September 4, 2008 - Verizon, Yahoo! reach new deal on distribution, revenue sharing

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September 4, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders       News of the Day    Verizon, Yahoo! reach new deal on distribution, revenue sharing Verizon Communications and Yahoo! have extended their Internet-related distribution and revenue-sharing deal. Under the pact, Yahoo! gets top billing when new Verizon broadband subscribers select a home screen (not Microsoft, as in the past), and Verizon gets a portion of the revenue from Yahoo! searches and display ads. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (9/4) , CNET (9/3) Bharti Airtel grows at a stunning pace by keeping its focus on the customer. IBM helped Bharti Airtel - India's fastest-growing telecom company - discover ways to launch new products in days instead of weeks. Find out more by reading this IBM case study.   Business & Industry Watch  Cisco: Network-management innovation presents challenges Cisco Systems continues to experience challenges in the network-management sector, but one company executive attributes part of that to a push for innovation. "It's actually a good thing when network management is struggling, because it says that innovation is really happening at a fast rate," said Karen Sage, Cisco's director of product management for network management. "So, it's really a Catch-22. I don't know if you're ever going to have a single, shrink-wrapped 'Here's your network management' that can do every area and everything and all functions." Network World (9/3) Ciena feels economic pinch Ciena has announced that its customers are making more deliberate buying decisions because of the current economic environment, which Ciena expects to weigh on its fiscal fourth-quarter revenue. Reuters (9/4) Survey: Techs see going green as essential Companies are failing to earmark funds to make their data-center operations more energy-efficient, even though investing in "green" technology will save money in the future, according to a survey of chief information officers and senior IT executives conducted by Voltaire, a provider of grid-computing solutions. In the survey, 76% reported that they lacked a sufficient budget to institute change, while 90% said they believed that taking such "greening" steps was critical to their company's future. InfoWorld/Network World (9/3) USTelecom Spotlight USTelecom Webinar: The Carrier Ethernet Opportunity Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1 p.m. Eastern time Register today. Carriers and broadband-service providers alike are increasingly extending local network services to their customers by deploying carrier Ethernet in their networks and opening the door for wholesale services such as wireless backhaul and video transport services. Register now for this free webinar and hear an overview of today's carrier Ethernet technologies, the state of the carrier Ethernet marketplace and opportunities for service providers. Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Video Upload  FiOS TV comes to parts of Washington, Maryland Verizon Communications announced that on Sept. 12 it will begin rolling out its FiOS TV service to about 200,000 homes in the Puget Sound area of Washington state, a region that already has FiOS broadband service. Additionally, the company soon will begin offering FiOS TV to an additional 22,500 homes and businesses in parts of Baltimore's suburbs, bringing its Maryland footprint of homes passed to more than 700,000. The Seattle Times (9/4) , Multichannel News (9/3) Amazon's VOD service makes U.S. debut Amazon.com's video-download service now is available in the U.S., according to this report. Amazon Video On Demand allows PC and Mac users to download TV shows and movies for a small fee, either with their Web browser or via the downloadable Amazon Unbox application. Pocket-lint.co.uk (9/4) TiVo, DirecTV stick with DVR-development pact DirecTV will pay "a substantially higher monthly fee" for households using a new TiVo high-definition DVR. DirecTV had abandoned TiVo-made set-top boxes in 2005 in favor of its own DVRs, but the new deal assures TiVo will get a high-margin revenue from DirecTV. Reuters (9/3) , OneTRAK (9/3)   Technology Trends    Investment shows Intel retains WiMAX interest Intel has invested $3 million in Aicent, a San Jose, Calif., company that said it would pour the funds into development of interoperability technology that would encourage WiMAX acceptance, according to reports. EDN/Electronic News (9/3) , CNET (9/3) Verizon hits mark -- and more -- in 100-Gbit tests Verizon Communications has succeeded in extending the size of its network links after a Richardson, Texas, test involving the overlay of a 111-Gbit-per-second channel over 645 miles, according to a paper the company will present to a European optical conference this month. According to the conference Web site, a Verizon executive will talk optimistically about the "feasibility of 100G overlaying existing 10G/40G commercial systems." Light Reading (9/3) Cablevision making steady progress on Wi-Fi network Officials at Cablevision say the Bethpage, N.Y., company has completed the first part of a $300 million wireless Internet network in the New York metropolitan area. The work extends free Wi-Fi access to Nassau and parts of Suffolk counties as well as commuter train stops on Long Island. By 2010, the wireless net is expected to cover Cablevision's entire footprint. Bloomberg (9/4) , Google/Associated Press (9/4) FCC may ease phone-data collection from telecoms The FCC is seeking ways to overhaul what some consider an outmoded system of collecting data from telecom companies. AT&T is hoping to "eliminate reporting requirements that are no longer necessary or [are] redundant," a company spokesman said. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (9/4) Whitepaper: Using KPIs to Optimize your Network and Business Deriving "actionable" business intelligence - based on network traffic - is critical for ensuring network optimization, profitability and business innovation. This webinar will discuss how operators can leverage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to improve the long-term profitability of their operations. Tekelec Whitepaper   IP Download  Accedian says PAA boosts IP, mobile-TV monitoring Accedian Networks has introduced a solution aimed at improving ways to monitor the response and performance of network traffic for such applications as large-scale IPTV, VoIP conferencing and mobile-TV streaming. The multicast Performance Assurance Agent -- for EtherNID and MetroNID demarcation units -- supports business services and backhaul applications. 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