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The drive to enrich customer experience

Published by Nokia Siemens Networks

It is a sign of the times – communication service providers (CSPs) are starting to emphasize the quality of their all-round customer experience rather than just the raw speeds or other technical features of their offerings. Take O2 – in the UK it has been advertising its Home Broadband service as “voted number one in customer satisfaction”. Meanwhile, Vodafone’s CEO, Vittorio Collao, told investors in late 2008 that one of the core pillars of its strategy now is to ”…drive operational performance through customer value enhancement”.

VDSL2–A Feasible Solution for “Last Mile”

Published by ZTE

ADSL plus is currently being deployed worldwide as the new mainstream broadband technology for residential and business customers. But at the same time, the industry is gearing up for the next step of the DSL evolution: VDSL . This second version of the very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) standard from ITU-T promises to deliver 100Mbps symmetrical traffic on short copper loops.

Wind River Boosts Development Productivity 30%, and Cuts Time-to-Market 20%

Published by Coverity

See how Wind River, the global leader in device software optimization (DSO), expects that their investment in Coverity Prevent can pay for itself in as little as one year with faster time to market and higher code quality for products and services.

See How Handset OS Leader Symbian Reduced Engineering Troubleshooting Time of 3-man Days Per Defect Found for Over 500 Engineers Using Coverity

Published by Coverity

See how Symbian applied Coverity to automate code reviews with Coverity Prevent, Coverity’s static analysis solution, while enhancing their code checker base with Coverity’s extensive collection of checkers using Coverity Extend to successfully capture standard errors in the Symbian OS build process before they reached production.

UK mobile broadband measurements

Sponsored by Bytemobile

An extensive measurement campaign was carried out between June and August 2009 to assess the effect of mobile broadband optimisation on Internet access through notebook/netbook computers. Measurements were performed in and around London on all UK mobile networks offering mobile broadband products and conducted so that the results were comparable, regardless of the surrounding environment and traffic in the measured cell.

10G EPON – Unleashing the Bandwith Potential

Published by ZTE

For the first time in history, we can now aim to live in “One World”, because the 1st century has ushered in a new era in man’s ongoing quest for a better life and a better world. Telco industry is passing through a phase of multiservice revolution, with a shift from legacy to next generation networks and the introduction of new and advanced services (e.g. DTV, HDTV, IPTV, VoIP, WiMAX, Mobile TV, etc.). More and more service providers are progressing to triple-play and even quad-play packages in order to provide a one-stop shopping service to customers. IP traffic is growing exponentially and networks evolve to include bandwidth hungry IP-based applications on voice, video and data. A discussion about broadband medium and speed is on everyone’s tongue. But still it is under discussion that “how fast is fast enough”. In fact, broadband is not just a speed it is defined as a potential medium that offers a wide variety of applications to users at their premises. This white paper provides a detailed tutorial overview of the IEEE 802.3av 10Gbit/s Ethernet PON (10G EPON) market trends that are driving the requirement of future last mile access networks, standardization advancements, technology infrastructure.

LTE performance for initial deployments

Published by Nokia Siemens Networks

LTE (Long Term Evolution) and SAE (System Architecture Evolution) are on the way. The question is now about when, where and how LTE/SAE will arrive. Regardless of what motivates each operator to make the transition, it is essential to demonstrate the stability and performance of the new systems at an early stage in order to promote the smooth and cost-efficient introduction and deployment of LTE/SAE technology. This is true both within companies and as part of wider, coordinated efforts towards interoperability. Since the 3GPP specifications are now reasonably well defined and stable, the time is right to evaluate performance and to publish the most interesting results.

LTE will meet the promise of global mobile broadband

Published by Nokia Siemens Networks

Broadband has become a ‘must have’ for both businesses and consumers. At the same time, the way in which consumers and businesses use communications services is evolving, with wireless delivery of broadband services offering a new level of flexibility and “go anywhere” connectivity.

World FTTX Market

Published by ZTE

ZTE has the advantage to provide both EPON and GPON technologies. Really involved in
the evolution of PON technology, ZTE push the development of PON standards and mainly
on interoperability issue. The company also participated in the development of the next
generation PON technologies – 10GEPON – and has launched the first prototype last
October 2008. 10GEPON will be used to provide greater bandwidth to the final used but will be more and more used combined with VDSL2 in a FTTB architecture.

FTTx Solution White Paper

Published by ZTE

Fiber access is one of the most important technologies in the next generation network. It increases
the access layer bandwidth and builds a sustainable-development access layer network. OAN
(Optical Access Network) adopts technologies: active point-to-point (P P) Ethernet and passive
optical network (PON).

Overview of SDR market – Trends & Potential

Published by ZTE

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the evolution of base station technology. Although too expensive
to be considered in the past, underlying technology advances are starting to turn the new
concept from expensive to efficient and even able to reduce costs. Several infrastructure vendors
have now implemented SDR in their product portfolio and mobile operators are now realising that
the new technology can provide significant cost savings, lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
for a newly deployed network and provide compatibility with future standards.

Privacy Primer: protecting consumers in the age of behavioural targeting

Openwave logo

Published by Openwave May 2009

As more users spend more time connected to online communities through their mobile device, it is essential for mobile operators to strike the right balance between user benefits and personal privacy, especially as targeted advertising gains traction in the marketplace.

China Market Watch

Published by ZTE April 2009

After the Chinese government’s reorganization, all three of China’s mobile telecom operators will be able to provide wireless service to their customers. Consequently, the main mission of the operators in 2008 was to expand and upgrade their wireless networks.

IDC Vendor Spotlight

ZTE has capitalised on the data card boom

Published by ZTE March 2009

The global telecommunications industry has evolved; today’s service providers (SPs) face continuous pressure to win more profitable customers and maintain their competitiveness. One key challenge is subscriber management, due in part to the need to continuously offer differentiated and personal services to their subscribers.

Key to a great user experience: at a glance, in one click

Published by Streamezzo March 2009

In the late 1880′s, Almond Strowger, an undertaker from Kansas City was unhappy when he found out that
the telephone operator was routing business to his competitor, who was the operator’s husband! He
subsequently invented the first version of a switching system that was to remove go-betweens and power
direct connection between users.