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Telecom Pragmatics

Specializing in Telecommunications Markets and Technologies

Telecom Pragmatics specializes in consulting and research of telecommunications markets and related technologies. We provide reports and analyses on the most critical subject matters in the telecom industry.

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You can get monthly strategy services based on intelligence gathering by veteran telecom analysts with a long track record of brutal honesty. While obtaining the comprehensiveness of a full annual report, you get the added advantage of acquiring real-time research, which cannot be found in any other source. Our customers drive the actual topics based on changing market conditions and on developing business opportunities, and are able to follow up with further questions for our team.

4G Backhaul Network Strategies Monthly:
7/10 Cities with "Hidden" Fiber Assets for Potential LTE
Backhaul at Verizon Wireless
6/10 Tellabs' New Stress on "Intelligent Backhaul"/
Good Chance for Sales of SmartCore 9100 to Verizon Wireless
5/10 Synchronization & Ethernet4/10 Case Against an Overly Simplified Ethernet Approach3/10 Less 4G and More 3G Backhaul than Originally Expected?2/10 Is Turning Cheap/Simple Ethernet intoCostly/Complex TDM Insane?1/10 Migration to Ethernet12/09 Is Alcatel-Lucent's DSL Phantom Mode a Game Changer
for Copper in Backhaul?11/09 Wireless Backhaul in Minnesota10/09 Outlook for Hybrid Fiber/Microwave Backhaul Alternative Carriers9/09 Opportunities for FTTP Equipment in Backhaul8/09 Capacity Demands/Solutions atVerizon Wireless & AT&T Mobility

40/100 Gigabit Network Strategies Monthly:
7/10 100G Component Sourcing Problems/Fujitsu & NSN
Still Dealing with Cisco Systems-CoreOptics
6/10 Cisco Systems' Shutdown of Coherent Technology
to Its Competitors5/10 Infinera Had to Make a Choice
4/10 360networks and High-End Optics
3/10 Assessment of ADVA Optical Networking & 40/100G2/10 Insights into AT&T's 100G Ultra Long Haul Test1/10 Vello Systems: Brand New Start or Last Gasp?12/09 Ciena's Nortel Gear Unlikely to GetVerizon's 40/100G Business11/09 Google's Pressing Need for 40/100G10/09 Fujitsu vs Hitachi on 40/100G9/09 Lower Manhattan: Mecca for 100G & Mesh Networking8/09 100G Chip/Component Price Pressures to ForceVirtual Vertical Integration by System Vendors7/09 Metro 40G
6/09 RBOC 40G/100G Network Strategies

Network Strategies Monthly:7/10 Next-Generation PON
6/10 Spinoff of Verizon Business & Selloff of FiOS
in Long Term?
5/10 FTTH Equipment Supplier First-Round Stimulus Winners
Have Not Received a Penny Yet
4/10 Cost Justification for Fiber to Condo Buildings
in Small Markets Across US?3/10 Can CommScope Successfully Move Upstream with BrightPath?2/10 Future of RFoG Limited?1/10 Good Chance that New Verizon FiOS Infrastructure
has Ended Permanently12/09 Increased Regulatory Pressures Affecting
Verizon's FiOS Build-Out?11/09 Calix's Potential New Access Paradigm10/09 Impact of Kabel-X Technology on CATV FTTH Activities9/09 Verizon's FiOS in 20148/09 Fiber to the Business at Time Warner Cable up Close7/09 New York City FTTH MDU Outlook

Independent Telco Tactics Monthly:
7/10 Frontier Buying Verizon's Entire Remaining
Wireline Including FiOS Within Five Years?6/10 The Qwest Factor in Repositioning Access Vendors
5/10 Debate on IOCs Needing to Be Ready for IPv6
4/10 Probably Room for Just Two Large IOCs/
Second Part of CenturyTel-Qwest Merger3-4/10 Part 1 CenturyTel/Qwest Combination2/10 FCC Broadband Outline/Calix's IPO/
Round Two of "Anti-Stimulus"1/10 Zhone Technologies: An Uphill Path12/09 Calix Networks:
Conflicting Interpretations of Future Strategy11/09 Occam Networks: A Strategic Analysis10/09 Enablence Technologies: A Strategic Analysis9/09 Viable DSL Strategies for RLECs8/09 Hosted PBX Services Critical to IOCs7/09 Government Stimulus Impact onTelecom Infrastructure at IOCs
6/09 M&A Activity of IOCs

Municipal Utility Telecom
Network Strategies Monthly:6/10 Smart Grid
5/10 Jackson Energy Authority
4/10 Tacoma, Washington: Financing by Utility Itself
3/10 Redwood Coast Opportunity
2/10 Google's Fiber for Communities
will Probably be Token Effort1/10 Ekinops' Inroads into the MN Southeast State Network12/09 Minnesota Munis11/09 Broadband Stimulus Fund & the Munis10/09 Going Cadillac: Case of Chattanooga's EPB Network9/09 Full-Service Suppliers in Muni FTTH Market
Case of Lafayette Utilities System Fiber8/09 Fiber Optic Electronics Equipment Suppliers:A Competitive Analysis
Optical Switching/Transport
Network Strategies Monthly:6/10 Tellabs Going All Out to Reclaim Leadership Position in Optical Cross-Connects
5/10 Verizon Cautious with Purchases of Original Ciena Transport Products4/10 Can ADVA Optical Networking Succeed Long Term
with Product Differentiation?3/10 Nortel's Impact on Ciena's 5400/CoreDirector II2/10 Nortelization of Ciena Seems Inevitable1/10 Alcatel-Lucent's 1870 Transport Tera Switch:
A Hail Mary Play?12/09 Alcatel-Lucent Becoming Just Alcatel?11/09 Cyan Optics Tenuous Value-Addas Standalone Entity?10/09 Should Adtran Consider Coming Out
with Low-Cost Optical Cross Connect?
Ciena Should Not MD CoreDirector I9/09 Ciena's New 5400: Evolutionary & Potentially Enduring8/09 Will ROADMs Ultimately CannibalizeOptical Cross-connects?7/09 Broadband Cross-connects: A Competitive Analysis

10 Major Conclusions on Broadband Stimulus
10 Key Statements on Municipal Utility Networks10 Important Points on 4G
10 Significant Views on Telco Video