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USTelecom & Cisco Team up for Webinar on Managed Services

Tom Soroka — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:50:45 +0000

Over the last several years, we’ve seen what virtualization has done for servers, operating systems, storage and networking. This has led us into an age of “cloud”-based services, applications and infrastructure. However, someone has to build operate and maintain these cloud-based resources.

That’s where managed services come into play. The concept of managed services is nothing new. In fact, the original CENTREX phone service was probably one of the earliest managed services. Now, service providers of all types can rapidly build and operate a variety of managed services that can be as simple as backed-up file storage to robust services like customer relationship management with Salesforce.com.

On Thursday July 22nd, Chuck Goehringer from Cisco covered managed services in great detail on a USTelecom webinar titled: “Managed Services: Trends & Opportunities.” Goehringer educated the audience on several key definitions, then provided valuable insight into managed services from not only Cisco’s perspective, but from a global service provider perspective. Goehringer concluded with some valuable recommendations for service providers who are thinking of delving into the managed service provider marketplace.

This webinar will be available on-demand starting tomorrow. If you have any questions regarding USTelecom webinars, feel free to contact Tom Soroka, VP of Engineering & Technology, at tsoroka@ustelecom.org

Mobile Video Calling Will Impact Your Network

Tom Soroka — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:22:57 +0000

Throughout the year, USTelecom has been conducting webinars and writing articles about mobile network back-haul, in an effort to outline various opportunities for wireline service providers. If you are thinking about taking on mobile back-haul as part of your service offering, be sure to engineer your traffic requirements for the onslaught of mobile video calling.

With the introduction this summer of the new iPhone 4, the latest Motorola Droid, the HTC Evo 4G, and the deployment of LTE technologies by the wireless carriers, the market demand for video calling is just getting started. As the smartphone manufacturers work out the kinks of video calling across LTE wireless networks, these phones are sure to be hot selling items during the 2010 holiday season. This will mean that your mobile back-haul networks should be prepared for a spike in video calling traffic around the first of the year and beyond.

Mobile video traffic is expected to sustain continued growth for the next 3-5 years, as video calling becomes as common as CallerID. As the Boy Scouts always say: “Be Prepared”!

USTelecom & ADTRAN Discuss Innovations in GPON

Tom Soroka — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:31:14 +0000

On Thursday, June 17^th, ADTRAN presented a webinar titled: Innovations in GPON. ADTRAN covered a technology timeline showing how GPON technologies have evolved, then discussed their future, as GPON relates to meeting the goals of the National Broadband Plan.

Kevin Morgan and Lief Sandstrom of ADTRAN provided comprehensive insight into the new 10G GPON standards that were recently approved by the International telecommunications Union (ITU) and they shared their thoughts on when these standards will be implemented into networking hardware for service providers to procure.

This webinar will be archived for 90 days and can be viewed after June 18, by going to our website at www.ustelecom.org/events.

If you have any questions regarding USTelecom webinars, feel free to contact Tom Soroka, VP of Engineering & Technology at tsoroka@ustelecom.org.

USTelecom Webinars Address Ethernet OAM & GPON Next Week

Tom Soroka — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:11:29 +0000

Next week, USTelecom will be hosting two webinars that will discuss technologies that are vital to today’s broadband networks.

On Tuesday, June 15th, at 1:00PM ET, Omnitron Systems, discusses how to deliver Ethernet services and utilize Ethernet SOAM. They will review the latest in Ethernet demarcation technologies, and how intelligent demarcation at the customer premises provides end-to-end visibility across multiple operator networks. The webinar will also discuss the Hybrid Network Interface Device, a solution that enables multiple operators to have visibility into the performance monitoring and fault management.

On Thursday, June 17th, at 1:00PM ET, ADTRAN will discuss The ITU – Full Service Access Network (FSAN) standard for 10 Gigabit Passive Optical Networks (GPON). This new standard is expected to be finalized this month, which means that 10G FTTH products will likely be hitting the market within the next 1-2 years. This webinar is intended to assist long range planners, network architects, and network design engineers in understanding how these new standards will impact existing & future GPON deployments.

If you have any questions regarding USTelecom webinars, feel free to contact Tom Soroka, VP of Engineering & Technology at tsoroka@ustelecom.org.

USTelecom & Cisco Present IP-Services Webinar

Tom Soroka — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:45:51 +0000

For about 10-12 years now, there has been a technical shift toward implementing Internet Protocol (or all-IP) networks that should deliver high speed Internet access, voice and video content to consumers and businesses of all sizes. During that time, several technologies have evolved to allow service providers to prioritize and manage all of this IP traffic. Now that today’s broadband service providers have made that investment in building out an IP network infrastructure, what are the revenue generating services that can be delivered from this platform?

Today, USTelecom and Cisco teamed up to present a webinar on leveraging IP networks to enhance current service offerings, take advantage of market adjacencies and drive new service revenue. Phil Kippen, Distinguished Systems Engineer from Cisco, provided us with comprehensive insight into the services that are enabled by today’s IP networks. Kippen covered Managed Services, VPN Services, Unified Communications, Managed Security and Collaboration services that are enabled by today’s IP networks. He also as discussed the market drivers and value chains that are shaping the services of tomorrow. The webinar also generated a number of questions, about IP-VPNs, Managed Services, technical standards, and billing trends in today’s IP services.

It’s not too late to learn from this webinar – to see the archived version, click here.

USTelecom Webinar Focuses On FCC Broadband Plan

Jon Banks — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:37:27 +0000

The recent release of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan has caught the attention of policy makers and industry leaders alike who are now focusing on the report’s specific recommendations, and their impact on consumers and the communications sector. USTelecom’s latest webinar, “The FCC’s National Broadband Plan: A Telecom Perspective”, discusses the plan’s goals and delves into the stages of reform expected to unfold through 2020.

Jon Banks, USTelecom’s Senior Vice President of Law and Policy, and David Cohen, USTelecom’s Vice President of Policy, provided an overview of the broadband plan process, which engaged the public and policy makers in the FCC’s efforts to define its recommendations. They also emphasized key broadband goals – from speeding affordable high-speed Internet to 100 million U.S. homes to ensuring first responders have access to a nationwide broadband network.

FCC Senior Policy Advisor Rebekah Goodheart and FCC Wireline Competition Bureau Deputy Chief Carol Mattey emphasized the plan’s overarching goal to deliver affordable broadband and voice services to all Americans, regardless of income or geography. They also outlined the National Broadband Plan’s three-stage approach for reforming universal service and intercarrier compensation. And, they urged the industry to continue to provide the dialogue and the data needed to inform sound broadband policy moving forward.

If you missed the original broadcast, the webinar is also available on demand.

Learn about Mobile-IP Backhaul

Tom Soroka — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:48:11 +0000

More than ever before, much of our day to day communications is taking place with wireless devices. From smartphones, netbooks, and tablet devices like the new iPad, more and more people are consuming voice, Internet and video content over wireless networks.

However we must not forget that an important piece of the wireless delivery ecosystem is a facilities-based “wired” backhaul network that transports this content out to the wireless access edges. On Thursday February 25th, Kevin Morgan from ADTRAN provided an informative webinar for our audience, taking a comprehensive look at the rapidly growing demand for wireless broadband services and how mobile backhaul service over IP networks is growing to meet that demand. Morgan provided a comparison of backhaul networks in North America with respect to the rest of the world and covered the various network architectures and technologies that can be deployed to provide mobile backhaul services.

The archived version of this webinar will be available on-demand. Or check out other USTelecom webinars on demand:

USTelecom & Cisco Conduct Data Center Virtualization Webinar

Tom Soroka — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:38:25 +0000

Virtualization is a growing technology trend that has evolved from replacing the traditional 1:1 server architectures of just a few years ago, into the areas of virtualized storage, and virtualized networks. All of this creates a new opportunity for today’s datacenters to provide tremendous cost savings, environmental savings and overall efficiencies that have given birth to the “Cloud Computing” model.

On Thursday, January 21st, Vaughn Suazo from Cisco provided our audience a review of Cisco’s comprehensive vision and architecture for Virtualized Data Centers along with their impact on “Cloud” computing models. Vaughn began with the basic building blocks of virtualization and proceeded all the way through to actual service provider implementations of virtualized systems, networks and cloud computing data centers.

If you’d like to view the archived version of this webinar, it will be available on-demand at: http://www.ustelecom.org/Events/Default.aspx.

Webinar: 100G – Present Perspective & Future Trends

Tom Soroka — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:03:51 +0000

We are all familiar with Moore’s law and how it’s been applied to the growth of computing capacity; well we’re seeing a similar growth pattern in network transmission speeds as well. As high speed network demands are placed on our nation’s service providers, their thirst for higher transmission speeds follows right along in lock-step.

On Thursday, CIENA and USTelecom held a webinar titled “100G – Present Perspective & Future Trends.” Joe Berthold, CIENA’s VP of Network Architecture, and Dimple Amin, CIENA’s VP of Products and Technology, gave a comprehensive presentation on the latest 100GB/second transmission technologies that are meeting today’s demands, and they walked us through real world 100G deployments at the NYSE-Euronext stock exchange, and at the large Hadron Super Collider. We learned that there still is a trade-off between speed, hardware density and power consumption. Although the world is not altogether at the 100G level yet, prices for 100G components will come down as network upgrades take place over the next several years.

If you’d like to view the archived version of this webinar, it’s available on-demand.

USTelecom Webinar: IPTV – One Size Does NOT Fit All!

Tom Soroka — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:40 +0000

At this stage of the game, IPTV services are no longer a novelty, and IPTV technologies are maturing very quickly, so the question is no longer “if” IPTV is an option, but what flavor IPTV should be deployed and when should a service provider deploy it to remain competitive in it’s service area.

USTelecom and Cisco held a free webinar today titled “IPTV Solutions…One Size Does Not Fit All” on just this topic. On today’s webinar, Bob Shattner from Cisco covered several important topics ranging from video delivery over multiple access networks, managing a video delivery network, and even working with Over-The-Top content providers to add value to your services.

If you’d like to view the free archived version of this webinar, it is available on-demand.