Gridpoint offers smarter network management
Gridpoint Systems, a new startup focused on traffic management, today unveiled a metro edge network node designed to maximize efficiency in carrier networks. ...
Verismo bypasses PC for Internet TV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Silicon Valley start-up Verismo Networks this week joined the list of technology vendors that wants consumers to add a new device to the home...
Alcatel-Lucent carves out managed broadband offerings
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent today announced an update to its triple-play platform designed to add higher service quality options to best-effort broadband...
Sharedband’s bonded broadband gains traction
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sharedband is making progress bringing its bonded-broadband offering up to speed, billing US customers for the first time in May while it works to sign up more...
Zayo closes seventh acquisition, eighth to follow
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zayo Group has closed its seventh acquisition and is working on eight, the regional network provider announced today...
Why Sorrento is acquiring RBN
By: By Ed Gubbins
Newly reincarnated optical equipment vendor Sorrento Networks is bulking up its product portfolio and customer base by acquiring Australian-born optical vendor Redfern Broadband Networks (a.k.a. RBN) for an undisclosed sum...
Analyst: Don’t write set-top-box obituary yet
By: By Ed Gubbins
Despite the recent embrace among industry giants of a technology that could obviate set-top boxes, one telecom analyst is skeptical that STBs will go extinct any time soon...
Verizon may expand FiOS, rural wireless
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications is considering expanding its fiber-to-the-premises network beyond its original target of 18 million homes, according to the company’s chief financial officer...
Truphone intercepts global mobile calls
By: By Rich Karpinski
Alternative mobile service provider Truphone launched a service today that automatically “re-routes” international calls that begin on incumbent operator networks and delivers them via the Internet and the Truphone network...
Mushroom shrinks broadband bonding gear for SMBs
By: By Ed Gubbins
Mushroom Networks today introduced a half-sized version of its broadband bonding appliance designed for small and medium business users (SMBs)....
Sprint Clearwire JV has broad implications
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint and Clearwire’s renewed engagement didn’t just boost WiMAX’s profile in the U.S. According to global vendors, it enormously benefited WiMAX worldwide, giving operators who were on the fence about WiMAX the confidence to deploy their networks...
Level 3 comes back with a vengeance
By: By Ed Gubbins
Level 3 Communications is demonstrating an increased aggression in the wholesale space, including stepped-up price pressure in some cases, according to multiple sources, as that carrier looks to rebound after provisioning problems put a chokehold on its sales last year...
Zayo lights Northeastern ‘express lane’
Zayo Bandwidth has stitched together networks from three different acquisitions to light a new optical network in the Northeast that the company claims will offer lower latency because it takes an especially direct route...
NXTcomm 2008: Everything under the sun
By: By Telephony Staff
With a high-powered keynote schedule and slew of exhibitors representing the latest technology trends, telecom's mega-event is set to sizzle in Las Vegas...
Cable regains high-speed Internet momentum
By: By Carol Wilson
Through 2006, Information Gatekeepers Inc. had predicted in its quarterly high-speed access reports that telcos were positioned to overtake cable's early lead in broadband deployment. That prediction changed in 2007...
Naked DSL drives AT&T broadband growth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though only a few years ago multiple state regulators tried unsuccessfully to force BellSouth to offer standalone DSL service, the company's current owners have embraced the idea...
Bell tolls for wholesale-only muni fiber
By: By Ed Gubbins
The sale of the Provo, Utah, municipal fiber-to-the-premises network this month to greenfield FTTP provider Broadweave Networks sounded a death knell for the wholesale-only municipal fiber approach...
Embarq move raises questions about quad-play model
By: By Ed Gubbins
Embarq’s severance of its partnership with Sprint Nextel for the wireless portion of its bundled offerings raises questions about to what extent the company will remain true to the strategy of fixed mobile convergence laid out by former CEO (now Sprint CEO) Dan Hesse...
MultiService Forum readies global demo
By: By Rich Karpinski
Carriers including Verizon, BT, Vodafone and new member China Mobile will be among the host test sites for the MultiService Forum's global interoperability demonstration of next-generation networks...
More disturbing numbers for telcos
By: By Carol Wilson
Two separate sources this week are offering up more analysis showing the telcos are falling behind the cable companies in the broadband and video battle...
FiberNet expands nationally as capacity demand grows
By: By Ed Gubbins
FiberNet is embarking on a $2-million network expansion project to add capacity to its network and connect new metro markets just as the company is reporting an increase in higher-bandwidth optical transport services not seen in some time...
Analyst: Occam’s Fairpoint deal could be worth $125M
Occam Networks’ recent contract to supply a broadband access rollout by Fairpoint Communications could yield $125 million in revenue, according to an estimate by Andrew Schmitt, an analyst with Nyquist Capital...
Broadweave to heal iProvo by shedding wholesale fiber model
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadweave Networks, a provider of fiber-based triple-play services in greenfield developments, has acquired the municipal fiber network of Provo, Utah, vowing to improve the operation by replacing its open-access wholesale model with one in which Broadweave both owns the network and offers services over it...
Why Cisco’s U.S. service provider business is down
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems reported a decline in orders among U.S. service providers in the quarter ending in April but insisted it was a temporary phenomenon...
Qwest wireless switch adds another nail to MVNO coffin
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Until Monday the main casualties of the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) fallout have been small boutique operators, but now Qwest Communications is giving up on its virtual operator relationship with Sprint, opting instead to sell the standard Verizon Wireless service available at any cellular kiosk. The MVNO business model isn’t just failing the niche players; it isn’t working for the big retail operators either...
