A few set of market information released this week: [ Dell Oro reports that sales of IP telephony carrier equipment, including softswitches, media gateways, and hybrid media gateway softswitches, grew 26% to $1.6bn in 2004. Infonetics is in the same range...

[ VOIP: four new studies on the IP Telephony Carrier Equipment market. One from Dell Oro is reporting 2004 revenues of $1.6bn, up 26%. 3.5m ports were shipped in 4Q04. Nortel, Sonus and Tekelec are leaders. The second from Infonetics Research found 2004...

Fixed line access [ Worldwide DSLAM port number increased 9% in 4Q04, and revenues were up 14% to $1.4bn, according to Infonetics . For the year, ports were up 18% and revenues were up 8% to $5bn. DSL subscribers rose 68% to 97m at the end of 2004, and...

[ According to Dell Oro, the optical transport market grew 11% in 2004, with EMEA growing about 30%. Revenues (excluding cross connects) reached $ 6.9bn. It was the first full year of growth since four years, marked by recovery in a damaged market. Past...

Mobile TV : a hot topic in the past few weeks that led to many confusing comments. I will try to explain the situation, and avoid throwing the baby with the water. The Mobile TV label seems wrongly used when indifferently used for streaming or broadcasting....

Alcatel and Microsoft are developing a joint IPTV management and service delivery platform (cross adaptation of hardware from Alcatel and software from Microsoft). After months of fierce competition, the two powerhouses decided to join efforts. What does...

Market consolidation : In the US , the consolidation serial story continues. After some MCI shareholders have complained about the (low) price Verizon should pay the MCI purchase and tried to block the $6.7bn takeover, Qwest submitted a revised bid. Without...

Alert : According to an A.T. Kearney recent survey, 2/3 of US telecom companies do not track and assess their competitors around the world. Wouah!! Let them know Telcoflash, just to start!!

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Huawei will supply OPTUS ( Australia ) with ADSL/ADSL2+ gear under a $75m contract. It will also supply Neuf Telecom (France) with its DSLAM-IP solution, called SmartAX MA5600. Huawei has also deployed DWDM systems in enviaM and Envia TEL companies, both...