Carrier capital spending (capex) may be down during the current economic downturn but Carrier Ethernet is bucking that trend.

Boeing is paying AT&T $400 million over the next five years to consolidate its voice and data networks into one system that will be based on IP.

Many of my clients are thinking about how they can use Internet services to augment — or even replace — their WANs.

In an alternate life, Rodney Dangerfield was probably a telecom manager: All too often, telecom folks get no respect. Users (and higher-ups) expect the infrastructure to simply work, while drooling over the flashy new apps, which they think of as “strategic assets.” Communications? That’s just the wires that keep the bits flowing.

Boeing is paying AT&T $400 million over the next five years to consolidate its voice and data networks into one system that will be based on IP.

Many of my clients are thinking about how they can use Internet services to augment — or even replace — their WANs.

In an alternate life, Rodney Dangerfield was probably a telecom manager: All too often, telecom folks get no respect. Users (and higher-ups) expect the infrastructure to simply work, while drooling over the flashy new apps, which they think of as “strategic assets.” Communications? That’s just the wires that keep the bits flowing.