Ethernet evolution
By: By Ed Gubbins
How the LAN-born technology will finally conquer global networks...
Nortel puts faith in service edge
By: By Vince Vittore
Nortel spent much of it Investor Technology Day this week sketching out a vision of the future networks that looks radically different than today’s architecture but not all that different than most other vendors...
Hitachi names first U.S. GPON customer
By: By Ed Gubbins
Hitachi Telecom USA has named its first customer for the new gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) equipment the company introduced last week...
Glowpoint lands in Court
By: By Vince Vittore
Glowpoint announced today that CourtTV has become the latest national broadcaster to use its IP-based two-way broadcast solution for content delivery across its cable channel and Web site...
Comptel: CLEC Covista to deploy MetaSwitch
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Covista, a national CLEC in the process of converting its customers onto its own facilities, has chosen MetaSwitch to provide the next-generation infrastructure for its local and long-distance business...
MEF to certify Ethernet services
By: By Ed Gubbins
A month after awarding its first certifications for “carrier Ethernet” equipment, the Metro Ethernet Forum today announced a program to test and certify carrier Ethernet services...
Sycamore swings to profit
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks reported positive net income for its fiscal fourth quarter, surprising analysts who expected the optical equipment vendor to continue its years-long trend of losses...
Ciena backs off BLC market
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is backing off of its commitment to the international broadband loop carrier market, chief executive officer Gary Smith said today at an analyst event, and is likely to write off some of its efforts there as good will...
Comptel: Hatteras adds system flexibility
By: By Carol Wilson
Hatteras Networks has added optical plug-in modules to its Ethernet over copper system to enable its customers to have higher-speed connections between its access system and an Ethernet switch, or across a corporate facility....
Comptel: Progress Telecom launches wireless access
By: By Carol Wilson
Progress Telecom is adding last-mile wireless service to its roster of wholesale and retail offerings and today announced its first CLEC customer....
RFP nears, Bells outline GPON future
By: By Ed Gubbins
A joint request for proposal clarifies telcos' distinctions, common ground as they prepare to shop for next year's GPOM trials and future deployments...
Rural telco groups campaign to retain USF in Act's rewrite
By: By Vince Vittore
Associations get personal, claiming Americans believe the fund should live...
IPTV's success will depend on personalization apps, interop
By: By Vince Vittore
Vendors announce partners, services at Broadband World Forum Europe...
Can telcos avoid a speed race with cable?
By: By Vince Vittore
Within a year, some cable operators will be able to offer 100 Mb/s Internet access. How carriers respond will vary greatly...
XO calls for more regulation in Bell/IXC mergers
By: By Ed Gubbins
On the heels of the Virginia State Corporation Commission’s approval of the mergers between AT&T and SBC and between Verizon Communications and MCI, XO Communications proposed further regulatory restraints on the combined companies...
NTELOS re-emerges with IPO filing
By: By Vince Vittore
NTELOS has filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an initial public offering that would raise up to $175 million in cash...
Rural associations launch USF protection drive
By: By Vince Vittore
A group of four associations representing rural telcos today officially launched a drive to keep Universal Service in the public eye during the coming rewrite of the Telecommunications Act...
FTTH: Hurricanes won’t hinder La. muni project
By: By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--The substantial fiber-to-the-premises project proposed in Lafayette, La., will proceed unaffected by the hurricanes that have ravaged the Gulf Coast this summer, Mayor Joey Durel assured attendees at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference today...
Infonetics predicts PON boom
By: By Carol Wilson
PON subscribership is about to skyrocket, according to an Infonetics report. The analyst firm is forecasting 1,260% growth in PON subscribers between 2004 and 2008, increasing from 1.7 million ports to more than 8 million....
Hitachi Telecom USA joins GPON club
By: By Ed Gubbins
Add Hitachi Telecom USA to the list of equipment vendors selling gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) broadband access equipment....
Arroyo tunes in new president, CEO
By: By Vince Vittore
Video-on-demand vendor Arroyo Video Solutions today announced it has named former Catena Networks executive Rick DeGabrielle as its new president and CEO...
Reclaiming wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard and Vince Vittore
After dumping their wireless assets in an attempt to streamline operations, many rural and independent carriers are looking to get back into the bobile business, this time as MVNOs...
NDTEL gets active on FTTP
By: By Vince Vittore
Like many independents, NDTel is deploying fiber-to-the-premises...
Look who's calling
By: By Dan O'Shea
When you are sitting on your couch watching your favorite TV show and the telephone rings, there's always a moment of indecision--is it a telemarketer...
Pioneer stars in windstorm drama
By: By Vince Vittore
On July 4 around 4 a.m., an alarm call went out to all on-call personnel for Pioneer Telephone in Oklahoma...
