Lean by Design

In an earlier post I wrote of the decision by Eriksson to drop their investments in WiMax, and the fact that this should be considered carefully by those in the wireless industry. I have also expressed concern over Nortel’s ability to execute successfully on their stated 4G strategy, given their exit from UMTS (for a [...]

Last week prior to the CTIA show, Ericsson – the world’s leading wireless infrastructure vendor – confirmed that it will be closing down its WiMax development efforts, and will instead focus all its energies on UMTS LTE. Given Ericsson’s role in the the wireless industry, as well as all the buzz around WiMax, its decision [...]

It seems forever that the industry has been talking about the so-called last mile challenge, and how we can most cost effectively provide consumers with very high bandwidth services – either via Cable, DSL, Fibre Optics or FWA. At the last Voice 2.0 conference in Ottawa, Bill St-Arnaud of Canarie Networks offered what I thought [...]

A lot of buzz was generated last week from the acquisition of WebEx by Cisco. It should have, afterall, it is not every day that a web company gets bought for $3.2b dollars. GigaOM had flattering things to say about the move, which appears to be yet one more move by Cisco to compete with [...]