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...This has been one of the single biggest enhancements to the technology," says Guido Garrone, chief technology officer of Milan-based Internet company FastWeb, which offers VOD to its subscribers. Who gets credit? Paris-based Alcatel dominates the global $3.3 billion DSLAM market with a 38.1% share, according to Gartner Inc. (China's Huawei is second with 9.9%). Alcatel not only revved up the DSLAM but made it cheaper by deploying a technology called Ethernet that's been around for nearly 30 years in the short-haul business of local area networking. Ethernet allows telecoms to use Internet equipment like...
...regular telephone service. The company now has 220,000 subscribers, a pittance beside the 112 million traditional phone lines. But Citron's outfit is adding 1,000 new customers every day. "He's been sort of a nuisance and a prod," says Steve Koppman, a telecom analyst with Gartner. "He has proved out the concept in the marketplace before the big players...
...student at the University of Waterloo, near Toronto. Last year the number of people using a BlackBerry doubled, and in the three months through June alone, RIM shipped more than 500,000 devices, almost three times as many as a year earlier, according to research firm Gartner...
...device could fetch. It also let employees send and receive using their corporate addresses, just as if they were in the office. RIM's curved layout of button-like keys has also made thumb operation a breeze. "It's very difficult to get someone to use another device," says Gartner vice president Ken Dulaney...
...business model. In 2000 he and Skype co-founder Janus Friis launched Kazaa, a peer-to-peer exchange that allowed users to swap music and videos online. Now Zennstrom is at the vanguard of voice over Internet protocol (VOIP), a technology that lets voice traffic travel over the Internet. Gartner Inc. analyst Katja Ruud estimates that about 100 million people worldwide will use VOIP by 2008. Even telecom giants like AT&T, BT Group and Verizon realize they have to offer VOIP. Zennstrom practices extreme VOIP: free calls and free software. He admits that "we have almost no revenue...