Netopia lines up access options
By Vince Vittore
Netopia yesterday announced it has adopted Analog Devices’ Fusiv network processor and new ADSL2+ bonding reference platform as the foundation for Netopia’s MiAVo (Media in Audio/Video out) bonded ADSL2+ gateways...
Ellacoya shovels in cash from Bell Canada
By Vince Vittore
Ellacoya Networks announced today that it has raised a funding round of $13.5 million led by new investor BCE Capital, the venture arm of Bell Canada Enterprises...
Lafayette voters overwhelmingly OK fiber network
By Carol Wilson
Residents of Lafayette, La., turned out Saturday in relatively high numbers to approve building a city-owned fiber-to-the-home network by almost a two-thirds majority...
Navigating the communications convergence
By Rahul Sachdev
This article describes the trend toward convergence and explores obstacles to success in a converged world. It also examines how a common customer relationship management (CRM) layer across application silos empowers telcos to succeed in the new world of convergence...
Nortel, Bell Canada head north for muni network test
By Vince Vittore
Bell Canada and Nortel announced today they will launch a free municipal wireless network in Chapleau, Ontario, as part of a test bed environment to study the impact of technology on rural towns...
Equant targets small business VPNs
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 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 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 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...
Ad man in a box
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 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 Vince Vittore
Two emerging technologies will give independents a weapon for competing against the latest and greatest cable modem offerings...
Rural America stands alone
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?...
Verizon-MCI merger problematic, says NY-PSC staff
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
