Supercomm Showcases Telecom Industry for U.S. Government
 from Telephony Online
The Supercomm show is drawing significant interest, and participation, from federal officials in Washington. In addition to a Thursday keynote by Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer of the US and associate director for technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Supercomm is hosting the top executives from the two agencies distributing stimulus funds and the man advising the FCC on its National Broadband Strategy. More
T-Mobile USA Parent Weighs 4G Options
from Fierce Wireless
Deutsche Telekom is still mulling its options as it decides how to proceed with its 4G strategy in the United States, according to the company's CFO. Timotheus Hoettges, speaking to Bloomberg after a conference in Frankfurt, said that the company had not decided whether to enter into partnerships, wait for new spectrum licenses to be auctioned or buy spectrum licenses from another company in order to roll out 4G services. "That is not yet decided," he said. "We have to consider all options." More
Wireless Future Road Blocked By Backhaul
from Telephony Online
The most pressing issue for wireless operators is the need for more headroom on backhaul. Qualcomm co-founder Dr. Irwin Jacobs said that the company has done all it can do with spectral efficiency and is now exploring other architectures and tricks to further stretch existing spectrum. He noted that the industry has gotten where it is from reusing spectrum and will have to continue to expand available spectrum through backhaul, devices like femtocells that offload services and reusing what spectrum is already available. More
FDD/TDD: WiMAX and LTE Crossing Paths?
from WiMAX
At the ITU show in Geneva last week, there was a lot of talk on IMT-advanced technologies as expected. At this point, both WiMAX and LTE are obvious candidates for inclusion. The timing is still uncertain, but inclusion in IMT-advanced seems to be uncontroversial for both technologies. What is interesting, however, is that the issue around duplexing is somewhat breaking down -- with WiMAX using TDD (time division duplex) and LTE using FDD (frequency division duplex). More
WiMAX Crowd Makes Noise About Next Generation of WiMAX
from Fierce Broadband Wireless
As the noise coming out of the LTE crowd continues to grow louder, WiMAX Forum is finally making some noise around the next generation of mobile WiMAX, which is designed to be technically on par with LTE. The WiMAX Forum and executives from WiMAX suppliers and operator were on hand during ITU Telecom World 2009 to voice their commitment to build and trial the next release of mobile WiMAX, known as WiMAX Release 2 based on the 802.16m standard. More
Standards Group Looks to Set SOA Benchmark
from Network World
A standards body is looking to address one of the major problems with SOA, that of measuring performance. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation has formed a working group that will examine ways to measure performance for middleware and database applications within an SOA framework. The group is looking to develop an initial benchmark based around three parts of a typical SOA deployment infrastructure: the services that sit on top of application servers using web services, Enterprise Service Bus technologies that connect and mediate the services; and choreographing services into larger composite applications through Business Process Execution Language technologies. More
IPTV's New Social Life
from internetnews.com
The increasing momentum of social media and networking tools presents tremendous opportunities for the IPTV industry. Given its broadband-based network infrastructure and interactive nature, IPTV is a perfectly positioned vehicle for the incorporation of social networking. If the industry can overcome a few key obstacles, it could be able to make incredible use of this business tool. More
FCC Broadband Study Argues for Open Access
from internetnews.com
A new study commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission has identified open access networks as a key factor in spurring competition and driving down prices for broadband service. The study, conducted by researchers at Harvard University's Berkman Center, drew on an analysis of other industrialized nations' broadband markets and a myriad of literature on the subject. "Our most surprising and significant finding is that 'open-access' policies ... are almost universally understood as having played a core role in the first-generation transition to broadband in most of the high-performing countries," the researchers wrote. More
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