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...
Extreme unveils upscale carrier Ethernet gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks announced a new carrier Ethernet platform today, promising dramatic increases in the scale of Layer 2 networks and quality-of-service capabilities designed to serve a variety of applications, from residential to business users...
Former Ikanos exec sheds Lite on e-mail
By: By Vince Vittore
Richard Sekar, who previously was vice president of marketing for Ikanos and one of the most outspoken proponents of VDSL, is unveiling a new venture that is about as far away from the intricacies of chip manufacturing as possible...
Comcast, AOL top access survey
By: By Vince Vittore
Comcast is the biggest U.S. provider of broadband services in the one area that matters most—revenue—according to a newly released survey by Prophis eReseach. However, AOL still has the most overall Internet access subscribers....
Fujitsu turns up GPON PR machine
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications announced a “hybrid” approach to the Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) market this week, the latest in a string of publicity efforts the vendor has made since declaring its entry into the GPON space earlier this month...
Cisco inches Ethernet closer to access
By: By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems today announced a new Ethernet switch and multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) as part of an effort to expand some of its metro product lines into the access market...
Nortel partners not pleased
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks was short a couple of valentines this month, as two of its equipment vendor partners singled out the company as a disappointment ...
Whitacre's worth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ed Whitacre got a roughly 20% raise in 2005, as he became, through acquisition, AT&T's CEO...
Neutrality and municipalities
By: By Ed Gubbins
Will the debate over network neutrality feed the municipal broadband movement...
BATM CEO: PON is wrong route
By: By Vince Vittore
Declaring that the passive optical network (PON) has too many limitations, Zvi Marcom, CEO of BATM, the parent company of Telco Systems, said carriers are making a mistake by not implementing active Ethernet architectures...
Infonetics charts spending shift
By: By Carol Wilson
Service provider spending on core and edge IP gear is booming, while multi-service switch sales decline, a new report from Infonetics said Thursday...
Avici restructures, weighs ‘strategic alternatives’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Avici Systems announced a restructuring of its company today aimed at lowering the optical equipment vendor’s break-even point as it begins to evaluate strategic alternatives including a sale of the company...
Verizon, AT&T face local video franchising opposition
By: By Carol Wilson
Representatives of local governments and cable operators stood shoulder to shoulder Wednesday to oppose efforts by Verizon and AT&T to convince Congress to lift the current local franchising requirements for video services....
Riverstone offers more financial details
By: By Ed Gubbins
Riverstone Networks released bankruptcy court documents today that offer additional details on the company as it moves to sell its assets in auction to Lucent Technologies...
IP edge gear market fragments further
By: By Ed Gubbins
The market for IP services equipment grew 2% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2005 as it also grew increasingly fragmented, according to research analysis firm Ovum-RHK...
Clark McLeod found guilty of ‘spinning’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Clark McLeod was found guilty of conducting improper stock trades in the late 1990s while he was chief executive officer of competitive carrier McLeodUSA, a judge ruled late last week...
ntl jumps century mark
By: By Vince Vittore
Ntl, the UK’s largest cable operator, said it will begin field trials that will let it offer broadband data service at speeds up to 100 Megabits per second. The trials will begin in March after successful completion of lab tests. ...
