Juniper departures raise concerns
By: By Ed Gubbins
Executive departures announced by Juniper Networks this week have some analysts concerned about the company’s turnover...
Vonage, Motorola team on phone, router
By: By Carol Wilson
Vonage and Motorola today announced a co-branded wireless router designed to make it easier for consumers to use fax, telephone and Internet services at the same time...
Tellabs may have won Qwest ROADM deal
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs may have won a deal to supply Qwest Communications with reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), according to one Wall Street analyst...
Updated: AT&T announces global expansion
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today is detailing plans to spend $750 million on improving its global IP backbone to enable the company to “enhance and expand its portfolio of retail and wholesale” services...
Acquisitions define Adva’s direction
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adva Optical Networking ended 2006 with 50% more employees than it had a year earlier, and nearly 50% more revenue, thanks to two acquisitions that give the equipment vendor added opportunity and added uncertainty in 2007...
Arbor beefs up service provider security
By: By Dan O'Shea
Arbor Networks has introduced security enhancements for service provider networks through the new version 3.6 of its Peakflow SP platform...
SEC charges ex-Nortel execs with fraud
By: By Ed Gubbins
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged four former Nortel Networks executives with accounting fraud today...
Ceterus collects another $20 million
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ceterus Networks collected another $20 million in funding, the equipment vendor announced today, raising its total funding to nearly $60 million...
Ikanos offers truckless loop diagnosis
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ikanos Communications today introduced new software designed to allow carriers to qualify and diagnose local access loops for broadband without dispatching a technician to the customer premises...
Verizon launches national E-VPLS service
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today launched its promised national Ethernet Virtual Private Line Service (E-VPLS), a Layer 2 service that offers enterprises an easier way to link multiple locations with Ethernet without surrendering control of their routing...
Alcatel to lead Alcatel-Lucent revenue growth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Most of the revenue growth Alcatel-Lucent will see in the next two years will come from the Alcatel side of the house, according to estimates published by UBS Investment Research this week...
Foundry adds packet-over-Sonet cards
By: By Ed Gubbins
Foundry Networks introduced packet-over-Sonet (POS) interfaces for its core and metro routers today...
JacobsRimell kick starts QuickStart
By: By Tim McElligott
BOSTON. IP service fulfillment provider, JacobsRimell, launched new products this week to help service providers of all sizes turns up and manage voice-over-IP services for their business customers...
Carrier Access acquires Mangrove
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carrier Access has acquired Mangrove Systems for $8 million in cash, the company announced today. The news comes more than a month after Mangrove told its suppliers it was ceasing operations...
Ciena’s optical business snowballs
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts today, reporting $165 million in fiscal-first-quarter revenue when the street expected $164 million. But its quarterly earnings, at $0.22 per share, were below the street consensus of $0.23, the result of a lot of low-margin installation services Ciena performed in the quarter...
Comptel: Perimeter offers user security dashboard
By: By Carol Wilson
Perimeter eSecurity, which wholesales managed security services, is offering an end-user dashboard which its service provider customers can use to prove the benefits of security services to their small-to-mid-sized business customers...
Nortel to restate financials yet again
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks will once again restate its financial reports for previous years, following years of accounting problems and restatements...
Comptel: AFS continues expansion with IDACOMM
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Under the radar of some of the larger consolidations in the competitive carrier industry, American Fiber Systems is quietly building a CLEC empire in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. Most recently, the company completed its acquisition of IDACOMM, adding the Nevada cities of Las Vegas, Reno, and Carson City as well as Boise, Ida., to its list of cities served...
Tellabs brings fiber to AT&T’s table
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs, the chief supplier of fiber access gear to Verizon Communications and the former BellSouth, has been having more intimate discussions with AT&T following its merger with BellSouth, according to the vendor’s chief financial officer, Tim Wiggins...
Comptel: XO launches national bandwidth services
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--XO Communications is capitalizing on its recently completed national fiber optic backbone to offer high-capacity services to enterprises and other carriers with built-in guarantees on price and installation, along with a 90-day risk-free trial offer...
Infinera sales VP out-earns CEO in 2006
By: By Ed Gubbins
Scott Chandler earned more than four times what his boss did last year. As vice president of worldwide sales for Infinera, the soon-to-be-publicly-held optical switch maker, Chandler was paid more than $1.2 million in 2006, while chairman, president and chief executive officer Jagdeep Singh made $276,086...
Sycamore works to bring acquisition up to speed
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks has completed the integration of Eastern Research, but the company it acquired last year has yet to return to its previous revenue run rate...
Actelis debuts Ethernet switch
By: By Carol Wilson
Actelis Networks is charting a path of steady growth in the Carrier Ethernet space, announcing today that it is introducing a new switch, has signed a new customer and is bringing an industry veteran on board to expand operations...
Ciena unveils Ethernet-over-copper gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena announced new carrier Ethernet equipment today, publicly acknowledging for the first time an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Anda Networks reported by Telephony last month...
Lafayette win could have broad impact
By: By Carol Wilson
More than 18 months after citizens of Lafayette, La., voted in favor of a municipally owned fiber-to-the-home network, the Louisiana State Supreme Court has reversed a court challenge to that network, paving the way for construction of the network...
