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Cisco WAN gear preserves Nanometrics’ VoIP quality, 06/28/07: When Nanometrics bought Accent Optical Technologies, it faced a tricky problem: balancing WAN optimization on the one hand and VoIP quality on the other.
Sprint and Verizon Wireless set to battle Apple iPhone fervor, 06/27/07: Can Verizon Wireless and Sprint compete with AT&T and Apple’s iPhone? They say yes, but the Apple factor and the hype might make things tough on AT&T’s No. 2 and 3 competitors.
Consumer Reports: AT&T’s network might hinder iPhone success, 06/27/07: The national publication that rates and evaluates everything from mattresses to cars to washing machines points out in a press release Wednesday that for “several years running AT&T…has been among the least-satisfying service providers. This is according to the journal’s annual customer satisfaction surveys.
Covad to cut work force by 8 percent, 06/28/07: As its incumbent rivals get bigger, Internet service provider Covad Communications Group Inc. is getting smaller with layoffs of about 8 percent of its employees this quarter.
Experts: Better broadband stats needed, 06/28/07: The U.S. government needs better ways to measure broadband availability and adoption in order to develop policies that focus on ways to use broadband to improve the economy, several telecom experts said Thursday.
IPv6 D-Day is coming up fast, 06/28/07: IP addresses under IPv4 will be gone by 2011, expert warns, meaning ISPs and enterprise networks have to upgrade to IPv6 soon.
Aruba proposes alternative to using IPSec for remote access security, 06/28/07: For years, there have been two traditional methods for secure remote access: IPSec and SSL VPNs. Both have been discussed in this …
