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....
ECI names new COO
By: By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom named Avi Cohen its new chief operating officer today...
RAD extends Ethernet for Yipes
By: By Dan O'Shea
Yipes Enterprise Services and RAD Data Communications are set to announce next week that the service provider and vendor are working together to extend Yipes Ethernet services across leased DS-3 and OC-3 facilities...
Juniper touts sliding market share
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks this week touted having held its place as the world's number-two supplier of service provider routers in the second quarter, even as its share of that market slipped sequentially....
IP dominates DSL shipments
By: By Ed Gubbins
Equipment vendors shipped more IP-based DSLAMs than ATM-based ones in the second quarter, according to Dittberner Associates....
Skepticism of Alcatel/Lucent merger grows
By: By Ed Gubbins
Only weeks before Alcatel and Lucent Technologies shareholders will vote on whether to approve the merger of their two companies, some analysts are growing skeptical of the combination...
SureWest bumps up DSL speeds
By: By Carol Wilson
SureWest announced late Tuesday that it will increase the speeds of the Internet access service it sells to long-time Roseville, Calif., customers. ...
Hatteras gets mid-band Ethernet on RUS list
By: By Tim McElligott
This week, Hatteras Networks announced that its Mid-Band Ethernet products have made the list thanks to deployments at Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative and Home Telephone Co....
