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....
Tellabs CFO: BellSouth’s Katrina damage estimates ‘may be too low’
By: By Ed Gubbins
BellSouth’s estimate that it may be forced to spend between $400 million and $600 million to repair the damage done by Hurricane Katrina may be too low, according to Tim Wiggins, Tellabs’ chief financial officer....
Intel gets behind BPL
By: By Ed Gubbins
Strong support for broadband-over-powerline technology from Intel and Motorola last month sparked speculation about how much momentum these kingmaking companies could create in the nascent sector....
Force-feeding E911
By: By Tim McElligott
One can question the motives of the FCC in imposing an extremely short deadline on VoIP providers to comply with the E911 mandate--putting the breaks on the technology, genuine concern for public safety, naivety, motivation itself--but early indicators show that most providers will meet that deadline. So the real question is: What's the downside?...
Scaling the edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carriers and vendors tackle tough questions about what the new edge of triple-play networks should look like....
UBS: DT’s triple-play push could be contagious
By: By Ed Gubbins
Competition is forcing European incumbent telcos to deploy triple-play services sooner than expected, investment research firm UBS concluded today in response to Deutsche Telekom’s announcement of plans to build a 50-city fiber-to-the-curb network...
New Orleans' switching facility survives
By: By Carol Wilson
Faced with a massive restoration effort along the Gulf Coast, BellSouth is still in damage assessment mode, and the news isn’t all bad....
Dalton FTTH network paying off
By: By Carol Wilson
Having achieved its goals in deploying fiber to the home for two years in Dalton, Ga., Dalton Utilities is now branching out into the surrounding Whitfield County area and beginning to explore delivering wholesale services and deploying a faster Gigabit passive optical network....
Debt repayment doubts put Time Warner Telecom on ‘CreditWatch’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services placed Time Warner Telecom on CreditWatch Thursday based on concerns over the competitive local exchange carrier’s outstanding debt, which stood at about $1.2 billion at the end of June...
Ciena benefits as U.S. metro, long-haul networks awaken
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena grew its revenue faster than expected in its fiscal third quarter and narrowed its loss as traffic increases forced the expansion of some long-haul and metro networks in North America...
Cisco beats metro ROADM leader Fujitsu in Q2
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems overtook Fujitsu Network Communications to lead the market for metro reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) in the second quarter, according to new data from Infonetics Research...
IP edge router market up 31% in Q2
By: By Ed Gubbins
The IP edge router market grew 13% sequentially to $820.6 million in the second quarter of 2005, a 31% increase from last year’s second quarter, according to data released today by Infonetics Research...
SkyStream tunes in 20 MPEG-4 wins
By: By Vince Vittore
SkyStream announced today that it has 20 MPEG-4 AVC customers worldwide for its Mediaplex and iPlex video headend systems...
XO launches wholesale residential service
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications will leverage its existing network facilities to offer other CLECs a chance to compete in the residential voice market. While XO itself remains focused on the business market, the company believes it can offer a more cost-effective way for CLECs to continue to compete with incumbents in the residential market, said Ernie Ortega, president of carrier sales. Since its acquistion with Allegiance, XO now has 950 collocation facilities in 70 major markets, and can use those facilities to provide local switching and interconnection services for other service providers, he said. ...
MCI launches integrated security service
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI today launched a set of managed security services it believes provides unprecedented security protection for enterprise data services within the network and on premises. The “cloud to core” approach unites MCI’s Internet backbone network security with the core enterprise security of the NetSec acquisition into a single package to address the growing complexity of threats to corporate data networks....
IPTV to hit its stride in 2008
By: By Vince Vittore
The market for IPTV will reach 21.7 million subscribers in 2009, though most of those will be in Asia and Europe, according to recent research from Parks Associates. Additionally, despite big projects launching this year and next from the likes of SBC and Verizon, the market won’t begin taking off until 2008. ...
Alloptic gets $30M in fifth round
By: By Ed Gubbins
Access equipment vendor Alloptic has secured $30 million in a fifth round of venture funding, the company announced today...
Sycamore wins KT backbone contract
By: By Ed Gubbins
Siemens and Sycamore Networks have been selected to supply core optical switching equipment for a nationwide backbone by South Korean carrier KT...
OnFiber launches ‘alternative access’ service
By: By Ed Gubbins
OnFiber today announced the launch of a new access service that uses fiber to bridge the gap between enterprises and alternative telecom providers such as interexchange carriers and competitive carriers...
Lenexa uses Alvarion WiMAX
By: By Carol Wilson
Lenexa, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, will build a city-wide wireless broadband network to connect government buildings, city vehicles, traffic signals and video cameras using Alvarion network technology. The goal is to use the WiFi technology to reduce pollution by better managing traffic flow...
Multi-service switch and router market up 9% in Q2
By: By Tim McElligott
Ditttberner Associates’ quarterly report this week showed that IP convergence drove growth for multi-service switches and routers in service provider networks to $1.68 billion in the second quarter...
Gateways knocking out DSL modems, says Yankee
By: By Carol Wilson
The Yankee Group says there is turbulence ahead in the DSL modem market, as residential gateways that can connect multiple computers take hold in the market place....
Dell'Oro: Optical market bright again
By: By Ed Gubbins
The worldwide optical transport equipment market saw more sequential growth in the second quarter of 2005 than it has since 2000, according to data released this week from Dell’Oro Group...
Cisco gains in core as Juniper edges up
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks increased its share of the edge router market in the second quarter at the expense of its larger rival, Cisco Systems, but Cisco made greater gains in the core router market, according to data released this week from Dell’Oro Group...
ATIS releases Roadmap, Part II
By: By Vince Vittore
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) today said it its Next Generation Network (NGN) Framework Part II: NGN Roadmap 2005 has been approved by the organization’s board and has been sent to international standards bodies...
