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Market researches - 20/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: The WiFi Alliance has announced it will begin certifying wireless routers, networking cards, microchips and other related products in June. According to IDC, some 900k handheld devices were shipped in...
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Market Researches - 16/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Berg Insight, 52m machines would be connected to mobile networks by 20011 in Europe, growing with a CAGR of almost 44%, from 4.5m machines connected in 2006. Remote meter reading and vehicule...
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Market Researches - 12/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Motorola, the smartphone would compete with PCs. More and more micro-applications are available for intelligent, hyper-connected mobile devices, mimicking PC evolution in the 80s. According...
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Market researches - 09/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to DDM-France, there were 150 VOD services currently launched in Europe. Almost 2/3 are offered via Internet, and 1/3 by IPTV over ADSL. 95% of those services are charged. France offers 20...
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Market researches - 05/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: Service providers and equipment vendors unit to develop 3GPP LTE (Long term Evolution), based on 3GPP Release 8. It is the promise of better radio transmission and lower operation costs. The joint activities...
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Market Researches - 03/05/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Strategy Analytics, regulatory delays, in Europe, on mobile TV spectrum availability, would create a much more fragmented mid-term for mobile-TV adoption. A full DVB-H rollout may take two...
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Market Researches - 28/04/07
A few set of market information released this week: In-Stat found that 120m broadband CPE devices were shipped in 2006, up 20%, led by shipments in the cable modem segment. Another In-Stat study said that the WiMAX chipset market (300k units in 2006)...
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Market researches - 25/04/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, VOIP is driving cable telephony services and subscriber growth. Worldwide there were 22m VOIP subscribers in 2006, generating almost $8bn in revenues. In-Stat said 3G is available...
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Market researches - 21/04/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to Crown Castle/ Modeo, their mobile TV trial has revealed relative strong demand for mobile TV: an average 15mn of use a day, with 64% of users were very satisfied and 35% satisfied. According...
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Market researches - 19/04/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to eMarketer, more than 123m Americans would download or stream video at least once a month this year, from 52m in 2003 and the number could reach 157m by 2010. In-Stat found that US consumers...
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Bluetooth taking off, but ....
Bluetooth taking off, but .... Bluetooth technology has really started taking off. With shipments up more than 200% in 2005 and expected to reach 40m units a month sometime in 2006, Bluetooth is an established technology. But future could be chaotic....
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Broadband DSL status
Broadband DSL status According to the latest research from Point-Topic, the number of DSL users is still growing, but already in some countries a saturation point is already reached. For example S. Korea saw first decline in DSL lines in use last year....
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Fixed vendor strategies - 17/12/05
Alcatel has demonstrated IPTV BSS/OSS platform with end-to-end IPTV real time business service assurance. The solution is the first output from the strategic collaboration with Micromuse. Alcatel has been honored for 'Best New Product' award for its 1850...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 14/12/05
ECI Telecom is opening of a new Research and Development center in India. Juniper , with MCI, has successfully demonstrated 40G transmission using its T-series core routing platform and new OC-768c/STM-256 interface module. Cisco is introducing NAPA (Network...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 7/12/05
Cisco is close to announce it's adding an in-house session border controller (SBC) to the XR 12000 router. It is the first time an SBC is included in a router, in line with Cisco' strategy to into the local loop. Cisco is also announcing implementation...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 19/11/05
Cisco is announcing its first wireless LAN mesh products. Motorola and Juniper Networks plan to jointly develop standards-based Modular Cable Modem Termination System (M-CMTS) platforms to enable cable operators to reliably and cost-effectively support...
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Market researches - 16/03/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, worldwide online music sales could grow from $1.5m in 2005 to $10.7m in 2010. iTunes is the most popular site used for online music purchases with a 53% market share. Pioneer Consulting...
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WiFi impact on health
WiFi impact on health Two Canadian Universities have decided to limit or forbid the deployment of WiFi networks on their campus, because of concerns on student health and network security. They have decided to deploy cable networks inside the Universities....
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Health care: a wireless market also
Health care: a wireless market also Vertical health care market could be the next big market according to Frost & Sullivan. With the current trend of transferring patients from the hospitals to home care settings, in order to make substantial costs cuts...
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China 3G licenses update
China 3G licenses update A hot topic as the expected dead line for releasing 3G licenses in China approaches. The hope was a little bit cooled, however, when China decided to carry out new TD-SCDMA trials in three more cities from March to July. China...
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Mobile infra market
Mobile infra market Infonetics Research reported WCDMA RAN equipment study. The worldwide radio access network equipment market topped $41bn in 2005, of which 58% for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 19% for WCDMA and 23% for CDMA. In 2009, W-CDMA RAN equipment revenue...
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Is 40Gbit/s Sonet/SDH back?
Is 40Gbit/s Sonet/SDH back? It was a huge hype in the end of the 90s, but the telecom bubble closed such efforts down. With fiber glut and capex cuts, no way to deploy such new systems. For a while, this segment market seemed forgotten by vendors, operators...
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Fiber market
Fiber market According to Corning, the 2005 worldwide fiber market grew about 15% to 68m kilometers, with NA market growing 30%, with Japan market growing 15%, with China market growing 10% as well as WE. China accounted for 20% of the world market, WE...
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Market researches - 10/03/06
A few set of market information released this week: Infonetics predicts that worldwide DSL aggregation hardware revenues would grow 65% on the 2005 -09 period to $10.5 bn and that port shipments would hit 204m, from respectively $5.2bn and 82.3m ports....
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Market researches - 08/03/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to M:Metrics, the number of subscribers who downloaded at least one mobile game a month has consistently decreased since five months, while subscription and game prices have climbed every month....