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...
MoCA finishes first cert wave
By: By Vince Vittore
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance announced that it has finished its first wave of interoperability certification...
Analyst: Ericsson bid for Lucent likely
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ericsson refuses to comment on recent media reports suggesting it is planning to steal Lucent Technologies away from a proposed merger with Alcatel. But at least one analyst claims Ericsson insiders are serious about plans to acquire Lucent. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)...
New ECI minishelves take broadband outside
By: By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom unveiled a set of broadband products today for the outside plant, the smallest of which is now available in North America...
Fifth GPON vendor gets on Bell ‘short list’
By: By Ed Gubbins
A month ago, UBS Investment Research maintained that AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon Communications had narrowed the GPON equipment search to four equipment vendors. Since then, at least two analysts have claimed that a fifth vendor, Entrisphere, is also on that list...
HughesNet replaces, expands DirecWay
By: By Carol Wilson
Hughes Network Services today is launching its new ISP brand name, along with a new suite of services targeting consumers, as well as its more traditional business customers. HughesNet will now be an alternative broadband service provider for consumers in rural and other outlying areas who cannot get reasonably priced DSL or cable services....
Alcatel, Lucent in merger talks again
By: By Ed Gubbins and Carol Wilson
Alcatel and Lucent are once again in merger talks, the two companies announced overnight....
Lucent wins Riverstone assets
By: By Ed Gubbins
Lucent Technologies beat rival Ericsson in an auction to purchase the assets of equipment vendor Riverstone Networks...
Ubiquity takes conferencing out of the box
By: By Vince Vittore
Ubiquity Software today announced the launch of its Ubiquity Speak Conference Director, a platform that gives small carriers an out-of-the-box solution to IP conferencing...
Winner of Riverstone assets unknown Monday
By: By Ed Gubbins
Near the end of the day Monday, the results of an auction between Lucent Technologies and Ericsson for the assets of Riverstone Networks were still unknown to a Riverstone spokesperson...
TELECOMNEXT: Telco Systems beefs up on Gigabit
By: By Vince Vittore
Telco Systems today at TelecomNext introduced the second in its series of multiservice metro Ethernet access platforms. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Riverstone offers cheaper layer 2 aggregation
By: By Ed Gubbins
Riverstone Networks introduced a new series of cards for its 15008 edge router platform that aggregate layer-two access traffic at a lower cost than previous cards. ...
XO extends Ethernet reach with Hatteras
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications will use Hatteras Networks’ Ethernet gear to dramatically expand the reach of its Ethernet service into buildings it can’t reach on fiber, the two companies announced today ...
Anda serves up more Ethernet, inks Lucent deal
By: By Vince Vittore
Anda Networks announced the launch of its EtherReach Series 2118 and 2210 platforms that are geared for carriers migrating frame relay and ATM service to Ethernet. ...
Stage set for wholesale carriers
By: By Tim McElligott
AT&T may have increased the brightness of the carrier consolidation spotlight, causing the glass-half-empty crowd to cower in fear of monopoly, but consolidation's cumulative effects over the past three years may help bring stability to the wholesale carrier market...
Adtran, Alcatel go down-market
By: By Vince Vittore
This week's TelecomNext show will feature plenty of talk about the ongoing tri-company request for proposals for Gigabit passive optical network access networks...
Shaking the family tree
By: By Vince Vittore and Carol Wilson
How recycling AT&T will affect the telecom industry's environment...
Entrisphere steps into GPON market
By: By Vince Vittore
Entrisphere this week will unveil its entry in the Gigabit passive optical network market with a platform targeted directly at the North American market...
Ericsson battles Lucent for Riverstone
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ericsson submitted a bid yesterday for the assets of Riverstone Networks, challenging Lucent Technologies’ acquisition of the carrier Ethernet equipment vendor...
Asian DSL hitting saturation point
By: By Vince Vittore
The U.S. still had the second largest number of DSL users behind China at the end of 2005, but European markets such as the Italy, Spain and Germany are growing are rapid clips, according to the latest research from Point-Topic....
Global Crossing: Google crowd driving dark fiber sales
By: By Ed Gubbins
Demand is growing for Global Crossing's dark fiber, thanks to Google and companies like it, executives said today while reporting the carrier’s 2005 earnings...
Analyst: Adtran getting into FTTP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran will soon enter the residential fiber access market with a new platform called the Total Access 5000, according to a note issued this week from Morgan Keegan analyst Simon Leopold...
VON: Global Crossing expands IP service portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Global Crossing has joined forces with iPass to add wireless remote access to its Global Remote Connectivity service...
Comtrend brings multimode DSL into the home
By: By Vince Vittore
Comtrend today announced it has developed what could be the first multimode DSL wireless router designed for use in the residential market...
Cisco weighs in on net neutrality
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems weighed in on the issue of network neutrality in a letter to Congress last week, affirming the importance of neutrality but urging lawmakers to refrain, for the time being, from enacting legislation on the subject....
