Tellabs’ post-Verizon PON business in doubt
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs’ decision to walk away from a contract to supply Verizon Communications with gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear has raised doubts about the vendor’s participation in the overall PON market....
Big all-optical switches are coming back
By: By Ed Gubbins
Despite the failure of a wave of all-optical switches near the turn of the century, a new market for large all-optical switches is opening up this year, according to one trusted source...
Martin takes reins at Aktino
Industry veteran Lonnie Martin, a longtime ADC Telecommunications executive who also helped found White Rock, has stepped in to lead Aktino, an Ethernet-over-copper company hoping to capitalize on the current boom...
Light-labeling in optical networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
For the past few years, AT&T Labs has been tinkering with a technology called "light-labeling," which can help monitor and manage performance in optical networks...
XO's big bet pays off
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications privately presented the chart below to top investors last December to illustrate the carrier's recent and dramatic shift in spending...
Indoor ONT market matures
By: By Ed Gubbins
Optical network terminals, the customer premises gear in fiber-to-the-premises networks, are increasingly moving from outside the home to indoors, as more equipment vendors offer that option...
Tellabs’ rebound postponed, analyst says
Tellabs’ optical strength may offset other issues...
Are further splits in Motorola's future?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola announced Wednesday that it planned to spin off its mobile phone business into a separately traded company, unlocking the value of that division as well as giving new focus to its infrastructure group. But if focusing on core businesses is the goal of Moto’s restructuring, does that mean further subdivisions of the company are waiting?...
Alcatel-Lucent claims to leapfrog edge router leaders
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent says the new edge routing products it introduced today give it a jump on market leaders Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, offering terabit-per-second capacity in a single chassis. But it’s not clear how Alcatel’s latest offering will stack up against new edge gear expected from Cisco later this year...
FTTP innovations aid Verizon’s push into big MDUs
By: Carol Wilson
The announcement this week that Verizon Communications was installing its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network in its largest apartment complex to date is emblematic of what the company has planned for New York City and elsewhere...
SureWest adds home monitoring to triple play
By: Ed Gubbins
SureWest Communications announced a new remote monitoring service Tuesday that allows users to keep tabs on their home while they’re away, using live video and alerts....
Occam outgrows Tellabs partnership
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks’ three-year partnership with Tellabs expires this month, without having generated much revenue....
Former White Rock CEO to lead Aktino
By: Carol Wilson
Industry veteran Lonnie Martin, a longtime ADC Telecommunications executive who also helped found White Rock Networks, has stepped in to lead Aktino....
XO weighs debt options in a difficult market
XO Communications is mulling a range of options for paying down its $377 million in debt amid a turbulent credit market. ...
Adva CEO: How AT&T is holding Ciena ‘hostage’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adva Optical Networking announced restructuring moves this week after reporting a disappointing” 2007. On the company’s quarterly earnings call Tuesday, CEO Brian Protiva spoke out on a number of topics in response to analyst questions...
Zhone adds active Ethernet option
Zhone Technologies introduced active Ethernet equipment to its access portfolio today, adding active Ethernet modules to its access platform as well as new customer premises gear, giving carriers the option of high-speed broadband over point-to-point fiber....
ECI unveils MPLS-based Ethernet platform
ECI Telecom today introduced a suite of carrier Ethernet gear spanning from metro core networks to customer premises....
Telepresence: Ready for its close-up
By: By Dawn Bushaus
Late arrivals and missed connections could be a thing of the past if telepresence continues to gain popularity among high-flying executives...
Optical market hits six-year high
By: By Ed Gubbins
Last year was the best one for the optical equipment market since 2001, according to analysts...
Pushing copper's speed limits
By: [ BY ED GUBBINS ]
Equipment vendors are discovering new ways to get more bandwidth out of copper access lines...
Middleware snags stalling HD, DVR rollouts
By: Dawn Bushaus and Sarah Reedy
Shortcomings in middleware are causing headaches among some rural telcos, interfering with their plans to offer high-definition (HD) video and digital video recorder (DVR) services....
More PBT control planes coming soon
By: Ed Gubbins
Though Soapstone Networks took the lead in addressing the market for a control plane to manage Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) networks, it won’t be alone for long. ...
Verizon beefs up DSL
By: Carol Wilson
Verizon Communications, which has come under fire for neglecting its non-FiOS customers, today said it is rolling 7 Megabit per second DSL service in 12 Eastern states and the District of Columbia by the end of 2008....
Ixia goes end-to-end on IPTV quality
By: Carol Wilson
Ixia today announced an end-to-end triple-play quality assurance system that the IP performance testing company has been developing with Bell Canada for more than two years. ...
Nortel takes novel approach to 40G, 100G
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks introduced new equipment today allowing carriers to migrate from 10 Gb/s links to 40 Gb/s and eventually 100 Gb/s. A key aspect of the new gear is its ability to enable these migrations while maintaining the characteristics of the existing network—something Nortel achieved through a novel approach that applies wireless technology to optical networks...
