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Optical Networking chips market worth $250 million in 2Q07

Mon, 2007-08-27 09:56 — Faisal Kawoosa

Optical Networking chips generated an estimated $250 million during 2Q 2007. PMC-Sierra took about 32% of the pie. Top 5 vendors in optical networking chip market - PMC-Sierra, Broadlight, Teknovus, Ikanos and Conexant accounted for an estimated 53% of the...

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Communication system for healthcare industry

Fri, 2007-08-24 12:13 — JR

Healthcare as an industry lacks good communication system. The way healthcare is practiced is that most of the workers in the hospital are mobile. Very few have desktop phone number or a desktop where they can get email. They are...

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Interview with Per Skyttvall, CEO, Dreampark

Fri, 2007-08-24 11:17 — Staff

You are based in Scandinavia. How are you doing on your home turf and what prospects have you explored outside your region? Dreampark is currently the dominant IP TV middleware vendor in Scandinavian market covering Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark...

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Handset availability may no longer be an issue in FMC

Thu, 2007-08-23 19:26 — JR

Some three months back, 4 big operators got together and put out a joint procurement RFP. They listed out their feature requirements for dual mode FMC devices from entry level, to mid-tier to smartphones, and submitted RFP to 30 different...

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BT FMC flat at 40k

Thu, 2007-08-23 18:58 — JR

BT is not going anywhere with its residential FMC service. And this, according to some, has to do with perception. People do not think of BT as leader in mobile services. Those who subscribed to the FMC service or were...

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EPON works just fine

Thu, 2007-08-23 12:37 — Faisal Kawoosa

Our upcoming quarterly update on communication chips reveals that EPON is selling much more than GPON. Apparently GPON is not so hip among the carriers. EPON is integration of Ethernet with PON and carriers are already familiar with Ethernet. On...

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SBC case highlights that standards are not such a big issue

Wed, 2007-08-22 18:11 — JR

I have been watching the SBC segment grow at an impressive pace over the last few years. I think the widespread deployment of SBCs highlights the fact that standards are not much of an issue in the new communications industry....

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Session Border Controller vendors expanding into FMC security

Tue, 2007-08-21 19:02 — JR

SBC vendors from the VoIP world are flexing their muscles in the FMC security space. These vendors have so far met with success predominantly in network-to-network session management area. Moving into FMC means moving into network-to-device area. And here the...

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Mobile music to get separate power

Tue, 2007-08-21 16:51 — Faisal Kawoosa

austriamicrosystems AG is working on the separation of audio from baseband in mobile phones. The idea is to have a separate SoC which would address power management and audio requirements of a mobile phone to make it at par with...

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Session Border Controller revenue up 14% in 2Q07

Tue, 2007-08-21 13:05 — JR

Session Border Controller (SBC) revenue during 2Q07 was up 14% from the previous quarter 1Q07. A total of 5.6 million â€˜sessionsâ€™ capacity were shipped during 2Q07 generating $41.3 million in revenue. 1Q07 revenues were in the range of $36.1 million...

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