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March 18, 2010

Google: Earth’s third-largest ISP

Filed under: Arbor Networks, Blogs, Google, ISP, Network management, Operator Services, Public, VPN — fmmonteverde @ 5:30 am

The latest indication that Google is one of the most powerful players in telecoms: if it were an ISP – and if you measured ISPs by the interdomain traffic volumes – Google would be the third biggest ISP on the planet, and the fastest-growing.

That’s according to Arbor Networks, a network security/monitoring company that took traffic data fro

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NEC to consolidate TOMS under NetCracker

Filed under: Customer management, Daily News, NEC, NetCracker, Network management, OSS and BSS, Revenue management, Service and resource management, Telecom service provisioning — galaxiav @ 12:09 am

NEC has announced plans to consolidate its telecom operations and management systems (TOMS) software and services business under subsidiary NetCracker.

Under the arrangement, NEC will transfer its extensive portfolio of services – including CRM and billing, network management, service assurance monitoring, SDP and mediation – to NetCracker.

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March 11, 2010

Smarten up those pipes

Filed under: Aepona, App Store, Cover Story, Features, GSMA, Google, Mobile Apps and Content, Mobile broadband, NSN, Network management, SDP, TelecomAsia, Tellabs, Telstra, Wireless Access — galaxiav @ 4:01 pm

When cellcos effectively entered the broadband access business by way of all-you-can-eat flat rates, most did so with the underlying fear that they would be transforming thems

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March 9, 2010

Govt shareholding could scupper Taiwan cable deal

Filed under: Business and managed services, Daily News, Merger and acquisition, Network management, Operator Services, Public, Taiwan, Taiwan Mobile, kbro — fmmonteverde @ 6:08 am

A merger to create Taiwan’s biggest cable company could founder because of a government shareholding in one of the major investors.

Cable operator kbro announced last September that it would merge with Taiwan Mobile in a $1 billion share swap driven by its

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Smart meters, not-so-smart security

Filed under: Blogs, Network management, Public, Smart meters, smart grids, smart security — fmmonteverde @ 4:46 am

With all the recent talk of smart grids of smart meters as a key M2M app for operators that can also

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March 2, 2010

Thai ICT ministry to review Thaksin assets: report

Filed under: AIS, CAT Telecom, Daily News, ICT Ministry, Network management, Public, Shin Corp., Supreme Court, TOT, Telecom service provisioning, Thaicom, Thailand, asset seizure — fmmonteverde @ 6:07 am

Thailand’s Information and Communications Technology Ministry will review former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s telecom assets after a court ruling that he was guilty of license tampering.

ICT Minister Ranongrak Suwanchawee told the

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February 25, 2010

American Tower buys Essar’s tower arm for $430m

Filed under: American Tower, Daily News, Essar Telecom, India, Merger and acquisition, Network management, Operator Services, Optical Networks, Public, Towers — fmmonteverde @ 6:04 am

An affiliate of American Tower has agreed to purchase Indian tower firm Essar Telecom Infrastructure Private (ETIPL) for $430 million in cash.

American Tower said that its wholly-owned Indian subsidiary Transcend had entered

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February 24, 2010

Intel also hit by sophisticated attack

Filed under: Daily News, Google, Intel, Network management, Operator Services, Public, security breach — fmmonteverde @ 6:11 am

Chip giant Intel says it was also hit by a high-level attack on its servers at the same time as Google.

Intel reported the attacks in its latest 10-K filing to the US SEC, saying it had been the target of a “sophisticated incident [that] occurred i

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February 23, 2010

Hot on the Chinese hacker trail

Filed under: Blogs, Business and managed services, China, Google, Hackers, Lanxiang Vocational School, Network management, Operator Services, Public, Security and risk management, Shanghai Jiaotong University — fmmonteverde @ 8:01 am

The press leaks from those on the trail of the China Google hackers are coming thick and fast.

That doesn’t mean they make sense as a whole.

The Wall Street Journal today says inv

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February 22, 2010

Cyber attacks shift to the cloud, too

Filed under: AT&T, Arbor Networks, Features, Network management, Public, cloud computing, cyber-attacks, security — fmmonteverde @ 10:54 am

Cyber warfare against enterprises grows more brutal by the year, but now carriers are getting caught in the crossfire as more organizations move sensitive data into operators’ clouds, according to a survey sponsored by telecom network security vendor Arbor Networks.

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