Report: Wireless substitution, VoIP overtake ILEC landline dominance

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	Report: Wireless substitution, VoIP overtake ILEC landline dominance We have long followed the trend of wireless substitution for landlines and the growing market share for VoIP as an alternative to traditional telco service. In a report released earlier this month, USTelecom said that, according to its estimates, more households now use wireless only than those that use an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) phone service. The trade association's analysis and projections suggests that at the end of 2012 ILECs were no longer the dominant provider of residential voice services as more consumers "cut the cord" and as they transitioned to VoIP. Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv (Formerly Diskeeper) Managing the I/O Explosion Without Extra Hardware In this Technology Spotlight, IDC highlights the unexpected I/O explosion brought about by virtualization and presents new technologies that deliver exceptional application performance without additional hardware by eliminating unnecessary I/O traffic at the source. Read more. Read Now! In this Issue Interop planning guide 2013 Hospital opts for Wi-Fi over GPS in smartphone navigation app The Internet of Things: Coming to a network near you Viewpoint: When it comes to enterprise security, is it better to focus on compliance or risk? When the PC is obsolete, how will you do this, and this, and this? WHITE PAPER: VMware Crash Insurance: Protect Your Business with Virtualization Think that your business is safe from an IT outage caused by a natural or man-made disaster? Think again. Read this trend brief to learn more about potential risks to IT services and how a comprehensive disaster recovery plan is essential to keeping your systems up and running at all times. Read Now! Interop planning guide 2013 It's that time of the year again: Interop is almost here. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies The Linchpin to Transfroming IT to a Business Service Watch CA Technologies explore the best practices to enable this shift in IT management to thrive in this era of IT's "New Normal". Learn More Hospital opts for Wi-Fi over GPS in smartphone navigation app Miami Children's Hospital recently launched a free iPhone app that uses Wi-Fi triangulation to help patients and their families find their way around the medical center. Read More WHITE PAPER: Neebula Systems Inc A Simple Path to Effective Root Cause Analysis Anyone who has worked an IT Service Desk knows that on average 80 percent of incident & problem management time is spent identifying and analyzing the root cause of an incident and less than 20% is dedicated to fixing the underlying issue. Learn More The Internet of Things: Coming to a network near you When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), the most common examples are smart cars, IP-addressable washing machines and Internet-connected nanny cams. Read More Viewpoint: When it comes to enterprise security, is it better to focus on compliance or risk? A CIO once quipped, "Security isn't hard, compliance is." And in fact many companies focus their security efforts on meeting compliance requirements. But if you are audit compliant, have you in fact addressed all of your risks, or are you just kidding yourself? Is it better to focus on the risks presuming that doing so will cover you off on the compliance side? Network World Editor in Chief put the question to two practitioners, both of whom come down on the side of risk. Read More When the PC is obsolete, how will you do this, and this, and this? Take a tour of the PC's greatest talents. Read More
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