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Byline: RICH KARPINSKI Ethernet continues to evolve as the Swiss Army knife of network protocols and services - with an increasing focus from service providers to adopt and adapt it [...]

Byline: RICH KARPINSKI & KEVIN FITCHARD There's only one way to beat a bully: stand up to them, and even better, bring a few of your friends along to back [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski It's an old adage that you don't want to see two things get made: laws and sausage. They're both just too messy. In telecom, you can add [...]

Byline: RICH KARPINSKI In the end, Cisco did what it does best: roll out a bigger, faster router. In a much-hyped announcement last month - one that was rumored to [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski You hold in your hands the final print issue of Connected Planet. As we've watched the industry we cover - telecom - and the industry we do [...]

Byline: RICH KARPINSKI When it comes to Apple's iPhone, the following clichés must certainly ring true for network operators trying to support the iconic, bandwidth-hungry device: too much of a [...]

Byline: RICH KARPINSKI In a wide-ranging interview following its largely positive first-quarter earnings report, Connected Planet talked with Tellabs CEO Rob Pullen about the company's turnaround, where the vendor sees [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski Calix recently delivered five new line cards for its C7 Multi-Service Access Platform, providing Tier 2 and 3 telcos with new options for boosting speeds for residential [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski Former Redback Networks CEO Kevin DeNuccio has stepped into the top job at Metaswitch, as the vendor pursues new opportunities, including a greater North American presence. DeNuccio [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski One of the themes of our cover story this month is the idea of the 'real' connected home - the thought that while it's one thing to [...]

Byline: RICH KARPINSKI AND SARAH REEDY Mobile operators and wireline carriers alike have been watching Google with interest for years now. With the momentum building behind its Android operating system [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski Telecom spending will grow 1.5% to $57.7 billion after falling in 2009, according to a recent research note from Avian Securities. Avian analyst Catharine Trebnick primarily covers [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski In January, we took the final step in a journey we began last fall. At that time, we announced the new Connected Planet print magazine, replacing Telephony [...]

Byline: RICH KARPINSKI When the FCC in early December put out a call for comments on the industry's move to an all-IP network, it shouldn't have come as a surprise [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski I'm not sure there's been as important a year for regulatory and political developments for our industry as 2010 in quite some time. On the agenda: The [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski Wireless provider Cricket Tuesday said it is deploying a policy traffic switch from vendor Sandvine to better manage mobile data traffic on its network, in particular to [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski After the energy/smart grid market, perhaps no other vertical solution area is more ripe for picking than health care. Not only is it a sector of the [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski As Google today rolls out a new Google-branded Android handset, it's also receiving good news on multiple fronts that it is gaining market- and mindshare on Apple's [...]

This year was a momentous year in telecom; here's what we were writing -- and you were reading -- in 2009. We count down our most-read stories from number 10 [...]

Upgrading of the primary electrical distribution infrastructure will drive the majority of smart grid spending in the next five years, according to energy consultancy and research firm Pike Research. According [...]

Last week's attempted bomb attack on a U.S.-bound flight thankfully failed to take the plane down. But it may have put a temporary -- or perhaps even permanent -- end [...]

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) today closed its $2.9-billion deal for Starent Networks in what could be one of its most strategic purchases yet in the service provider market. While the deal gives [...]

Talk to any service provider or vendor these days and they'll excitedly tell you about a thousand new ways telcos will soon be offering all types of new services. And [...]

Cloud computing up to now has mainly focused on the data center and Web-style applications, but the same concepts are coming to the core of the communications market as well. [...]

A year ago, mobile operators were started to think about creative new ways to bill and charge customers using their suddenly overwhelmed mobile networks. A year later, not only is [...]

It's amazing how quickly the tune among telco back-office mavens has changed from big-picture frameworks and transformation projects to a laser focus on enabling opportunistic projects and deployments supporting new [...]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) this week rolled out a new policy server platform that when combined with its existing charging platforms positions the vendor to help service providers and mobile operators deliver, [...]

A group of large service providers and some of the world's largest enterprises joined together today to help define how telco-provided cloud services should be delivered. The TM Forum's new [...]

In service creation circles, there's a widely used term: abstraction. In that context, it's about using some higher-level, simpler way of providing access to a resource -- an application programming [...]

The definition of service delivery platforms (SDPs) may be constantly in flux, but one thing's certain: telco deployments of SDPs need to reflect a well thought out business plan, not [...]

So I guess Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg isn't a Hulu fan, huh? 'When you think of the change, look at Hulu and the dialogue and debate, and you say, 'O.K. [...]

Verizon today introduced a set of new health care managed services to enable long-distance video consultations along with other types of audio and video collaboration. Verizon Telehealth Collaboration Services targets [...]

At times controversial, deep packet inspection is at its heart a neutral technology -- whether it draws attention from critics is a function of how a service provider applies it. [...]

Voice app provider Ifbyphone, finding success offering build-on the-fly, pay-as-you go IVR-style apps to SMBs, is on the active hunt for a few good telco partners to offer its services [...]

As back-office specialist Telcordia closes out a relatively flat -- in a good way -- 2009, deals with strategic system integration and equipment provider partners and new pushes into wireless [...]

Australia's Telstra is deploying personalization technology from vendor Amdocs to add customized mobile news and information services to its BigPond mobile portal. Amdocs acquired vendor ChangingWorlds exactly a year ago [...]

When dealing with criticism of IP multimedia subsystem -- the somewhat mysterious, too often maligned telco architecture for IP networks and services -- there's one clarifying question to ask: If [...]

More open mobile apps and devices may seem to point to a dire future in which telecom operators lose control over the customer experience -- bleeding revenues in the process. [...]

Mobile operators can use rate plans to help shape customer consumption of scarce mobile broadband data, but with the unlimited usage 'genie' out of the bottle -- particularly in the [...]

F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV), whose platform helps service providers improve the performance of various network-based applications, released a new version of its Big-IP switch today designed to help mobile operators scale [...]

TelCentris, the creator of would-be 'Skype-killer' VoxOx -- one of the most creative if not widely-adopted Internet VoIP and unified messaging clients -- this week launched a competitive local exchange [...]

Telecom service providers are focused too much on making small, incremental changes to their business rather than embracing the kind of innovation that will allow them to compete with -- [...]

Data integration vendor Informatica today released*a a new version of its core platform, Informatica 9, which it says telecom service providers like KPN and others are using to pull together [...]

Cisco today made perhaps its most aggressive stab yet at enabling not just IP networks but the things that run over them, launching an array of collaboration products including a [...]

Tektronix today delivered a new family of test platforms focused on helping service providers manage the boom in IP traffic, particularly on mobile data networks. The vendor's new Iris suite [...]

If and when mobile operators start charging by the byte, smartphone vendors will feel the crunch, too, as devices able to deliver fewer bits per feature -- such as simple [...]

A lot has happened since Ribbit emerged almost two years ago with the self-stated goal (or threat) of being 'Silicon Valley's Telephone Company': Voice platform plays have come, gone and [...]

Alcatel-Lucent played up its vision and played down its numbers -- headlined by a revenue drop of 9.3% from a year ago -- citing increased carrier activity in IP-driven transformation [...]

Deep packet inspection, or DPI, is evolving into something new. It has to -- what it was before, with a focus on helping providers manage packets and protocols, is both [...]

Amdocs today acquired service delivery platform vendor jNetX for $50 million with a goal of using the platform to help providers build services that span the TDM and IP worlds. [...]