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...
Juniper bulks up former Kagoor staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks is hiring 25 engineers as part of an expansion of its Israeli research and development facility, the company told the Israeli business press this week...
US LEC preens heading into merger
By: By Ed Gubbins
A week before shareholders will vote on its proposed merger with Paetec, US LEC reported a more than 9% increase in annual revenue and a 57% improvement in its net loss during 2006...
Legal fees a third of muni fiber cost
By: By Ed Gubbins
About a third of the money spent so far on a municipal fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) project in Louisiana has gone to lawyers, according to local media reports...
Calix, Nortel partnership wanes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadband access equipment vendor Calix today announced a joint marketing agreement with Nortel Networks that will supplant the three-year reseller agreement between the two that was due to expire this year...
Edge network market thins out
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the fast-growing edge router market, the field of equipment choices is narrowing as intense competition, amid a rush of investment, weeds out marginal...
Alcatel-Lucent gets a chokehold on optical
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent last year became the first company to claim more than 20% of the optical networking market, thanks mostly to the Alcatel side of the house, according to data released this week by Ovum-RHK...
In the spotlight: Charter’s Ted Schremp
Charter Communications today announced that it has signed up its 500,000th telephone customer, with seven out of 10 of those customers taking the company’s triple play bundle...
Yipes declares positive cash flow
By: By Ed Gubbins
Yipes Enterprise Services’ cash flow from recurring operations swung positive in 2006, the privately held Ethernet service provider reported today...
3GSM: Ericsson to start LTE interoperability work
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--Ericsson said it will begin interoperability testing with other vendors on its Long Term Evolution radio technology next quarter and plans to have equipment deployed with its first carrier customer by the first quarter of 2009...
OIF OKs E-NNI IA
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Optical Interworking Forum (OIF) has approved an implementation agreement (IA) designed to ease the provisioning of optical networks...
Analysts predict an AT&T switch
By: By Carol Wilson
Pike & Fischer has added its voice to chorus of those predicting AT&T will have to alter its strategy and invest in deploying fiber-to-the-home in order to compete with cable operators in the video business...
Ericsson acquires Entrisphere
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ericssson today announced its acquisition of fiber access equipment vendor Entrisphere. “Fiber technology is essential for high-definition IPTV and other IP-based services,” Ericsson said in a statement released today. “Entrisphere has a well proven and competitive product portfolio, ready for large scale deployment....
Alcatel-Lucent job cuts climb to 12,500
By: By Ed Gubbins
Reporting its first quarterly earnings as a merged company today, Alcatel-Lucent announced an increase in the number of jobs it intends to cut over the next three years from 9,000 to 12,500...
Cisco’s service provider VP quits
By: By Ed Gubbins
The head of Cisco Systems’ service provider group announced his resignation today, effective immediately...
Nortel to cut 2900 jobs in two years
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks will reduce its workforce by 2900 people (or roughly 8%) by the end of 2008 as part of a restructuring effort announced last year, the company announced today...
Exclusive: Marketing and sales under stress
By: By Dan O'Shea
A survey of marketing and sales executives and professionals in the telecom industry has revealed that an increasingly complex competitive and service environment is combining with ongoing internal corporate pressures to create a perfect storm through which marketing and sales organizations are trying to navigate...
NTCA urges self-reliance through regional and national networks
By: By Tim McElligott
ORLANDO--With recent merger and acquisition activity among national carriers limiting rural providers’ choice of access and purchasing power and threatening their very future, the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association urged members to consider or reconsider cooperating on the construction of regional and national networks...
Nortel CFO steps down
By: By Ed Gubbins
After a two-year run, Peter Currie will resign his post as chief financial officer of Nortel Networks, the company said today...
Amedia’s GPON gateway to take ONTs inside
By: By Ed Gubbins
Amedia Networks today unveiled plans for a new gigabit passive optical network (GPON) home gateway designed to replace both broadband home routers and the optical network terminals (ONTs) that typically sit outside the home in PONs...
A new MPLS debate heats up
By: By Ed Gubbins
Increasing interest in provider backbone transport, or PBT, technology as a simpler, cheaper alternative to multiprotocol label switching, or MPLS, has...
Mega-carriers wield 800-pound purses
By: By Ed Gubbins
The AT&T/BellSouth merger wreaked havoc on equipment vendors late last year, as both carriers curbed spending. But the tension didn't subside when the...
Worldwide Packets gets into aggregation
By: By Ed Gubbins
After seven years in access networks, Worldwide Packets is moving upstream...
A Telephony Podcast: Inter-Carrier Ethernet
The Metro Ethernet Forum is at work on an external network-to-network interface (E-NNI) that would address issues created by inter-carrier Ethernet connections. Telephony’s Jason Meyers and Ed Gubbins discuss the challenges being confronted by the MEF and the rest of the carrier Ethernet community....
Occam sees 75% annual revenue growth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks reported 75% revenue growth in 2006, with $68.6 million in annual revenue. And its net loss shrank nearly 80% last year to $1.9 million...
