In the Spotlight: Zayo CEO Dan Caruso
By: By Carol Wilson
Telephony Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson spoke to Zayo Chief Executive Officer Dan Caruso about his company’s meteoric rise...
Embarq uses ‘naked DSL’ to slow line loss
By: By Ed Gubbins
Embarq began offering so-called “naked DSL” service this month as a tool to retain customers who no longer want landline voice service...
XO seeks to raise up to $900M
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications is seeking to raise up to $900 million in debt and equity, the carrier said in regulatory filings today...
Technology debates fueled OEN’s demise
By: By Ed Gubbins
Executives at Optical Entertainment Network haven’t been available to talk about what led the company to suddenly announce it was discontinuing all services this month. But sources close to the company say a combination of technology debates, deployment challenges and management turnover kept the company from finding the additional financing it needed...
Router start-up Anagran beefs up sales staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Shortly after naming a new chief executive officer, edge router start-up Anagran is bolstering its sales ranks...
SEC threatens Sycamore with civil action
By: By Ed Gubbins
Investigators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have recommended that the SEC take civil action against Sycamore Networks regarding that company’s stock option grant procedures and accounting...
Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
Texas FTTH provider OEN goes dark
By: By Ed Gubbins
Optical Entertainment Network is mum on why it is discontinuing all services. Calls placed to the company’s offices are met only by a prerecorded message stating that all services are being discontinued “due to circumstances beyond our control.”...
Internet could clog networks by 2010, study says
By: By Sarah Reedy
User demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2010, according to a study released today by Nemertes Research...
Verizon field-tests 100 Gb/s FTTP transport
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon successfully completed its first field test of a 100 gigabit per second optical transmission on Friday, the company announced today, just days after trumpeting a 40 Gb/s deployment elsewhere...
Small telcos feel merger pressure
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the wake of major-carrier consolidation, merger activity among small and regional telcos is escalating and should continue next year...
TXP ushers in multivendor FTTP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Third-party optical network terminals could lower fiber network costs...
Copper saves the day
By: By Carol Wilson
Forbearance, fiber gaps make EFM a must for Allied Telecom...
Analyst: Google making its own 10GbE switches
By: By Ed Gubbins
Google may have developed and deployed its own 10 Gb/s Ethernet switches, according to a Wall Street analyst citing multiple sources....
ITC’s revenue flattened by wholesale business
By: By Ed Gubbins
ITC^DeltaCom’s sagging wholesale business flattened out otherwise modest revenue gains in the third quarter, as the competitive carrier worked to better manage its debt....
Eagle Broadband enters Chapter 11
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday as its former chairman submitted an asset seizure order to its primary bank...
Verizon lights 40G network
By: By Carol Wilson
As promised earlier this year, Verizon Business has gone live with a 40 Gb/s network, using Juniper Networks’ T-series core routers to carry Internet traffic at that speed between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and on its multi-protocol label switched network between Washington and New York City...
Occam’s losses multiply
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks reported sharp declines in revenue and net income during the third quarter, in accordance with warnings the company gave last month...
Hammerhead takes PBT past point-to-point
By: By Ed Gubbins
Hammerhead Systems today unveiled a new version of its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch designed to bridge the gap between provider backbone transport (PBT) and multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technologies as well as to allow PBT to become more than just a point-to-point technology...
XO slashes loss despite flat revenue
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Holdings dramatically cut its losses on relatively flat revenue in the third quarter...
Falling prices tempt RLEC consolidators
By: By Ed Gubbins
While integrating its acquisition of CT Communications, executives of Windstream Communications reiterated the case for future acquisitions this week, and some analysts say recent changes in the market could encourage further consolidation among rural carriers...
Cisco reports solid first quarter
By: By Sarah Reedy
Cisco Systems continued its solid streak for the first quarter of fiscal 2008, reporting revenues of $9.6 billion from $9.4 billion in the previous quarter...
Tellabs CEO to resign
By: By Ed Gubbins
Krish Prabhu has announced he will resign his position as president and chief executive officer of Tellabs by March 1, 2008...
Surewest on the hunt for M&A
By: By Ed Gubbins
Surewest Communications is actively seeking acquisitions to help scale its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) business, the company said today, emphasizing that it is not looking only for properties in geographic proximity to its California network...
Adva’s Alcatel-Lucent partnership hits ‘bottom’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adva Optical Networking’s partnership with Alcatel-Lucent has thinned about as much as it can, the equipment vendor said today...
