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Who Needs LTE?
Is LTE really worth all the time, money, and energy? Wouldn't a 3G/HSPA upgrade strategy be more financially responsible?
Heavy Lifting
Analyst Notes
BY ALAN BREZNICK, SENIOR ANALYST
Tracking the HD Wars
DECEMBER 4, 2008
The big cable operators boosted HD programming this year, but they're still lagging behind satellite
MORE ANALYST NOTES
The Bloggers
Contentinople
CONTENTINOPLE STAFF
Cyber Monday Wreaks Havoc
DECEMBER 4, 2008
5:30 PM -- Six retail sites experience outages
The Bauminator
BY JEFF BAUMGARTNER
More Takeaways...
DECEMBER 4, 2008
5:15 PM -- From our cable biz conference in NYC
TelcoTV Thoughts
BY BERNIE ARNASON
Recycling FiOS
DECEMBER 4, 2008
2:35 PM -- FairPoint testing IPTV over old Verizon FiOS properties
Valley Wonk
BY CRAIG MATSUMOTO
Cisco Field Update
DECEMBER 4, 2008
11:50 AM -- Location, location, location
EuroBlog
BY EURO DESK
T Italia Targets IPTV Ramp
DECEMBER 4, 2008
8:00 AM -- Italian giant predicts 400% hike in IPTV subs
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Startup Spotlight
Siverge Networks
Ethernet chips, TDM flavor
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Google Grabber Advisory
High
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DATE: 12/8/2008
EVENT: The Role of Ethernet in Converged Packet-Optical Transport
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DATE: 12/9/2008
EVENT: Mobile Backhaul Opportunities for Wireline Wholesalers
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DATE: 12/10/2008
EVENT: Security Tools for Service Providers: Technology Update
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DATE: 12/11/2008
EVENT: The Optical Switching Revival: 2009 Forecast
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DATE: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
LOCATION: The Cable Center, Denver
EVENT: Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies
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DATE: Wednesday, April 01, 2009
LOCATION: , Las Vegas
EVENT: The Tower Technology Summit
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DATE: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
LOCATION: , San Jose
EVENT: The ATCA & Communications Ecosystem
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DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2009
LOCATION: ExCel Conference Centre, London
EVENT: Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009
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DATE: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
LOCATION: The Marriott Marquis, New York
EVENT: Optical Expo 2009
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Broadband
Access equipment (1965), Access technologies (2219), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (360), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (913), Cable TV chips (190), DSL (2011), DSL chips (200), DSLAMs (664), Free-space optics (32), FTTx (2013), Gaming consoles (42), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (10), Municipal networks (100), PON (1034), PON chips (193), Satellite (373), WiMax (795), Wireless LAN (346)

Cable Digital
Cable Modems (387), Cable/MSO equipment (2683), CableLabs (288), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (193), DOCSIS (634), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (135), Head-ends (131), PacketCable (97), QAM (215)

Chips, Components & Subsystems (Sponsored by Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance)
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Ethernet (Sponsored by Cisco)
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IP & Convergence
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Mobile/Wireless
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Optical Networking
40-Gbit/s transmission (394), Core optical switches (751), CWDM (284), DWDM (1749), Long-haul WDM equipment (573), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1122), Metro WDM equipment (709), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (366), Optical equipment (1762), Optical switches & crossconnects (394), Optical technologies (355), Sonet/SDH (994), Sonet/SDH chips (322), Wavelength services (244)

Security
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Services Software (Sponsored by CA, Inc.)
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Test & Measurement
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Video (Sponsored by Ericsson)
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (190), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (592), Content delivery network (CDN) (320), Content protection (197), DVRs (406), Internet Video (491), IPTV (2831), Middleware & business support systems (510), Set-top boxes (1199), Stored video servers (305), TV (2508), Video equipment (2277), Video services (3615), Video software (1189), Videophone (164), VOD (2039)

VOIP
Application servers (168), Centrex (188), Conferencing (71), Contact centers (36), Enhanced voice (27), Enterprise (578), Media gateways (326), Messaging (58), Presence management (38), Residential (675), Session border controllers (369), Signaling gateways (90), Softswitches (1042), VOIP chips (152), VOIP equipment (3267), VOIP services (3578), VOIP software (564), VOIP VPNs (23), Wholesale (214)