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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
WiMAX Forum to begin mobile certification—no, really
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today said its lead certification lab in Malaga, Spain, is now ready to begin accepting Mobile WiMAX equipment for interoperability testing and certification...
Motorola launches first large-scale WiMAX network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s first commercial WiMAX network went live today in 22 cities in Pakistan, making it the first of its three high-profile nationwide network contracts to launch...
Qwest not taking IPTV bait
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fiber-to-the-node networks to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks, Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller told the investment community today...
Ciena boasts PBT win, booming metro sales
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena today claimed its first sale to a major carrier of products based on Provider Backbone Technology (PBT) as sales of metro optical equipment overall boosted the company’s quarterly revenue beyond expectations...
Nortel adds muscle, multicasting to PBT
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has updated its metro Ethernet portfolio with new hardware and software to add muscle to its Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) platform and give it the ability to manage multicast traffic...
Juniper opens Junos OS to third-party developers
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks has created a software development kit (SDK) that will allow third-party application developers to create applications for the router vendor’s Junos operating system...
New extra-flexible fiber put to the test
By: By Ed Gubbins
In October, Connexion Technologies which deploys wholesale fiber-to-the-premises networks became the first company to deploy a new type of fiber from Corning...
Start-up launching bonded cable-DSL
By: By Ed Gubbins
A British start-up is planning to launch managed broadband services in the U.S. that will bond ADSL lines as well as broadband lines from multiple providers...
LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Throughout its short history, Verizon Communications has kept its wireline business separated from its wireless business. Last week, however, when the companies announced their plans with Vodafone to jointly pursue Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a next-generation network technology, the name on the press release didn’t have a ‘Wireless’ tacked to its end...
Verizon conducted WiMAX trials with Vodafone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon has conducted WiMAX trials with partner Vodafone as part of its 4G technology selection process, Verizon Communications executive vice president and chief technology officer Dick Lynch said Thursday...
Updated: Verizon taps LTE for 4G, citing scale, global harmonization
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Communications is breaking from the CDMA camp, announcing today that it has selected Long Term Evolution, the 4G technology of competing GSM technologies, as its next-generation network architecture...
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...
TXP ushers in multivendor FTTP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Third-party optical network terminals could lower fiber network costs...
