Articles - Technology
Can You Find Me Now?
By Christopher Reese We’ve all read about the really cool stuff that can be done with the IP-enabled voice networks and IMS network architecture. Convergence is a beautiful concept. Bringing it to a reality has presented some challenges th...
Demystifying IPv6
For nearly 20 years now, the Internet has been based on Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4). As IP address allocation becomes limited there are now estimates that the IPv4 addressing will be exhausted sometime between 2010 and 2012. Transition to IPv6 is...
Wireless Backhaul - A World of Its Own
Making the case for fiber to the carrier hotel, data center, business-park, building, curb and home gets more difficult and increasingly in that order, but when Fiber to the Tower enters the equation the math gets a little fuzzy. A gross misconception i...
Financial Vertical: Latency and Jitter Really Matter
It might not be precisely the case that latency and jitter performance are more important than bandwidth or physical redundancy, but in some verticals, that is almost the case. The financial services segment is a prime example, though content-base...
Three of 2009's Top Trends: Virtualization, Ethernet and Cloud Computing
As we begin 2009, there has already been a tremendous amount of discussion on what technologies are poised for growth this year. The telecom and data center industries have quite a few areas that are expanding, especially with technologies that create m...
FiOS and the Homeowner's Network
At this point Verizon’s “cable-killer” service, FiOS, is well-known in the networking news clips and highlights as being a major disruptive service because it is a video led consumer bundle coming from the old-school telephone company ri...
The Five 9s Fallacy
One of the fundamental tenets in telecom is to provide a network with “five 9s” reliability. Five 9s, or 99.999% uptime, is a high standard. To put this in perspective, five 9s = 5.26 minutes downtime per year. Having outstanding service rel...
Cloud Computing Gets Traction
Whether one looks at how average consumers “compute,” or how industry segments “compete,” it now appears that cloud computing is poised to change the ways users interact with each other, use applications, communicate and compute. S...
WBS Connect's Charter: Telepresence the Must Have, Killer App
Scott Charter, managing partner of WBS Connect, wants to “smash preconceptions” about video conferencing, and he’s off to a good start. The company’s new Virtual In Person high-definition video conferencing and telepresence produ...
The $20 Bill That Never Gets Picked Up
Two friends are walking down the street when one spots a $20 bill on the ground. One says to the other, an economist, “Look, there’s a $20 bill on the ground!” The economist replies, “There can’t be. If there were a $20 bill...
