CeBIT: ECI previews OTN gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
HANOVER, Germany--ECI Telecom offered a preview this week of product enhancements that will come to North America later this year. Exhibiting at the CeBIT trade show in Germany and absent from the Optical Fiber Communications/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference in Anaheim, Calif., the Israeli optical equipment vendor announced new versions of its SDH products that it will apply to its Sonet gear toward the end of this year....
DT, Infineon announce VDSL2 deployment.
Deutsche Telekom is deploying a standards-compliant VDSL2 solution in 10 cities in Germany, offering video over 50 Megabit per second downstream/10 Mb/s upstream networks, according to Infineon Technologies, which provided its VDSL VINAX chip-set...
Net2Phone eyeing wireless play for cable
By: By Vince Vittore
Hoping to mimic what Sprint is doing for its constellation of big cable operators but on a smaller scale, Net2Phone is now targeting multiple systems operators with a wireless offering. ...
General Bandwidth expands, contracts, moves north
By: By Vince Vittore
General Bandwidth this week announced a new name, a new headquarters and a new expansion in product set. Other than that, there's nothing new....
Broadband boom lifts CPE, aggregation gear
By: By Carol Wilson
The broadband boom drove up the global market for customer premises equipment to $4.9 billion in 2005, according to a new report from Infonetics. ...
WEB EXTRA: Voice pushes FMC, customers pull it
By: by Tim McElligott
Fixed/mobile convergence is becoming less of a pipe dream every day. But whose pipe dream is it anyway? ...
WEB EXTRA: Fast forward: Randy Eisenach, market development manager, Fujitsu Network Communications
Fujitsu Network Communications threw its hat into the Gigabit passive optical networking ring in early February, pledging more than 100 employees to the market in the hope of winning coveted Bell contract and more. ...
A place for everything--even voice
By: by Tim McElligott
Who would have guessed that the big question mark in telecommunications after more than a century of progress and success would be voice service itself?...
Powerline makes U.S. play
By: Vince Vittore
Texas Instruments and Corinex Communications this week will announce the launch of a residential gateway product that integrates TI's AR7 ADSL2+ and RISC CPU solution with Corinex Poweline technology....
Nortel's tough choices
By: by Ed Gubbins
New CEO wants vendor to take 20% of each market--or else....
USF debate must address two sides
By: by Vince Vittore
In the entire rancor over the future of the Universal Service Fund, most of the attention has been focused on the contribution side of the equation, with endless debates over who puts in for the fund and how much....
The race to get in on GPON
By: by Ed Gubbins
The first winners and losers in this decades-long battle could be decided this month....
Cable flying under net neutrality radar
By: by Vince Vittore
Though they have generally escaped the vitriol directed at telcos by free speech advocates and others, cable TV operators are quietly moving toward what can best be described as less than neutral data offerings....
Survey: Texans love video choices
By: by Carol Wilson
Competition in video services is having an immediate impact on consumers, according to a survey conducted in three Texas communities where Verizon is offering its FiOS TV service....
Calix extends reach toward home
By: By Vince Vittore
Calix announced today that it is extending the reach of its product line to include an access node....
Cox goes all-Juniper, all-the-time
By: By Carol Wilson
Defying conventional wisdom, Cox Communications is putting all of its router eggs in the Juniper Networks basket...
Japan, GEPON dominate FTTH
By: By Ed Gubbins
Japan utterly dominated fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) growth last year, contributing 80% of the world’s FTTH subscriber growth, according to data released by Dittberner & Associates this week...
Frontier brings Ethernet off the island, into the desert
By: By Vince Vittore
Telemedicine certainly ranks high on the list of society-changing applications enabled by broadband. And it's not uncommon for independents to be among those pushing the application...
TWT touts investment and diversification
By: By Tim McElligott
Having been burned by bankruptcy once--WorldCom’s, not its own--Time Warner Telecom told investors today at the Merrill Lynch Media and Communications Conference that investment and diversification are beginning to pay off...
Cox uses Juniper routers for backbone upgrade
By: By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications will use Juniper Networks T-series core routing platform to upgrade its national backbone network, the two companies announced today...
USF: Radical overhaul or just a tweak?
By: By Vince Vittore
The Universal Service Fund needs either a radical overhaul or just a slight tweaking. The two opposing opinions were expressed today in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), above...
Longtime insider named Lucent CFO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Lucent Technologies named John Kritzmacher its new chief financial officer today, filling a vacancy created in January when the company promoted its former CFO, Frank D’Amelio, to chief operating officer...
UBS: Four GPON vendors make Bell ‘short list’
By: By Ed Gubbins
According to a research note issued today by UBS Investment Research, the number of equipment vendors still competing to supply Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear to Verizon Communications has been narrowed to four...
eLEC to add Liberty Bell to its holdings
By: By Tim McElligott
eLEC Communications has signed a letter of intent to acquire Colorado-based Liberty Bell Telecom, LLC, a local and long-distance company born from the frustrations of radio and television consumer advocate Tom Martino, who is also company founder...
