Equant targets small business VPNs
By: By Carol Wilson
Global service provider Equant is targeting small branch offices and retail locations where there are multiple sites needing capabilities such as supply chain management and customer relationship management, the company said...
Pannaway to beef up voice offering
By: By Vince Vittore
Pannaway plans to announce toward the end of this month a series of enhancements to its BAS access platform that will target incumbent carriers wanting to make the transition to voice over IP. ...
IBM joins BPL community
In less than one week, broadband over power line technology has gained two new champions. Last week, Google joined other investors in pouring a projected $100 million into BPL pioneer Current Communications, and this week, IBM announced it is teaming up with CenterPoint Energy, a Texas power company, to create a center in Houston to test BPL and to conduct a pilot field trial of 220 homes...
Digital home still facing barriers
By: By Vince Vittore
Despite the enormous gains in both simplification and cost reduction over the last several years, 80% of consumers say cost is the No. 1 barrier to adopting digital home solutions, according to a recent survey from Accenture...
Sprint completes loop on Cisco relation
By: By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems and Sprint announced today they have taken their relationship to a new level with the carrier becoming the first service provider to achieve the Cisco IP VPN Multiservice QoS Certified status...
Rural America stands alone
By: By Tim McElligott
Shifting from a circuit-switched architecture to one with the innovative promise of the packet is good business for independent operators, but is it also a recipe for disaster?...
Ad man in a box
By: By Dan O'Shea
Pannaway's Trusted Advisor Program gives its telco customers a marketing boost...
Question & answer: Kevin O'Connor, Tech Valley Communications
Formed in 1999 during the CLEC boom, Tech Valley is the lone facilities-based survivor in Upstate New York's Tech Valley around Albany...
Blackfoot makes the big shift
By: By Carol Wilson
Recognizing that its traditional funding mechanisms were disappearing, the Montana independent telco made an aggressive push into IP...
The great copper beyond
By: By Vince Vittore
Two emerging technologies will give independents a weapon for competing against the latest and greatest cable modem offerings...
Verizon-MCI merger problematic, says NY-PSC staff
By: By Carol Wilson
A New York Public Service Commission staff report concludes that allowing Verizon and MCI Communications to merge without imposing serious conditions would reduce competition in the mass market, enterprise, transport and special access markets...
Pannaway lands $15.6 million
By: By Marisol Mastrangelo
Pannaway Technologies completed a $15.6 million E round of funding from private investors, led by S. Robert Levine, the company’s principle investor, bringing the total private investment funding to $56.1 million....
Eagle lands All Access deal with GlobeCast
By: By Vince Vittore
Eagle Broadband and France Telecom subsidiary GlobeCast announced today that All Access Technologies, a new entrant to the service provider segment, will use the two companies' IPTVComplete video solution to deliver video and entertainment services to residential subscribers in Florida, Texas and Nevada...
Ovum-RHK: Cogent has the most U.S. Ethernet ports
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cogent Communications has more Ethernet ports in service throughout the United States than any other service provider, according to research and analysis firm Ovum-RHK...
Amedia expects revenue by end of year
By: By Vince Vittore
Amedia Networks announced it expects to book its first revenue by the end of 2005...
Sprint to test broadband wireless with Motorola
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today said it will work with Motorola to develop, test and eventual trial broadband wireless equipment over the 2.5 GHz spectrum and collaborate with the vendor on developing and validating future mobile WiMAX solutions...
Congressional group pushes rural telecom goals
By: By Vince Vittore
The Congressional Rural Caucus this week launched a preemptive strike for telcos serving small markets, saying that as Congress discusses a rewrite of the Telecom Act, the Universal Service Fund must continue as an industry-funded mechanism...
WCA: Broadsoft tests interop with SOMA, adds WISPs
By: By Dan O'Shea
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Broadband wireless equipment vendor SOMA Networks said at the WCA 2005 conference here that it has completed VoIP interoperability testing with Broadsoft, one of the leading VoIP applications software firms...
NetDevices comes out of hiding
By: By Vince Vittore
Hoping to take advantage of the increasing number of customer premises devices required by enterprise users, Silicon Valley start-up NetDevices this week is unveiling its first product and proclaiming to unleash a new era in deployment and management simplicity...
BT tunes in Microsoft TV
By: By Vince Vittore
Microsoft and BT announced today the U.K. carrier has signed a commercial agreement to use the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform as part of its efforts to provide video over broadband. ...
More Brand X fallout
By: By Carol Wilson
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed cable companies to continue restricting access to their broadband network may not be the bane to consumers that some are fearing...
Interoute dips into digital distribution
By: By Vince Vittore
European network operator Interoute today announced the launch of the latest version of its Share service, which allows digital audio content owners to distribute files in a secure environment. ...
ATIS forms IPTV Forum
By: By Vince Vittore
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions today announced that it has created the IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) to develop standards and related technical and operations activities surrounding telco video service....
IPTV grows up
By: By Vince Vittore
Vendors, carriers are going through the awkward stage toward full development...
