About 2 weeks ago we wrote a blog on this site titled: Siemens Searching For NSN Buyer which might be Nokia! https://techblog.comsoc.org/2013/06/17/siemens-searching-for-nsn-buyer-which-might-be-nokia We speculated that Nokia might buy NSN, rather than a private equity firm or network equipment company. Today, that happened as Nokia bought Siemens interest in NSN for just €1.7 billion (US$2.22 billion)…. Read more →

“Following 2 strong years of investment, growth in the data center equipment market is starting to slow,” notes Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise networks and video at Infonetics Research. “While the near term outlook remains positive, ultimately we think the market is headed for a peak, as data center operators improve infrastructure utilization, and… Read more →

Introduction: AT&T has benefited from growing wireless revenue, as more of its customers switch over to smartphones. But the company has been falling behind Verizon Wireless in wireless subscriber numbers, as the two rivals battle each other for new U.S. customers. AT&T had 70.7 million contract wireless subscribers at the end of the first quarter…. Read more →

Introduction: On May 29, 2013, 30 IEEE members and guests enjoyed an exceptionally informative visit to the Sprint Machine to Machine (M2M) Collaboration Center in Burlingame, CA. Our Sprint hosts were Samantha Jordan and Kris Philippe. The Sprint M2M Collaboration Center brings together Sprint partners, equipment providers, customers and employees to rapidly prototype, test and… Read more →

Japan’s NTT Communications posted a 12%  jump in profit for the year ending in March, as subsidiary NTT DoCoMo announced  a management shake-up. NTT Com recorded a full-year net profit of  65.3 billion yen ($643.1 million). But group operating revenues fell 1.5% to  1.19 trillion yen. Total data networks revenue fell 0.7% to  427 billion… Read more →

TW Telecom Inc announced first quarter 2013 financial results, including $381.2 million of revenue, $13.1 million of net income, $136.0 million of Modified EBITDA, $81.6 million of net cash provided by operating activities and $23.9 million of levered free cash flow “We’ve had a productive start to the year, as we commenced our growth initiatives,… Read more →

Introduction: This Ethernet Summit will be one of the most important gatherings this year of press and analysts from around the world!  Inspired by “40 years of Ethernet Innovation” and looking forward to the next 40 years of networking. Meet key press and analysts in a series of scheduled sessions to discuss the latest hot topics concerning… Read more →

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), whom many consider to be the voice of the global semiconductor industry, held its annual Silicon Summit on April 18, 2013 at the Computer History Museum in Mt View, CA.  We report on the first two sessions (see below).  They were related to new silicon solutions that address the exponential growth of… Read more →

The Feb 2013 ITU-T SG 13 Plenary meeting report lists Question 13 as having primary responsibility for investigating Software Defined Networking and Network Virtualization.  Here is a cut and paste of the pertinent ITU-T SG13 Plenary report: TD 26 (PLEN/13) Software Defined Networking (SDN) and network virtualization are among promising technologies because they enable network operators to… Read more →

Introduction:One consistent theme during the Cloud Connect 2013 conference was the cloud as a disrupter of IT organizations.  During the Cloud Executive Summit workshop, Avery Lyford of LEAP Commerce said that there were three huge areas of disruption: the mobile cloud, big data (analytics) and Software Defined Networking (SDN).  Each of these areas were then… Read more →