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...
Microsoft: IPTV isn't slowing
By: By Vince Vittore
Microsoft last week defended progress of the IPTV market overall and its own IPTV developments...
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...
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...
Occam passes on PON for active Ethernet
By: By Vince Vittore
Occam Networks last week dove head-first into the fiber-to-the-premises market with a new optical line termination blade...
VDSL2 standard approved
By: By Vince Vittore
The International Telecommunication Union today said it has finalized work on the VDSL2 standard. ...
Hatteras Networks broadens partner program, inks Micromuse deal
By: By Vince Vittore
Hatteras Networks this week announced it is expanding its Channel Provider Program in the independent telco, CLEC, IXC and incumbent carrier markets...
Redback turbo charges gateway
By: By Vince Vittore
Redback Networks today announced the latest version of its SmartEdge Service Gateway platform, marking a significant performance jump for the product and positioning it to be a part of the burgeoning telco video market...
Vendors accelerate efforts to acquire IPTV market share
By: By Vince Vittore
The scramble to get into the telco IP video market--or IPTV in the current parlance--gained steam last week as ECI Telecom acquired Laurel Networks. Almost immediately after the news broke, Hammerhead Systems moved up the announcement of a new suite of Ethernet features on its aggregation platform geared toward the IPTV market....
Tellabs gaining traction with new IOC program
By: By Vince Vittore
Tellabs said its new FiberDirect Solution Purchase Program has surpassed the 100-customer mark....
Broadstream cranks up the Music
By: By Vince Vittore
Broadstream Communications this week announced that it has signed a deal with Music Choice to launch of Music Choice’s digital music channels on the Broadstream IP content distribution platform...
