Sales of Ciena's MSTP 'going crazy' overseas
By: By Ed Gubbins
In what one analyst called a "lovely quarter," Ciena reported $152.5 million in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, beating analysts' average expectations by nearly 7%. Revenue was 16% higher than in the higher than a year earlier. ...
Extreme names new CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks named Mark Canepa its new president and chief executive officer today...
Rivals could exploit Huawei's strategic crossroads
By: By Ed Gubbins
Huawei Technologies may be facing a crossroads with regard to its strategy that could provide a temporary opportunity for rivals to gain advantage over it, according to a research note issued recently from UBS Investment Research....
Investors continue to support SunRocket
By: By Tim McElligott
Internet phone service provider SunRocket announced a $33 million round of Series C institutional financing today, bringing the firm’s total venture capital raised to approximately $80 million...
Cable gains ground while IPTV stalls
By: By Ed Gubbins
Strong revenue and earnings growth in the second quarter suggests bright near-term prospects for cable companies in their war against the Bells, Merrill Lynch wrote in a research note released today...
Calls for unity at CoBank conference
By: By Tim McElligott
Acknowledging the strength in numbers, independent and cooperative telecom companies and their financiers spoke this week at the 2006 CoBank Executive Forum in Beaver Creek, Colo., about the need for a more unified front to regulators and equipment vendors...
Harmonic buys Entone's VOD software business
By: By Ed Gubbins
Harmonic has agreed to acquire Entone Technologies' video networking software business, the companies announced today....
ECI names new COO
By: By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom named Avi Cohen its new chief operating officer today...
Juniper touts sliding market share
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks this week touted having held its place as the world's number-two supplier of service provider routers in the second quarter, even as its share of that market slipped sequentially....
Skepticism of Alcatel/Lucent merger grows
By: By Ed Gubbins
Only weeks before Alcatel and Lucent Technologies shareholders will vote on whether to approve the merger of their two companies, some analysts are growing skeptical of the combination...
Survivors turn hunters in telecom jungle
By: By Carol Wilson
As competitive carriers get financially healthy, speculation grows as to how they'll spend their millions...
Spending, revenue diverge
By: By Ed Gubbins
North American carriers surprised analysts in the second quarter by upping spending on wireline networks beyond previous expectations, and curiously cutting spending on wireless networks...
Global Crossing charts a new course
By: By Carol Wilson
The one-time high flyer gets practical--and profitable--in the post-boom telecom reality...
Tut misses lowered revenue bar
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tut Systems reported second-quarter revenue today that was even lower than the amount it predicted last month, when the company warned of its second quarterly earnings shortfall this year...
VC investment in equipment vendors rebounds strongly
By: By Ed Gubbins
Venture capital investment in networking equipment manufacturers rebounded strongly in the second quarter, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers...
VoIP on a steep trajectory
By: By Tim McElligott
Calling voice-over-IP providers’ momentum a furious assault on the fixed-line voice market in the U.S., research firm TeleGeography reported today that VoIP providers gained 1.23 million subscribers in the second quarter...
Adva’s Movaz acquisition gets cheaper
By: By Ed Gubbins
The acquisition of Movaz Networks by Adva Optical Networking lost about 15% of its value between the time Adva announced the deal and its completion late last month, Adva revealed today...
Update: CommScope competes for Andrew
By: By Dan O'Shea
CommScope has launched a bid to acquire Andrew Corp., which earlier this year agreed to be acquired by ADC Telecommunications in a deal that is awaiting shareholder approval...
Broadwing posts best-ever quarter
By: By Carol Wilson
Continuing a trend among competitive carriers, Broadwing today announced the strongest EBITDA performance in its corporate history, based largely on increases in data/broadband revenues and significant cost-cutting measures...
Qwest posts second profitable quarter
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest posted its second quarterly profit on strong cost control and broadband growth, despite a slight sequential decline in revenues...
Infinera goes un-public
By: By Ed Gubbins
Another whopping round of venture capital funding for an optical switch maker that many predicted would go public could be a reflection of just how challenging the public market is for telecom equipment vendors these days...
Verizon names GPON vendors
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications named its chosen suppliers of gigabit passive optical networking equipment today: Alcatel, Motorola and Tellabs....
Tellabs’ outlook grows cloudy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs reported stronger than expected sales in the second quarter, reporting $549 million in revenue, a 19% increase from a year earlier. While the vendor reported a slight drop in visibility for the next quarter, it also addressed some of its long-term prospects and future potential...
Alcatel decries IMS, NGN price war
By: By Ed Gubbins
Despite revenue growth of nearly 8%, Alcatel reported no growth in its second-quarter operating profit. And its gross margins were down two points from a year earlier, which the equipment vendor attributed to pricing pressure from established vendors trying to get solid footholds in burgeoning mobile next-generation network and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) markets....
DSL, cable voice numbers both up
By: By Carol Wilson
DSL line growth exceeded cable modem growth for the first time in the Federal Communications Commission’s bi-annual report on high-speed service for Internet access, the federal agency reported today...
