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Rivals stick the boot into Skype  -  21 Aug 2007
VNUNet.com,...to traditional telecoms business models have been developed without sufficient regard for resilience," said Mark Main, senior analyst at Ovum.

Microsoft and Cisco declare peace  -  21 Aug 2007
VNUNet.com,The main area of competition will be in the unified communications sector, said Ovum analyst Jan Dawson. ‘Cisco’s purchase of WebEx was the latest major

Cisco and Microsoft face tension in their peace quest  -  21 Aug 2007
IT PRO,...may cause tension in reality, particularly as the competitive pace hots up between them in the unified communications market, according to analyst Ovum.

Cisco and Microsoft Webcast: protesting too much?  -  21 Aug 2007
eChannelLine,Microsoft and Cisco is breaking out, especially in the unified communications market," said Jan Dawson, Ovum vice president, US enterprise practice.

Global managed services deals worth GBP1.4bn  -  21 Aug 2007
One Stop Click,Global telecoms contracts for managed services in the first half of the year amounted to $2.87 billion (£1.44 billion), according to analyst firm Ovum.

BT targets SME market with Basilica buy  -  Aug 20, 2007
Independent,...as BT drives down into the small business market. Angel Dobardziev, an analyst with Ovum, said: "This is another piece of the growth jigsaw for BT."

Switching, Routing Equipment Sales Up 14 Per Cent: Ovum-RHK  -  Aug 18, 2007
EFYTimes,...looks to be making a turn around, and Cisco returned to expected revenue levels," said Mark Seery, vice president, switching and routing, Ovum-RHK.

Windows Patch Caused Crash, Skype Says  -  Aug 20, 2007
PC World...this one or maybe even twice but if it becomes a succession of events, then people will say it's not for me," said Mark Main, senior analyst with Ovum.

Ovum cites Telecom New Zealand strengths, weaknesses  -  Aug 7, 2007
Telecom Paper (subscription),According to a report by Ovum, Telecom New Zealand's (TNZ) strengths are its incumbent status, strategic flexibility, its shift to a convergent business

Ovum RHK: Optical networking market has best quarter in six years  -  Aug 14, 2007
Lightwave (press release)AUGUST 14, 2007 -- Ovum RHK (search for Ovum RHK) has announced its preliminary analysis of second-quarter 2007 results for optical networking equipment

Ovum: 2Q07 a Good Quarter for Optical Networking Equipment Vendors  -  Aug 14, 2007
TMCnetIn a report out this week, Ovum RHK published preliminary analysis of second quarter 2007 results for the industry, and said globally revenues rose 14

VPLS: Best Practice For Corporate Networking - Case Study  -  Aug 20, 2007
SearchCIO ANZ,International research company reports from Ovum, Yankee Group and Infotech show VPLS or Ethernet WAN services as the fastest growing category of business

Wireless capex up 4%  -  Aug 20, 2007
RCRNews.com,Wireless carriers spent $5.3 billion during the quarter, said Ovum. Wireline operators, on the other hand, spent 2% less than they did during the previous

Fibre: going all the way?  -  Aug 20, 2007
Ovum,Ovum's estimates are that by the end of 2009 there will be approximately 13.8 million FTTH subscribers globally, 82% of whom will reside in the Asia-Pacific

Alcatel-Lucent makes a breakthrough in the service provider edge ...  -  Aug 20, 2007
TelecomTV,Alcatel-Lucent's long-awaited and long-overdue success is confirmed in similar reports from the UK -based consultancy Ovum as well as data from Synergy

EDS is back on top of the UK software and services market  -  Aug 17, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Electronic Data Systems (EDS), the giant American corporation founded by Ross "The Boss" Perot, has regained its top spot on Ovum's UK software and IT

Skype corrects sweeping software failure  -  Aug 17, 2007
MSNBCBut he noted that unlike many other services, there are no contracts to tie-in users and the approximately 5m people that Ovum estimates pay Skype for

Reuters In $1 Billion Outsourcing Deal With Fujitsu  -  Aug 17, 2007
InformationWeek,In a research note, analysts at UK-based advisory group Ovum said the deal is "significant" and estimated about $200 million of its total value will go

Skype experiences growing pains  -  Aug 17, 2007
VNUNet.com,A major outage at peer-to-peer VoIP service provider Skype yesterday is indicative of the firm’s current growing pains, according to analyst firm Ovum.

Freeth says councils over their heads in broadband  -  Aug 19, 2007
Computerworld New Zealand,By Stephen Bell Wellington | Monday, 20 August, 2007 A telecommunications market specialist from international consultancy Ovum has partially supported

Optical Networking Market Strongest in Years  -  Aug 17, 2007
Enterprise IT Planet,Ovum RHK, a market research advisory that specializes in telecom equipment and service providers, yesterday announced that based on a preliminary analysis

Skype problems may continue throughout the day  -  Aug 17, 2007
Macworld,...where normally there would be over 8 million, and it’s been going on and off every 10 minutes,�? said Mark Main, senior analyst at Ovum in London.

Skype outage hits 220 million users  -  Aug 17, 2007
Times Online,...disruptive to traditional telecoms business models have been developed without sufficient regard for resilience," Mark Main, an analyst at Ovum, said.

Ovum: virtualisation and ITIL key to success  -  Aug 1, 2007
ComputerWeekly.com,...by john-paul kamath In a survey of 300 enterprise and mid-market decision makers, Ovum has identified the aggressive use of consolidation and virtualisation

Fiber Diet for Telecom  -  Aug 14, 2007
Red Herring,Another Ovum-RHK report released on Tuesday has global revenue for optical equipment growing to $3.5 billion in the second quarter which represents a 20

Reuters signs £500m deal with Fujitsu  -  Aug 16, 2007
VNUNet.com,The contract is an example of the growing trend for so-called multisourcing business models, said Ovum analyst Angel Dobardziev.

EDS becomes leading UK outsourcer by sales  -  Aug 17, 2007
ComputerWeekly.com,EDS has won back its number one position as the UK's leading software and IT services outsourcer, says analyst Ovum. But Ovum says Capgemini has the most to

Cisco leads CMTS shipments in Q2  -  Aug 16, 2007
Telecom Paper (subscription),Alcatel-Lucent shipped a total of 9.6 million DSL ports in the second quarter to June with a 36 percent market share, according to a report from Ovum-RHK.

The Egg and Us: My Love Affair with the Much Maligned Ovum  -  Jul 30, 2007
Huffington Post,It is a sorry state of affairs for the gastronome who is faced with the very early middle age fact that her favorite comfort food may be considered by her

Young shun MySpace for Bebo and Facebook  -  Aug 15, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,John Delaney, analyst at technology consultancy Ovum, said: "What we saw, particularly after News Corp took MySpace over, was that the average age of

Analyst condemns Skype after long service outage  -  Aug 18, 2007
Telappliant VoIP News,Mark Main, writing for telecoms technology website Ovum, suggested that the service disruption indicated "free on-net services" suffer from reliability

PCMCIA still dominates data card market, says analyst  -  Aug 4, 2007
INQ7.net,Ovum estimates total data card connections worldwide to reach 13.3 million this year and predicts it will grow to 52.6 million by 2011.

Global service provider switching and routing equipment sales grow ...  -  Aug 13, 2007
MySolutionInfo (press release),August 13, 2007- Ovum-RHK today posted its analysis of global second quarter 2007 service provider switching and routing equipment sales.

Google Backs Wireless Net Neutrality Commitment with $4.6B: Ovum ...  -  Jul 23, 2007
Wireless Design & Development Asia,On Friday, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt sent a letter to the FCC reaffirming its position calling for net neutrality in the forthcoming US spectrum auction,

The connection's just not there  -  Aug 14, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,Leith Campbell, principal consultant in Australia for British telecommuunications analyst firm Ovum, says government support estimated at $4.5 billion over

DSL broadband market buoyant  -  Aug 17, 2007
ComputerWeekly.com,The DSL broadband market grew strongly in the second quarter crossing the 25 million DSL port mark for the first time, according to research firm Ovum RHK.

China's Disturbing Broadband Decline  -  Jul 26, 2007
BusinessWeek...by Isabelle Chan In a recent report, Ovum noted that after a staggering 114 percent growth in 2004, China's broadband growth slowed in 2005 and 2006 to 57

SMEs choosing free VoIP over paid-for services  -  Aug 15, 2007
Telappliant VoIP News,An upcoming study by Ovum reportedly suggests that SMEs "are keen on VoIP", but they are often choosing to use free services aimed at casual users rather

Skype outage could test users' loyalty  -  Aug 17, 2007
MSN MoneyMark Main, a senior analyst at Ovum, the European telecoms consultancy, said: "There is still a danger that services designed to be highly disruptive to

Global service provider switch, router sales up 14% in Q2  -  Aug 13, 2007
Telecom Paper (subscription),...switching and routing equipment was worth USD 2.6 billion in the second quarter, up 14 percent from a year earlier, according to research by Ovum-RHK.

SMEs taking up VoIP  -  Aug 16, 2007
One Stop Click,An upcoming report from Ovum suggests that while SME's are "keen on VoIP", instead of using tailored systems with a private branch exchange (PBX).

Singapore ups governance  -  Aug 14, 2007
ITWeb,In a survey of 300 enterprise and mid-market decision-makers, Ovum has identified the aggressive use of consolidation and virtualisation technologies and

Some Skpe Users Can Connect, but Problems Continue  -  Aug 17, 2007
IT Business Edge,Mark Main, senior analyst at Ovum in London, told PC World that about 2.5 million people were logged on at the time. Skype says 5 million to 6 million of

Investors Crash Alcatel-Lucent's Wedding  -  Jul 31, 2007
Forbes,..."Historically, a lot of the equipment vendors were great revenue generators," said Steven Hartley, analyst with Ovum Research. "The market now is much,

Optical Shines in Q2  -  Aug 15, 2007
Light ReadingDana Cooperson, Ovum-RHK vice president of network infrastructure, says the growth is due not only to strength in the wireline market, but in other markets

Skype Suffers Prolonged Outage  -  Aug 17, 2007
SDA India Magazine,According to commentary by Mark Main, senior analyst at Ovum, "Outages and quality problems with VoIP service providers are sadly still too common - most

Oracle 11g whiz  -  Aug 15, 2007
Ovum,Early adopter customers that Ovum has interviewed reported massive productivity gains in their application testing programmes. Secondly, there are a slew of

Next-generation services boost service provider kit spending  -  Aug 13, 2007
ComputerWeekly.com,Figures from research firm Ovum-RHK show that switching and routing kit sales reached £1.3bn in the second quarter. Ovum-RHK said IP and Ethernet transport

Motorola ups its Linux commitment  -  Aug 10, 2007
VNUNet.com,...which operating systems they have to factor in for rolling out mobile services," said Adam Leach, principal analyst at market research firm Ovum.

Nokia Wired For Profit  -  Aug 2, 2007
Forbes,According to Ovum Research analyst Martin Garner, Nokia's gains were not only due to the weakness of competitors such as Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people

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