InFocus: Choosing the right access architecture
By: By Ram A. Rao
TDM passive optical networks were a concept that addressed the issues and expectations of the late ‘80s, but can they scale to meet the needs of the future? Click on this article and read how switched Ethernet may be the answer in providing unmatched performance and scalability for FTTH deployment...
IRS buckles on long-distance tax
By: By Carol Wilson
The tax created 107 years ago to pay for the Spanish-American War has finally been repealed. The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is conceding the long-running legal dispute over the federal excise tax on long-distance telephone service...
Zhone adds active Ethernet FTTP gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is adding active Ethernet equipment to its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) products...
Sycamore out of places to cut
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks has cut about as much of its operating costs as it can, the company said today during its April quarter earnings call...
Alcatel, HP and Microsoft collaborate on IPTV
By: By Tim McElligott
By definition ecosystems are diverse, but three big players are forming a global relationship to bring advanced systems to carriers offering triple-play services. ...
Pannaway and Genband deploy jointly at Ritter
By: By Tim McElligott
Pannaway Technologies and Genband will begin deploying their combined broadband solutions for the competitive local exchange carrier business of Arkansas-based Ritter Communications, making it an even dozen joint implementations for the two vendors....
Tazz adds apps to policy control
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tazz Networks today introduced an application module for its Policy Control System aimed at helping carriers customize the management of network services such as voice-over-IP (VOIP) and video....
Testing the limits of the customer premises
By: By Tim McElligott
The slow but increasingly steady growth of fiber-to-the-home deployments has test equipment manufacturers believeing a prosperous future is well in hand...
OIF aims to ease optical provisioning
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Optical Interworking Forum will introduce later this year an implementation agreement, or IA, to help carriers automate optical network provisioning...
A look inside Nortel's locker room
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks CEO Mike Zafirovski last week offered what he called some discussion of his progress in overhauling the equipment vendor...
IP, carrier Ethernet gear defies seasonality
By: By Ed Gubbins
The only switches and routers to see increased spending in the first quarter were those based on carrier Ethernet and Internet protocol technology, according to Infonetics Research...
In the Spotlight: Nortel’s Philippe Morin
By: By Ed Gubbins
Philippe Morin, the former president of Nortel Networks’ optical business, was named the head of its newly created Metro Ethernet group yesterday. He spoke to Telephony’s Ed Gubbins later that day...
Embarq born tonight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
At the stroke of midnight, Sprint will once again be two separate companies. Unlike the release of its PCS tracking stock last decade, though, Sprint is keeping its long-distance and wireless assets together and spinning off its local business instead...
Nortel talks R&D, margin strategy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks and its CEO Mike Zafirovski (above) gave an update on its plans to overhaul its business today, including how it will distribute research and development spending and how it will raise operating margins...
Alcatel, Redback put Cisco, Juniper on edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel and Redback Networks made significant gains in the multiservice edge router market in the first quarter, threatening the long-held leadership of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, according to Dittberner Associates...
Ciena intros mini-MSTP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is introducing a half-size version of the 4200 multiservice transport platform (MSTP) it unveiled a year ago...
Extreme CEO to step down this year
By: By Ed Gubbins
After 10 years as CEO of Extreme Networks, Gordon Stitt will retire within in the next few months, the Ethernet equipment vendor announced today....
Academics say FCC flunking on USF
By: By Tim McElligott
A group called the Keep USF Fair Coalition, comprising mostly representatives from American universities, issued a report yesterday highlighting the steep price the academic community would pay if the FCC moves forward with its proposed flat-fee charge for the Universal Service Fund on all phone numbers...
Jersey to be Alcatel/Lucent’s R&D HQ
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though the combination of Lucent Technologies and Alcatel will be headquartered in Paris, its global research and development center will be housed in Lucent’s current offices in New Jersey with the operations of Bell Laboratories...
Adva’s U.S. push cools in Q1
By: By Ed Gubbins
About six months after promising “dramatic” investment in the United States to expand its presence here, German equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking reported tepid momentum here in its first-quarter earnings...
Siemens lands Toronto Wi-Fi network
By: By Carol Wilson
Siemens Communications is making its entry into the North American municipal wireless market, announcing today that it has landed Toronto Hydro Telecom, as a customer...
Re-running the NPVR concept
By: By Dan O'Shea and Vince Vittore
Network-based personal video recording is getting more sophisticated, but licensing is still an issue...
Generation gap hits equipment side
By: By Ed Gubbins
vendor success depends on ramping up next-gen sales legacy declines...
Broadwing goes adjusted EBITDA positive
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadwing declared positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) on an adjusted basis for the first time today...
Redback, Alcatel partnership thins
By: By Ed Gubbbins
Redback Networks’ relationship with its rival and key reseller Alcatel thinned in the first quarter. Though Alcatel contributed 12% of Redback’s revenue last year, it contributed only 5% of Redback’s revenue in the first quarter....
