Render defends his FTTH data
By: By Ed Gubbins
Michael Render, president of RVA Market Research and Consulting, is defending the data in his most recent fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) report following questions from another analyst about its accuracy...
Verizon pursues P2P video
By: By Ed Gubbins
When Verizon's chief technology officer Mark Wegleitner spoke at Telephony LIVE this month about the promise of peer-to-peer networking for on-demand video distribution, he acknowledged the irony of a longtime opponent of piracy embracing P2P video-on-demand...
Occam board to give CEO M&A incentive
By: By Ed Gubbins
Amid a wave of investor disappointment, Occam Networks’ board of directors hope to amend the employment contract of the company’s chief executive, Bob Howard-Anderson, to remove any disincentive he might have to sell the company...
FTTH data under renewed scrutiny
By: By Ed Gubbins
Two weeks after the FTTH Council announced the number of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in North America had topped 2 million, another analyst is openly questioning the validity of those numbers...
Angry Occam investors call for management’s ouster
By: By Ed Gubbins
Filing restated financial reports for recent years this week, Occam Networks claimed to have put its long restatement process behind it. But investors on the company’s quarterly earnings conference call late Wednesday unleashed a barrage of scathing criticism...
AT&T, EchoStar speculation swells
By: By Sarah Reedy
There is a 65% chance that AT&T will buy EchoStar’s DISH Network satellite TV service within the next 12 months, according to Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet in a research report published today...
Adtran blames flat third quarter on two customers
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran blamed sequentially flat third-quarter revenue on two major carrier customers that significantly cut spending in the quarter...
Nortel settles SEC fraud case for $35M
By: By Ed Gubbins
The same day that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit alleging accounting fraud at Nortel Networks, the equipment vendor agreed to settle the case for $35 million, the SEC said today...
Infinera to raise more funds
By: By Ed Gubbins
Infinera is looking to raise more than $100 million in a new public offering of stock, the company announced late last week...
Telephony LIVE: Megacarrier RFPs loom large over tech innovation
By: By Ed Gubbins
DALLAS--Major carrier consolidation is adding both price and time pressure to equipment suppliers, raising questions about the prospects for technological innovation, according to attendees here at the Telephony LIVE show....
ECI Telecom introduces new broadband access features
By: By Sarah Reedy
ECI Telecom, the Israeli equipment vendor, today introduced new broadband access features to its Hi-FOCuS-5 Multi-Service Access Node product line, aimed at enhancing IPTV and video services...
Zhone mines fertile copper Ethernet market overseas
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is taking advantage of a fertile market overseas for Ethernet over copper (EoC) equipment, introducing more EoC gear today and hailing what it claims is the world’s largest EoC deployment to date...
Q&A: Verizon's Terry Denson
Terry Denson, vice president of FiOS TV content strategy and acquisition for Verizon, spoke at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Orlando last week...
Funding the exaflood
By: By Ed Gubbins
Data-rich services may push up the price of broadband access...
Advertiser claims Verizon inflated FiOS numbers
By: By Sarah Reedy
Less than two weeks after Verizon Communications celebrated its two-year anniversary of FiOS TV, an advertiser is accusing the carrier of fudging subscriber data for the fiber-based service...
New Siemens CEO slams Nokia joint venture
By: By Ed Gubbins
Six months after the company launched a joint venture with Nokia, Siemens’ new Chief Executive Officer Peter Loescher said he is dissatisfied with the results...
FTTH Con: Start-up opportunities abound in triple-play
By: By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--The battle between telcos and cable operators to bring triple-play services to consumers is creating a variety of opportunities for start-up companies, according to Jim Jones, managing director of Scale Ventures, a venture capital firm...
FTTH Con: U.S. FTTH connections top 2 million
By: By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--Fiber-to-the-home connections in the U.S. have more than doubled from a year ago to surpass the 2 million mark, according to data released today from Render Vanderslice and Associates...
FTTH Con: Corning gets the bends
By: By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--Corning introduced a new highly flexible fiber at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference this week that can make sharp turns with minimal attenuation of the signal it carries, easing deployment for carriers...
FTTH Con: Alcatel-Lucent details GPON’s successor
By: By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--With major carriers such as Verizon Communications deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Alcatel-Lucent today described some likely successors to GPON at the FTTH Conference today...
3Com acquisition a mixed bag for Huawei
By: By Ed Gubbins
The acquisition of 3Com, announced today by Bain Capital and Huawei Technologies, gives the Asian equipment vendor entry into the U.S. enterprise market. ...
Tellabs cuts staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is trimming its work force by less than 1%, the company revealed in regulatory filings this week....
Juniper takes its Ethernet gear to the edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks today introduced half- and quarter-sized versions of the core Ethernet router it brought to market earlier this year, hoping to compete more directly in Ethernet edge and metro markets....
Sycamore institutes ‘capacity licensing’
By: By Ed Gubbins
In conjunction with a new optical switch unveiled today, Sycamore Networks is offering “capacity licensing,” allowing carriers to buy only the level of scale they need....
Verizon looks for SLA edge
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is hoping to gain favor with business customers by offering service level agreements that include the edge of the network — even in places where it doesn’t own the local network. ...
