Fujitsu Network Communications names new CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications named Satoshi Ikeuchi its new chief executive officer today...
California to issue video franchises
By: By Dan O'Shea
California late last week became the latest state to create a statewide video franchise program, a move that had been expected since both sides of the state legislature and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had earlier expressed support for such a law...
Calient brings MEMS to fiber access
By: By Ed Gubbins
Calient Networks is starting a new chapter as it brings its core optical network technology to access networks...
Zhone misses third-quarter revenue target
Zhone Technologies’ third-quarter revenue will be 20% to 24% lower than previously expected, the company announced late Wednesday....
Turin adding staff after Broadwing win
With a nationwide U.S. carrier as a new customer, equipment vendor Turin Networks is hiring. As part of a five-year contract, Broadwing began deploying the largest version of Turin’s Traverse multiservice transport platform ...
Vendors push Ethernet OAM as standards mature
To help carriers offer stringent quality of service and strict service level agreements for Ethernet service, equipment vendors are increasingly bringing to market equipment with Ethernet operations...
AT&T takes back 2000 DSL tech support jobs
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T is returning 2000 previously outsourced DSL technical support jobs to its own payroll, the company announced...
NCTA-funded study claims $100 billion in savings
By: By Carol Wilson
A study commissioned by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association is claiming consumers and small businesses could save up to $100 billion over the next five years because they now have a choice for local telephone service...
Ikanos’ ADI buy yields VDSL2 gateway
By: By Ed Gubbins
Chip vendor Ikanos Communications today unveiled a VDSL2 residential gateway reference platform using the network processor it acquired from Analog Devices (ADI) in January...
Telco Systems acquires IP DSLAM vendor
By: By Ed Gubbins
Telco Systems has acquired IP DSLAM maker Critical Telecom, the company announced today...
FiOS TV reaches Indiana
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Tuesday announced plans to deploy FiOS TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 2007, marking its first video service in that state...
Aztek reboots with E911 gateway
By: By Ed Gubbins
Aztek Engineering got a new name, new funding and a new chief executive officer this week as it embarked on a new business of selling remote gateways for emergency services...
Rural providers keeping pace with DSL
By: By Tim McElligott
The National Exchange Carrier Association today issued a progress report on rural telephone companies’ broadband deployment efforts and said that despite operating in low-density, higher-cost markets, they match the penetration rates of non-rural carriers...
Analyst: Nortel eyeing Force10
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks might be considering an acquisition of Ethernet switch vendor Force10 Networks, according to Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Joe Chiasson...
VON: Level 3 gets new look
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--While its buying binge may not be over, Level 3 Communications is already looking like a different company and exploring some of its new options...
VON: CopperCom’s capture of IOCs continues
By: By Tim McElligott
BOSTON--With a range of solutions and deployment scenarios from switch replacement and cap-and-grow scenarios to customer care and voicemail, CopperCom announced this week it has racked up four more independent operating company customers...
VON: BellSouth plans major VDSL2 upgrade
By: By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--BellSouth will upgrade many of the shorter loops in its fiber-to-the-curb network to VDSL2 over the next two years, delivering about 80 Mb/s to the home, according to a report this week from Investor’s Business Daily...
VON: Covergence downsizes IP security gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--Covergence introduced a smaller version of its IP edge security appliance today...
Siemens unveils “multi-haul” optical gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Siemens introduced a new optical transport platform today that brings some of the vendor’s long-haul technology to regional and metro networks....
Lucent sells Novera’s WDM-PON in Japan
By: By Ed Gubbins
Lucent Technologies has struck a partnership with Novera Optics this week wherein Lucent’s services arm will sell, integrate and support Novera’s wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical networking (WDM-PON) gear in Japan...
Savings wars: Cable, telco lobbyists tout consumer benefits
By: By Carol Wilson
Feeling any richer? According to cable and telco lobbyists, we should all soon reap billions of dollars in benefits from their competition...
A TelephonyOnline Podcast: IPTV and Consumer Habit
TelephonyOnline talks to Neale Martin, an industry futurist and a keynote speaker at Telephony’s IPTV Workshop next week at VON in Boston, about consumer behavior and how it could impact the introduction of IPTV. Hear Martin’s views on how what service providers need to do to make their video offerings different...
Lucent, Alcatel shareholders approve merger
By: By Ed Gubbins
Shareholders of both Alcatel and Lucent Technologies voted to approve the proposed merger of the two companies today...
Alcatel merger vote nears
By: By Ed Gubbins
Shareholders of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies will vote tomorrow on whether to approve the merger of their two companies....
Huawei takes Alcatel's optical crown
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel was bumped from its spot as the world's leading supplier of optical networking hardware for the first time ever in the second quarter, according to Infonetics Research....
