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...
Infinera goes 40 Gb/s, looks beyond 100 Gb/s
By: By Ed Gubbins
Optical switch vendor Infinera announced new products and customer wins in advance of the NXTComm trade show next week and hinted at future products with significant increases in capacity...
Motorola takes over Amedia IP gateways
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola is taking over production of some IP home gateway products it developed jointly with Amedia Networks...
Wave 7 adds GPON to access platform
By: By Carol Wilson
Access equipment maker Wave 7 Optics today said it has added gigabit passive optical network capabilities to its Trident7 Universal Access Platform...
Zhone aims for smarter GPON
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies today unveiled the gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) system it has been promising since the beginning of the year...
Notebaert to retire
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert took the industry by surprise this morning, announcing his retirement...
Juniper unveils new core router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks revealed its newest core router today after months of industry speculation...
Cisco takes stake in Oversi
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems has taken a stake in an Israeli equipment start-up focused on content delivery...
Infinera IPO yields $182 million
By: By Ed Gubbins
Infinera raised $182 million in the initial public offering of its stock, surpassing expectations...
Analysts: Nortel wise to walk away from Avaya
By: By Ed Gubbins
After reportedly entertaining acquisition offers from Nortel Networks, enterprise telephony equipment vendor Avaya today announced an $8.2-billion acquisition by private equity firms TPG Capital and Silver Lake Partners. Some analysts are saying Nortel was right to walk away...
MegaPath adds Juniper to SSL offering
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed services provider MegaPath today announced it is extending its suite of security services to include Juniper’s Secure Access SSL VPN product family for Secure Socket Layer-based remote access...
Redback targets ‘megabit mobility’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Redback Networks introduced a new multiservice edge (MSE) router today with more capacity and functionality than its previous gear...
Fujitsu enters packet optical game
By: by Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications unveiled a new packet optical networking platform this week that combines Sonet and Ethernet switching with WDM....
Tellabs: No big acquisitions anytime soon
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is considering what to do with its considerable cash stores since it doesn’t see any large acquisitions in its near-term future...
Eyeing convergence, Ciena’s outlook improves
By: By Ed Gubbins
Raising its expectations for the year amid continued revenue growth, Ciena attributed its current success to the burgeoning—though so far not clearly understood—market for converged optical Ethernet networks. ...
Covad lives up to ADSL2+ promise
By: By Carol Wilson
As promised last year, Covad Communications is now offering ADSL2+ to small businesses in 11 metropolitan markets, featuring data service at speeds up to 15 Mb/s downstream...
Broadband subscriber base to double by 2011
By: By Ed Gubbins
The number of broadband subscribers worldwide will nearly double over the next five years to more than half a billion, according to research analysis firm In-Stat...
