03.02.10

Vendors Scurry to Buy, Build Solutions to Address the 4G Opportunity By Paula Bernier

		With demand for mobile data booming and carriers moving to build 4G networks, everybody and their brother is hustling to get a piece of the pie. As of late, there’s been a lot of activity relative to the packet core and mobile backhaul solutions. The last few months have seen Cisco Systems Inc. snap up Starent Networks (News - Alert) in a deal worth nearly $3 billion, and Tellabs pick up WiChorus for about $165 million. Both acquisitions involve packet core technology.

02.10.10

Wireless Backhaul: Revolution or Evolution?

		There hasn’t been a lot to cheer about over the last year, while the downturn and recession have impacted many facets of the telecom industry. One area that continues to defy the downturn is the growth of high-speed data traffic over the mobile network.

01.06.10

4G Wireless Evolution - 4GWE 2009 Product of the Year Award Winners Announced

		Norwalk, CT (December 30, 2009) — Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC (News - Alert)®) announced today the winners of the “2009 4GWE Product of the Year” awards. Recipients of the annual “Product of the Year” awards represent the most innovative new products brought to market in 2009.

12.11.09

ANDA Networks’ EtherEdge 4300

12.11.09

Cell Backhaul Preps for Ethernet: But Old Coexists with New

		Carrier Ethernet continues to be a lively topic. At Cable-Tec Expo this year, several workshops and booth exhibits placed Ethernet within the context of the evolving yet booming cellular backhaul market.

11.14.09

ANDA Balances Mobile Backhaul

		ANDA Networks Inc. says it’s got a new approach to mobile backhaul that can alleviate sporadic surges in bandwidth demand. The technology, called EtherStream, is getting announced here today at Light Reading’s Ethernet Expo.

11.13.09

ANDA Networks Adds Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Box

		ANDA Networks introduced a new EtherEdge 4300 Ethernet-based mobile backhaul device designed for deployment at mobile base-station towers. The EtherEdge 4300 incorporates ANDA’s EtherProbe real-time performance monitoring verification, with new EtherStream sub-flow monitoring for on-demand WAN optimization and management of high-growth, multi-service mobile data traffic flows. This enables the device to load balance, perform WAN optimization and reallocate bandwidth without the need for additional devices or deep-packet inspection, which can be intrusive and tax the bandwidth of the access links.

11.13.09

ANDA Helps Ops With Business Services

		Anda Networks’ carrier-class portfolio of Ethernet access and real-time monitoring solutions is now available to help cable operators deliver revenue-generating business services and mobile backhaul over their networks with demonstrable SLAs.

08.19.09

Real-Time Performance Monitoring: Layer 2 Visibility for Carrier Ethernet Connections by GregGum, ANDA Networks

		As an important part of today’s IT infrastructure, wide area network (WAN) connections have become mission-critical links used for company site-to-site communication and, of course, connectivity to the public Internet. Over the last few years, advances in WAN connectivity have motivated carriers to offer new LAN/WAN interconnection services with increasingly higher networking speeds and flexible bandwidth-on-demand capabilities via new Carrier Ethernet service offerings.

08.19.09

Two Steps Forward - One Step Back… Ethernet Network Visibility and Performance Monitoring By Charles R. Kenmore

		Frequently, I read various trade articles, and it strikes me that we typically only talk about progressive, new innovations that stress novel ideas in the post-Internet era. Perhaps I’m a bit jaded, having gone through the ups and downs of the industry (e.g. the go-go-90’s, the tech bubble bust, and the latest recession). That said, when one looks at the telecom industry today, it’s really not that much different conceptually than nearly 25 years ago when the divestiture or break-up of Ma Bell (AT&T) occurred to stimulate competition, growth, and innovation in the telecom space. Sure we’ve met the goals of doing things faster, cheaper, and with better technology, but many of the same goals and themes are relevant in this new age of “social media networking,” “converged services,” and “triple or quadruple play” nomenclature. Instead of acronyms like SMDS, ATM, ISDN, SNA, and MS-DOS, we’ve simply developed new 4+ letter acronyms like E-LAN, DWDM, and the five-letter GMPLS to pick-up the slack. So is it just a matter of degree that we continuously improve? Have we actually learned from our past mistakes as we blaze new trails of innovation?