Digium steals two Adtran execs
By: By Ed Gubbins
A pair of Adtran executives has left the company to lead Digium, an eight-year-old maker of open-source enterprise telephony platforms based in the same town...
Ciena execs wooed by recruiters
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is ratcheting up its compensation packages in an effort to retain key executives as the company’s return to profitability has led to outside offers for its top talent...
Zhone planning new WDM transport gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Late in this year’s first quarter or early in the second, Zhone Technologies plans to introduce new optical transport gear based on its next-generation Single Line Multiservice (SLMS) architecture...
Extreme gets a makeover
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks’ new chief executive officer Mark Canepa has reorganized the equipment vendor’s corporate structure and business focus as part of an effort to improve the company’s overall effectiveness after a difficult year...
Ellacoya beefs up deep packet inspection
By: By Carol Wilson
Ellacoya is taking the next step in its product evolution, today announcing the e100, a scalable box that can support line-rate deep-packet inspection at rates up to 20 Gigabits per second, supporting up to 500,000 active subscribers and doing content inspection at 10 Gbps wire speeds...
Ciena confirms ZTE partnership
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena has been in a quiet partnership with Chinese equipment vendor ZTE since September 2005, the company has confirmed...
Adtran anxiously awaits AT&T’s next moves
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran joined Tellabs today in predicting that conditions which led to revenue shortfalls in last year’s fourth quarter will continue in this year’s first quarter...
Tellabs’ fourth-quarter woes may continue
By: By Ed Gubbins
Calling the fourth quarter of 2006 a “tough” one for the company, Tellabs said the first quarter may be no easier....
Alcatel-Lucent issues Q4 warning
By: By Dan O'Shea
Alcatel-Lucent won't report quarterly earnings for the first time as a combined company until Feb. 9, but already the new megamerger in town has issued a warning that fourth-quarter 2006 revenue will be lower than Alcatel's 2005 figure--and that new cost-cutting measures may lie ahead...
UBS: Verizon may add 1.1M fiber subs this year
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications could add another roughly 1.1 million subscribers to its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network this year, according to estimates made by UBS Investment Research...
Cisco wants architecture partner role
By: By Ed Gubbins
Armed with an increasingly comprehensive product portfolio, Cisco Systems is hoping to forge much closer relationships with service providers, becoming...
AT&T puts its bet on bonded VDSL2
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T gets asked a lot about whether its fiber-to-the-node, or FTTN, architecture brings enough bandwidth to the home to meet future demands for, say,...
Sky's no limit for mobile backhaul
By: By Dan O'Shea
With every announcement of a multimedia-friendly mobile device like the iPhone, the broadband pipes of wireless networks fill with more promise that 2007...
Details emerge in Motorola’s Tut merger
By: By Ed Gubbins
A single top-tier U.S. carrier played a large, influential role in the merger negotiations between Motorola and Tut Systems, regulatory filings revealed this week. Clues suggest that carrier could be Verizon Communications...
Spirent assures triple play for Canadian carrier
By: By Dan O'Shea
Spirent Communications has landed a contract to support Canadian carrier Telus with with service assurance solutions to support quality of experience for the carrier’s triple-play customers...
So long, Sonet
By: By Carol Wilson
This could well be the last year of significant sales of Sonet and SDH transport gear, according to industry analysts and vendors...
Microsoft makes overtures to rural market
By: By Tim McElligott
Orlando. Microsoft’s general manager of the communications sector at Microsoft, Harry Patz, addressed approximately 600 members of the rural service provider community today at the OPASTCO Winter Meeting with a singular message: We want to partner with you....
Ciena aims to diversify with cable clients
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena has sold its CoreDirector optical switch to cable operator Cox Communications, part of the vendor’s effort to penetrate the cable space and thus diversify its customer base...
Nortel boasts of PBT validation
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks boasted today about having been selected, along with Siemens, to supply carrier Ethernet gear for British Telecom’s 21st Century Network initiative. In particular, Nortel claimed the win was a “major vote of confidence” from a top-tier carrier for Nortel’s chosen metro technology, Provider Backbone Transport...
Arris, Tandberg to unite against Cisco, Motorola
By: By Ed Gubbins
By offering to acquire Tandberg TV this week, Arris will challenge Cisco Systems and Motorola for the residential video and triple-play equipment market...
Verizon spins off local lines in three states
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon announced this morning it is spinning off its local lines in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to its shareholders and will merge that spin-off into FairPoint Communications, a North Carolina-based conglomerate of rural local exchange carriers...
Carrier Ethernet beginning to dominate
By: By Carol Wilson
Metro Ethernet and cellular backhaul are hot investment areas for service providers, as they continue to converge their data services onto Internet Protocol backbones, according to the latest report from Infonetics, “Service Provider Plans for IP/MPLS: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific.”...
Vendors await return of AT&T spending
By: By Ed Gubbins
With regulatory approval of the AT&T/BellSouth merger resolved, equipment vendors that supply the two companies eagerly await a return to typical spending patterns, which many say paused while regulatory approval was delayed. ...
Embarq, AT&T: Access line loss stabilizing
By: By Carol Wilson
Two major telephone companies are once again saying that access line loss is slowing. The same comments were made in November when third quarter results were announced, but many industry analysts were skeptical, given the sharp rise in cable VoIP and service bundle choices...
Zhone GPON, pseudowire gear coming
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is planning to introduce new products in the next few months related to gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) and pseudowires, chief executive officer Mory Ejabat said at an investor conference this week...
