies such as demand response and plug-in hybrids. Her plan is to require utilities to reduce energy demand by 20% by 2020 and for utility regulators to provide incentives for deployment of smart grid technologies. Federal involvement would include tax incentives, interoperability standards and FERC identification of key transmission requirements. The Smart Grid Facilitation Act, part of the larger energy package, stalls in negotiations between the House and Senate and the consensus is that it will not go to conference until after Thanksgiving. Click here to read more. |
| 11/13/07 | Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Differentiation Innovation Presented to Fujitsu for Packet Optical Networking Fujitsu Network Communications, a leading supplier of IT and wireline/wireless networking solutions, announced today that their FLASHWAVE® 9500 platform has received the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Differentiation Innovation in the Packet Optical Networking Platform (Packet ONP) segment. The platform defines the next evolution of networking elements by delivering the packet aggregation agility and bulk transport scalability required to support the packet-centric networks that todayâs network service providers require. Click here to read more. |
| 11/12/07 | Broadband Subscriber Growth Slows Leichtman: Top Cable and Telephone Companies Acquired 2.1M High-Speed Subs in Q3 The 19 largest U.S. cable and telephone providers â representing about 94% of the market â acquired over 2.1 million high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter, down 20% compared to 2.66 million a year ago, according to Leichtman Research Group. The top broadband providers now account for over 60 million subscribers â with cable companies counting 32.6 million broadband subscribers, and telephone companies with about 27.5 million. Click here to read more. |
| 11/08/07 | Cable's Picture Gets Fuzzier In the ever-intensifying wars between the cable and phone companies, someone is always up, or always down. Right now it is cable that is perceived as being on the defensive. And when that happens, Comcast Corp. takes a hit. The largest cable operator by number of subscribers, it often bears the highest expectations of the industry. Investors hammered Comcast's stock to what had been a 52-week low after the Philadelphia-based company's third-quarter results showed slowdowns in its ability to add customers, and shares have since gone lower. Click here to read more. |
| 11/08/07 | Fujitsu Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in 2007 Magic Quadrant for SONET Equipment Fujitsu Network Communications, a leading supplier of IT and wireline/wireless networking solutions, announced today that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the âLeadersâ quadrant in their new âMagic Quadrant for SONET Equipment, 2007â report based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Click here to read more. |
| 11/05/07 | Trends in Dynamic Optical Networks Todayâs dynamic optical networks use various forms of software-controlled optical switching technology to help enable automation and reconfiguration. One increasingly common approach is to use remotely configurable optical add/drop multiplexers (fortunately, universally known as ROADMs) to route optical wavelengths through a network. The point is to break the inflexible one-to-one association between wavelengths and routes in traditional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) transport networks. Click here to read more. |
| 11/05/07 | When giants stumble Other market trends may be stacked against the largest vendors as well. One of the healthiest markets these days â the optical equipment segment â lends itself to best-of-breed purchasing, which diminishes at least part of the advantage of megavendors. Thus, a one-product optical start-up such as Infinera is able to sail past larger vendors with broader portfolios. Click here to read more. |
| 11/02/07 | Living In A Networked World When Web-friendly presidential candidates Barack Obama or Ron Paul get thousands of hits on YouTube, it does more than just inform voters and agitate rivals. It taxes the gear running the Internet and other networks around the world. Click here to read more. |
| 11/02/07 | Study: Telecom spending to reach $393 billion in 5 years As more consumers embrace broadband and more wireless systems make the switch to digital, telecoms are projected to spend $56 billion this year on engineer, furnish and install products and services, according to an Amadee+Company study. Click here to read more. |
| 11/01/07 | States Step In to Close Broadband Gap Tired of waiting for the federal government to act on President Bush's promise to make high-speed Internet connections available to every home, a number of states have taken on the task themselves. Kentucky has been so successful -- the state says 95% of its households can now buy broadband service if they want -- that federal lawmakers and regulators want to replicate its program nationwide. Click here to read more. |
| 11/01/07 | Metro Ethernet Grows Metro Ethernet equipment market to nearly double to $18.8B in 2010 from 2006 Click here to read more. |
| 10/29/07 | VON: Defining differentiation, redefining video Differentiation in the IPTV space is largely a factor of consumer demand in each particular market. This was the consensus of a panel of two industry analysts and the director of international marketing for UTStarcom at Telephonyâs IPTV Workshop today in Boston. The gray area for the panelists came about when they were asked what the mode of differentiation should be. Click here to read more. |
| 10/12/07 | Ethernet Backhaul Battle Brews Everyone wants in on the Ethernet backhaul market for wireless, but some vendors think the nuances of the market could trip up the competiton. Click here to read more. |
| 10/08/07 | Getting over YouTube Two years ago, Verizon began deploying metro reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) to back up its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) rollouts. With 44 wavelengths, each capable of 10 Gb/s links, the carrier's engineers figured the system had plenty of headroom. But just two years later, some of those pipes are filling up. And as Verizon looks for the next wave of optical equipment to install, it is searching for gear than can handle 88 wavelengths â twice as much. Click here to read more. |
| 10/04/07 | Infonetics Looks at Ethernet Ethernet is mature, say carriers; Ethernet tunnels gaining acceptance Click here to read more. |
| 10/03/07 | Level 3: Video Will Drive Optical Spending Video is changing advertising models and driving capacity spending among carriers, Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT - message board)'s Bill Wohnoutka said in a keynote at Light Reading's Optical Expo yesterday. Click here to read more. |
| 10/02/07 | 100-GigE Not Coming Soon Enough Panelists at Light Reading's Optical Expo aren't confident 100-GigE standards will arrive on time, and some put the blame on 40-Gig Click here to read more. |
| 09/14/07 | Packet Optical Market Set to Explode Driven by strong carrier demand, the market for packet optical transport equipment will expand from zero revenues in 2007 to $1 billion in sales by 2012, according to Heavy Reading's inaugural Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Quarterly Market Tracker. That's because there's strong demand from Tier 1 carriers to move Sonet/SDH, wavelength switching, and connection-oriented Ethernet functionality onto a single device, says Heavy Reading analyst Sterling Perrin. Click here to read more. |
