In This Issue:
Executive Perspectives
Critical insights from key industry leaders
The IEC's Executive Perspectives allow industry professionals and students alike to learn from leading key experts' insights and experiences. Viewers can access answers to pressing industry questions and challenges instantly with this learning opportunity.
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Berit Svendsen
Executive Vice President, Technology, and Chief Technology Officer, Telenor ASA
Recorded at 21st Century Communications World Forum
Berit Svendsen, Executive Vice President, Technology, and Chief Technology Officer of Telenor ASA, discusses Telenor's new service offerings, the impact of video in Telenor's service offerings, the challenges and opportunities in migrating from a PSTN-based network to an IP-centric network, Telenor's role for wireless broadband UMTS and WiMAX, key upgrades and expansion plans to Telenor's network, the results of VoIP service offerings, customer acceptance, and more.
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Jagdeep Singh
CEO, Infinera
Recorded at 21st Century Communications World Forum
Infinera's Chief Executive Officer, Jagdeep Singh, talks about next-generation networks, Infinera's unique selling proposition, advantages to the operator, Moore's Law, photo-electronics, the future of voice in the next-generation network, its integration, and more.
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Technology Briefing
Broadband Trends:
Voice - A Future of Evolution
Brian Levy, Group Technology Officer Service Strategy and Innovation
Educational content provided by BT
Voice services have been changing for some time. However, the future of voice services will be unlike anything one imagined as recently as a few years ago. This article provides insights and predictions from Brian Levy, BT's group technology officer for service strategy and innovation. Read what you can expect of your converged multimedia handset services in the near future! Read more...
Ethernet Service Interworking and the Evolving Enterprise WAN
Dave Parks, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Data and IP Networking
Educational content provided by Ciena Corporation
Ethernet's growing appeal, coupled with the continued reliance on FR/ATM, presents a critical end-user requirement-the need to create a multiprotocol L2 VPN that supports Ethernet, FR, and ATM access for multi-service interworking. This article discusses the required directions forward to solve the lack of interoperability of Ethernet with other current WAN infrastructures. Read more...
Analyst Corner
The Analyst Corner features perspectives from a range of leading information industry experts.
 Smartphones Research Report
Mohammad Ilyas, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
Syed Ahson, Senior Software Engineer, iDEN Mobile Devices, Motorola, Inc.
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