Verizon launches ROADM-based service
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Business today announced a new optical networking service for enterprises based on reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) from Tellabs...
India’s Reliance acquires Yipes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Reliance Communications, one of India’s largest telecom carriers, has agreed to acquire San Francisco, Calif.,-based Ethernet service provider Yipes Enterprise Services for nearly $300 million in cash, the companies announced today...
Alcatel-Lucent claims two of three Networx teams
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary LGS today touted a partnership with Qwest Communications to bid for government services as part of the multiyear, multibillion-dollar “Networx Universal” program, but the vendor also confirmed today that it is part of a team competing with Qwest for those contracts as well...
Carrier Access officers decline pay amid new cuts
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carrier Access announced new restructuring plans late Monday after disclosing preliminary second-quarter results that fell below expectations...
Juniper shrinks broadband router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks introduced a new smaller version of its E320 broadband services router (BSR) today...
NXTcomm highlights
By: A Telephony staff report
The brand new trade show provided a venue for what's next in telecom, including new thinking about the customer experience...
Motorola cuts 2100 in second quarter
By: By Ed Gubbins
About 2100 employees left Motorola in the second quarter as part of a planned reduction of about 7500, the company said in regulatory filings late Thursday...
Telus could be next takeover target
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the wake of an offer from private equity players to acquire Bell Canada, the country’s second biggest telecom carrier, Telus, may be the next takeover target for investors, Canaccord Adams analyst David Lambert said in a research note this week...
Analyst revises optical commoditization views
By: By Ed Gubbins
he optical transport equipment sector is not ripe for commoditization, Nyquist Capital General Partner Andrew Schmitt wrote in a blog this week, correcting an earlier opinion...
Investors offer $1.2 billion for ECI
By: By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom has agreed to be acquired by a group of investors for $1.2 billion, the company announced today...
Sycamore cuts 10% of staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks will cut 10% of its workforce this month, or 46 employees, the company announced Friday...
In the Spotlight: John Hawkins, Nortel Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Amid multivendor interoperability demonstrations at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago this month, Nortel Networks announced the formation of what it called a ‘PBT ecosystem’ comprised of vendors working together to publicize Provider Backbone Transport technology, a connection-oriented layer-two-based approach to Ethernet transport. John Hawkins, Nortel’s manager of carrier Ethernet marketing, spoke about Nortel’s PBT plans in advance of the show...
Covad cuts staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Covad Communications cut 8% of its workforce in the second quarter, the company announced today...
CommScope to buy Andrew for $2.6 billion
By: By Dan O'Shea
Perhaps the second time is the charm for CommScope and Andrew. The companies announced a definitive agreement under which CommScope will acquire Andrew for about $2.6 billion (about $15 per share) in a transaction that will be at least 90% cash-based...
Adva takes aim at ‘God boxes’
By: By Ed Gubbins
At the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last week, Adva Optical Networking’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Protiva vowed to be nimbler and more cost-competitive than rival vendors with versatile multiservice transport platforms (MSTPs) aimed at metro networks...
In the Spotlight: Jeff Weber, AT&T
By: By Ed Gubbins
At a panel discussion on the future of video services at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last Tuesday, Jeff Weber, AT&T’s vice president of video products, fielded questions on a variety of IPTV topics, bringing his own experience to bear as a telco video veteran...
Sycamore sales VPs dwarf CEO pay
By: By Ed Gubbins
When he resigned as Sycamore Networks’ top sales officer last fall, Araldo Menegon was earning more than four times what his boss was...
RCN acquires Neon Communications
By: By Ed Gubbins
RCN has agreed to acquire Neon Communications for about $260 million in cash, expanding the carrier’s reach and presence in the Northeast...
Verizon links with Softbank
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business said today it has entered into a strategic alliance with SoftBank Telecom to share networks and services for multinational customers doing business in Japan...
NXTcomm survey: Spending growth ahead
By: By Dan O'Shea
A survey of 678 telecom industry professionals conducted at NXTcomm in Chicago this week by Tellabs and Telephony magazine found that a whopping 96% of respondents believe that network infrastructure spending will increase during the second half of the year...
AT&T offering $10 DSL
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is keeping a promise it made to the Federal Communications Commission to make broadband more affordable by launching a $10 DSL service, available to new customers who sign a one-year contract...
Four service providers earn Communications Innovators Awards
By: By Dan O'Shea
CHICAGO--Towerstream, AT&T, Yipes Enterprise Services and Verizon Communications were the winners of the first Communications Innovators Awards at a Leadership Forum held during NXTcomm and co-hosted by Telephony and consulting firm New Paradigm Resources Group...
NXTcomm: ZyXEL announces new ADSL 2+ gateway
By: By Carol Wilson
ZyXEL today announced an ADSL 2+ gateway with built-in HomePlug AV Powerline and Wi-Fi capabilities. ...
Industry connects on interconnection
NEW YORK—The 2007 cbx, or Customer Business Exchange, Hosted by the interconnection facility operator telx, brought together more than a thousand people and hundreds of communications and content companies in New York City’s financial district last week, all of them focused on how interconnection with one another fits into their strategies....
Vendor: U.S. not ready yet for indoor ONTs
By: By Ed Gubbins
TXP introduced a new optical network terminal (ONT) architecture today aimed at easing some of the power-related challenges of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) installation. But the Texas-based vendor isn’t selling the product in the U.S. anytime soon due to a lack of demand here for indoor ONTs...
