If you looked recently at the companies started by venture capitalists and touted as the "next Cisco" or "next Google," you know the meaning of the term "bad ending." Start-ups don't do well generally, and technology start-ups seem to be faring ...
PBT (or PBB-TE if you're a purist) has been a technology darling in the media for a year, but it suffered a setback when it was reported that both Verizon and BT had decided not to use it. (PBT stands for "provider backbone transport," and PBB-TE is ...
There’s a lot of interesting stuff going on in every industry, if you define “interesting” as the kind of thing that a practitioner of the space will jump for joy at the prospect of reading. Think of how much fun reading about PVC pipe trends is to ...
Qwest taps Verizon as wireless carrier; Apple wins big in Consumer Reports survey. Listen now! No slowdown for U.S. tech industry; Cisco to acquire femtocell company?. Listen now! Linux has proven itself to be a versatile solution across a variety of ...
An interesting thing happened in 1999. The unit price of a long-distance voice call to consumers, which had been falling since the early 1980s, finally crossed over the cost curve and long-distance voice became a loss leader. This eventually led to the ...
John Chambers announced recently that he'd stay on at Cisco for another three to five years, and Charlie Giancarlo departed. Cisco now seems back where it started with respect to a Chambers successor. Clearly every company that expects to last more ...
There has been interest in carrier Ethernet for a decade or more and — let’s be honest —more than a little hype, too. In the early days, the focus was on how Ethernet was going to displace SONET and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy as a low-level ...
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