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....
Minneapolis picks US Internet
By: By Carol Wilson
The city of Minneapolis has chosen US Internet to build and operate its citywide wireless network. The decision is a blow to EarthLink, which was the other finalist participating in a trial held in July...
Cisco shrinks CRS-1, wins Sprint
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems introduced a smaller version of its giant CRS-1 core router today while announcing Sprint as a customer of the platform...
Disaster recovery: Should voice mail be free?
By: By Carol Wilson
A couple of communications industry veterans believe the telcos should add something to their disaster recovery lists--free voice mail service in the event of large-scale disasters. This is the second in a series of special reports on business continuity...
White Rock suspends operations
By: By Ed Gubbins
The directors of White Rock Networks decided to suspend virtually all of the company’s operations today and furlough most of its employees while the company attempts to quickly end its search for an acquirer...
Sales of Ciena's MSTP 'going crazy' overseas
By: By Ed Gubbins
In what one analyst called a "lovely quarter," Ciena reported $152.5 million in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, beating analysts' average expectations by nearly 7%. Revenue was 16% higher than in the higher than a year earlier. ...
Extreme names new CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks named Mark Canepa its new president and chief executive officer today...
Rivals could exploit Huawei's strategic crossroads
By: By Ed Gubbins
Huawei Technologies may be facing a crossroads with regard to its strategy that could provide a temporary opportunity for rivals to gain advantage over it, according to a research note issued recently from UBS Investment Research....
Investors continue to support SunRocket
By: By Tim McElligott
Internet phone service provider SunRocket announced a $33 million round of Series C institutional financing today, bringing the firm’s total venture capital raised to approximately $80 million...
Cable gains ground while IPTV stalls
By: By Ed Gubbins
Strong revenue and earnings growth in the second quarter suggests bright near-term prospects for cable companies in their war against the Bells, Merrill Lynch wrote in a research note released today...
Alcatel, Lucent gear on 'collision course'
By: By Ed Gubbins
At the Globalcomm trade show in June, Alcatel and Lucent Technologies both introduced products to help carriers migrate from circuit to packet-based transport, but the two vendors may well find that there is only room for one of those products after the merger they hope to close this year. ...
Calls for unity at CoBank conference
By: By Tim McElligott
Acknowledging the strength in numbers, independent and cooperative telecom companies and their financiers spoke this week at the 2006 CoBank Executive Forum in Beaver Creek, Colo., about the need for a more unified front to regulators and equipment vendors...
AT&T favors HomePNA over MoCA
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has selected HomePNA 3 as the preferred in-home distribution technology for its fiber-to-the-node triple-play offering...
In the Spotlight: Kamran Sistanizadeh, Yipes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Yipes co-founder and chief technology officer Kamran Sistanizadeh recently spoke with Telephony’s Senior Writer Ed Gubbins about managing carrier Ethernet services and SLAs and where the industry’s habits in that regard are headed...
Harmonic buys Entone's VOD software business
By: By Ed Gubbins
Harmonic has agreed to acquire Entone Technologies' video networking software business, the companies announced today....
InFocus: Breaking Down the Walls
By: By: Wes Hayden President and CEO Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories
Many businesses are moving toward virtual contact centers which provide a better work environment for agents and can greatly increase service levels for businesses. ...
InFocus: A New Way of Thinking
By: By John Giere, Chief Marketing Officer, Lucent Technologies
A major transformation is underway in the communications industry. “Communication companies” of all flavors, (i.e. traditional telcos, PTTs, cablecos, ISPs, VoIP pureplays, Internet search engine/communication hybrids, entertainment MVNOs) are seeking to embrace and exploit a new customer paradigm....
