GLG News by Backhaul Experts

Nortel announced that it is revisiting its 4G strategy, yet another time, in less than 3 months! What changed in these short few months that made Nortel rethink its 4G/LTE strategy? What about Motorola? When are they going to pull the plus on their 4G/LTE development?

The iPhone has troubles.  Frankly, it is not a surprise.  Further, the iPhone is not alone.

1.      Manufacturers always have at least a slightly different recipe for making their optical lasers. 2.      Getting a little edge on technology can help, but it hardly results in a high margin business in the telecom space   3.     ...

1.      This announcement from Verizon feeds the notion that the industry will see the market arrival of 100G in 2010. 2.      Although there will be obviously be a natural progression to go from 40G to 100G, as has been pointed out in previous articles,...

GenBand announced the widely speculated acquisition of Nextpoint, a company that was itself a merger of two sub performing companies of Nextone and Reef Point in the VoIP security product lines! With the planned exit of AudioCodes from the Session Border Controller (SBC) market and financial struggles...

After spending years dominating the business segment, it is time for Blackberry to move out into the mass market.  

I have openly supported femtocell technology for sometime.  I think the technology’s ability to support residential and small business wireless local area networks was always attractive.  I think the technology’s inherent intelligent base station design gives carriers greater flexibility.

Text messaging (also known as Short Messaging Service, SMS) is one of the highest margin services for the carriers. The end-to-end cost of a delivering a SMS message for a carrier is less than $0.02 a message while they charge more than $0.10 a message. With the SMS volume doubling year over...

No one should be surprised by slowing smart phone or any handset sales.  We are in a recession.  Once telecom, an infrastructure business, begins to feel the pinch, then you know we are in trouble.

Christy’s departure is another sign of the changes ahead for Alcatel-Lucent.  The ride is going to get worse from here on.