Sycamore’s acquisition stumbles
By: By Ed Gubbins
Lowered revenue projections from edge networking vendor Eastern Research allowed Sycamore Networks to renegotiate the price it paid to acquire the company this year, Sycamore said during a quarterly earnings call today...
ITU: RAD unveils new Ethernet strategy
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--RAD Data Communications this week unveiled a new Ethernet access strategy that supports multiple forms of access networks and provides the ability to remotely troubleshoot service quality using an intelligent demarcation capability...
Alcatel-Lucent unveils purple ball
By: By Ed Gubbins
On its first day as a new entity, equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent today unveiled its new corporate logo--sorry, “visual identity.” And it’s purple...
Alcatel Lucent merger closes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eight months after it was announced, the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies officially closed today, two equipment vendors said...
Juniper’s IPTV plans advance
By: By Ed Gubbins
A new software release on Juniper Networks’ SDX-300 Service Deployment System this week is helping fulfill the vendor’s architectural vision for triple-play networks, one that promises more efficient use of networks...
Enterprises embrace 10-Gb/s Ethernet
By: By Ed Gubbins
The number of large and medium-sized enterprises using 10-Gb/s Ethernet for their core networks could grow by a third next year, according to a recent study by InfoPro...
In the Spotlight: Sam Mathan, Matisse Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Just before Thanksgiving, Matisse’s chief executive officer Sam Mathan told Telephony’s Ed Gubbins where Matisse is headed next....
Report: Ericsson to buy Entrisphere
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ericsson is likely to acquire access equipment vendor Entrisphere for about $290 million in order to help win a contract to supply AT&T with passive optical networking gear, according to Swedish technology newspaper Ny Teknik...
Alcatel, Lucent offer to pay lenders for more accounting freedom
By: By Ed Gubbins
Days before their merger is expected to close, Alcatel and Lucent Technologies are offering their lenders cash in exchange for the ability of the combined company to avoid having to report Lucent’s financials separately following the merger...
AT&T, BellSouth merger wait vexes vendors
By: By Ed Gubbins
As the pending merger of AT&T and BellSouth awaits approval and completion, the wait is generating anxiety among equipment vendors that supply the two carriers. Until the merger closes, they fear, purchasing decisions could be delayed, and a general uncertainty over future network plans leaves vendors in the dark...
Siemens fraud probe expands
By: By Ed Gubbins
A criminal investigation of Siemens’ telecom business has broadened in terms of the dollar amount involved and the number of arrests made, according to the Wall Street Journal...
Extreme bonuses tied to employee retention
By: By Ed Gubbins
Having struggled to build an effective sales force for much of this year, equipment vendor Extreme Networks has tied the annual bonuses of its top executives in part to how well the company retains its employees...
Alcatel bulks up its multiservice crossconnect
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel has boosted the capacity of its multiservice crossconnect, the vendor announced today...
MPEG-4 muscles into the market
By: By Ed Gubbins
Following months of anticipation, video set-top boxes using MPEG-4 compression are finally finding their way into the hands of North American telcos....
BPL freedom from unbundling no panacea
By: By Ed Gubbins
The FCC moved to level the regulatory playing field between broadband over powerline, or BPL, and other forms of broadband this month, though BPL is not...
Tellabs CEO: BPON to dominate GPON in 2007
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though Verizon Communications has pledged to start deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear this year, most of the PON equipment it deploys next year will probably be lower speed broadband PON (BPON), according to Krish Prabhu, chief executive officer of Tellabs, Verizon’s primary BPON supplier...
Pac-West secures funding for buildout
By: By Carol Wilson
Pac-West Telecomm, a company in the midst of an ambitious buildout of a national wholesale voice-over-IP network, today announced a major financial restructuring that includes significant new financing from Columbia Ventures, a major telecom venture capital player...
AT&T tests ringback tones for landlines
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is testing a service that would bring popular ringback tones to landline phones, letting customers customize how their home phone rings, based on who is calling, from a catalog of thousands of ring tones...
Hawaiian Telcom struggles for independence
By: By Ed Gubbins
Hawaiian Telcom’s revenue grew and its net loss shrank in the third quarter, but the former Verizon subsidiary admitted it is struggling with efforts to adjust to life as a standalone company...
Motorola acquires Netopia
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola will acquire Netopia for about $208 million in cash, the companies announced today...
AT&T debuts optical bandwidth-on-demand
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced a new optical service that delivers bandwidth-on-demand, enabling customers to use AT&T’s self-service portal to administer their Sonet networks...
ITC^Deltacom reports shrinkage
By: By Ed Gubbins
ITC^Deltacom reported shrinking revenue and growing losses for the third quarter of 2006, largely the result of a drop in long-distance service revenue and the company’s exit from two businesses late last year. Meanwhile, its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization was up 4% from a year earlier to nearly $17.5 million...
Cisco buys metro Ethernet chipmaker
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems will acquire metro Ethernet chipmaker Greenfield Networks, the companies announced today...
Service providers warm up to Cisco
By: By Ed Gubbins
Service providers helped Cisco Systems report a record $8.2 billion in revenue in its first fiscal quarter of 2007 (up 25% from a year earlier). The vendor’s service provider business boasted the highest growth of any of its segments for the first time in six quarters...
Tut irons out MPEG-4 set-top wrinkles
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tut Systems is working through the kinks that stalled the availability of its MPEG-4 set-top boxes for high-definition television (HDTV). Though the vendor was unable to fulfill orders for those set-tops in the second quarter due to problems with middleware and conditional access functions, those problems are now being resolved, according to multiple sources...
