Nortel replaces CPO after a year
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks is replacing its chief procurement officer a year and two months after appointing him, the company announced today...
Novel funding sources emerge
By: By Ed Gubbins
In a lackluster market for U.S. venture capital, telecom firms are increasingly turning to newer and more creative sources of funding...
Acquisition puts Sonus on edge
By: By Tim McElligott
Two of Sonus Networks' strategic imperatives the last year or so have been to expand its wireless solutions and extend its focus from the network core out to the network edge...
WDM-PON faces upstream battle
By: By Ed Gubbins
As Verizon begins deploying Gigabit passive optical networks this quarter, industry talk is increasing about a potential next step for WDM-PONs...
Carriers decry 40 Gb/s prices
By: By Ed Gubbins
Capacity constraints might be pushing some carriers to upgrade their 10 Gb/s networks, but some of them are also warning equipment vendors that if 40 Gb/s gear is too expensive, it will be eclipsed by 100 Gb/s gear before long...
Cable bundles leaving telcos in the cold
By: By Carol Wilson
An annual study of the battle for eyeballs between cable and telco rivals show cable companies are still winning the war, with no change expected soon...
Level 3 doubles CEO’s salary
By: By Ed Gubbins
Level 3 Communications doubled the salary of its chief executive officer, James Crowe, in February, following a highly acquisitive year for the company...
Carrier Access cuts costs as revenues dwindle
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carrier Access is restructuring some operations to cut costs this year after another disappointing quarter...
Hammerhead offers PBT/MPLS gateway
By: By Ed Gubbins
Edge networking vendor Hammerhead Systems today introduced a software-based solution for interworking provider backbone transport (PBT) technology with its sometimes rival, multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS)...
Level 3 completes AT&T asset buy
By: By Carol Wilson
Divestiture orders are spreading AT&T and Verizon fiber assets through the competitive industry. Level 3 Communications today announced that it has completed the acquisition of fiber assets from AT&T in Detroit, Hartford, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Francisco and St. Louis...
Ciena searches for new CFO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena has begun looking for a replacement for Joe Chinnici, who will resign his position as the company’s chief financial officer by the end of this year. Chinnici worked for the optical equipment vendor for 12 years...
Alcatel-Lucent acquires ROADM vendor Tropic
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to acquire optical equipment vendor Tropic Networks for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced today. The two have been partners since they jointly pursued a deal to supply reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) to SBC Communications in 2004...
Freescale, Alcatel unveil GPON SoC
By: By Ed Gubbins
Freescale Semiconductor announced the introduction of its system-on-a-chip (SoC) for gigabit passive optical networks (GPON) today...
In the Spotlight: Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner
By: By Ed Gubbins
At the Optical Fiber Communications conference this week, Verizon Communications named the first two locations it will commercially deploy gigabit passive optical networks (GPON)--a higher-speed version of its current fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology. Mark Wegleitner, the carrier’s chief technology officer and senior vice president of technology and network planning, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about Verizon’s future migrations to GPON, IPTV and in-home customer premises devices...
OFC: WDM-PON chatter swells
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--For a technology that most people agree is years away from acceptance by North American carriers, wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical networks (WDM-PON) kept coming up in discussions at the Optical Fiber Communications conference this week...
OFC: Analyst blames Cisco for unprofitable optics
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--“This is an era of profitless prosperity,” Andrew Schmitt, general partner of Niquist Capital, told a crowd at the Optical Fiber Communications conference...
OFC: Level 3 mulls leapfrogging 40 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--Executives at Level 3 Communications often ponder the migration beyond 10 Gb/s links in its network, but they’re not sure if 40 Gb/s or 100 Gb/s is the best next step, according to Robert Feuerstein, Level 3 senior architect...
OFC: KT heralds world of connected devices
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--Telecom service providers must move beyond the business of connecting people to pursue the business of connecting devices as a means to offer more sophisticated services, a Korean Telecom executive told listeners at the Optical Fiber Communications conference Wednesday...
OFC: Verizon vows 40 Gb/s this year, 100 Gb/s by 2010
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM-- Verizon Business is increasing the capacity of its ultralong-haul backbone network from 10 Gb/s to 40 Gb/s in some inter-city segments this year. And it already has plans in place to begin trialing 100-Gb/s links in 18 months...
OFC: Verizon names first GPON markets
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--Verizon Communications is expected today to name the two places where it will begin commercial deployment of gigabit-speed passive optical networking (GPON) equipment...
Bell Labs creates optical filter chip
By: By Ed Gubbins
Bell Labs is furthering its reputation for innovation, claiming a major step toward silicon photonics. Now as Alcatel-Lucent employees, Bell Labs researchers...
AT&T CEO paid $32M for 2006
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T paid Ed Whitacre nearly $32 million for his work as the company’s chairman and chief executive officer last year...
CLECs FDN, NuVox merge
By: By Ed Gubbins
FDN Communications is being folded into NuVox Communications, in the latest of a series of competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) mergers in the Southeast and Midwest in recent years...
Genband acquiring Tekelec switching biz
By: By Dan O'Shea
Somehow, Charlie Vogt’s career keeps intersecting with Tekelec, only this time Tekelec is coming to Vogt. Genband, the Plano, Tex.-based vendor of which Vogt is CEO, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tekelec’s switching business unit...
Juniper adds policy control hardware
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks introduced a new series of session and resource control (SRC) products today, adding its own hardware to a policy control solution that previously worked with a range of other gear. The result gives carriers tighter end-to-end control of application performance, the vendor said...
