Nortel takes its stab at IPTV
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO--Nortel officially rolled out its take on IPTV today at the Telco TV show with a product plan that relies heavily on the company’s progress in the SIP environment...
Calix acquires Optical Solutions
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO—Calix today announced that it is acquiring Optical Solutions Inc. in a deal that will bring together the dominant provider of gigabit passive optical networks (GPON) to independent telcos and with one of the more aggressive access vendors in the same market. ...
ECI delves into policy management
By: By Vince Vittore
Hoping to cash in on the rush to triple play, and specifically IPTV services, ECI Telecom today launched a new version of its ShadeTree Management Suite that lets carriers deploy residential and business broadband with minimal operational overhead. ...
Comporium picks Wave7
By: By Vince Vittore
Wave7 Optics announced that Comporium Communications, which serves more than 100,000 access lines and 50,000 cable TV customers, will deploy the vendor's Last Mile Link platform for an expansion of its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network into the Pulte Homes 3500-home "Sun City Carolina Lakes" development near Charlotte. ...
Adva pledges dramatic U.S. investment
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fresh from its acquisition of Texas-based Ethernet equipment vendor Covaro Networks, Adva Optical Networking pledged an aggressive focus on the American market in its third-quarter earnings conference call Thursday...
SBC puts some numbers behind IPTV trial
By: By Vince Vittore
SBC today pulled another inch off the covers of its pending IPTV service, announcing that it has successfully completed a second field trial of the technology in 40 employee homes in San Antonio...
Raising wholesale LD prices costs Broadwing revenue
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadwing reported a sequential dip in revenue for the third quarter resulting from the carrier’s recent decision to raise wholesale long-distance prices...
ECI revenue up on IPTV, broadband growth
By: By Vince Vittore
ECI Telecom reported third-quarter revenue of $162 million, a 26% increase from the $128 million recorded in the third quarter of 2004 and up 6% compared to the $153 million recorded in the second quarter of 2005...
Riverstone shifts R&D to India
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ethernet equipment vendor Riverstone Networks announced plans today to shift a greater portion of its research and development workforce overseas in an effort to reach profitability quicker...
In the Spotlight: Jon DeLuca, FiberNet
By: By Ed Gubbins
FiberNet’s chief executive officer, Jon DeLuca, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about the market, the model and more...
Time Warner Cable gets local with on demand
By: By Vince Vittore
Broadbus announced today it has signed Time Warner Cable San Antonio as the first customer for its new Content Commander video-on-demand software...
CoSine still searching for acquisitions
By: By Ed Gubbins
CoSine Communications, the erstwhile vendor of IP service delivery products, is still searching for other companies to acquire, five months after its own shareholders successfully blocked an acquisition by Tut Systems...
Motorola settles suit against new Nortel CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has reached a settlement with Motorola, which sued to prevent its former chief operating officer Mike Zafirovski from becoming Nortel’s next chief executive...
Carrier Ethernet gear market shaking up
By: By Ed Gubbins
The market for carrier Ethernet equipment is experiencing a “shake-up,” according to Infonetics Research—one that could shuffle the positions of competing vendors but won’t disturb that of the market’s leader, Cisco Systems...
SoVerNet picks FutureWei for network build
By: By Vince Vittore
FutureWei is breaking into the U.S. wireline market, albeit not with the massive contracts it wants, but in a more traditional way ...
Aktino lands Alaskan carrier
By: By Vince Vittore
Aktino announced this week that Matanuska Telephone Association, a 60,000-access line Alaskan telco, has deployed its AK3000 platform as part of an effort to increase capacity to various wireless tower sites...
Steve Levy joins Tut board
By: By Ed Gubbins
Former Lehman Brothers analyst Steve Levy has joined the board of directors of Tut Systems, a company he once covered, the broadband equipment vendor announced today...
CenturyTel slow rolls video, sees big jump in DSL
By: By Vince Vittore
CenturyTel Communications today said in its third-quarter earnings call that it has soft launched a switched digital video product in La Crosse, Wis., and will offer commercial service during the fourth quarter. However, Glenn Post, CEO and chairman, said the company wasn't going to rush out to replicate that effort in its other markets for some time. ...
Alcatel defends next-gen investments
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel defended its investment in next-generation technologies and emerging markets--at the cost of profits--in its third-quarter earnings conference call today...
SBC comes out swinging on IPTV
By: By Vince Vittore
LAS VEGAS--SBC this week at the Telecom 05 show in Las Vegas defended its plan to provide IPTV service using a fiber-to-the-node architecture as part of its Project Lightspeed...
Lucent: Next-gen growth to outpace legacy decline
By: By Ed Gubbins
After long struggling to grow next-generation technology revenues faster than that from legacy technologies declined, Lucent Technologies executives pointed to a light at the end of the tunnel over the next two years...
High-dividend model under the microscope
By: By Vince Vittore
LAS VEGAS--The financial strategy of paying out significant portions of cash flow for large dividends is working for some independent telcos, but may not be the right model for everyone...
SBC seeks smarter OSP
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications is talking with vendors about new outside plant technology that could help the company begin the process of consolidating Central Offices and retiring some legacy switches....
Tellabs thriving on fiber access, crossconnects
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs reported $464 million in revenue for the third quarter, a 63% increase from the year-earlier quarter (or a 15% increase, compared to combined results of Tellabs and Advanced Fibre Communications, which it acquired last year), buoyed mainly by shipments of fiber access and traditional transport gear...
Nortel, Calix win Sprint access deal
By: By Vince Vittore
b>LAS VEGAS--Calix and Nortel announced today that they have been picked by Sprint Nextel as approved vendors to provide access platforms for the telco’s next-gen wireline broadband buildout in 18 states...
