Stories about: Swisscom

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    The challenges of bringing fiber to the home 01/07/2009 05:59:00

    Carriers worried about the cost of deploying fiber should concentrate primarily on lowering their installation costs and driving up their adoption rates, according to Boston-based research firm the Yankee Group.
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    Technology replaces buried cable with fiber 13/08/2008 09:30:43

    A company is offering a unique and less-invasive cable replacement technology, which could prove useful for carriers looking to replace their aging copper infrastructure with fiber, without incurring the cost and disruption of digging up the old cabling.
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    Nortel, Microsoft chart unified communications progress 14/02/2008 10:04:05

    Even though they fleshed out their joint strategy on the stage of "Saturday Night Live" a year ago, Nortel and Microsoft have since shown that their unified communications partnership is no joke.
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    Red Hat faces challenges to move beyond core technology 28/09/2007 06:17:25

    Clad in his pajamas, Red Hat co-founder Marc Ewing arrived at work at 11 a.m. one day in 1998, unlocked the office for a new employee, and promptly left to go back to sleep.
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    Microsoft: IPTV is entry to operator business 08/08/2007 13:15:06

    Microsoft has described its Mediaroom IPTV offering as a way for the software giant to expand its reach into the living room but now the company also says IPTV is a chance for it to gain a new market in telecommunications operators.
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    Open source swarms around NAC 02/04/2007 08:38:24

    A pair of Harvard University IT staffers last week released a free virtual appliance that supports their open source network access control platform -- just one of many free NAC tools springing up to address security-hungry customers.
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    Microsoft targets Europe with TV-enabled set-top boxes 13/09/2005 08:13:37

    After lining up several big-name telecommunication service providers to offer its new IPTV (Internet Protocol television) technology, Microsoft is now following up with a list of companies to provide optimized set-top boxes, and with a new system-on-chip component targeted at consumer electronics manufacturers.
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    Microsoft IPTV is still fuzzy but promising 08/08/2005 09:05:30

    Several big telecommunications operators and, in particular, the world's largest software maker, Microsoft, hope to sway many couch potatoes to zap their old-fashioned notions about television and tune into the convergence of TV and the Internet.
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    BT picks Microsoft TV platform 29/06/2005 09:02:38

    BT Group has decided to trial Microsoft's new Internet-based TV platform after one carrier requested more time to iron out the bugs and another opted to pull the plug on the technology altogether.
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    Telstra drops off Microsoft IPTV early-adopter list 23/06/2005 08:00:01

    Telstra this week dropped out of a Microsoft early adopter program for its end-to-end IP (Internet Protocol) TV software platform.
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    SBC switches on Microsoft in major IPTV deal 18/11/2004 07:41:30

    Microsoft has turned the channel on its slow-moving television software business by winning a key contract for its new Internet-based TV platform from SBC Communications.
 
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