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...
Acquisitions impact Citizens’ earnings
By: By Sarah Reedy
After a busy year of acquisitions and integration, Citizens Communications today reported a fall in earnings for the third quarter of 2007 due in large part to higher expenses associated with the acquisitions...
U-verse rollout to slow, cost more with Southeast expansion
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has lowered its expectations slightly for the deployment of its U-Verse IPTV service through 2008...
MetaSwitch lands Cable & Wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
MetaSwitch has landed its first major customer in the company’s efforts to replicate its North American success in other markets...
Global Crossing to resell Nextlink
By: By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing is now reselling broadband wireless links from Nextlink for last-mile access to business customers under a national reseller agreement announced today by the two companies...
Tennessee utility bringing fiber to 55,000
By: By Ed Gubbins
Next month, the electric utility in Clarksville, Tenn., hopes to launch the first broadband and video services over what could become one of the largest municipal fiber-to-the-home networks in the United States...
Verizon DSL growth withers in FiOS' shadow
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon's DSL business is slowing drastically as the company focuses on its fiber-to-the-home deployment...
When giants stumble
By: By Ed Gubbins
Last year, as the telecom industry's top equipment vendors moved toward consolidation, the rest of the vendor landscape was grimly warned: Join the consolidation trend or be trampled by the new breed of titans. Why megavendors aren't so tough after all...
Foundry's service provider drive pays off
By: By Ed Gubbins
Foundry Networks is making good on its promise to penetrate the service provider market this year...
Anagran names new CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Edge router start-up Anagran today named as its new chief executive officer Kim Niederman, a former sales vice president at Polycom...
Alcatel-Lucent’s restructuring not a full remedy, say analysts
By: By Ed Gubbins
Analysts and investors seemed to approve of the new restructuring plans Alcatel-Lucent announced today, but the moves did little to assuage deeper doubts surrounding the company...
VON: Landline not dead yet, Embarq CEO says
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Landline companies have a future, if they capitalize on convergence possibilities and learn how to make complex services simple for customers to use, Embarq CEO Dan Hesse told the VON crowd today...
Qwest greenlights $300M FTTN rollout
By: By Ed Gubbins
Qwest Communications’ directors have approved its management’s fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment plans, new chief executive officer Ed Mueller said during the company’s quarterly earnings call today. But the company isn’t yet saying what set of services will justify the strategy...
Verizon DSL giving way to FiOS
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications reported another sharp drop in DSL customer additions in the third quarter as it continued to rack up customers for its FiOS fiber-to-the-home services, some of which made the switch from DSL...
Covad acquired by private equity firm
By: By Ed Gubbins
Covad Communications has agreed to be acquired by Platinum Equity for about $304 million in cash, the companies announced today...
Verizon gives a glimpse of futuristic FiOS apps
By: By Carol Wilson
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--As its FiOS network nears the end of its fourth year, when it was projected to pass 7 million households, Verizon this week gave the media a glimpse of what has been going on behind the curtains to add new functionality to the system...
Occam chairman: No M&A or CEO search underway
By: By Ed Gubbins
Despite calls from some investors to replace top management or sell the company, Occam Networks has no plans to do either, according to the company’s chairman and representative of its largest shareholder...
