Turin hires ex-Luminous CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks has named Chris Stark its new president of worldwide sales and marketing. Stark was the chief executive officer of Luminous Networks, a vendor of resilient packet ring (RPR) equipment...
Nortel CEO unsatisfied with pace of progress
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks reported solid revenue growth in the third quarter but vowed to work harder to tighten its cost structure. Though Nortel Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski expressed pride and optimism throughout the call, he said, “I’m not satisfied with the pace of our progress.”...
TelcoTV: Content developer acquisitions unlikely
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--Content company executives for the most part don’t believe in the possibility that telcos could acquire or invest in studios and other content developer to help them create exclusive content for their IPTV efforts...
Alcatel wins $300M IP health care deal
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel today announced a multi-year $300 million contract to migrate the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to a converged IP network...
Cable companies make a comeback
By: By Carol Wilson
The cable industry, led by Comcast, made a significant comeback in selling cable modems in the third quarter, according to Information Gatekeepers Inc., an industry analyst firm that has been predicting DSL growth will overtake cable modem deployment...
Surewest fights line loss with broadband
By: By Ed Gubbins
Surewest Communications reported revenue and net income growth in the third quarter as broadband growth offset access line losses...
CenturyTel beats the street with low Q3 earnings
By: By Tim McElligott
Revenue was down $37.7 million from last year’s third quarter, but Monroe, La.-based CenturyTel beat earnings per share expectations by a nickel...
Wireless, data aid Cincinnati Bell’s third quarter
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cincinnati Bell’s wireless and data businesses helped the company overcome flatness in its third-quarter wireline business. Overall revenue was up 7% from a year earlier to $320 million in the quarter...
Pseudowire key to new cellular backhaul options
By: By Joan Engebretson
A technology originally aimed at carrying different types of data traffic across an IP backbone has found a new application that’s not in the backbone. The technology, pseudowire, is now being deployed in Ethernet-based access networks to support a need we’ve been hearing a lot about lately—cellular backhaul...
In the Spotlight: Matt Desch, Iridium Satellite
By: By Jason Meyers
Matt Desch--former CEO of Telcordia, 13-year veteran of Nortel’s executive ranks and a long-time fixture in the mobile and broadband worlds--was recently named CEO of Iridium Satellite. Telephony’s Jason Meyers talked to Desch about Iridium’s legacy, the capabilities of its network and what the future holds...
Swisscom launches Microsoft IPTV
By: By Ed Gubbins
Switzerland’s incumbent telco launched an IPTV service today similar to AT&T’s U-Verse service...
Extreme’s new CEO describes turnaround plans
By: By Ed Gubbins
Mark Canepa, who was named the new chief executive officer of Extreme Networks in August, highlighted his goals for reviving the Ethernet equipment vendor during its quarterly earnings call late Friday...
In the spotlight: John Grady, Nextlink Wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
Nextlink Wireless is a sister company to XO Communications, focusing on last-mile broadband wireless access using LMDS spectrum licenses in the top 75 U.S. markets. As a carrier’s carrier, Nextlink sells to both wireless and wireline operators as well as large entities such as the federal government. John Grady, director of marketing for Nextlink, spoke to Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about the role his firm can play in business continuity planning...
Extreme still struggling with sales
By: By Ed Gubbins
After a challenging 2006 fiscal year, Extreme Networks began fiscal 2007 with more bad news...
Ikanos’ manufacturing woes continue
By: By Ed Gubbins
The manufacturing problems that impacted sales for Ikanos Communications in the third quarter still persist and will continue to plague the company in the fourth quarter, the chip maker said during an earnings call today. In fact, those problems are now worse than the company knew when it lowered its third-quarter revenue expectations only three weeks ago...
ECI overhauls slow-growing former Laurel business
By: By Ed Gubbins
With the growth of its data networking division lagging behind expectations, ECI Telecom vowed to make significant changes to the business it inherited by acquiring Laurel Networks last year...
Comcast phone subs up 381,000
By: By Dan O'Shea
Cable TV giant Comcast Corp reported net telephone service subscriber additions of about 381,000 during the third quarter, the company officials said on their quarterly earnings call Thursday...
Ikanos CEO steps down
By: By Ed Gubbins
Rajesh Vashist, chairman and chief executive officer of DSL chip maker Ikanos Communications, has resigned both posts, effective immediately, the company announced late Tuesday. ...
Tellabs’ sales of FTTP gear dip
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sales of Tellabs’ fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) gear dipped in the third quarter as a major customer (most likely Verizon Communications) made an “inventory correction,” making more use of the gear it had already purchased, Tellabs said...
Lucent’s Russo: Alcatel merger ‘on track’
By: By Dan O'Shea
Lucent Technologies chairman and CEO Pat Russo said during the company’s earnings call this morning for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006 results that Lucent’s pending merger with French vendor giant Alcatel remains “on track” to close by the end of 2006...
Access line loss slows, says BellSouth
By: By Carol Wilson
In what could be the last earnings call for BellSouth as a separate company, Chief Financial Officer Pat Shannon said access line loss rates are “flattening,” as cable VoIP deployment is completed and losses to wireless substitution are reduced...
AT&T revenues jump, U-verse ‘on track’
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T reported a 74% increase in third-quarter revenues, based on wireless growth, improved wireline performance and faster-than-expected integration of AT&T and SBC Communications...
Horizon Chillicothe chooses Tandberg
By: By Dan O'Shea
Ohio-based carrier Horizon Chillicothe Telephone this week said it is deploying Tandberg Television’s iPlex video head-end for an expansion of the channel line-up for its pioneering TV over VDSL ATM network...
Redback sales to BellSouth dip
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sales of Redback Networks’ gear to its biggest customer, BellSouth, dropped in the third quarter, but the vendor expects the situation to return to normal next quarter...
Juniper CEO heralds end of carrier Ethernet
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks’ new carrier Ethernet router, the MX960, will bring about the end of the market for carrier Ethernet gear, Juniper chief executive officer Scott Kreins said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call late Wednesday...
