Inc. VRTL - Vertel Corporation Clearstation provides excellent charting and technical information. The sites listed in this section provide a backdrop to the current problems as well as bright spots in the telecommunications industry which affect the OSS industry. This web site will give you everything that you could possibly want in terms of DSL and broadband in general. The CLEC industry has been the bane of this industry, especially recently. CLEC Planet provides a comprehensive review of the business and technical aspects for the Competitive Local Exchange Carriers.
Wireless technology is perhaps the hottest telecomm industry today.
We think Wireless week is an excellent source of information for the Wireless industry - both voice and Data. In his Business Pages column, Alan Goldstein reports on the good technology stocks that can get dragged down with an entire sector, specifically mentioning Metasolv Software and Efficent Networks. This purchase represents a major consolidation in the OSS industry. According to CIR, network management of optical networks is one of primary issues for service providers in 2001. Although becoming more sophisticated, network management systems from the various optical vendors still must provide a wide variety of seamless services such as flow-through provisioning over multiple networks, automated correction of performance management functions and more automation, throughout.