I wince every time I hear the term “convergence.” Convergence has always been a marketing word for “mess,” wherein multiple technologies coexist and intermingle in ways that increase Tylenol consumption and slow down true telecom innovation.Today’s wireless networks, including ...

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My recent blog posts have discussed challenges encountered when deploying Y.1731 Ethernet OAM in mobile backhaul networks, and service providers continue to echo this is a key sticking point for scaling out national 3G & LTE networks.xchange blog readers are invited to a special training session ...

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Capacity and next-generation mobile services (3G and 4G/LTE) seem to be constantly under scrutiny. Ever since the iPhone came on the scene and sucked the lifeblood out of AT&T’s backhaul network, we constantly hear about the impending doom, the bandwidth desert we’re all facing ahead. ...

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