Are you stressed out by the requirement to delivery fiber-like bandwidth on mixed network architectures? Maybe it’s time you adopt a more flexible strategy and adapt to change by using a more tranquil solution.

Who needs a roadmap for Ethernet standards? Can you say: everyone! The encouraging news is that new standards are being worked on cooperatively across the industry. The question is: will these working groups clarify OAM functions and provide KPI measurement methods that can be used to monetize SLAs?

WDM-PON delivers the terrific level of traffic security that high-end business customers require. Plus, bandwidth per cabinet, building, or end user can be scaled nearly indefinitely. Upgrades from 1 Gbit/s to potentially 10 Gbit/s speeds can be made while the rest of the traffic on the WDM-PON network is not impacted. Now, that’s good thinking!

Americans' frequent use of the Internet has nearly doubled over the past 5 years with 48% of adults, many in groups that have historically been less frequent users, now reporting that they use the Internet more than 1 hour per day, compared with 26% in 2002, according to results from a recent Gallup Poll.

Whatever the reasons — job autonomy, better productivity in a regimen other than 8-to-5, gas prices, work and family balance — telecommuters have become one of the fastest growing groups of employees in corporate America.

The average amount of weekly free time Americans have for leisure activities fell 20% in 2008 - from 20 hours in 2007 to 16 hours last year - and now amounts to 10 hours less than the amount of leisure time (26 hours) in 1973 when tracking began, according to results from The Harris Poll.

A new report from Parks Associates finds worldwide growth in the number of 3G subscribers will motivate service providers, under pressure to maintain customer satisfaction and build revenues, to expand on traditional voice offerings to include converged fixed-mobile services.