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NYC competitors combine wireless, fiber networks
By Carol Wilson
Two competitive New York City service providers are combining forces to create an end-to-end network solution...
ISPs to play enforcement role in RIAA's plan
By Rich Karpinski
Hey service provider: Are you ready to do the dirty work of tracking down and rounding up illegal file-sharers?...
Ovum: Optical market to shrink 5% in 2009
By Ed Gubbins
Ovum has revised its outlook for the global optical equipment industry to account for changes in the global economy seen since the research and analysis firm’s last report in June....
HomePlug earns baseline IEEE approval
By Carol Wilson
The HomePlug Powerline Alliance today announced that its technology proposal was accepted by the IEEE P1901 Working Group as the baseline for an IEEE powerline communications standard...
BT deal a big plus for Tellabs
By Carol Wilson
The announcement earlier this month that BT had selected Tellabs as a strategic supplier for managed Ethernet access equipment was significant in several ways for both companies...
Alcatel-Lucent CMO: How we get there from here
By Ed Gubbins
While the CEO didn’t delve too deeply into the specifics of that aspect of the company’s strategy in last week’s presentation, the company’s chief marketing officer, Tim Krause, provided more detail in an interview...
CMO details Alcatel-Lucent's strategy, future vision
By Ed Gubbins
Last week, Alcatel-Lucent’s new chief executive officer spelled out a new strategy for the equipment vendor....
Overture's Ceterus buy mixes carrier Ethernet markets
By Ed Gubbins
Overture Networks announced today it has acquired equipment vendor Ceterus Networks for an undisclosed sum...
AT&T VDSL2 bonding trial slips into 2009
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T plans to conduct a trial early next year of bonded VDSL2, the company told Telephony last week, after having previously targeted late 2008...
Google, Lessig say not throwing out net neutrality
By Rich Karpinski
Google is reportedly working with service providers to cache some of its content for more rapid delivery...
Alcatel-Lucent's big overhaul not so big
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent’s new chief executive officer Ben Verwaayen today delivered a much-anticipated description of the equipment vendor’s corporate overhaul...
Surviving the Recession: Tough choices in R&D
By Kevin Fitchard
Economic downturns can have devastating effects on the R&D budgets of telecom vendors. Will vendors have to start cutting and if so what?...
Ciena: Mid-sized telcos milking legacy networks
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena reported seeing a divergence in carrier spending patterns in its most recent quarter, as its largest customers cautiously continued network upgrades at a slower pace while smaller carriers showed less willingness to make similar upgrades....
AT&T delivers on U-Verse rollout promise
By Sarah Reedy
By the end of the year, U-Verse will reach one million subscribers with a footprint larger than Verizon’s...
Google slammed for bandwidth free-ride
By Rich Karpinski
An analyst with lobbying ties to the telecom industry yesterday released a report claiming Google is consuming 21 times the bandwidth that it is paying for...
Is Verizon practicing to take on AT&T?
By Carol Wilson
Verizon is denying it, but one industry analyst sees the current Verizon Communications buildout into AT&T turf around Dallas as a blueprint for further telco wars....
Updated: Verizon preps 100 Mb/s FiOS for 2009
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications is preparing to roll out 100-Mb/s broadband services next year for its fiber-to-the-premises network, according to Vincent O’Byrne, Verizon’s technology director....
Nortel's Optical, Ethernet Chief Morin talks 40G
By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks today announced its 36th and 37th customer wins for the 40-gigabit-per-second optical gear it released in April: UK carrier Surf Telecoms and Canadian carrier Telus...
UBS: US telco spending could drop 10% in 2009
By Ed Gubbins
Spending among US telcos could drop 10% or more next year, according to UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos, who had previously predicted only a 5% drop....
Surviving the Recession: The Residential Market
By Carol Wilson
After years of selling faster speeds and more high-definition TV channels, Comcast is now pitching cheaper services, offering a triple-play bundle of basic voice, video and data offerings for less than $30 each...
Diverse group calls for national broadband policy
By Carol Wilson
A diverse group of 55 signatories today released a call to action for a national broadband strategy aimed at making broadband deployment and adoption a priority for the Obama administration...
Qwest shapes broadband offers to suit economic climate
By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications’ announcement yesterday that it is bringing back lower promotional pricing for its broadband services is an acknowledgement of two realities...
Blockbuster STB necessary but no game-changer
By Sarah Reedy
Blockbuster joins the list of over-the-top video providers with 2Wire’s digital media player...
Adtran adds wireless access to router
By Carol Wilson
Adtran this week announced a new 3G wireless wide area network module for its NetVanta 3305 modular router...
With new model, Utah takes last shot at Utopia
By Ed Gubbins
Utah’s multi-city Utopia network is taking perhaps one last shot at making its wholesale municipal fiber project work, with a revised model...
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