Data Connection, MetaSwitch see revenue jump
By: By Vince Vittore
Data Connection today announced that its yearly revenue for the fiscal period ending Aug. 31 rose 30% to $68 million...
Cisco grows IPTV footprint with Scientific-Atlanta
By: By Vince Vittore
Company becomes new challenger to traditional vendor powers...
Analysts base Tellabs' future on success of 8800 product
By: By Ed Gubbins
Vendor still optimistic despite loss of Cable & Wireless order...
Fast forward: Pradman Kaul, Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Network Systems CEO Pradman Kaul recently spoke with Telephony's Vince Vittore about the business and its prospects going forward...
Carpenter elevated to president at Pannaway
By: By Vince Vittore
Access vendor Pannaway has named its vice president of business development, Mark Carpenter, to be its next president. Carpenter succeeds Gary Davis, who will retain his Chairman role and also take on the CEO title, a position that previously was vacant....
SGO teams with Pannaway on video
By: By Carol Wilson
Like many independent telephone companies, the Seneca, Goodman and Ozark Telephone Companies are ahead of their larger brethren when it comes to offering video service to their telephone customers....
Verilink paves NetPath through BellSouth
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband access vendor Verilink Corporation announced this week that it has its NetPath 2000 solution is selling through BellSouth Business Sales channels, and is part of the Wireless Data Back-Up offering announced this week by BellSouth and Cingular Wireless. ...
Vapps links with WebDialogs
By: By Vince Vittore
Audio conferencing vendor Vapps announced today it has formed a strategic partnership with WebDialogs to integrate WebDialogs’ Web conferencing technology into Vapps’ CB1000 audio conferencing platform...
Coalition blasts per-number USF plan
By: By Vince Vittore
The Keep Universal Service Fund Fair Coalition today hammered FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal to base USF contributions on a per-number basis...
A lesson in collaboration between telcos and utilities
By: By Ofir Shavit
It seems obvious that people need power to start up their computer and send email. Yet, it is still rare for ISPs and power companies to collaborate on issues of securing the laptops or the networks we rely on--and this is on a good day. Imagine the bad ones...
C&W deployment of Tellabs 8800 halts
By: By Ed Gubbins
A major customer deployment of Tellabs' 8800 broadband data product halted this week, CEO Krish Prabhu revealed at an investor conference today, though he affirmed the company's ambitious 2005 sales goals for the gear....
Asset impairments drag Eagle Broadband earnings
By: By Ed Gubbins
In a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission yesterday, Eagle Broadband reported an estimated 31% drop in annual revenue and an estimated 43% wider net loss for its 2005 fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31...
UTStarcom gets ‘meaningful’ Chinese IPTV deal
By: By Vince Vittore
UTStarcom said it has scored a coup of sorts by landing a deal to provide its mVision IPTV system to China Telecom, the largest fixed-line telecom operator in China...
Ikanos gets flexible on DSL chips
By: By Vince Vittore
Ikanos Communications today announced its first multi-mode DSL chipset, a product that gives carriers the ability to offer VDSL2, VDSL, ADSL2+ and ADSL in a single line card...
Telco Systems adds to CPE line up
By: By Vince Vittore
Telco Systems today launched the first two models of a new Ethernet demarcation customer premises (CPE) device line. ...
Linksys, MCI team to target small biz
By: By Carol Wilson
Cisco Systems subsidiary Linksys today unveiled an IP-based services platform for voice, data and video that specifically targets service providers, value-added resellers and their small business customers....
Vendors jockey for position in evolving telco TV market
By: By Vince Vittore
The roster of vendors auditioning for a lead role in the IPTV market got decidedly more crowded last week, as suppliers of all sizes announced acquisitions...
Wholesale prices stabilize amid higher traffic volumes
By: By Ed Gubbins
However, carrier consolidation not expected to pull fiber prices up...
Keeping the fires burning for multiservice switching
By: By Tim McElligott
Any person or any company that has ever known the feeling of relevance knows the struggle to remain so is perpetual. For those toiling in the relatively mature multiservice switching market, the struggle is short-term--but not without its rewards...
ICG takes on metro Ethernet
By: By Ed Gubbins
ICG Communications has launched a new metro Ethernet service in parts of Colorado and Ohio, the company announced today...
Widevine snares TVN with watermarking
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO--Widevine Technologies announced at the Telco TV show that it has signed a deal with TVN Entertainment to deploy the vendor’s Mensor technology to watermark its entire video-on-demand content line-up...
Cox counts losses from Katrina
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cox Communications reported dramatic losses for the third quarter of 2005 following the effects of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the Gulf Coast in late August...
IPTV OSS in action at Alcatel lab
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Syndesis was among the providers of operations and business support systems showcasing its solutions at Alcatel’s Plano-based Operational Support Systems Integration Laboratory this week as select members from TeleManagement World in Dallas took a tour of the facility...
MoCA completes Plugfest
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO--The Multimedia over Coax Alliance announced it has finished the first round of interoperability testing among eight different vendors during its first ever “Plugfest”...
Bush FCC nominees have industry approval
By: By Carol Wilson
President Bush’s choices of Deborah Tate and Michael Copps for the Federal Communications Commission seem to have struck a proper balance...
