- Electric utility signs BPL deal to create unique 'smart grid'.
Providers of conventional broadband services who have never taken broadband over power line (BPL) seriously might pause to consider what TXU Electric Delivery and Current Communications are doing. Late last year Dallas-based TXU Electric Delivery announced an agreement with Current Communications Group to transform the TXU power delivery network into ......
- Voice quality tests are key for VoIP
Not long ago, the use of the Internet Protocol to carry voice traffic (VoIP) was hotly pursued by Internet service providers hoping to capture some of the telephony market. With the dot-com crash, a lot of the media attention to VoIP vanished. But VoIP itself did not vanish. Telephony vendors ......
- DSL tests focus on copper
Wireless communications seem to be getting all of the attention these days, but there still remains a huge market and installed base for copper-carried DSL services. The market's increasing interest in voice and video over broadband is changing the focus of field test for DSL, however. Instead of being satisfied ......
- AIAG Releases Document For ISPs To Join
ANX
The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) announced that its ANX Release 1 Document is available for purchase. The document defines the certification process and requirements for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) wishing to participate in the offering of Automotive Network exchange (ANX) Service. The document, which supersedes the ANX Release 1 ......
- Avoiding The Challenges Of Do-It-Yourself Broadband VPNs
HEADNOTE Managed services are an attractive alternative, especially for multinational deployments. Faced with pressure to improve end-user services, accommodate new network-intensive applications and control costs, enterprise telecom managers need every edge they can find to run efficient wide area networks (WANs). But the challenges are great: Sites that still connect ......
- Cablevision's Optimum Voice to face new rivals
Talk is cheap and it's going to get cheaper. Stiffer competition and pricing pressure, plus a regulatory wild card, could give Cablevision Systems Inc.'s fast-growing Optimum Voice Internet telephony service a touch of laryngitis, analysts say. For its first quarter, Cablevision reported that it had added 42,200 Optimum Voice customers, ......
- Stevens Likes Net Neutrality
Washington— A Senate telecommunications bill will likely ban cable and phone companies from discriminating against providers of Internet voice, video and content-search services, Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said last week. Stevens — who will have an important role in shaping any law that replaces the bellwether Telecommunication ......