AT&T suffers major DSL outage
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T Internet services today suffered a major DSL outage in the upper Midwest, affecting thousands of customers...
Tellabs cashes in on wireless transport
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs reported strong top-line growth for the first quarter, defying predictions that its traditional crossconnect business has peaked. "There's still a lot of life in this business," said CEO Krish Prabhu (above)...
Extreme sales force under pressure
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ethernet equipment vendor Extreme Networks reported what it called a disappointing fiscal third quarter (ended March 31), blaming its problems partly on a shortage of sales staff and vowing to fill that vacuum as soon as possible....
Lucent expects 2006 revenue decline
By: By Ed Gubbins
After having previously anticipated no revenue growth this year, Lucent Technologies now expects its fiscal 2006 revenue to be down from the $9.4 billion it reported last year...
Zhone adds EFM copper bonding to BLC
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies announced new line cards for its flagship broadband loop carrier (BLC) platform today that deliver Ethernet services over bonded copper loops....
Verizon targets media industry
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced its intention to provide IT services to the U.S. entertainment and broadcast industries by unveiling a version of its digital media platform that supports National Television System Committee signal used in North America, Central America and Japan. ...
Cable: Telcos no threat
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable executives don't fear competition from the telcos, but they are worried that Wall Street is too concerned about the potential loss of video revenues...
Minnesota may test the Utopia model
By: By Ed Gubbins
A group of small towns in northeastern Minnesota is considering a multi-municipal fiber project similar to Utah's Utopia project. If pursued, the effort...
Low legacy sales drag Zhone’s revenue
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies missed its revenue and earnings expectations for the first quarter following a drop-off in sales of its legacy equipment that the company attributed to a combination of seasonality and a customer migrating from Zhone’s legacy to next-generation gear....
Juniper vows to keep Lucent partnership
By: By Ed Gubbins
Reporting its highest ever quarterly revenue contribution from partner Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks this week quelled expectations that the partnership would dissolve following Lucent’s acquisition by Alcatel....
Nortel’s new management infusion continues
By: By Ed Gubbins
Upper management changes at Nortel Networks keep coming under Mike Zafirovski, who became chief executive of the equipment vendor last November with plans to turn it around...
Adtran lowers full-year guidance
By: By Ed Gubbins
A month after lowering its revenue expectations for the first quarter of 2006, Adtran lowered its expectations for the year by the same amount: $20 million....
Sycamore acquires its way to the edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Optical equipment vendor Sycamore Networks has agreed to acquire Eastern Research, a New Jersey-based vendor of edge networking equipment. The move gives the optical core vendor a portfolio of products at the network’s edge...
Extreme lowers revenue guidance
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ethernet equipment vendor Extreme Networks this week lowered expectations for its fiscal third-quarter earnings, citing revenue shortfalls in the United States and Japan....
Motorola offers cable wireless alternative
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable operators now have a new weapon in their arsenal for addressing business customers. Motorola on April 6 announced a version of its Motorola MOTOwi4 Canopy wireless broadband solution specifically aimed at the cable industry....
Atrica gets new funds, OSP gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carrier Ethernet equipment vendor Atrica announced a $28.2 million round of funding today and introduced a new product for outdoor deployment....
Seniors rally against flat USF charges
By: By Vince Vittore
Hoping to derail FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal for a per-line charge to fund universal service, The Seniors Coalition (TSC) today released the results of a survey showing half of all older Americans would have to cut back on long-distance calls if their monthly bill was raised by $1 to $2 every month...
TDS extends Calix use to incumbent world
By: By Vince Vittore
Calix today announced that TDS Telecom has expanded its use of the C7 multiservice access platform (MSAP) to include TDS’ incumbent telco territories. Previously, the company has been using the C7 only in its TDS Metrocom group, which provides CLEC services outside of its ILEC territory. ...
Megamerger could open doors for rival vendors
By: By Ed Gubbins
The merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies will dwarf competing vendors, likely pressuring them to form their own corporate combinations soon. But it may also create some opportunities for rival equipment vendors that play their cards right, analysts say...
Convedia expands media processing line
By: By Vince Vittore
Convedia today said it has released a new technology, dubbed eXtended Media Processing, that will form the basis of its future product development. ...
Alcatel stock up on Lucent agreement
By: By Ed Gubbins and Carol Wilson
Alcatel shares jumped Monday on the news that the company will acquire Lucent Technologies for $13.4 billion, or $3.01 a share. The announced merger plan addresses issues including U.S. security concerns and French worries over Alcatel’s satellite interests...
Competitive operators look on the bright side
By: By Carol Wilson
A burst of activity among competitive service providers is primarily a good sign, according to both the competitors themselves and to some industry analysts...
Vendors prepare for M&A
By: By Ed Gubbins
The proposed merger of Lucent and Alcatel is sure to kick off a massive wave of consolidation among equipment vendors of all sizes...
At ECI, Chiaro technology in limbo
By: By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom has declined to comment on the ultimate fate of the technology created by its former partner, defunct core router vendor Chiaro Networks...
Adtran gets Luminous RPR for ‘next to nothing’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran has acquired the intellectual property and product rights of Luminous Networks, a defunct vendor of resilient packet ring (RPR) equipment...
