‘Staggering’ SmartEdge growth brings Redback profits
By: By Ed Gubbins
Redback Networks announced its first profitable quarter in more than five years last night, thanks to growth in sales of its SmartEdge router products that Chief Executive Officer Kevin DeNuccio called “staggering.”...
Movaz latest optical vendor to find VC funds
By: By Ed Gubbins
Movaz Networks has closed a $20 million funding round and secured an additional $12 million line of credit, the five-year-old optical networking equipment vendor announced today, bringing the company’s total funding to $182 million...
IP set-top market ready for consolidation
By: By Vince Vittore
Despite the lack of volume shipments in 2005 and 2006, the market for IP set-top boxes already has started consolidating, according to a recent study from The Diffusion Group. ...
Nortel makeover may leave Lucent envious
By: By Ed Gubbins
The ongoing overhaul of Nortel Networks' corporate management staff at the hands of its new chief executive may spark envy among employees and investors at the company's rival, Lucent Technologies...
Fast Forward: Charles Moldow, Foundation Capital
By: By Vince Vittore
Charles Moldow, who recently joined Foundation Capital as a venture partner, knows what it takes to develop successful start-ups, having been on the founding teams of both Tellme Networks and @Home...
Salira deploys GE-PON for Bangladesh integrator
By: By Dan O'Shea
Salira Systems, a vendor of Gigabit Ethernet passive optical networking equipment, announced it has built a standards-based GE-PON architecture in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, for systems integrator Sirius Broadband...
Allied Telesyn kick starts GEPON effort
By: By Vince Vittore
Allied Telesyn today said it has deployed the world’s first Gigabit Ethernet PON in a commercial network, activating its integrated Multiservice Access Platform (iMAP) platform with Kansas independent telco Twin Valley Telephone. ...
Accton, Sandburst team up on metro access
By: By Vince Vittore
Accton Technology today announced it has developed a metro access switch using Sandburst’s HiBeam chipset...
CopperCom backs coalition for compensation reform
By: By Vince Vittore
CopperCom will announce this week that it has donated $100,000 to the Coalition to Keep America Connected, a group dedicated to reforming universal service and inter-carrier compensation...
Looking for product fat at Lucent
By: By Ed Gubbins
After Lucent Technologies delivered its bad news this month, some on Wall Street wondered if the company should consider cutting some of its less popular products...
Alltel hit by hurricane costs, maps ’06 growth
By: By Vince Vittore
Alltel said today that its fourth quarter and full year 2005 revenue jumped...
Level 3 takes credit rating up a notch
By: By Ed Gubbins
Standard & Poor’s raised its corporate credit rating for Level 3 Communications from “CCC” to “CCC+” following the carrier’s recent debt exchange, even though S&P viewed the move as a selective default on Level 3’s debt...
S&P comes clean on wireline risks
By: By Vince Vittore
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today said that the quick success of cable operators such as Cablevision in the residential voice market is causing it to reassess the business risk for the largest incumbent local exchange providers...
Ikanos goes up the VDSL stack with ADI acquisition
By: By Vince Vittore
Ikanos Communications, which perhaps has been best known as a VDSL chip vendor, today announced the acquisition of the network processor product line of Analog Devices Inc. for $30 million in cash...
Fujitsu adds RPR, density to 4500 MSPP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications this week announced a few enhancements to its flagship product, the Flashwave 4500, including the introduction of resilient packet ring technology and a boost in density...
Overture partners with ADC
By: By Ed Gubbins
ADC and Overture Networks announced an original equipment manufacturer agreement today wherein ADC will immediately begin selling Overture’s ISG family of Ethernet access and transport gear worldwide, branded as the Loopstar 700 line...
Consolidated goes set-topless
By: By Vince Vittore
Consolidated Communications said today that it will use Entone Technologies Hydra IP video gateway to support its rollout of IPTV services. ...
'Dual' fiber cut causes Sprint outage
By: By Carol Wilson
A coincidence of weather damage and a possible construction accident knocked Sprint’s Western U.S. network out of service for three and a half hours Monday afternoon. (Photo by James MacAllister)...
Paris to build citywide FTTx
By: By Ed Gubbins
The city of Paris will select a vendor this year to assist in the construction of a citywide fiber network, the French press reported last week...
CES: SA moves in on gateway market
By: By Vince Vittore
LAS VEGAS--Trying to build on its heritage in both the set-top box and cable modem markets, Scientific-Atlanta is working on an initiative to develop a series of residential gateways for both multiple system operators and telcos...
CES: 2Wire takes it outside, pumps up HPNA
By: By Vince Vittore
LAS VEGAS--2Wire announced today at the International CES that it has developed what it claims is the world's first outdoor broadband home gateway. ...
Shareholders approve Tropic oil merger
By: By Ed Gubbins
Shareholders of Tropic Networks, Chamaelo Exploration and Tournament Energy have approved a three-way merger that would combine the two Canadian energy firms and give the optical networking vendor enough cash to fund operations for nine more months...
Covad, Verizon bury legal hatchet
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications and Verizon today announced that they had resolved long-standing legal disputes between the two companies, and that Covad has established new working relationships with Verizon and MCI Communications....
New technology bridges wireless, wireline
By: By Carol Wilson
A form of home networking technology now on the market holds the potential to dramatically change the way wireless technology is used within a home or office...
Vendor acquires router maker Tasman Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has agreed to acquire enterprise router vendor Tasman Networks for $99.5 million in cash. Photo: Photographers/Source:MIKE CASSESE/Reuters /Landov...
