Juniper CEO boasts Ethernet validation
By: By Ed Gubbins
In Juniper Networks’ fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday, CEO Scott Kriens continued to tough-talk carrier Ethernet equipment vendors. But this time, he had more numbers to back him up...
AT&T: Pair-bonding to come in ‘late 2008’
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T said today it expects to begin pair-bonding advanced DSL lines in “late 2008,” pushing back the expected arrival of what the company says is an important part of its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) initiative...
New CEO describes Sorrento’s second life
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though optical transport equipment vendor Sorrento Networks was absorbed by Zhone Technologies in 2004, a new incarnation of Sorrento launched this month, acquiring those products back from Zhone. Its CEO Jim Nevelle spoke with Telephony about the startup’s plans...
Why Ciena acquired Worldwide Packets
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena’s surprise announcement of its plans to acquire Ethernet access vendor Worldwide Packets left some analysts scratching their heads yesterday, largely because Ciena declined to offer many details on key justifications for the deal and its terms...
Grande’s Texas triple-play network goes up for sale
By: By Ed Gubbins
Texas cable overbuilder Grande Communications announced today it was pursuing “strategic alternatives,” potentially selling its fiber network and triple-play business...
Q&A: Gillis Cashman, MC Venture Partners
By: By Ed Gubbins
After eight years at MC Venture Partners, Gillis Cashman made partner this month at the venture capital firm, which focuses on technology and communications startups. Cashman, who sits on the boards of Cavalier Telephone, Zayo Bandwidth and cable player Baja Broadband, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about the future of CLECs and current economic trends shaping the telecom service provider space and investment in it...
XO shakes up pricing models
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications continued its aggressive assault on the competitive services market today with a new pricing strategy that lets customers pay strictly for bandwidth and not for a specific number of access lines...
Anticipation grows for Tellabs M&A
By: By Ed Gubbins
After having cooled in the second half of last year, expectations for a Tellabs acquisition are rising once again with the start of the new year...
Triple-play prices grow more elastic
By: By Ed Gubbins
As competition heats up for triple-play telecom services, the prices for those offerings are becoming more elastic—something customers are finding when they threaten to switch providers...
New Edge brings CoS to ADSL
By: By Carol Wilson
New Edge Networks is keeping its promise to bring a better quality ADSL service to small to mid-sized businesses, announcing today it will introduce class-of-service offerings that allow customers to tag and prioritize services over ADSL lines...
MegaPath adds ADSL 2+
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service provider MegaPath today announced its ADSL 2+ offering, which it is delivering using the Covad Communications service footprint. ...
Rivulet CEO Ed Kennedy on fine-tuning IP networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Earlier this week, former Tellabs executive Ed Kennedy was named chief executive officer of Rivulet Communications, a new equipment startup aimed at improving service quality in IP networks...
Qwest charts different video course
By: By Carol Wilson
While AT&T and Verizon aggressively deploy video services via their U-Verse and FiOS TV offerings, respectively, Qwest Communications is pursuing a very different video strategy...
Verizon COO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications is not seeing the same slowdown in consumer markets that AT&T reported this week, according to Denny Strigl, Verizon’s chief operating officer...
Ex-Tellabs exec Ed Kennedy now CEO of Rivulet
By: By Ed Gubbins
Break time is over for Ed Kennedy. The former president of Tellabs’ North America division, who was once considered a likely candidate to become Tellabs’ chief executive, is now leading a new telecom equipment start-up. ...
Level 3’s Crowe sees new market emerge
By: By Carol Wilson
Admitting his company “stubbed its toe” this year, Level 3 Communications Chairman and CEO James Crowe told the CitiGroup’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference today that the emerging IP optical and IP wireless markets are what “we’ve been planning on and hoping for, for a number of years” and Level 3 is ready to compete successfully...
Citizens CEO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
By: By Ed Gubbins
Citizens Communications is not seeing the same economic “softness” in residential markets that AT&T reported yesterday, according to Maggie Wilderotter, Citizens’ chief executive officer, who spoke late yesterday at the same investor conference...
Ciena antes up Ethernet for packet optical game
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is beefing up the Ethernet capabilities on its CN 4200 multiservice transport platform by adding Layer 2 Ethernet aggregation and switching, ratcheting up Ciena’s strength in the packet optical networking space...
CES: Comcast unveils ’08-model cable competitor
By: By Sarah Reedy
In what was the first keynote from a cable company executive in the Consumer Electronic Show’s history, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the audience that the cableco is now the fourth largest residential phone service provider in the United States, surpassing Embarq in subscribers...
AT&T CEO decries consumer market slowdown
By: By Ed Gubbins
Addressing an investor conference today, Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive officer, complained of a current slowdown in the company’s consumer business but expressed optimism that its enterprise business would be less affected by the same overall economic trends...
What Nokia Siemens will acquire next
By: By Ed Gubbins
With two acquisition announcements in the last three months, Nokia Siemens Networks is clearly in M&A mode, though its next move is anyone’s guess...
Fujitsu wins Verizon packet optical bid
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications appears to have won a prized contract to supply Verizon with packet optical transport equipment, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
Analyst: BT’s 21CN rollout may be slowing
By: By Ed Gubbins
British Telecom may have slowed spending on its 21st Century next-generation network initiative recently, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
Cisco’s IPoDWDM may be tough sell to some
By: By Ed Gubbins
In recent years, Cisco has been turning up the volume on its promotion of the benefits of optical and IP integration in its CRS-1 carrier core routing platform. But it’s unknown to what extent carriers are buying that pitch...
CLEC veteran Royce Holland looks ahead
By: By Carol Wilson
On what he hopes will be the eve of a successful acquisition by Paetec, McLeod USA CEO Royce Holland is looking forward to not working full time. But he still has a lot to say about the competitive service provider space he helped create, as an early member of the Metropolitan Fiber Systems team and the founder of Allegiance Telecom (now XO Communications)...
