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I have a Legacy 1800 ornamental mill for sale. It is about 5 years old and has been used twice. The mill comes with the porter-cable router and a selection of magnate router bits. Legacy doesn't make this model anymore, so this is a good chance to pick up an almost new machine. The price new was around $5500 plus the cost of the router and bits. I would like to get $4000 for everything. I would prefer not to have to break down the machine for shipping, but if I have to I will. The machine is located in West Babylon, New York about 1 1/2 hours East of NYC.
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brian cohen is the best professional,funny,did the job fast... thxs again!!!!!
Dr. Cohen is a doll. He eased my fear and talked to me through the entire procedure. His staff is wonderful - they are very caring.
great surgeon, made me feel very comfortable
I had attempted to have a nasty tooth pulled at a regular dentist. After having numbed me the maximum times, they then referred me to Dr. Cohen who immediately took me in. As nervous and traumatized as I was, he and his staff took excellent care of me. He literally had me laughing and talking through the whole experience. He was very caring and put me at ease. I would recommend him to anyone and everyone! The offices were very clean and the staff was very caring..
Wow Dr. Cohen is best oral surgeoun ive gone to. Made it really easy for me and did it so fast that i barely felt my wisdom teeth coming out. Very nice and treats you with a lot of respect. Highly recommended.
Dr. Cohen is very funny and made the whole process of getting my wisdom teeth pulled out a breeze.
I'm so glad I decided to go with Dr. Cohen to have my remaining wisdom tooth and an additional tooth taken out by him. I previously had my other wisdom teeth taken out by another oral surgeon where I wasn't numbed enough so I still felt everything. To say the least I was pretty nervous about having teeth taken out again and feeling that kind of pain. Dr. Cohen was awesome! He made sure I was numb and comfortable, continued to ask me if I was ok and even had me laughing. I'm so thankful for him and his assistant for taking care of me the way they did and would highly recommend him to anyone!
I was extremely nervous for this surgery. Although everyone gets their wisdom teeth out, I am a big baby when it comes to dentists. Dr. Cohen made me feel at ease with the procedure, he explained himself thoroughly and answered every question I had. I was being sedated, which honestly scared me itself. He was very gentle while putting the IV in, made me laugh and almost made me forgot what was being done. The last thing I remember thinking, once the IV was in my arm, was about a beautiful, warm, white sand beach in Florida as I drifted into a slumber. I woke up, completely numb, with the assistant telling me I was all finished and could not have done better. After resting, he came into recovery to check on me, talked and joked like a was a real person he truly cared about, instead of just "some patient." It has been almost a week now since the surgery and I am healing wonderfully. Dr. Cohen, and his office staff, have even checked up on me to see how I was doing prior to my follow up appointment. I highly recommend Dr. Cohen as an oral surgeon, he is a wonderful doctor and took great care of me. If I had to go back to see him for any other dental work, I would fully trust my teeth in his hands.
Dr. Cohen and his team were wonderful! I went in to have a wisdom teeth extracted (just one, upper right). I get very nervous before appointments, but realized there was nothing to be worried about. The front desk staff were nice enough, but the real gems were the helpers in the back "offices" who walked me through the procedure, gave me some calming gas, took my blood pressure/pulse, and so on. I waited about 15-20 minutes in the front area (I think I was the first patient of the day) and was then taken back. I only received numbing shots during the surgery. I saw Dr. Cohen for only a few short minutes during the procedure. I didn't feel a thing! I was in disbelief that my tooth was even out of my head. It was wild. It has been 5 full days since my surgery, and I only felt a little dull soreness/slight headache every now and then, only after I stopped taking pain medications (was prescribed Vicodin, Ibuprofen, and an antibiotic). Overall, very good experience and was nothing to get nervous about. I will go to him when/if my other wisdom teeth need to come out.
I felt very comfortable , great atmosphere & amazing staff . Felt very at safe and cared for.
Dr. Cohen along with his staff did an excellent job on my wisdom teeth. Overall, I had a great experience. There is no reason why you should not come to him for your oral surgery needs.
First off, I would like to thank Dr. Brian Cohen and the staff behind him on a job well done. Before, during, and after the procedure I always felt confident with the surgery. I was extremely impressed and will definitely recommend Dr. Brian Cohen to many people.
Dr. Cohen extracted two of my wisdom teeth, he did a great job and I barley felt a thing. I was up and (literally) running the next day. I will definitely be seeing him for my other two wisdom teeth.
I was seen on an emergency basis a few weeks ago at Dr. Brian Cohen's office to have a tooth extracted . Starting with a phone call (while in tears at my Dentist's office), to my emergency extraction, and ending with my follow up appointment the entire staff was Wonderful! Everyone was so personable, respectful, and kind. And on the business side, they were efficient and professional. I would recommend this office to my family and friends, because a friendly smile and a little compassion has a lasting effect! A Sincere "Thank You" to Dr. Cohen and his Staff.
I liked Dr. Cohen quite a lot. I thought he was nice, and was very willing to do anything I needed. I needed just two of my wisdom teeth removed, and I was terrified. He talked me through it and things were fantastic, so I made the appointment. When he did my surgery, I was a bit of a mess but he talked me through it again and I left his office with very little pain. I had no pain the following weekend and had very little swelling as well. I was (and still am) extremely pleased with my surgery. The dental assistants were also lovely and so helpful. Any questions and concerns I had were answered quickly. HOWEVER.... his office staff is not as great as he is. They had called to remind me to not eat anything 8 hours before my appointment for three consecutive evenings prior to my Friday morning appointment. That was a little excessive, but it is policy and I appreciated their dedication to me as a patient. During each phone call, I asked what my total was for my surgery, so I could plan to bring a completed check the day of. Each time I asked during these phone calls (a total of 10 times), it was the same total. I showed up the morning of my surgery to find that it was $50 more than that total. THIS was why I asked repeatedly on the phone, to avoid this. I was on edge out of nervousness already, so when I said "No, I was told each time I spoke to you that it was this amount", I was snapped at and told that I was wrong and to please pay. I tried to say that it wasn't, but she just kept saying "Sorry, it was an error." and repeated the increased total. I figured I had no choice so I tore up the check and used my debit card. Then, I waited a total of one hour in the waiting room without anyone asking any questions of me, and then an additional 30 minutes in the actual room. It was now 1pm and I had not eaten/drank water (per the doctor's understandable surgery instructions) since 10pm the night before, so I was not pleased. The dental assistants' and Dr. Cohen's kindness were the only reason that I was not livid, and the surgery went on. As I said about Dr. Cohen, it was fabulous and event free. However, I called several days later about my increase in pay and was met with major attitude. She told me that it was my fault because I had two insurances and THEY didn't know how to bill them. I was confused as to how having two insurance companies (that this office supports, that is why I went to them) was considered a BAD thing. I tried to explain to the girl that I did not see how that was my fault, therefore why did I have to pay more after being told I didn't, and she told me that they "might send me a check one day once they figured out how to bill the insurance company". I told her that it wouldn't be necessary and that I wouldn't be back because of how unsatisfied I was with the office staff. That was a shame because I really liked Dr. Cohen, and I do eventually need my bottom wisdom teeth removed. If only the office staff was gone!!!!!
I have been to Dr Cohen several times me and my wife and now my grown children go to him. He has a great bedside manner and is very specific on what he wants to do. Does not beat around the bush and gives a straight up diagnosis. I recommend Dr. Cohen highly and will continue going to him. If you have to wait its worth it because he will give you the same time when hes with you.
Dr Cohen is very professional and makes sure all your concerns are answered .Dr Cohen explains everything you will experience totally makes sure you understand what to expect .His staff is very caring and professional.Dr Cohen make sure that you know you can always contact him after leaving the office of you have any concerns or questions.He is a very caring and personable doctor and that's hard to find.Will refer all my family and friends to Dr Cohen.
Wonderful people at this office!, including receptionists, assistants and Dr. Cohen himself. You feel so comfortable and calm! really I did although I was having a wisdom tooth extracted. I was sitting in the dental chair told all the processes and procedures. The next thing I now it was over!! No pain! And leaving was just as pleasant. Thank You! P.S.S. I now this review is a month late, but I appreciate the care and compassion shown to me.
Dr. Cohen coverd all issues, side affects, what to expect concerning this major procedure even change his schedule to do this oral surgery. with very little side effects what a great team my hats off to dr brian H. cohen and his staff. thank you
Referred to him with an infected tooth with a cracked root that had to be extracted. He did that quickly with the minimum amount of discomfort while giving me confidence that all was going to be fine. I would definitely go back to him without hesitation.
Dr. Cohen is a great oral surgeon! He was nice and very understanding. He made me feel at ease. The staff was excellent. Hope kept me calm and preoccupied. The surgery was painless and was over in minutes. I didn't feel a thing. Recovery was painless also--like I never had anything done.
I have to say I am very impressed with Dr. Cohen and his staff. I had a wisdom teeth extraction scheduled and when I arrived an emergency situation arose and I had to wait a bit longer, but the staff continually checked on me and made me feel comfortable. Following my surgery I had a couple concerns and when I left a message at 5:30 in the morning (expecting a call back when the office opened at 8) I was extremely surprised when less than five minutes later I received a call back from Dr. Cohen. I later had a concern and called to leave a message (because it was the weekend and the office was closed) and I had to call back a second time because I got disconnected and the Dr. answered. He immediately called in a new prescription and made sure he had my phone number so he can call and check back in. Needless to say I am far beyond impressed with his personal client care. It's so rare to find a medical professional who goes that far to care for his clients and I'm so happy I found Dr. Cohen.
I have to say I am very impressed with Dr. Cohen and his staff. I had a wisdom teeth extraction scheduled and when I arrived an emergency situation arose and I had to wait a bit longer, but the staff continually checked on me and made me feel comfortable. Following my surgery I had a couple concerns and when I left a message at 5:30 in the morning (expecting a call back when the office opened at 8) I was extremely surprised when less than five minutes later I received a call back from Dr. Cohen. I later had a concern and called to leave a message (because it was the weekend and the office was closed) and I had to call back a second time because I got disconnected and the Dr. answered. He immediately called in a new prescription and made sure he had my phone number so he can call and check back in. Needless to say I am far beyond impressed with his personal client care. It's so rare to find a medical professional who goes that far to care for his clients and I'm so happy I found Dr. Cohen.
I was referred to Dr. Cohen from a dentist who took one look at me and said I can't help you. I went into his office on a Friday morning for a 10:30 appointment. Dr. Cohen being not only a DDS but an MD as well refused to let me walk out of his office without helping me. I was sick in and out of the hospital for 5 days, my face, jaw and neck on the left side were all swollen uncontrollably, before my visit with Dr. Cohen. There were Doctors & Oral Surgeons from three hospitals were all working together to try to figure out what was wrong with me. In all I had 2 CT scans, a chest x-ray, regular dental x-rays, a Panoramic dental x-ray and a special x-ray at the Endodontist's office. Dr. Cohen reviewed my x rays and sent me to the Endodontist for the special x-ray because he was just not satisfied that I was suffering from just a gum or gland infection. He was convinced it was something worse. The Endodontist found a small crack in the root of my back molar. He sent me back to Doctor Cohen that same day to have the tooth immediately removed. Doctor Cohen fit me right in! Pulled the tooth and then called Henry Ford Hospital West Bloomfield and had me admitted for IV antibiotics. All of this before 5 p.m. that same day. It was crazy, like an episode of house for sure. The doctors think that infection was making me sick for months maybe even years. If it wasn't for Dr. Cohen I honestly am not sure I would be here today. He refused to just right a prescription and send me on my way! Doctor's like him are hard to find! I thank him from the bottom of my heart for CARING! I will refer everybody and anybody to him. I know my family are now ALL going to be seeing Dr. Brian H. Cohen D.D.S, M.D. for all our Oral Surgery needs. XOXO's <3 Caryn A. Timbs
fully informed patient of of work to be done and recovery time.kept people in waiting room informed.best of all NO PAIN
fully informed patient of of work to be done and recovery time.kept people in waiting room informed.best of all NO PAIN
fully informed patient of of work to be done and recovery time.kept people in waiting room informed.best of all NO PAIN
I've had the greatest dental surgical experience in my life time at the office of Dr. Brian H. Cohen. The office atmosphere and environment is both pleasant, professional and appealing. I'd recommend anyone to encounter such an experience.
- recommend Dr. Cohen to ANYONE. He is great at what he does. I went in to get my wisdom tooth removed. Painless process, and no pain after. This is my first visit with the doctor and it definately won't be my last. He knows what he is doing and for anyone needing any type of oral surgery he is the one. He even gave me a hug after surgery lol great guy and great doctor. See for urself.
Had an appt. at 8:00am Dr. did not come in until 8:50 was in a hurray didnt ask all of my questions. Staff was not helpful at all
I was very frightened. Dr. Cohen was very reassuring. He was kind and considerate. He and the staff explained all procedures thorooughly, and were very attentive. I had no pain during the procedure, and no pain afterwards. I would recommend Dr. Cohen and staff to anyone!
I went to this doctor to get my wisdom teeth out with my little brother. I had 3 and my brother had 4 teeth, all of which were impacted in bone. This was the first surgery of our lives for both of us, and I have always had a major phobia of doctors. I have heard SO many horror stories about this procedure. My other brother got dry sockets, my sister was swollen like a chipmunk. For our exams, my brother and I were in the room together and the doctor was very helpful in all of our questions and concerns. When I went into the room a couple of days later for surgery, I was petrified. I started crying to the nurse about how scared I was. They gave me some nitrous oxide and I was VERY relaxed within about 1 minute. They slipped the IV in and I hardly felt it. The next thing I remember, I was waking up and they were still cutting, and I was crying so hard, as this is a side effect for women of the sedative. Nothing hurt though, and they were done shortly. I kept crying for no reason, but they were very understanding. When we were both done (I have no estimate of how much time this took), they helped my mom take us downstairs to the car (in wheelchairs so we didn't fall everywhere). My mom immediately gave us each some of the prescribed ibuprofen and vicodin, and we went to sleep for a few hours. When we woke up, we were in no pain. There was not any excessive bleeding, we were able to eat fairly solid foods if we were careful. We had normal conversations with people, no swelling at all. We stayed on a normal schedule with the drugs for about 24 hours, and after that felt no need to take them at all (except for the antibiotics of course). Overall, this experience was 200 percent better than I ever expected, I have never heard of someone having such a great experience as we had with this procedure, this doctor clearly knows what he is doing, and that is the most important factor in choosing any doctor.


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Infonetics: OTN switching is booming; Windsteam's 100G Express NetworkMon, 03/10/2014 - 20:30 — Alan Weissberger
In a just released report, Infonetics Research summarizes the 2013 optical network hardware (OTN and SONET/SDH) and Packet Optical Transport System (P-OTS) markets, provides their 2014 outlook, as well as which vendors are benefiting the most.
. Worldwide overall OTN revenue totaled $8 billion in 2013, or 66% of all optical network hardware spending
. The OTN switching segment of the market grew 37% in 2013
. The market for P-OTS equipment came to $1.7 billion in 2013, split fairly evenly between metro edge and metro regional P-OTS gear
. P-OTS revenue grew 32% between the second half of 2012 and the second half of 2013
. Infonetics projects the OTN switching segment to grow at about a 20% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2013 to 2018
Infonetics previously reported that service providers are choosing OTN switching as the technology best suited to filling 100G pipes, because it enables efficient aggregation of diverse services and protocols over a single link.
"OTN switching had a major year of growth in 2013 as service providers prioritized installation of integrated WDM+OTN switching and 100G coherent technology in the core. Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, and Infinera are the key beneficiaries here," notes Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst for optical at Infonetics Research. "Meanwhile, Chinese carriers continue to expand large deployments of OTN switching, with Huawei as the sole beneficiary."
Schmitt adds: "Over in the P-OTS space, incumbent vendors Cisco, Fujitsu, Tellabs, Ciena, and Alcatel-Lucent are the market leaders, but new players BTI, Cyan, Transmode, and Ericsson are challenging with pure-play P-OTS platforms."
On Feb 18, 2013, Schmitt wrote: "Optical spending flattened in the fourth quarter of 2013, though it wasn't distributed evenly around the world or by vendor. Weakness was concentrated in North America, but a year-end capex surge in EMEA evened things up. All indications are that an all-clear from Verizon and AT&T is forthcoming and the Q4 drop was a pause rather than a reversal — and this is in line with our forecasts."
Infonetics' biannual OTN and packet optical report provides worldwide and regional market size, vendor market share, forecasts through 2018, analysis, and trends for OTN transport and switching hardware, including metro edge and metro regional port revenue forecasts by type and speed. Companies tracked: Adtran, Adva, Alcatel Lucent, BTI, Ciena, Cisco, Cyan, ECI, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Infinera, NEC, NSN, Tellabs, Transmode, ZTE, and others.
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Andrew Schmitt, Principal Optical Analyst at Infonetics is speaking at four OFC/NFOEC sessions this week in San Francisco:
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In related optical transport news, Windstream today announced it's deploying the Infinera DTN-X platform, featuring 500 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) super-channels across Windstream's long-haul express network. The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network enables Windstream to differentiate their services, protect their investment and lower operational expense as they scale their network.
Windstream operates a nationwide fiber and IP network, covering 118,000 miles of fiber and 27 data center locations across the nation. As a cloud solutions provider, Windstream serves businesses with a wide range of cloud communication needs, in addition to offering an advanced data, voice and video network that provides customers low latency and reliable 100 Gigabit Ethernet services.
"By deploying the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network, Windstream will significantly increase the capacity of our network infrastructure to meet the needs of our customers," said Randy Nicklas, executive vice president of engineering and chief technology officer for Windstream. "The DTN-X platform enables us to offer services that result in lower latency for mission critical applications while providing a network that is even more reliable and enables rapid provisioning of services."
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The Internet of Things (IoT) explained along with ARM's role in making it happen!Mon, 02/24/2014 - 20:22 — Alan Weissberger
The Internet of Things (IoT) is about embedding communications technology in all objects that can benefit from it, from cars to buildings, everyday objects and even materials. It's an ongoing revolution that has much potential and promise to revolutionize the electronics industry. Advances in making smaller microelectronics devices, sensors and low-power radio communications, are making the IoT a commercial reality. Google's $3.2B acquisition of smart thermostat makerNest is a great example of that dynamic as per this article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2014/01/13/google-acquires-nest-for-3-2-billion/
On February 20th, Zach Shelby -Director of IoT technology at ARM Ltd, presented an interesting talk on the IoT at a Santa Clara University (SCU) EE Dept Colloquium. Zach was co-founder and head of research at Sensinode in Finland before that company was acquired last fall by ARM Ltd. As a result of that acquisition, Zach now works at ARM's San Jose, CA office as an IoT evangelist and technology director. Here are the highlights of his SCU talk:
- IoT combines embedded electronic devices with the Internet mostly using low power wireless interfaces.
- Machine to Machine (M2M) applications when combined with the Internet (either directly or indirectly connected devices) comprise the IoTs.
- M2M apps include: asset management, facility management, security monitoring, energy management, weather stations, etc
- IoT produces Little Data (in contrast to Big Data/analytics) via small streams of data.
- IoT breaks down silos or walled gardens of closed systems
- Gartner Group predicts that by 2018, 50% of IoT solutions will be from start-ups <3 years old.
- IoT is a disruptive technology as it changes the way "things" (devices) are made.
- Some key markets for IoT include-Smart Home, Smart Cities, Fitness/exercise equipment, and Asset Management
- ARM Ltd is working on a lot of software to make the IoT a commercial reality. For example, a Development Platform for Devices is available at:https://mbed.org/
- ARM has developed wireless communications I/O drivers for LTE and WiFi endpoints that are not VLSI component specific.The company supports Java ME as well as JAVA script on its software development platformLocal Processing, Security, communications, discovery and end to end device management are included in ARM's IoT architecture.
Samsung creates medical test bed to prove Internet of Things is worth the effort
The partnership between Samsung and the University of California, San Francisco sets out with a single goal: to develop a test bed for medical sensors in efforts to validate the worth of emerging Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies, otherwise known as the Internet of Things.
The South Korean giant's joint project with medical professionals will work to develop network-connected sensors for gadgets, signalling a divergence in the company's strategy by focusing on health and the wider medical world.
Cisco CEO: 2014 will be a big year for the Internet of Things -will be worth $19Trillion over next 10 years!
Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers says the Internet of Things could represent $19 trillion of economic value over the next 10 years, and will affect society more than the Internet itself. Chambers says this year could be a turning point as more devices become connected, and that he expects there to be 50 billion Internet-connected devices by 2020.
Speaking at the Mobile World Congress trade show, Chambers said that the Internet of things will potentially have five to ten times the impact on society over the Internet itself.
As an illustration of the growth of connected devices, Chambers noted that there were only 1,000 devices connected to the Internet when Cisco was created in 1984. There were more than 10 billion connected devices in 2010, and they outnumber the actual number of people now. By 2020, Chambers said he expects to see 50 billion devices connected to the Internet.
Optical Network Equipment Spending flat in 4Q13 as North America sags and EMEA surges!Tue, 02/18/2014 - 00:58 — Alan Weissberger
Infonetics Research released vendor market share and preliminary analysis from its 4th quarter 2013 (4Q13) and year end Optical Network Hardware report. (Full report to be published by February 24.)
. Worldwide optical network hardware revenue, including WDM and SONET/SDH, was essentially flat in 4Q13, totaling $3.1 billion
. For the full year 2013, the overall optical network hardware market is down 3%
. On a positive note, the WDM segment posted a 6th consecutive quarter of growth in 4Q13 and ended the full year 2013 up 11% as 100G deployments hit the ground
. Though the traditional 4Q capex flush was in full effect in EMEA, the region recorded a 5th straight year of spending declines; Infonetics expects EMEA to revert back to being a third of global spending within 1-2 years
. The Chinese optical market closed 2013 up only 6%, but performance is anticipated to improve in 2014 as 100G rollouts pick up steam
. EMEA optical heavyweights Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Coriant, and Huawei all had a big 4Q13
"Optical spending flattened in the fourth quarter of 2013, though it wasn't distributed evenly around the world or by vendor. Weakness was concentrated in North America, but a year-end capex surge in EMEA evened things up," notes Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst for optical at Infonetics Research.
Schmitt adds: "All indications are that an all-clear from Verizon and AT&T is forthcoming and the Q4 drop was a pause rather than a reversal - and this is in line with our forecasts."
Infonetics' quarterly optical hardware report provides worldwide and regional market size, market share, forecasts through 2018, analysis, and trends for metro and long haul SONET/SDH and WDM equipment, Ethernet optical ports, SONET/SDH/POS ports, and WDM ports. Vendors tracked: Adva, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Cyan, ECI, Fujitsu, Huawei, Infinera, NEC, Coriant, Tellabs, Transmode, Tyco Telecom, ZTE, and others. To buy the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.
. Operators answer the big questions about metro 100G and ROADM deployments
. Pricing pressures drive down ROADM component market in first half of 2013
. Carriers dialing back spending on optical equipment; WDM segment outpaces the market
Note the steep decline in N America & Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) Optical Network Equipment Spending in the chart below:
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Frontier Communications' Frontier Optical Transport Service, a 10-gigabit wavelength service, was rolled out Monday in 25 states. The company will install optical fiber to buildings of customers that order the service. "If we don't lay the fiber, someone else will," Frontier's Lisa Partridge said. "We believe it's necessary because of how quickly bandwidth is doubling and tripling." Telecompetitor.com
Chicago Plans affordable gigabit Internet access in selected zonesMon, 02/10/2014 - 16:52 — Alan Weissberger
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has put out requests for vendor qualifications as Chicago prepares to bring gigabit-class Internet service to certain neighborhoods. Chicago has designated seven "Innovation Zones" for the faster service which will not based on Google Fiber.
The biggest and busiest city in the Midwest, Chicago is home to almost 3 million people. Comcast provides high-speed cable Internet access, while AT&T is the major DSL provider.
Before powering up the seven ultra high speed Internet zones, the city says it must take several months reviewing qualifications
and proposals from potential vendors. The goal, Yager says, is to promote businesses and universities across Chicago.
"This is really a huge economic development initiative," she said. She believes providing access to gigabit-speed Internet — which is 100 times faster than basic broadband — will encourage business creation, growth, expansion and relocation.
FBR: Telcos & Service Providers Moving from "feeds and speeds" to "higher-margin managed services"/Home grown CDNs?Thu, 02/06/2014 - 13:39 — Alan Weissberger
In a report today on Level 3 Communications (LVLT), FBR analyst David Dixon makes the case that enterprise customers of private line, VPN, voice trunking and other transport services are moving to the cloud for those and more. Dixon wrote:
"We see (service provider) companies offering bundled cloud, transport, and access services (where access services are heavily discounted to secure higher-value cloud services) and believe the company cost structure may shift more than expected due to the change in the nature of content relationships over time, perhaps driving a review of peering interconnections with end-user networks and potential migration of customers to single integrated wireline/wireless providers."
Continuing, "Level 3's guidance depends on a number of "X factors" over the near future, including sustaining positive enterprise growth and more aggressive dark fiber sales. We are seeing more appetite from wireless network providers for dark fiber (to locations already served with leased lit fiber) as their architecture shifts get underway. The risk is that these companies may confine LVLT to providing lower-margin transport services. In the CDN (Content Delivery Network) segment, we like the current momentum but see this business pressured over time by the irreversible mix shift of Internet traffic toward "two-way" content increasingly distributed on cloud-based architectures that provide compute AND storage."
In his analysis of Akamai's earnings report, Dixon wrote: "Fundamentally, we are concerned about the increased pressure on Akamai's CDN-based business model over time" for exactly the same reason- customer migration to cloud compute and storage services. Akamai is the company behind FaceBook, Apple, and other massive global web properties. The company claims to deliver 30% of all Web traffic. Akamai is rated as a top notch CDN, with 96 out of the 100 top online retailers in the U.S. relying on Akamai's CDN. http://www.akamai.com/
Earlier this week, the WSJ reported: Apple Quietly Builds New Networks
Apple was said to be "stitching together a network of Internet infrastructure capable of delivering large amounts of content to customers, giving the company more control over the distribution of its online offerings while laying the groundwork for more traffic if it decides to move deeper into television."
That might adversely effect Akamai's future revenues. "DeepField says Apple distributes most of its Internet content through Akamai's network of servers. Akamai executives recently said they are renegotiating a multiyear contract with their top customer, a process that typically results in lower fees for the company."
Akamai's CEO Tom Leighton hinted at the news that Apple may be thinking of going it alone for a CDN with this comment to industry analysts: "Any very large media customer at one time or another is looking at a do-it-yourself solution. It's a lot harder than people think, though. What may have seemed like a good idea at the time, over a period of years, often doesn't."
Report from Open Compute Summit & Implications for the Networking Sector - Scott Thompson, FBR Capital MarketsMon, 02/03/2014 - 21:55 — Alan Weissberger
Article written by Scott Thompson of FBR Capital Markets.
References provided by Alan J Weissberger of IEEE ComSoc
OCS Report:
On January 28 and 29, the Open Compute Summit held its annual gathering where hyperscale and large enterprises show cased the creative and cutting-edge work they have pioneered over the past year in a quest to drive costs and complications from the IT landscape. We attended the conference and present some of the more important points below.
* One of the messages with the most impact at Open Compute this year was delivered by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He suggested that one of the top strategic priorities at Facebook is to find a way to deliver Internet service to a larger portion of the world's population. Mr. Zuckerberg stressed that emerging markets (two-thirds of the planet's population) often do not have the same access to the Internet as does the developed world. Facebook believes that finding a way to provide affordable access to the Internet for those markets represents one of Facebook's largest growth opportunities. He added that the costs Facebook presently incurs to deploy networks that run its services would need to decline to one-tenth of current rates to make this goal financially achievable. He also added that Facebook has a plan to deliver those types of network efficiencies over the next five years and that the Open Compute Project is an essential cornerstone of that effort.
* We found a chorus of network pioneers at the event that agreed with Mr. Zuckerberg's assessment. The networking and compute process, when combined in ways that webscale operations have been perfecting for several years, is likely to deliver significant savings, compared to traditional methods and architectures.
Intel is introducing reference designs for "rack-scale architecture" that, by 2015-2016, should dramatically change the way the world processes data and manages compute resources and networks both together.
During a panel hosted by Facebook's Director of Infrastructure Najam Ahmad, a large number of panelists appeared to confirm that there is a clear and new reference design for how the IT community is beginning to measure efficient datacenter infrastructure.
Martin Casado, PhD & CTO of networking at VMWare, and J.R. Rivers of Cumulus Networks both seemed to agree that the new distributed datacenter model used by many hyperscale networks has achieved new levels of efficiency. Mr. Casado suggested these reference designs, across both enterprise and service verticals, are quickly becoming the de facto standard by which new and more efficient networking technologies can be deployed. He suggested that we may be nearly past the technical barriers required for achieving hypserscale efficiencies and that the primary constraint keeping enterprises and service providers from adopting similar technologies is now cultural. Casado believes that educating those who design and deploy IT systems is now the most effective way to bring about wholesale change across the networking landscape.
* The Open Compute Project (OCP) appears focused on this challenge in 2014. While the pure pace of innovative technology on display at this year's Open Compute Summit appeared to have slowed, relative to the last one, the mechanisms and framework needed to effect and propagate change appear to be improving dramatically.
The OCP appears to be rapidly gaining the support of the vendor community, bringing it closer to an ecosystem for the acquisition of bespoke networking and compute equipment. From a logical perspective, we continue to have reservations that an "open community" will have the scale and purchasing power to effect change across vendors that might prefer other solutions, but we remain impressed by the scale, scope, and momentum that the OCP has created over the past few years. Whether it proves to be long term or not, Open Compute and its member organizations are changing the face of the IT landscape.
1. SDN Central's OCP Summit Report:
2. OCP-Network Group Charter & more
3. Broadcom's Leaf & Spine Network Switch Spec
4. Intel's 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Rack Mountable Switch Standard, by Michael Miller
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com for a soft copy (pdf)
AT&Ts earnings report: Smartphone adds and low churn for wireless; Project VIP exceeds build out targets;U-Verse adds tooWed, 01/29/2014 - 12:29 — Alan Weissberger
AT&T's wireless revenues for the fourth quarter rose 4.8% year over year due mainly to a 16.8% increase in wireless data revenue. Wireless revenue hit $18.4 billion for the quarter and $5.7 billion of that came from data revenue. AT&T noted that data usage per smartphone increased 50 percent annually on its network.
1.2 million smartphones were added to AT&T's wireless network during the fourth quarter from both new subscribers and from upgrades by existing subscribers. There were 5 million total smart phone additions in 2013. Smartphone adds are important because those subscriptions generate more average revenue per user than traditional cell phones.
While the revenue from mobile data rose, AT&T's net postpaid adds, totaling 566,000 for the quarter, fell short of rivals Verizon (1.6 million) and T-Mobile (870,000). AT&T said there were tablet 440,000 net adds for the quarter.
AT&T reported a record-low Q4 postpaid churn of 1.11%- significantly lower than the 1.7% churn that T-Mobile says it experienced in the latest quarter.
AT&T added 194,000 TV subscribers in the fourth quarter, bringing the telecom's total to 5.5 million. The carrier also added 630,000 U-verse broadband customers for a total of 10.4 million. "Plus we had our lowest TV churn ever in the fourth quarter," Chief Financial Officer John Stephens told analysts Tuesday. Overall, AT&T earned 53 cents a share, higher than analysts had predicted, although the carrier warned of slowing growth in the current quarter. On the wireless side, AT&T added 809,000 subscribers, and profit margins exceeded analysts' estimates on a 4.8% rise in revenue.
PCWorld/IDG News Service (1/28), Multichannel News (1/28), GigaOm (1/28), Bloomberg Businessweek (1/29)
AT&T's press release:
AT&T Reports 20 Percent Adjusted EPS Growth, Record-Low Fourth-Quarter Postpaid Churn, Solid Smartphone Gains and Continued Strong U-verse Momentum in Fourth-Quarter Results
Full-Year 2013: Adjusted Revenue Gains of Nearly 2 Percent, Upper-Single Digit Adjusted EPS Growth and Nearly $23 Billion Returned to Shareowners
- $1.31 diluted EPS in the fourth quarter compared to $(0.68) diluted EPS in the year-ago period. Excluding significant items, EPS was $0.53 versus $0.44, up 20.5 percent year over year
- For full-year 2013, excluding significant items and Advertising Solutions, EPS was up 8.2 percent
- Fourth-quarter consolidated revenues of $33.2 billion, up 1.8 percent versus the year-earlier period
- More than 2 million new wireless and wireline high speed broadband connections added in the fourth quarter
- Full-year capital investment of $21 billion while exceeding Project VIP objectives
- $1.9 billion in share buybacks with 54 million shares repurchased in the fourth quarter; for the full year, the company repurchased 366 million shares, or more than 6 percent of shares outstanding, for $13.0 billion
- Nearly $23 billion returned to shareowners in 2013 through dividends and share repurchases
Nation's Most Reliable 4G LTE Network Drives Revenue Growth, Smartphone Gains and Lowest-Ever Fourth-Quarter Postpaid Churn
- Wireless service revenues up 4.8 percent versus the year-ago quarter, total revenues up 4.5 percent
- Wireless data revenues up 16.8 percent versus the year-earlier period
- Total postpaid ARPU up 2.1 percent; phone-only ARPU up 3.9 percent
- Wireless operating income up $1.4 billion, or 54 percent; wireless EBITDA up $1.5 billion, or 35 percent; wireless operating income margin of 21.4 percent; EBITDA service margin of 37.4 percent
- Lowest-ever fourth-quarter postpaid churn at 1.11 percent
- More than one-half million branded smartphone net adds, both postpaid and prepaid
- 1.2 million new postpaid smartphones added (both upgrades and new subscribers); smartphones account for a record 93 percent of postpaid phone sales
- More than 1 million AT&T Next sales, 15 percent of all postpaid smartphone gross adds and upgrades
- 566,000 wireless postpaid net adds
- 440,000 branded tablet net adds
U-verse® Drives Wireline Consumer Growth and Broadband Gains
- Wireline consumer revenue growth of 2.9 percent versus the year-earlier period
- Total U-verse revenues, including business, up 27.9 percent year over year, now a $13 billion annualized revenue stream
- 10.7 million total U-verse subscribers (TV and high speed Internet) in service:
- 630,000 high speed Internet subscriber net adds; record annual net adds of 2.7 million
- 194,000 U-verse TV subscribers added, lowest churn in product history
- Continued U-verse broadband gains in the business customer segment, up 78,000, nearly doubling year-ago net adds
- Strategic business services growth accelerates with revenues up 17.4 percent year over year, now more than 25 percent of wireline business revenues
Note: AT&T's fourth-quarter earnings conference call will be broadcast live via the Internet at 4:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, at www.att.com/investor.relations.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today reported solid fourth-quarter results with strong revenue and EPS growth driven by continued gains in the company's key growth drivers — mobile and IP data, U-verse and strategic business services.
"2013 was the year of the network," said Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO. "With Project VIP, we're delivering faster speeds and new services to millions more customers. And growth on these platforms is going strong. We exceeded build targets across the board. Our 4G LTE network is nearly complete and is the nation's most reliable with lightning-fast speeds. U-verse is rapidly expanding, and our fiber-to-the-business build is off to a fast start.
"The next steps are to make our networks even more powerful and layer on services that will drive new growth in the years ahead. We have good momentum in areas like connected car, home automation and mobile business solutions. We're also committed to transforming our operations to make them more responsive and efficient. To that end, we've launched Project Agile, a broad set of initiatives to streamline and improve every part of our business. Execution has begun and will be a focus area for us in 2014 and beyond."
Infonetics: Little Change in Top Router/Switch Vendors Ranked by CarriersSat, 01/25/2014 - 19:01 — Alan Weissberger
Infonetics Research released excerpts from its recently published Router and Switch Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, which explores service providers' perceptions of edge router and carrier Ethernet switch (CES) manufacturers and their criteria for choosing vendors.
•Cisco, the long-term edge router/CES revenue market share leader, is also seen as the #1 edge router/CES manufacturer by operator respondents
•Carriers are looking for the best investment: Survey respondents ranked price-to-performance ratio the #1 criterion when selecting an edge router/CES vendor, followed by product reliability
•Surprisingly, financial stability was rated the least important selection criterion on average•When it comes to service provider familiarity with edge router/CES manufacturers, Tellabs and Brocade scored relatively high given their market share
"The top four vendors in global edge router and carrier Ethernet switch market share—Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, and Huawei—are likewise viewed as the leading manufacturers of edge routers and CES by service providers participating in Infonetics' just-published router/switch survey," notes Michael Howard, Infonetics Research's co-founder and principal analyst for carrier networks. "There's a big gap between these four and their competitors, and it just gets harder for any manufacturer who's not already on top of the heap."
Author's Note: The above quote implies that Juniper has regained the #2 spot from Alcatel-Lucent. The Infonetics November 26, 2013 Router/Switch report ranked the top four vendors as follows: "Cisco maintains its lead with 38%, Alcatel-Lucent regains 2nd place, Juniper holds #3, while Huawei drops to #4 on the 3Q13 global router/CES revenue share leaderboard."
For its latest router/switch vendor leadership survey, Infonetics interviewed network equipment purchase-decision makers at 20 incumbent, independent wireless, competitive, and cable operators from EMEA, Asia Pacific, and North America. Together, the operators represent 36% of global telecom capex. The survey covers service providers' familiarity with router and carrier Ethernet switch (CES) manufacturers, vendors installed and under evaluation, selection criteria, and their rankings of vendors' technology innovation, product reliability, management software, security, pricing, price-to-performance ratio, service and support, product roadmap, and financial stability.
To buy the survey, contact Infonetics:
Carrier Ethernet switches (CE switches or CES) are designed for use in service provider networks, primarily for access/aggregation; may have routing functions.
Service provider routers route IP (supporting RIP, BGP, ISIS, and OSPF), support IETF MPLS and PWE3 (Pseudowire Emulation Edge to Edge) services.
For the router/CES data network, we use the terms: access (to buildings, consumers, DSLAMs, cellsites), which feeds up into the aggregation, which connects to the metro core data network.
We use 10GE/40GE/100GE to refer to Ethernet interfaces at speeds of 10G, 40G, and 100G.
NFV (network functions virtualization) is the use of network functions software running on COTS standard servers rather than on special built network products for on-net services, such as CDN, IMS,EPC, DPI, firewall, IDS, spam filter, and turbo charge downloads.
Packet-optical platforms are packet-optical transport systems (P-OTS) that have an architecture that provides all of the following:
Optical transport features including WDM and ROADM
Optical circuit switching (SONET/SDH crossconnect and/or OTN) across the chassis Support for both optical and layer 2 restoration
Ethernet switching, including support for connection oriented Ethernet (COE) protocols (e.g.,MPLS-TP, PBB-TE, T-MPLS, switched VLANs) and carrier grade per-flow traffic management
Multi-layer data/transport control plane: combines the control planes of Layer3/Layer2routing/switching equipment with layer 0 (?) and layer 1 transport equipment.
Related: Michael Howard's Dec 27, 2013 quotes:
"Service providers and vendors have been talking about how to use more optical transport withessential packet functionality to serve as the transport vehicle for packet traffic as an alternativeto routers. Our latest routing strategies study confirms that major changes are underway incarrier networks, with 75% of the operators we talked to using P-OTS (packet-optical transport systems) now or planning to by 2016."
Howard adds: "Carriers are very interested in 100GE as well. We asked at what price they would buy 100GE for different applications — data center connections, aggregation, core, etc. — and by when. Some operators are already paying 15 times the price of 10GE for 100GE because theyneed it now, and we found that some operators are willing to pay more for 100GE for specificparts of their networks; for example, over a third are willing to pay a premium for routes with lowfiber availability. Still, most carriers will wait until 100GE pricing comes down to 10 times 10GE orlower, so it behooves manufacturers to continue developments that lower the price of 100GE."
Chairman Tom Wheeler Describes FCC's Top Priorities during CHM Speech; All-IP Network Transition at Jan 30th FCC MeetingSat, 01/18/2014 - 20:53 — Alan Weissberger
During his January 8th speech at the Computer History Museum (CHM), FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told the CHM audience that the U.S. was in a transition to a "4th Network Revolution" that would be led by a transition to an "all-IP" network. The 4th Network is actually a multi-faceted revolution based on IP based packet communications (for voice, data and video) replacing digital circuit switching and analog transmission. Communications protocols are moving from circuit-switched Time-division Multiplexing (or TDM) to IP. 3G and 4G wireless voice and data services are increasingly prevalent, empowering consumers to connect at the place and time of their choosing.
The FCC is the public's representative in the ongoing network revolution and plans to pursue three main areas in this regard:
1. Promote and incent competition
2. Network Compact with the public, which has four key elements –universal accessibility, reliable interconnection, consumer protection, and public safety and security.
3. Regulatory philosophy based on risk and economic growth.
Wheeler said there were three steps the FCC can take to remove obstacles and to supply inputs, tangible and intangible, to enable innovators to spur growth. These will be the FCC's top policy initiatives in the coming months and years.
1. Spectrum policy that eliminates risks stemming from the government-mandated misallocation of spectrum. A key area here is the reworking (or repurposing) of analog/broadcast TV spectrum concepts to the new digital realities.
2. Speeding the transition to all-IP networks by preserving the Network Compact. That transition is important because it demonstrates that the Commission will adapt its regulatory approach to the networks and markets of the 21st century. Communications protocols are moving from circuit-switched Time-division Multiplexing (or TDM) to IP. 3G and 4G wireless voice and data services are increasingly prevalent, empowering consumers to connect at the place and time of their choosing.
3. Through the protection of the "Open Internet" that is, today, our largest, global channel of commerce. Unfortunately, the Open Internet and Net Neutrality are now in jeopardy, based on a federal district court ruling. Read the scoop, comment and analysis at: http://viodi.com/2014/01/17/net-neutrality-ruling-the-beginning-of-the-end-or-the-end-of-the-beginning/
Transitioning to an "all-IP" Network:
Wheeler told the CHM audience: "The best way to speed technology transitions is to incent network innovation while preserving the enduring values that consumers and businesses have come to expect. Those values are all familiar: public safety, interconnection, competition, consumer protection and, of course, universal access. They are familiar, and they are fundamental."
Continuing, he said: "At the January 30th Commission meeting, we will invite proposals for a series of experiments utilizing all-IP networks. We hope and expect that many proposed experiments, wired and wireless, will be forthcoming. Those experiments will allow the networks, their users, the FCC and the public to assess the impact and potential of all-IP networks on consumers, customers and businesses in all parts of our country, including rural America."
All-IP Network Topic at the FCC's January 30th Open Commission Meeting:
The FCC Chairman then said that "no one would use a network without being able to make a 911 phone call (to report emergencies and seek help from law enforcement)." That implies that the all-IP (VoIP) network must support 911 calls in a consistent manner. It doesn't now.
It appears the all-IP network transition will be the number one agenda item at the FCC's January 30th Open Commission Meeting. The agenda and live streaming info is at: http://www.fcc.gov/events/open-commission-meeting-january-2014
Advancing Technology Transitions While Protecting Network Values is the first agenda item. It's all about the transition to an all-IP network. "The Commission will consider a Report and Order, Notice of Proposed Rule making, and Notice of Inquiry that invites diverse technology transitions experiments to examine how to best accelerate technology transitions by preserving and enhancing the values consumers have come to expect from communication networks."
In a November 19, 2013 blog post, Wheeler provided an overview of the all-IP network migration. He wrote: "The way forward is to encourage technological change while preserving the attributes of network services that customers have come to expect – that set of values we have begun to call the Network Compact."
Wheeler provided an overview of the all-IP network migration. He wrote: "The way forward is to encourage technological change while preserving the attributes of network services that customers have come to expect – that set of values we have begun to call the Network Compact." Wheeler noted various FCC Commissioner comments in that blog post:
-Commissioner Pai said that the FCC should "embrace the future by expediting the IP Transition."
-Commissioner Rosenworcel told us that "as we develop a new policy framework for IP networks, we must keep in mind the four enduring values that have always informed communications law — public safety, universal access, competition, and consumer protection."
-Commissioner Clyburn has called upon the Commission "to carefully examine and collect data on the impact of technology transitions on consumers, public safety and competition."
AT&T Petition and FCC Technology Transitions Task Force are encouraging trials:
On November 7, 2012, AT&T petitioned the FCC to "Launch a Proceeding Concerning the TDM-to-IP Transition," GN Docket No. 12-353 (AT&T Wire Center Trials Petition). http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/fcc_filing.pdf
That document requested the FCC to "open a new proceeding to conduct, for a number of select wire centers, trial runs for a transition from legacy to next-generation services, including the retirement of TDM facilities and offerings" and that "the Commission should also seek public comment on how best to implement specific regulatory reforms within those wire centers on a trial basis."
AT&T requested that the FCC consider conducting trials where certain equipment and services are retired and IP-based services are offered. These geographically limited trial runs, conducted after a public comment period on how they should be carried out, would help "guide the Commission's nationwide efforts to facilitate the IP transition."9 Such an approach, AT&T notes, will "enable the Commission to consider, from the ground up and on a competitively neutral basis, what, if any, legacy regulation remains appropriate after the IP transition."
AT&T has set a date of 2020 to retire its TDM network and has been upgrading its IP-based service capabilities in its wireline markets via Project Velocity IP (VIP). AT&T presented a progress report on the Project VIP at the June 2013 IEEE ComSocSCV meeting. The event summary can be read at: Telco Tours & Seminars Top ComSoc-SCV Activities http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/gcn/pdf/gcn1213.pdf
The FCC's new "Technology Transitions Policy Task Force" was asked to move forward with real-world trials to obtain data that will be helpful to the Commission. The goal of any trials would be to gather a factual record to help determine what policies are appropriate to promote investment and innovation, while protecting consumers, promoting competition, and ensuring that emerging all-Internet Protocol (IP) networks remain resilient. The FCC task force is seeking public comment on several potential trials relating to the ongoing transitions from copper to fiber, from wireline to wireless, and from time-division multiplexing (TDM) to IP based packet switched networks.
Technology Trials Proposed:
The aforementioned FCC task force has proposed the following trials related to the all-IP network transition:
-VoIP Interconnection
-Public Safety - NG911
-Wireline to Wireless
-Geographic All-IP Trials
-Additional trials: numbering and related data bases, copper-to-fiber transition, retirement of copper?
The US Telecom Association was very supportive of such trials as well as the previously referenced AT&T petition. In comments submitted on January 28, 2013, the trade organization wrote: "The idea that the Commission should conduct real-world trials in order to better inform itself as to the technological and policy implications of the IP-transition is a way the Commission can continue its commitment to data-driven policy making. The Commission itself has urged carriers to 'begin planning for the transition to IP-to-IP interconnection' and the Commission-guided trials urged by AT&T would facilitate this effort."
"In particular, the AT&T Petition offers an opportunity for the Commission and state regulators to conduct informative, but geographically limited, trial runs for regulatory reform in discrete wire centers. AT&T correctly notes that such an approach will enable the Commission to consider, from the ground up and on a competitively neutral basis, what, if any, legacy regulation remains appropriate after the IP transition."
US Telecom's comments can be read at:
Important Unanswered Issues for an all-IP network (i.e. retiring the PSTN/TDM/Digital Circuit Switched Network):
Transition to an "all-IP" network implies retiring the PSTN, TDM/Digital Circuit Switched and all Wireless networks other than 4G with VoIP over LTE. In our opinion, that is a huge undertaking that will be incredibly disruptive and take many years, if not decades. Here are just a few point to ponder:
-Telcos and MSOs must universally deploy broadband for wireline VoIP to be ubiquitous. Currently, they make their deployment/build out decisions strategically- based on reasonable ROI. Not every area in the U.S. has or will have wired broadband as a result.
-Many rural areas have little or no wireless coverage and certainly not 4G-LTE. What happens to people who live in those areas, e.g. Arnold, CA.
-Even if wired or wireless broadband is available in many regions, there is likely to be only one or two network providers at most. Hence, there is little or no choice in service which is effectively a monopoly. Santa Clara, CA is in the heart of Silicon Valley, yet we now have only two choices for wired broadband- AT&T or Comcast.
-There is currently no Universal Service Fund/ Lifeline or discounted rate (for low income folks) for VoIP service. Lifeline service is ONLY available for the PSTN/POTS.
-If an individual or family doesn't want or can't afford high speed Internet and/or broadband TV service, then it will most likely be uneconomical for the Telco/MSO to ONLY provide VoIP service over broadband access. This is the case for many poor people and older Americans!
-What happens to faxes/fax machines, which are still overwhelmingly based on analog PSTN access? The death of fax has been predicted for over a decade, yet it is still alive and kicking!
-Battery backup is required for an all-IP network to make emergency phone calls when power is lost. There is a substantial montly charge for a battery backup box for AT&T's U-Verse VoIP service. An AT&T subscriber must also have battery backup power for the Wi-Fi gateway to enable your AT&T U-verse services to function during a power outage.
-There will be a huge impact on business customers that use digital circuit switched networks if the proposed all-IP changes happen soon in the affected areas or "wire centers." What if a company's main or branch office site(s) are located in an all-IP wire center coverage area? In that case, the business customer would have to give up it's digital PBXs or hosted ISDN PRI voice trunks and move to SIP trunks--even though the company is not nearly ready for a total enterprise-wide transition to an IP voice network.
-The transition from the classic PSTN to an all IP infrastructure will mandate the end of Signaling System 7 and the entire infrastructure that supports it. This is a substantial undertaking, the consequences of which are not fully understood. Can SS7-based functionalities be replicated on a broadband IP-based network? What would be the equivalent of a "voice grade" circuit? Is a SIP connection a functional equivalent for the key functionalities of SS7 switches? What about SMS/texts?
-The telephone numbering system provides a way for callers served by virtually any service provided in the world to reach one another. What will replace that system has yet to be determined. It surely won't be an IP address which is often dynamic and allocated for temporarilty reaching IP endpoints.
-Interconnection and Interoperability between IP and TDM networks is a work in progress.
-Quality of Service/Reliability/Resiliency is largely unknown with an all IP network, which would need to scale to replace and reach all PSTN/TDM endpoints. What would constitute an "outage," and how should "outage" data be collected and evaluated? Here again, the battery back-up on power fail would need to be made mandatory and low cost or no cost to consumers and enterprises.
Closing Comment:
Surely, there are more questions and issues in decommissioning PSTN/TDM/non-4G wireless networks and replacing them with an all-IP network. BT tried to do that over a decade ago with it's 21st Century Global IP Network, which is a very long way from being realized today. BT hoped to have over 50% of its customers transferred by 2008. Capital expenditure was put at £10 billion over five years, this being 75% of BT's total capital spending plans in that period. But it didn't happen and there seems to be no progress reports from BT on 21CN for years! Instead, it appears to have been renamed Next Generation Broadband Network which is described at: http://www.bt-ngb.com/home
This should be a lesson in reality or at least a wake-up call for the FCC, AT&T, US Telecom Association and others who believe that a rapid transition to an all-IP Network is feasible.
Cisco to announce video service& Web conferencing at CES - after exiting consumer networking businessTue, 01/07/2014 - 16:27 — Alan Weissberger
Cisco Systems is expected to announce a cloud-video service along with Web-conferencing capability on Samsung's Galaxy smartphones, Olga Kharif writes. The company is also expected to tout the "Internet of Everything" and related devices, and a speech by CEO John Chambers today will focus on the platform. "We think the Internet of Everything is the biggest transition for the Internet since the birth of the Internet," Cisco's Sr VP Kip Compton said.
The world's biggest maker of networking equipment has an exhibit on the main floor of the CES trade show this year for the first time. Cisco CEO John Chambers will use his CES keynote to talk about the Internet of Everything, or the idea of adding connectivity to the car, and objects inside homes, offices and retail shops. Last year, Cisco formed a group to focus on the concept, with projects include designing wristwatches for soldiers and centrally linking medical facilities and educational systems inside cities. With more devices coming online, Cisco is working to sell more networking gear as well as software and services.
Cisco said yesterday that it's teaming up with Samsung to feature its Web conferencing WebEx Meetings app on the home page of some Galaxy tablets. Samsung's Galaxy devices will let users share their screen, turn a call into a WebEx meeting or start a meeting from a contact list. Galaxy users will get WebEx Meetings Premium 8 accounts for free for six months.
"What you will see on the collaboration side for us is really increasing focus on the mobile devices," Compton said.