TelcoTV: Vendors rethink home networking technologies
By Sarah Reedy
Actiontec launches DSL gateway for triple plays, while others debate the best way to enable the digital home...
Clearwire: Almost home
By Kevin Fitchard
November 20 shareholder vote final step; first Clearwire market to take customers in December...
AT&T taking over the reins of WiFi business
By Kevin Fitchard
With Wayport purchase AT&T assumes direct control over growing hotspot network and expands its exposure to the enterprise...
Cogent scores by losing a customer
By Ed Gubbins
Cogent Communications found one way to benefit from a sagging economy in the third quarter by scooping up the end-user clients of a service provider customer that fell on hard times...
Zeugma launches smart apps
By Carol Wilson
Equipment vendor Zeugma Systems today announced the first in a promised series of applications for its Zeugma Services Node...
SMB market holding steady, providers say
By Ed Gubbins
Two providers in that market say their latest numbers suggest that caution is warranted but fear is probably not....
BOB making all-wireless work
By Carol Wilson
Richard Kingston and Chris Craven spent their early telecom careers trying to convince businesses to buy fiber optics from Metropolitan Fiber Systems....
Alcatel-Lucent’s new CEO vows big overhaul
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent's new chief executive officer promised sweeping changes today during his first quarterly earnings call at the helm of the struggling megavendor....
FairPoint uses fixed wireless for rural last mile access
By Kevin Fitchard
Fixed WiMAX deployment uses unlicensed bands to extend DSL reach...
Qwest doubles down on FTTN
By Ed Gubbins
Qwest Communications today announced plans to reduce its workforce by 3% -- or 1200 people – in the fourth quarter to adjust for softening markets...
Level 3 boosts Asia-Pac CDN
By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications today announced expansion of its content delivery network into the Asia-Pacific region to include its first coverage in China, and expanded capacity and features in others areas as well....
Verizon's FiOS fuels Juniper’s top line
By Ed Gubbins
Despite an uncertain market, Juniper Networks reported a healthy third quarter Thursday thanks in large part to its role supplying equipment for Verizon Communications’ fiber-to-the-premises network....
Level 3: Sales slowdown disconnected from demand
By Ed Gubbins
Level 3 Communications echoed other telecom companies today in reporting recent delays in purchases among enterprise and service provider customers....
AT&T wireline picture gets bleaker
By Carol Wilson
When AT&T announced its third-quarter earnings this morning, most of the attention went to 3G iPhone sales...
SureWest offers bonded ADSL2+, mulls copper video
By Ed Gubbins
SureWest Communications has launched a bonded ADSL2+ service in its incumbent local exchange (ILEC) territory...
Mushroom offers hosted T-1 killer
By Ed Gubbins
Mushroom Networks today introduced a hosted broadband bonding service meant as a faster, cheaper alternative to T-1s....
Updated: Tellabs cuts investment in access business
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is shifting its development efforts away from its access equipment business in favor of more lucrative areas...
Juniper smartens up the edge
By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks today announced an overhaul of its edge routing platforms meant to add greater intelligence, control and features to the network edge via the vendor’s Junos operating system....
Qwest’s FTTN rollout winds down for winter
By Ed Gubbins
Qwest Communications is slowing its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment, with plans to reaccelerate it next year...
IMS, NGN forums merge, reflecting IMS travails
By Rich Karpinski
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployments may be notoriously slow to hit the launch pad, but that hasn’t slowed the IMS Forum’s unfailing advocacy of the industry’s end-target technology architecture....
Verizon expands WAN optimization offering
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced an expansion of its wide-area network (WAN) optimization service...
New Reliance Globalcom unit takes on global carriers
By Carol Wilson
Reliance Globalcom is gearing up to compete for global data business with the likes of AT&T, Verizon Business, BT, Orange Business and others...
Big 3 making themselves right at home
By Carol Wilson
AT&T, Qwest Communications and Verizon are all taking initiatives to ingratiate themselves more completely with consumers by offering more help. ...
Verizon expands UC offering with Cisco
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today became the first US-based service provider to offer a managed unified communications (UC) and collaboration service based on the newest version of Cisco Systems’ Unified Communications Manager...
Google looks to monetize games, videos
By Rich Karpinski
Google this week added new money-making engines to two areas of keen interest to telecom service providers: games and online videos....
