Proponents of some level of public investment in telecom infrastructure in the US are at risk of tying themselves in knots over the non-issue of whether radio or fiber technology should be used. The very short answer is that both are needed. In many cases...
To respond to rapid changes in the industry, retailers must begin a migration to a new breed of retail Enterprise Resource Planning ERP suites that provide the information access, integrated business processes, and modern technology platform necessary to remain competitive. Retailers face two critical challenges that threaten not only their...
Nowadays, over 80% of the Small-to Medium-Businesses SMB companies have implemented an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP. For these companies, ERP has evolved to become the information backbone of the organization. This backbone has been expanded to have appendages for supply chain optimization, customer relationship management, data warehousing, as well as...
Growing from a domestic corporation to a multinational offers many opportunities as well as challenges. One challenge that global HR managers face is coordinating employee benefits information around the world. With Aon Consulting's Global Benefit Manager, a one-stop system that accurately tracks critical data and details of the various employee...
The fixed telephones holding Tele Centro Sul has completed a 8,600 Km optical fibers backbone built alongside roadways in its area of coverage, a facility that allow it to save R$46mil from the renting of Embratel 's backbone. Tele Centro intends The...
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Zhone Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZHNE), the first company dedicated to building total-delivery solutions for voice, data and video services worldwide, announced today the deployment of a new backbone for NTT DATA SANYO CORPORATION, SANNET Business Division, a leading service provider in Japan.
There is no single strategy for achieving success in the backbone market today, nor are there clear winners in the market. Ownership of infrastructure at some level appears to be important, as long as the infrastructure is managed by intelligent network management platforms. The backbone carrier market is confronted with...
This white paper addresses first the challenges and business drivers of content delivery services. Next, various solutions available are discussed taking into account all flavors of the content delivery value chain. Throughout this paper, the intention is to examine web site problems, how they affect business, and how they can...
TOKYO -- Hitachi, Ltd. and NEC Corporation today announced that they have signed an agreement to join forces in the business of backbone routers/switches for networks of telecommunications carriers, government and public sectors and large corporations.
Alcatel is to supply the backbone for the fixed telephones holding Telemar in a deal worth R$31.5mil. The backbone will interconnect networks in 13 Brazilian states and manage 500,000 simultaneous calls. Telemar wants this infrastructure to compe Alcatel is to supply the...
Top MSO executives have begun talks on ways to cooperate in creating a single nationwide cable-data backbone to support the industry's high-speed Internet-access efforts. CEOs on Cable Television Laboratories Inc.'s executive committee have appoi Top MSO executives have begun talks on ways...
Huawei won the contract to provide an optical transport backbone to German city carrier BerliKomm. It is the company's third contract within Germany. The new backbone, based on Huawei's OptiX lOG system, will interconnect with existing networks provi Huawei won the contract to provide an optical...
France-based Alcatel has been awarded a $38 million contract from Iraqi Telecommunications & Post Corporation ITPC to provide a microwave backbone to the country. Alcatel would offer the backbone to cover 62 sites in three routes in Iraq.France-based Alcatel has been awarded a $38 million contract from Iraqi Telecommunications &...
ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 6, 1997--Madge Networks' Ethernet Products Division has announced the release of two new stackable Visage Ethernet switches, the Visage 16155F and the Visage 800F. Both switches can be stacked four units high with Madge's unique 4Gbps Exoplane connector to build a single switch that will scale from...