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Investing in (all kinds of) infrastructure

November 02, 2009

October 27 marked the 105th birthday of the New York City subway system, which is both gratifying and depressing.

Firing up those femtocells

October 15, 2009

The folks over at the Femto Forum, in conjunction with the European telecommunications standards institute, recently announced a "plugfest" for March 2010. The plugfest will serve as a forum to for interoperability tests among femtocell network gateways, security gateways, femtocell access points and chipsets.

Hello net neutrality, goodbye Internet

October 01, 2009

As the old adage goes, "Be careful what you wish for ¿ you might get it, and wish you hadn't." Proponents of net neutrality might want to keep that in mind now that net neutrality regulations from either the FCC, Congress or both are a virtual certainty.

Transformative technologies for the 21st century

September 16, 2009

Innovations seem to have a natural economic life cycle: an obscure invention (say, electricity, or the internal combustion engine) sparks an entire constellation of industries, which grow exponentially for a while, then settle into a stagnant maturity.

Can UC me now?

September 01, 2009

Unified Communications is a buzzword that's front-and-center for many organizations this year. Some are already deploying various UC technologies (UC is one of the top three "recession-proof" technologies in Nemertes' 2009 benchmark). And many are building out long-term UC strategies.

Telecommuting on the rise, though not necessarily within IT departments

August 19, 2009

IT departments are behind the virtual workplace curve despite rise of unified communications and other technologies that ease telecommuting.

The battle over voice, the war of UC

August 05, 2009

Last week, I wrote about the possible implications of the new lineup of FCC commissioners. They certainly haven't wasted any time: On Aug. 3, the FCC launched a full-scale investigation into the decision by Apple and AT&T to reject Google's voice application for the iPhone.

The FCC has a full court: What's next?

July 30, 2009

With the recent swearing-in of the FCC's chair, Democratic Commissioner Julius Genachowski last month, and the Senate approval of the nominations of Democrat Mignon Clyburn and Republican Meredith Attwell Baker as commissioners last week, the FCC is back to its full strength of five commissioners.

A look at cloud computing's dark lining

July 22, 2009

Unless you've been living in a cave all summer like one of my friends (it's in Finland, he's an artistic genius) you've probably heard the buzz about cloud computing.

Make sure yours is a WAN with a plan

July 15, 2009

Now is an excellent time to be reevaluating your WAN strategy. New technologies such as carrier Ethernet and Session Initiation Protocol trunking can help cut costs and increase availability. WAN and application optimization technologies can make better use of existing facilities. And many companies are experiencing a (likely temporary) pause in the unrelenting expansion of branch offices -- making this the perfect time to take a few steps back and revisit the overall networking strategy.