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...
Windstream grows NC presence with CT buy
By: By Tim McElligott
Windstream will acquire CT Communications in the second half of this year for approximately $585 million, the companies said today. In the process, Windstream eliminates a growing competitor in a growing market...
Speculation swirls around Nortel, Avaya
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks is among the companies in talks with Avaya about a possible acquisition, according to the Wall Street Journal...
Worldnet founder: Copper landlines gone by 2013
By: By Ed Gubbins
The copper “last mile” line to the house won’t exist in six years, according to Tom Evslin...
Asian broadband dominance grows
By: By Ed Gubbins
The influence of Asian markets on the broadband sector loomed ever larger in the first quarter, according to new data from Dittberner Associates. Trends in DSL and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment and subscribers were led by Asian carriers and vendors...
Analyst: Nortel mulling Juniper partnership
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks may be evaluating a potential partnership with Juniper Networks, according to one Wall Street analyst...
Supreme Court backs dismissal of Bell anti-trust suit
By: By Ed Gubbins
The United States Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of Bell companies in upholding a district court’s dismissal of an antitrust suit against the carriers. According to the Court, the plaintiffs lacked enough facts to justify what it pointed out would be a very expensive evidence discovery process...
Carrier Access exposes Mangrove’s roots
By: By Ed Gubbins
Equipment vendor Carrier Access revealed new details last week surrounding Mangrove Systems, the company it acquired for $8 million in March. Mangrove had slightly more than $3 million in total assets at the end of last year—less than half their value a year earlier...
