The router's changing role
By: By Ed Gubbins
The plethora of new service offerings is forcing changes to the role of the various equipment devices in the network...
More states pursue video-franchising bills
By: By Sarah Reedy
As the federal video franchise debate forges on, telecommunications service providers are taking the issue into their own hands at the state level...
In the Spotlight: John Roese, Nortel Networks’ new CTO
By: By Ed Gubbins
A day after being named Nortel Networks’ new chief technology officer, John Roese spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about his background and credentials and how he sees the future of communications technology. On big companies: I’m not a startup guy. I’ve not done that type of activity in my career, nor do I find it all that interesting. ...
DSL continues global surge
By: By Carol Wilson
Global growth of DSL continues to surge, with 11.5 million new customers coming on line in the first quarter of 2006, according to industry analyst Point Topic. In its quarterly report to the DSL Forum, the company said DSL usage jumped 39% for the 12 months ending March 31, 2006. ...
Telco Systems’ Metrobility buy hedges intelligence debate
By: By Ed Gubbins
The combination of Telco Systems and Metrobility Optical Systems, announced this week, not only gives much needed muscle to a small startup but allows Telco Systems to please both sides of the debate over where to deploy network intelligence, the two companies said....
Nortel fills CTO post
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks named John J. Roese its new chief technology officer today, filling in the final gap in a senior management team that has been remade in recent months...
Cisco offers RF channel-bonding
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems unveiled a new wideband broadband system for cable providers today that bonds radio frequency (RF) channels to deliver greater speeds....
In the Spotlight: George Riedel, Chief Strategy Officer, Nortel Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
George Riedel, a former Juniper Networks executive, was named Nortel Networks’ chief strategy officer in February as part of a thorough senior-management housecleaning effort conducted by Mike Zafirovski, who became Nortel’s CEO last November. ...
Siemens, Nokia join consolidation push
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia and Siemens today said they would combine their respective network divisions, creating a huge telecom infrastructure division rivaled only by the Ericsson and the soon-to-be-combined Alcatel and Lucent Technologies. (Photographer: PAUL O'DRISCOLL/BLOOMBERG NEWS/Landov)...
Embarq sues AT&T over access charges
By: By Ed Gubbins
After less than a month as a standalone company, Embarq filed suit this week against AT&T in a dispute over network access fees...
Verizon capacity concerns dog Juniper
By: By Ed Gubbins
The capacity of Juniper Networks’ biggest broadband router may be causing some friction between it and one of its most valued customers, Verizon Communications....
InFocus: Multidimensional Ethernet
By: By Harpreet Chadha
Given the goal of Metro Ethernet to make access less expensive, carriers ideally would prefer a single piece of equipment that serves both business and residential customers rather than segregating them through different equipment as is often done now. Here’s how multidimensional Ethernet can extend the reliability, scalability, and performance of Ethernet...
NECA says all aboard the packet train
By: By Tim McElligott
Competition alone is not a realistic solution to the universal availability of broadband services, National Exchange Carrier Association Director of Demand Forecasting and Rate Development Victor Glass said today while introducing an outline of the organization’s latest study on the state of broadband in rural America....
GPON contest moves to 2006 second half
By: By Ed Gubbins
Those who expected Bell carriers to select suppliers for anticipated gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) deployments by the end of this year’s first half have been disappointed...
Covad to offer wireless access through NextLink
By: By Carol Wilson
NextLink Wireless has announced Covad Communications as its first third-party channel reseller, the two companies announced today...
EXCLUSIVE: Insight on how the network will evolve
By: By Carol Wilson
A significant new study from Insight Research attempts to take a broad look at possible telecom network evolution strategies, comparing the continued evolution of today’s networks, with the possibility of disruption by a move to an all-Internet approach or an all-wireless approach...
Ever-expanding Adva eyes WiMAX
By: By Ed Gubbins
The day after Adva Optical Networking announced last week’s acquisition of Movaz Networks, Adva’s chief executive officer Brian Protiva visited with several WiMAX companies at the Globalcomm trade show to learn more about WiMAX’s applicability to Adva’s business...
Redback, IBM extend relationship
By: By Carol Wilson
Redback Networks today said it is extending a contract under which IBM manages its core business applications and IT infrastructure, using its Applications on Demand services...
Globalcomm: Agere targets service providers
By: By Dan O'Shea
CHICAGO--Agere Systems, spun off from Lucent Technologies in 2002 to focus on the network subsystem, integrated circuits and enterprise computing components that carrier-focused Lucent wasn’t targeting, showed up at Globalcomm 2006 this week ready to grab the attention of carriers...
Globalcomm: Vendor execs ID trouble spots
By: by Ed Gubbins
Globalcomm: Panel looks toward future in telecom
By: by Sarah Reedy
Globalcomm: BT launches global consulting venture
By: by Carol Wilson
Globalcomm: NDS expands IPTV product offering
By: by Carol Wilson
Globalcomm: New start-up takes ROADM to the edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--A new subsystem start-up is emerging from stealth mode at the Globalcomm trade show this week, proposing to take reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) from core and metro networks to the edge...
Globalcomm: Comtrend takes VDSL2 to market
By: by Carol Wilson
