Why Ciena sees an even brighter year ahead
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena continues to benefit from a booming optical market, raising its annual revenue expectations today after a successful 2007. But the company said it’s also taking advantage of the difficulties rival vendors are having in integrating mergers and acquisitions...
Zayo still on acquisition prowl
By: By Carol Wilson
Tight capital markets may have slowed telecom consolidation in 2008, but Zayo Bandwidth is not deterred. The company went public last summer with its strategy of acquiring fiber assets in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and has lived up to that plan, with a total of six acquisitions...
Verizon strives to automate fiber patch panels
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Business is testing various ways to remotely reconfigure patch panels--the thousands of short fiber connections between transport, switching and outside plant equipment in every central office. And a small group of innovative equipment vendors are offering a range of options for doing just that...
Verizon Business certifies Overture gear
By: By Carol Wilson
Ethernet access gear-maker Overture Networks today announced that its equipment has been certified by Verizon Business, enabling Overture gear to be installed at customer premises and Verizon co-location sites in order to deliver Ethernet services over copper and fiber lines...
Cisco unveils compact new edge router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems today unveiled a new edge router powered by its own silicon designs, trumpeting the new product’s compact form factor and built-in functionality...
New CEO Gerke vows to build on Embarq’s innovations
By: By Carol Wilson
As the newly named CEO of Embarq, Tom Gerke plans to focus on continuing the momentum Embarq has built selling new products, such as 10 Mb/s Internet access, a video sales portal and fixed-mobile convergence, and continue the company’s recent history as an innovator...
OFC: 40G, 100G debates die down
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Like last year, the evolution of 40-Gb/s and 100-Gb/s optical technology was a prominent topic at the OFC NFOEC show. But unlike last year, there is more agreement today about the timing of those technologies’ deployment in carrier networks....
OFC: Why optical components are ripe for recovery (really)
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--At the OFC NFOEC show, familiar lamentations of an overcrowded and unprofitable components and modules sector dampened the mood among attendees. But to at least one Wall Street analyst, this dour sector suddenly seems ripe for investment...
Pannaway adds GPON, 10 Gig Ethernet to access platform
By: Rich Karpinski
XO completes net upgrade, teams with Cisco
By: Carol Wilson
Pullen ready to hit ground running at Tellabs
By: By Carol Wilson
OFC: Verizon details plans to bring fiber to larger MDUs
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Verizon Communications is planning a major push of its fiber-to-the-home service into multidwelling units (MDUs) this year. Despite passing 2.1 million MDUs at the end of last year’s third quarter, Verizon’s FTTH network was only capable of serving 400,000 of them. The company’s technology director, Vincent O’Byrne, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins at the OFC show in San Diego this week about Verizon’s plans for MDUs this year....
OFC: Terabit Ethernet requires network overhaul
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Terabit Ethernet networks are coming, said Bob Metcalfe, a partner at Polaris Ventures who is credited with having invented Ethernet more than 35 years ago. But it’s not clear exactly when, he said. And it’s less clear what network architectures will be needed to enable them...
OFC: Qwest CTO maps optical’s future
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Pieter Poll, Qwest Communications’ chief technology officer, described some of the innovations critical to the future of optical networks, but he also identified hurdles to the commercial implementation of those innovations in a speech at the OFC NFOEC show today...
Comptel: Hatteras lands another NW CLEC
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--For a North Carolina company, Hatteras Networks is getting quite a reputation in the Pacific Northwest. The Ethernet-over-copper gear maker today announced its fifth CLEC customer in that region in Quantum Communications, an Oregon-based local CLEC...
Qwest seeks wireless partner
By: By Sarah Reedy
Qwest Communications is in need of new strategy for its wireless business, but the answer will not come from a physical investment, Qwest CEO Ed Mueller told investors today...
Comptel: Verizon to wholesale Integrated Optical Service
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--Verizon Partner Solutions, the company’s wholesale arm, today announced a new Verizon Integrated Optical Service that incorporates ROADM capabilities into nodes or access points to enable a much wider variety of service offerings from a single point...
No integration issues here
By: By Carol Wilson
Having survived a period of turmoil, XO Communications is moving in a direction different from its national CLEC brethren...
Privacy matters: Consumers beware
By: By Carol Wilson
Consumer groups are actively seeking new rules and new protections even as they admit that rapidly changing technology makes lines in the sand hard to draw. Part 3 in our privacy special report...
P2P in play
By: By Rich Karpinski
February saw BitTorrent, traffic shaping and Net neutrality come to the fore...
The fiber trough is over
By: By Ed Gubbins
The amount of cabled fiber shipped last year topped even that in the heady days of 2001, according to CRU Analysis...
What comes after GPON?
By: By Ed Gubbins
With Verizon ramping up deployment of gigabit passive optical networks this year, work is already well under way to develop successors to GPON. David Foote, chief technology officer for Hitachi Telecom USA, gave Telephony a view into that process...
Privacy matters
In their rush to create more customized services that capitalize on knowing more about consumers, service providers may find themselves forced to slow down and proceed with caution through a veritable minefield of privacy issues. Part 1 of a Telephony staff report on privacy concerns...
TIA study: Economic downturn won’t deter telecom
By: By Sarah Reedy
According to the Telecommunications Industry Association’s “2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast” for the global telecommunications industry, there has been a healthy uptake of telecom services, both at home and abroad, with international markets seeing more growth than domestic markets...
Occam GPON gear coming in Q2
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks plans to start shipping its first gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear in the second quarter, benefiting from an acquisition it made last year...
