Techs in training
By: By Carol Wilson
How three independents dealt with the bumps and bruises of being video pioneers...
Nortel realigns business units into product groups
By: By Ed Gubbins
Slightly more than a year after the company realigned its corporate business divisions from product groups into customer groups, Nortel is reordering them again based on product groups, the company announced today...
Bell Labs pushes optical Ethernet to 100 Gb/s
By: By Ed Gubbins
In two papers presented to the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Scotland today, researchers at Bell Labs, a division of Lucent Technologies, reported conducting transmissions of 100 Gb/s Ethernet over fiber, claiming to be the first in the industry to achieve such speed with optical Ethernet...
Bell triple-plays don't threaten cable’s dominance
By: By Ed Gubbins
As cable companies continue raising the speeds of their broadband offerings, they will maintain their dominance in that market for the foreseeable future and penetrate the voice market faster than Bell companies penetrate video...
DSL Forum approves home networking model
By: By Vince Vittore
The DSL Forum announced today it has approved a series of new Technical Reports (TRs) part of its DSLHome work...
ECI joins IP DSLAM rush
By: By Vince Vittore
ECI Telecom today announced the launch of its first all IP DSLAM, joining the growing ranks of traditional vendors moving into the IP market....
Former Alloptic CEO helms FlexLight
By: By Ed Gubbins
FlexLight Networks, a four-year-old vendor of gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) equipment, named Armando Pereira its newest chief executive officer today...
SeaChange fills in content play
By: By Vince Vittore
SeaChange International announced its has paid $13.4 million in cash for the remaining 72% of the outstanding capital stock of the European content aggregator On Demand Group Limited (ODG) that it did not previously own...
BPL may be overhyped, study says
By: By Carol Wilson
A new research report says utility companies will face a tough time trying to compete in the broadband services arena with broadband over power line technology. ...
New Wave7 gear supports EFM, GPON
By: By Ed Gubbins
A new broadband access platform from Wave7 Optics adds support for Ethernet First Mile technology and Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) to the equipment vendor’s existing Ethernet PON (EPON) offering....
Verizon uses RF for FiOS TV
By: By Vince Vittore
FTTP network takes middle ground in first Bell video launch...
Swimming upstream
By: By Carol Wilson
The oft-overlooked upstream channel is about to get some much-need attention...
Alltel hints at wireline spinoff
By: By Vince Vittore
Alltel today announced it has started the formal process of assessing the market environment for repositioning options related to its wireline business...
Verizon goes live with FiOS TV
By: By Vince Vittore
Verizon officially launched its video service riding on top of its fiber-to-the-premises launch in Keller, Texas, the same market where it unveiled the FiOS project...
NexTone CEO: Layer 5 to rule
By: By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--Though network operators spend much of their time these days managing Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies, the network of the future will be dominated by Layer 5, said Malik Khan, chairman and chief executive officer of NexTone Communications...
Cisco targets SMBs with new gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems unleashed a new attack on the small and medium business (SMB) market with new applications, phones and switches that are simpler to use and install, with more automatic configuration, and forgo some bells and whistles to accommodate the budget constraints of SMBs...
Heartland Institute: Muni HFC networks not making money
By: By Vince Vittore
The Heartland Institute today announced the findings of a study on three Iowa municipal hybrid fiber/coax networks--Cedar Falls, Muscatine and Spencer--showing that all three had to achieve any meaningful return on their investment...
Video54 makes a Ruckus
By: By Vince Vittore
Video54, which has been concentrating on smart antenna systems for wireless LANs, today is re-launching the company with an infusion of cash, a new name and the unveiling of its first publicly announced service provider customer....
ATIS makes IPTV interop pitch, vendors forge ahead anyway
By: By Vince Vittore
IPTV was upgraded yet another notch on the hot technologies scale last week when the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions announced the end of its first meeting of the IPTV Interoperability Forum...
MPLS moves downstream
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carriers and vendors debate how far toward the customer MPLS should go...
NMS goes from OEM to off-the-shelf
By: By Tim McElligott
Once a board-level supplier of signaling and media applications, NMS Communications introduced a range of off-the-shelf media servers this week and announced Ericsson as its first large customer....
Pannaway pushes into back office
By: By Vince Vittore
Pannaway Technologies, which has been most known as an access vendor for the independent telco market, is launching a new version of its element management system that puts the company more into the provisioning and management market....
Juniper locks on carrier security
By: By Vince Vittore
Juniper Networks today announced a new platform targeting carrier-provided network-based SSL VPN services. ...
Telco Systems delves into MPLS
By: By Vince Vittore
Telco Systems today launched its first of what is expected to be a series of MPLS devices....
ITC^Deltacom adds up hurricane costs
By: By Ed Gubbins
ITC^Deltacom is working to assess the effect of Hurricane Katrina on its business, the competitive local exchange carrier reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today, but the total cost is unknown....
