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....
Ikanos takes first swing at VDSL2 chip market
By: By Vince Vittore
Move gives it a shot at market expansion in the U.S. and Europe...
ROADMs, carrier Ethernet spell optical optimism
By: By Dan O'Shea
New vendors continue to join the crowded ROADM segment, while the Metro Ethernet Forum makes important strides in carrier Ethernet...
Two views: To over-provision or conserve
By: By Vince Vittore
Vendors take vastly different approaches on how to use bandwidth...
IPTV grows up
By: By Vince Vittore
Vendors, carriers are going through the awkward stage toward full development...
Microsoft: IPTV isn't slowing
By: By Vince Vittore
Microsoft last week defended progress of the IPTV market overall and its own IPTV developments...
Enterasys sues Foundry, Extreme over patents
By: By Ed Gubbins
Equipment vendor Enterasys Networks has filed suit against Foundry Networks and Extreme Networks today, alleging patent infringement...
Telstra opts out of Microsoft TV
By: By Vince Vittore
Telstra said today that it has decided not to move forward with a plan to deploy IPTV services using Microsoft TV's platform, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal....
Cisco launches AON
By: By Vince Vittore
Cisco today took the wraps off its much-anticipated Application Oriented Networking program. Making the debut at its Networkers conference in Las Vegas, the AON technology is being viewed by the company as one its most significant technology introductions since the company launched it Avvid platform for voice over IP several years ago....
In the Spotlight: John Griffin, Optical Solutions Inc.
With the exception of rival Flexlight Networks, Optical Solutions had the gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) equipment market all to itself until Alcatel announced its entry into the space in late May. Optical Solutions’ executive vice president of marketing John Griffin spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about GPON and beyond...
Shaping the next-gen network
By: By Vince Vittore
It's high time to nail down a common definition of the NGN. ATIS aims to do just that with its recently published framework, outlining all the elements for NGN implementation...
Interfacing takes on multiple meanings in NGN
By: By Phil Britt
ATIS takes its first steps toward the development of infrastructure that will support this century's applications...
Ciena’s Smith: IP shift, European growth bolster fiscal Q2 results
By: By Carol Wilson
The movement to an all Internet Protocol network is helping to pump some life into the optical transport business, which is one of a few reasons Ciena posted better-than-expected financial results Thursday, according to its CEO, Gary Smith...
Broadband boosts Ciena revenue
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena reported better-than-expected revenue growth in its second fiscal quarter (ending April 30), attributing the results largely to sales of its broadband DSL and core switching and transport products...
Tut deploys first MPEG4 headend
By: By Vince Vittore
Farmers Telephone Cooperative of South Carolina will be the first telco in North America to deploy an MPEG4-AVD digital headend, according to Tut Systems, which announced the deployment today....
BellSouth gives exclusive FTTC deal to Tellabs
By: By Vince Vittore
Tellabs today announced that it has been selected by BellSouth as the exclusive supplier for BellSouth’s fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) deployment...
Net Insight beefs up switch for video play
By: By Vince Vittore
Joining the flood of vendors trying to get a piece of the triple-play market, Net Insight today announced a new multi-service switch that can deliver as much as 1 Tb/s switching capacity per rack...
GPON market makes gigabit leap
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel enters the GPON market. With more launches on the way and talk of a multi-carrier RFI, the PON successor is a solution in the spotlight...
