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Before you can define the new blueprint for managed services, you need to redefine the word 'building.' When managed services first arrived, the building was a corporate headquarters or branch […]

The mile-wide river, flush with rapids, emptied into a calmer, slower-moving stretch. This fast became a thinning flow and eventually a stream that all but vanished into its wooded surroundings. […]

With their wreckage strewn about the industry like crushed cars at a massive junkyard, countless so-called 'hot' companies from past years provide striking evidence of the fate that awaits innovative […]

What is competition? How does it come about? Does it mean two competitors in a market? Five? Ten? Does it evolve through the introduction of new services and technologies into […]

Remember the days of rabbit ears, and of stringing wires as high as you could to get better reception for the big game? Those days are merely memories that families […]

AND TO THINK, A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO, many heard the bell tolling for DSL. Well, look at it now: According to Q2 figures from research firm Point Topic, more […]

As the telecom industry awakens from its nuclear winter, the ghost of concepts past--delivering multiple layers of services over a converged IP/MPLS network--is being resurrected in the form of a […]

Employers often depend on college job fairs and employment services to bring new entry-level workers into the organization, but some organizations have difficulty effectively recruiting and hiring students with disabilities. [...]

A high school experience 20 years ago changed Gail Covington's life. In 1983, when Covington was a high school junior in Oakland, Calif., she was singled out to participate in [...]

By combining their resources in a $26 billion merger, EchoStar and DirecTV could become a broadband behemoth eager to battle a monopolistic cable industry and rein in rising rates. As […]

Throw out your cable-TV or satellite service and replace it with something that's over-the-top on an unmanaged network? That's a bigger decision than adding a Hulu or a Netflix. That's [...]

Like power hitters sitting on juicy fast-balls, carriers have the chance to hit one out of the park and capture the lead in the converged wireless/wireline services game, if they […]

Tomorrow's operations support system is today's science fiction. As commonplace IP applications increasingly blur the BSS and OSS, the telecom infrastructure must be optimized to enable quicker development and deployment […]

Byline: Jim Barthold There are accountability systems for every fire department's budget, but that doesn't mean that every department has one - far from it. Two factors, money and the [...]

SET-TOP BOXES ARE the zombies of the cable industry: they should theoretically be dead, but they keep coming back to life. And in recent years they seem to be getting [...]

What do you get when you combine a 19th-century building with a 21st- century telecommunications system? Good use of state-of-the-art technology. By Jim Barthold The problem with new technology is [...]

JacobsRimmell's path into cable may seem convoluted at first glance, but it follows the common thread of thinking of the customer first. By Jonathan Tombes and Jim Barthold Who'd have [...]

Byline: [ BY JIM BARTHOLD ] The telecom technical community is in the midst of a campaign as contentious and - for its ranks, at least - as important as [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold About 300,000 Floridians are caught in the crossfire of a squabble between Supra Telecom and BellSouth, which wants the residential CLEC to cough up more than $100 [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Fixed broadband wireless is neither comatose nor dead; in fact, it's functioning well enough for Motorola to bring its Canopy fixed broadband wireless product out of the [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Charter Communications' decision last week to employ a gigabit Ethernet network architecture that improves flexibility and cuts the cost of video-on-demand (VOD) deployments is a sign the [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Veteran cable TV vendor C-Cor.net eagerly paid a small price to instantly triple its international business last week by acquiring Royal Philips Electronics' U.S.-based cable TV transmission [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Liberty Cablevision in Puerto Rico last week launched a limited cable telephony trial with voice-over-IP provider Net2Phone with hopes of expanding the service throughout the island within [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold The cable industry's traditionally protective culture vanished last week for Adelphia Communications, leaving the troubled operator to suffer the arrows of an outraged financial community. Adelphia, teetering [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold The cable industry is grooving on the 'greed is good' mantra of the 1980s. Technologically, the sector is on track to dominate broadband, barring a complete collapse [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Bill Gehling, the superintendent of the Powers School District in Powers, Ore., is like any educator: He wants what's best for his students, and yet he's hamstrung [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold In his wildest dreams, Mark Burnside never thought he'd speak Russian or Japanese. 'I can't believe that I ever actually comprehended either one of those languages because [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Ruth Ricciarelli smiled when her husband David told her he couldn't stand the pain anymore and needed rotator cuff surgery. David, a training director at the Rhode [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold The surviving ISPs must adopt broadband or perish. That message was hammered home repeatedly last week in Baltimore during the Service Networks conference, a show that is [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Many people call themselves 'network agnostic.' Tom Andrus does it with a straight face. As VP of products and services for EarthLink, the nation's second-largest ISP, Andrus [...]

Peter Gasparini, DSL products director of mPhase Technologies, 'looked in every corner of our round globe' and couldn't find anything like his company's Universal iPASS intelligent loop access module, which [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold By allowing United Online's Juno and NetZero services onto its high-speed broadband Internet pipes, Comcast is dressing the windows for federal regulators eyeballing its proposed merger with [...]