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Dozens of Jared's friends and family - siblings, parents, nieces, nephews, and Jaxon - came out for his funeral a few days later, filling the local church where Jared's body lay in a flag-draped open casket. It was only a couple of weeks later, when the cops returned Jared's phone, that the family saw the suicide video Jared had recorded. Thousands of text messages and phone calls to and from both numbers that had called Jared showed they had also been used to contact family members and associates of Dobbins and Smith on the out-side. When the twins were small, Jared (left) was the outgoing, talkative one; Jacob (above, wearing Jared's Superman shirt) was more quiet, subdued. Jared's extended family in Greenville, South Carolina, includes, from left, his brother Bryan, young stepbrother Evan with Kathy's husband Gary, Kathy (his mom, in pink) with stepsister Evie, Jacob, Kevin (his dad), and sister Kimilee. [Extracted from the article]

Focuses on hardware replaceability, or Hot Swap, needed in computer platforms intended for telecommunications. Requirements for allowing system processor slots to Hot Swap; How Swap standards which are used in controlling bus traffic following a processor switchover; Methods of stopping a slot's bus activity.

The article focuses on SBC Communications chairman and chief executive officer Ed Whiteacre's announcement of the details of the company's U-verse brand of services including Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). The company had experimented with Video digital subscriber line and had a fiber-to-the-home project. In most of these cases, the video was being sent to the home using traditional radio frequency. However, IPTV has developed into a technology that has the ability for telecommunication companies to offset declining revenue from traditional voice services. INSETS: ARE WE THERE YET? MPEG-4 STUMBLES INTO PRODUCTION;IS INTEROPERABILITY ALL THAT IMPORTANT?.

Examines whether telecommunication companies can match a 100 Mb/s service from cable operators. Impact of the adoption of DOCSIS 3.0-compliant equipment by cable operators on the industry; Standardization and future deployment of VDSL2; Plan of most telecommunication companies to put their total bandwidth budgets for the triple play; Advantages of DSL.

Discusses the features and applications of voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP). Provision of seamless communications from the desktop to the wireless service; Primary benefit of VoIP; Ability of VoIP to converge networks; Incentive for the telecommunication industry to sell VoIP applications.

Focuses on the operations of South Slope Cooperative Telephone Co. which provides triple-play bundle of voice, high-speed data and video to customers with a unique arrangement with Iowa Network Services (INS) in North Liberty, Iowa. Agreement between the company and INS to provide video-on-demand services to its clients; Encoding of local content and national channels of the INS in its broadcast services; Management of the flow of online content.

The article reports on the deployment of fiber-to-the-premises by several independent telecommunication companies in the U.S. The rationality behind the move was to compete in terms of voice communications over Internet protocol, high-speed data and video. Another reason is to fend off impeding cable competition, and it is the most efficient way to provide triple play in a fast-growth region.

Focuses on the importance of security for in voice over IP services. Security measure in telecommunication; Transmission of video over radio frequency in fiber-to-the-premises networks; Security of services.

This article focuses on Spring's FastNet Futures conference held in Santa Clara, California. At this conference, one of the more interesting moments came when representatives of both firms Ikanos and Metalink Ltd. stood before several dozen fellow broadband executives and demonstrated competing chipsets that could send data through copper at 100 downstream and 50 Mb/s upstream. While staged under conditions that were not exactly real world, Ikanos sent data over 1500 feet of 26 gauge twisted pair while Metalink did the same over 984.25 feet of 26 gauge wire, the event in the convention center ballroom was meant more as a showcase of what will be possible for telcos worldwide in a few years. However, there's increasing evidence that many may be deploying technology that pushes them beyond their current typical DSL offerings that top out at 3 Mb/s or so.

Reports on key controversies pertaining to the joint venture among three telecommunication companies in the U.S, SBC Communications, Verizon Communications and BellSouth in the deployment of a passive optical network architecture using minimal electronics for communication. Criticisms on the joint venture; Benefits and limitations of the system; Implications for the industry.

Reports on the decision reached by Consolidation Communications Inc. to acquire two local subsidiaries of TXU Communications in Texas. Names of the two business enterprise; Terms of the deal; Benefits of the agreement for parties involved.

Reports on Verizon Communications Inc.'s expansion of the company's EV-DO wireless data network and transformation of the basic wireline switching architecture into a packet-based network through a contract with Nortel Networks Corp. Reasons behind the company's moves; Implication of the changes on Verizon's operations; Terms of the agreement between Verizon and Nortel.

Reports on the business strategies and operations of telecommunication company and voice-over-internet telephony carrier, Vonage Inc. Range of services provided by Vonage from voice service and applications over an IP network; Existing policies that regulate the industry; Competition with other firms; Launch of cell phone services; Trends in the industry.

Focuses on the adoption of softswitch in the telecommunication industry in the U.S. Concept and functionality of softswitch; Conversion of networks from circuit to packet switching; Financial performance of softswitch vendors; Scalability of softswitch. INSET: THE SOFTER SIDE OF WIRELESS.

Reports on the offering of DSL-based video service by telecommunication carriers in the U.S. Competitive advantage of the three pay-per-view options and premium movie channels; Public access to electronic mail from the television; Basis of the optical network unit in the business model for telecommunication companies.

Focuses on CenturyTel Inc., a Monroe, Louisiana-based telecommunications company. Growth of the company under the leadership of chief executive Glen Post. Plans for commercial video roll-out.

Considers the condition of internet protocol telephony market in the U.S. Annual capital expense; Breakdown of operational expenses; Estimates of demand and revenue; Subscriber growth. INSETS: ANNUAL CAPITAL EXPENSE;COST BREAKDOWN;SUBSCRIBER GROWTH;DEMAND & REVENUE ESTIMATES

Reports developments in the telecommunications industry. Prevalence of employee lay-off in the industry; Return of capital expenditure budgets; Services provided by the American Telegraph & Telephone Co.

Focuses on the funding being received by telecommunication companies from venture capital (VC) firms in 2002. Total investment by VC firms in the first quarter of 2002; Impact of the decline in telecommunication valuations on VC firms; Amount of funds received by Vernier Networks and Integra Telecom from VC companies.

Features Jack Rooney, chief executive officer of U.S. Cellular. His opinion on wireless data; His concern on the development of third generation wireless technology; His outlook for the company.

Presents information on Pioneer Telephone, a competitive local exchange carrier which focused on providing residential and business telephone service in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. Background of Pioneer Chairman Dirk Winkel; Services offered by the company; Techniques used by Pioneer and its partners to provide services that many metropolitan subscribers take for granted.

Focuses on PhatPipe, a building local exchange carrier (BLEC) company in the United States. Digital subscriber line access service being offered by PhatPipe; Target market of the company; Scope of the partnership deal between PhatPipe and real estate investment trusts; Market strategy taken by the company.

Looks at several competitive local exchange carrier business in the United States. Problems of Hutchinson Telephone with its operation in Litchfield, Minnesota; Terms under the partnership deal of Crystal Communications with the city of Nicollet, Minnesota; Market data and video market capture by CTC Telecom in Barron, Wisconsin. INSET: Been there, burned by that.

Deals with the challenges faced by cable operators in Europe. Factors that contributed to the success of operator in the United Kingdom; Key to the cable success of operators; Problems encountered by United Kingdom cable telephony market; Issues to consider in determining the success of European cable telephony; Lines of market that influence the European market.

Focuses on efforts by telecommunication companies in the United States to focus on the Internet protocol (IP) telephony market. Traffic at Delta Tree's dedicated IP telephony network; IDT's offering of personal computer-to-telephone and telephone-to-telephone services; Importance of IP to Level 3's data strategy.

Cites the approaches of several cable operators and telecommunication companies in the United States to advance video. Includes Cox's signing of a deal with NextLevel Systems to buy digital set top boxes; GTE's expansion to include Internet access; CableLab's launch of Open Cable project aimed at developing standard interfaces for digital set-tops.

Focuses on efforts by several telecommunication companies to explore various technologies as alternatives for the circuit switch of the central office (CO). Sprint's plan to build a network based on packet and cell technologies; Uncertainty in the process of using unbundled network elements; US West's petition for the Federal Communications Commission to deregulate all data services.

Features software for network operations and service support systems which were exhibited at the 1998 Supercomm held on June 7-11, 1998 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Includes MetaSolve Software's Telecom Business Solution 3.2; Architel Systems' addition to its Automatic Service Activation Program; PulsePoint Communications' Enhanced Application Platform.

The article focuses on the transition of the telecommunication companies from Moving Picture Experts Group-2 (MPEG-2), the name of family of standards used for coding audio-visual information in a digital compressed format, into MPEG-4 gear hoping to gain additional bandwidth in the U.S. The problems they faced during the conversion phase between the two compression schemes have been discussed.

The article discusses the implications of the merger between AT&T Communications Inc. and BellSouth Communications Inc. on the telecommunication industry in the U.S. The two companies are substantial players in the direct broadcast satellite market. Other companies are concerned about the competitive influence that the merger will yield. AT&T and BellSouth voiced out those Internet providers must pay more for the fatter pipes in order to deliver advanced services.

The article discusses the luck of a person who had a coincidental success. It is amazing how often the person who plans the most tends to have the best luck. The company has developed a tool kit for enterprises by following on it's blended model. They have high expectations about the services and prices at the same time that will be available.

Reports that telecommunications vendors in the United States take vastly different approaches on how to use bandwidth. Issue of over-provisioning bandwidth; Cogent chief executive Dave Shaffer's view on multi-protocol label switching (MPLS); Carrie use of MPLS; Issue of cost of providing more bandwidth.

Reports on the presentation of Internet protocol television (IPTV) as a market that is still developing a the telecommunications trade show Supercomm 2005. Cautious speech delivered by keynote speaker and BellSouth chief executive Duane Ackerman; Challenge of differentiating the company's video offerings from cable and satellite packages; Attributes to be used by SBC Communications in its projected launch of IPTV.

Reports on the potentially great shifts in the telecommunications market as technological innovations break the stranglehold of video content producers and introduce nontraditional models of content distribution. Exponentially growing content and multiplying number of entertainment options via the television screen; Evolving structure into which telecommunications companies are moving.

Discusses the changes occurred in the wireless industry in 2005. Use of wireless network operations centers by telecommunication carriers; Link between the network elements and services; Effect of the emergence of converged services that blend pieces of wireline and wireless networks on the cross-boundary traffic; Difference between cellular and Wi-Fi wireless systems.

The article focuses on the fiber-to-the-premises deployments, which is being carried on by independent operating companies ( IOCs). For many IOCs, the first step in that evolution is deploying fiber out to a neighborhood node and using ADSL2+ for the last mile to the home. SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. also have adopted the same architecture. In theory, ADSL2+ gives carriers a 24 Mb/s pipe into the home over which they can run IP-based video, high-speed data and voice. In reality, most carriers are finding they can reliably get between 8 MB/s and 15 Mb/s depending on the length of the copper loop.

The article discusses the effect of Cox Communications Inc.'s approach to business services on the cable operators. Cox Communications is an anomaly. It has been an anomaly since it became one of the first major multi-system operators to install a Class 5 switch and offer voice services over its coax plant. Cox's approach could be the gold standard for cable operators wanting to offer voice and data. However, many believe that with new quality-of-service tools of Cox and some other techniques taking care of those concerns, most cable operators will begin seeing significant revenue from business within the next 12 months.

Features Sauk-Suiattle Indian Reservation, Washington-based Verizon Avenue, a branch of a local telecommunication company in the U.S. that provides high speed Internet access service to multi-dwelling units in urban areas. Information on how the company started in the business; Terms of arrangement between Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians-Economic Development Corp. and Verizon Avenue; Significance of the collaboration.

Reports on telecommunication service providers' provision of video and interactive television services over their digital subscriber line loops. Capacity requirements; Cynatel 965 subscriber loop.

Focuses on the Wireless 2004 conference organized by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) and will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on March 22 to 24, 2004. Theme of the conference; Activities of the conference; Percentage of the exhibit floor already sold.

Reports that Westell Technologies has moved into the DSL customer premises equipment market. Attempts of the company to move out from its traditional role as high-speed modem provider; Enhancement for telco video deployments; Development of a residential gateway with voice, data, and video capabilities.

Discusses the financial performance of telecommunication companies in the U.S. for the third quarter of 2003. AT&T Corp.; SBC Communications Inc.; BellSouth Corp.

Features notable individuals in the wireless communications industry. Todd Hansen, network engineer at University of California, San Diego's High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network; Adam Shand, founder of PersonalTelcoProject.

Reports that telecommunications companies in the United States (U.S.) are targeting the application software market for added revenues. Challenge facing U.S. telecommunications firms selling applications; Factors driving increased interest in unified messaging service; Key to most telecommunications firms' short-term goal; Statistics on gaming and entertainment applications that appeal to the residential market.

Reports on the capital spending of independent telecommunication companies in the United States. Realistic perception about independent telecommunications companies; Spending plans for the second quarter of 2001; Business strategy of Roseville Communications and Iowa Telecom.

Focuses on the ways that wireless application service providers are using to market wireless Internet technology. Voice recognition system of several companies; Computer software developed by the GoAmerica company; Short messaging service of several companies.

Deals with the emergence of video services for telecommunications providers at the 2000 Supercomm trade show. Reasons behind the intention of telecommunication providers to offer video services; Number of local exchange carriers to deploy Next Level Communications' Nlevel3 platform; Traverser platform of mPhase Technologies that provides video services over copper.

Provides information on the customer propriety network information (CPNI), a network billing information in telecommunication. Requirements for the use of the plan; How to deal with the restrictions of the United States Federal Communications commission; Challenges in implementing the plan.