Broadwing sheds light on Infinera deal
By: By Ed Gubbins
In an interview with Telephony this morning, Broadwing offered more details into the deal announced late yesterday in which the carrier is turning over its equipment manufacturing business to Infinera while deploying that vendor’s gear in its network...
AT&T rolls out Homezone
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T, with satellite TV partner EchoStar Communications, began offering its previously announced Homezone broadband service in San Antonio, Texas, and parts of Ohio. ...
Infinera to take over Corvis, supply Broadwing
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadwing has selected Infinera’s optical switching platform for its network and will transfer control of its equipment manufacturing and network maintenance support functions to Infinera, the companies announced today...
Adtran lowers 2006 expectations again
By: By Ed Gubbins
Three months after lowering its revenue expectations for 2006, Adtran lowered them again this morning, citing uncertainty in sales of some of its optical products this year...
Juniper introduces biggest edge router yet
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks unveiled its biggest edge router yet today, the M120 multiservice edge router...
The next ROADM
By: By Ed Gubbins
As ROADMs have evolved from core to metro to multi-degree functions, they've only become more important to carriers. Where are they headed next?...
Buyer/supplier linkages crossing traditional lines
By: By Carol Wilson
New service demands and the rapid pace of industry change push service providers into closer arrangements with vendors. Click here to read the full-length version of this story...
Windstream stands alone
By: By Tim McElligott
The separation of Alltel's wireless and wireline businesses as well as the merger between the landline business and Valor Communications was announced in December 2005....
Paving the way to rural America
By: By Sarah Reedy
Student interns return to their hometowns to promote WildBlue Internet service, conencting rural areas and their futures...
Mid-band Ethernet hits the big time
By: By Ed Gubbins
The mid-band Ethernet market has been bubbling for a few years, but it passed an important tipping point last week...
Study: Carriers respect online customers
By: By Dan O'Shea
The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers, said its most recent study found that telecom service providers ranked above average compared to a range of other industries...
MPEG-4 set-top delays hurt Tut’s second quarter
By: By Ed Gubbins
Delays in the availability of MPEG-4 set-top boxes and their middleware led to the second-quarter revenue shortfall reported by equipment vendor Tut Systems yesterday, Chairman and CEO Sal D'Auria said in a speech at an investor conference....
TIA: Video franchising bill must pass
By: By Dan O'Shea
The Telecommunications Industry Association, whose membership consists of many network equipment manufacturers that cater to both telcos and cable TV companies, wants see national video franchising legislation be approved quickly by the U.S. Senate, or it may run the risk of slowing broadband deployment....
Cable tops J.D. Power telephony survey
By: By Carol Wilson
Consumers think the best telephone companies are actually cable companies, according to the J.D. Power & Associates 2006 Residential All-Distance Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study...
Tut warns of another earnings shortfall
By: By Ed Gubbins
Video equipment vendor Tut Systems warned today that its second-quarter revenue and gross margin will be lower than previously indicated....
Alcatel COO to change roles post-merger
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though Alcatel said its chief operating officer, Mike Quigley, would remain COO of the company following its pending merger with Lucent Technologies, Quigley “has decided for personal reasons to assume a different role for the combined company,” the two companies said in a press release issued Monday...
BellSouth offers mid-band Ethernet
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today unveiled new Mid-Band Metro Ethernet Services that will make Ethernet access more available to smaller businesses and branch offices of larger businesses...
Comcast offers triple play for $99
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast is ratcheting up the competition for bundle discounts, starting in San Francisco with a $99 promotional offer for the first year of voice, data and video services...
Equipment vendors under-leveraged
By: By Ed Gubbins
Telecom equipment vendors as a group are sorely under-leveraged, Merrill Lynch analyst Tal Liani wrote in a report issued today, and many of them would do well to take on more debt...
China Telecom becomes Cisco’s new best friend
By: By Tim McElligott
China Telecom named Cisco Systems this week as its primary supplier for both its multi-nation business network and its ChinaNet network...
EarthLink, Time Warner Cable extend access deal
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink and Time Warner Cable have extended the agreement under which EarthLink sells its broadband Internet service over TWC’s cable modem network...
Nortel CEO cuts own pension
By: By Ed Gubbins
A day after announcing a reduction in the pension benefits of his North American employees, Nortel Networks Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski volunteered to cut his own pension benefits as well...
Infinera CFO switch stokes IPO rumors
By: By Ed Gubbins
Infinera named a new chief financial officer today in a move sure to fan the flames of speculation over whether the company will pursue an initial public offering sometime soon...
UBS: Bell GPON picks coming in July
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications is likely to select its first supplier of gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) equipment within the next two weeks, according to UBS Investment Research...
In the Spotlight: Carl Russo, Calix
By: By Ed Gubbins
Calix’s Chief Executive Officer Carl Russo spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about vendor consolidation, access network economics and the effect of having hit a concrete wall at 145 miles per hour...
