Ciena reports tier-one spending slowdown 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Ciena lowered its expectations for its fiscal year today, citing a broad slowdown in spending among tier-one carriers, particularly in North America, that the company believes could last a few quarters....

Green Telecom Part IV: Telco Systems brings solar power to data centers 

By: By Carol Wilson

Telecom gear maker Telco Systems is bringing a solar power system to market that will help reduce the cost of electricity consumed by data centers and other research facilities. ...

Google: Chrome browser no Trojan horse 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Google this week surprised the Web world by releasing a new browser dubbed Chrome, with speculation quickly hitting a fever pitch as to what the search giant was "really" after with its ploy....

Broadweave to compete with rivals on its own FTTP network 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Broadweave Networks will compete for customers over the same fiber network its rivals use – the network Broadweave now owns....

Telecommuting interest soars 

By: By Carol Wilson

There has been a sharp increase in the number of North American employers offering telecommuting as an option in the past year, according to an annual survey by WorldatWork....

Zhone offers VDSL2, bonded ADSL2+ 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Zhone Technologies unveiled new IP DSLAMs this week in accordance with the vendor’s strategy of using two technologies to help carriers offer advanced services over their current copper infrastructure....

FiOS TV getting small-business traction 

By: By Carol Wilson

When Verizon came along with FiOS TV, Bob Malone was quick to sign up – the first business to do so, in fact. ...

Foundry adds PB, PBB to the edge 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Foundry Networks today introduced a new line of Ethernet switches that brings provider backbone bridging (PBB) to edge and aggregation networks...

CLECs give mixed economic report 

By: By Ed Gubbins

The second quarter is typically a somewhat soft one for CLECs, but this season it also was seen as a barometer of overall economic conditions for the rest of the year....

Lessons Learned 

Burlington has insisted on having Burlington Telecom as a department of the city, like parks and rec....

Qwest’s best-laid plans for DNC get last-minute twist  

By: By Carol Wilson

After more than a year of careful planning to accommodate the Democratic National Convention at Denver’s Pepsi Center, Qwest Communications found itself scrambling at the last minute to also wire that city’s Invesco Field at Mile High...

TXP merger promises better GPON economics 

By: By Ed Gubbins

TXP, a vendor of optical network terminals (ONTs) -- the customer premises equipment in fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks -- is merging with Cambridge Industry Group (CIG), an ONT vendor based in China....

Nth Air hops on the DNC bandwagon 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

California broadband wireless startup Nth Air is embracing politics—at least Democratic politics....

Broadband competition: Is this as good as it gets? 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Competition in the broadband space is currently about as good as it’s going to get for the foreseeable future, and could even backslide, according to Blair Levin, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus....

Zayo: CLEC woes mean buyer’s market for fiber 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Zayo Group, which has made a string of acquisitions in recent months, said it has thus far benefitted from a buyer’s market for fiber assets....

Analysis: AT&T slams Google; House privacy debate heats up 

By: By Rich Karpinski

When we covered the initial responses to a House committee request into online privacy approaches earlier this week, we made special note of how Google took pains to equate ad targeting with the use of deep-packet inspection (DPI) technology....

iControl leverages security to automate home 

By: By Carol Wilson

Wireline connections are being cut at an alarming rate, and broadband revenues are also tailing off, at least for telecom service providers....

TWTelecom confronts gorilla with good news 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Before inviting questions from analysts on the company’s second-quarter earnings call today, Larissa Herda, TWTelecom’s chief executive officer addressed what she called “the 800-pound gorilla in the room” (usually called “the elephant”): the economy....

Verizon adds managed network access control 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon Business is upping the ante in the managed security game, adding network access control to its portfolio....

MegaPath buys credit processing firm, beefs up retail offering 

By: By Carol Wilson

MegaPath today announced its acquisition of IP Merchant Solutions, a company that provides connections to credit card processors, for an undisclosed amount....

Cogent sees first-ever quarterly traffic decline 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Cogent Communications lowered its revenue and earnings expectations for the year today following the company’s first-ever quarter of negative traffic growth....

CBeyond: At least it’s not getting worse 

By: By Ed Gubbins

The economic climate surrounding business IP communications is holding steady, CBeyond said in reporting its second quarter earnings late Wednesday....

AT&T joins global rivals in the ‘cloud’ 

By: By Rich Karpinski

AT&T today launched a utility or cloud computing service combining its network and hosting businesses to compete with similar offerings from global carrier competitors Verizon and BT and upstart Web players like Google and Amazon.com....

Questioning the coming Internet clog 

By: By Ed Gubbins

One of the nation’s top authorities on global Internet traffic growth says his latest data show no reason to fear network capacity shortages, as traffic growth may even be slightly decelerating. ...

Frontier’s broadband growth bucks trend 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Frontier Communications bucked the current industry trend of poor broadband performance to some extent in the second quarter, reporting growth where larger rivals have seen significant declines....