Verizon lights 40G network
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...
Hammerhead takes PBT past point-to-point
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...
MetaSwitch lands Cable & Wireless
By Carol Wilson
MetaSwitch has landed its first major customer in the company’s efforts to replicate its North American success in other markets...
VON: Landline not dead yet, Embarq CEO says
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...
Verizon DSL giving way to FiOS
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...
Verizon gives a glimpse of futuristic FiOS apps
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...
TelcoTV: New video content, STB player emerges
By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--A new company has emerged, promising to give telecom service providers relatively easy entry into video services using a combination of wireless and wireline access and specially designed consumer equipment...
Verizon pursues P2P video
By Ed Gubbins
When Verizon's chief technology officer Mark Wegleitner spoke at Telephony LIVE this month about the promise of peer-to-peer networking for on-demand video distribution, he acknowledged the irony of a longtime opponent of piracy embracing P2P video-on-demand...
Telephony LIVE: Megacarrier RFPs loom large over tech innovation
By Ed Gubbins
DALLAS--Major carrier consolidation is adding both price and time pressure to equipment suppliers, raising questions about the prospects for technological innovation, according to attendees here at the Telephony LIVE show....
ECI Telecom introduces new broadband access features
By Sarah Reedy
ECI Telecom, the Israeli equipment vendor, today introduced new broadband access features to its Hi-FOCuS-5 Multi-Service Access Node product line, aimed at enhancing IPTV and video services...
Zhone mines fertile copper Ethernet market overseas
By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is taking advantage of a fertile market overseas for Ethernet over copper (EoC) equipment, introducing more EoC gear today and hailing what it claims is the world’s largest EoC deployment to date...
Q&A: Verizon's Terry Denson
Terry Denson, vice president of FiOS TV content strategy and acquisition for Verizon, spoke at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Orlando last week...
FTTH Con: Start-up opportunities abound in triple-play
By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--The battle between telcos and cable operators to bring triple-play services to consumers is creating a variety of opportunities for start-up companies, according to Jim Jones, managing director of Scale Ventures, a venture capital firm...
FTTH Con: Corning gets the bends
By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--Corning introduced a new highly flexible fiber at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference this week that can make sharp turns with minimal attenuation of the signal it carries, easing deployment for carriers...
FTTH Con: Alcatel-Lucent details GPON’s successor
By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--With major carriers such as Verizon Communications deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Alcatel-Lucent today described some likely successors to GPON at the FTTH Conference today...
AT&T picks legacy gear for new video network
By Ed Gubbins
NEC America scored a surprising win in the second quarter, with a significant sale of legacy optical equipment to AT&T...
Tellabs moves ONTs indoors
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs has introduced an optical network terminal (ONT) designed to be deployed inside customer homes, Chief Executive Officer Krish Prabhu said during an investor conference this week...
Tellabs adds native Ethernet switching to ROADM
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is adding native Ethernet switching and aggregation to its 7100 reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM), the company announced today...
Gaming consoles to drive media adapters
By Ed Gubbins
Home videogame consoles will play a large role in driving the market for digital media adapters (DMAs), the devices that allow users to send audiovisual content to their televisions and stereos, according to a new report from ABI Research...
Cisco co-founder launches DWDM start-up
By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems co-founder Len Bosack is launching a new equipment start-up today aimed at bringing optical networking to people who are more comfortable with routers than optics...
Caspian founder launches edge router start-up
By Ed Gubbins
The founder of router vendor Caspian Networks has launched a new company he hopes will apply Caspian’s concepts to a more cost-effective set of products. ...
Alcatel-Lucent cancels Adva orders
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent pulled away from its partnership with Adva Optical Networking in the second quarter, dragging down Adva’s revenue and even canceling some existing orders for Adva’s wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) gear, Adva said today...
Alcatel-Lucent claims two of three Networx teams
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary LGS today touted a partnership with Qwest Communications to bid for government services as part of the multiyear, multibillion-dollar “Networx Universal” program, but the vendor also confirmed today that it is part of a team competing with Qwest for those contracts as well...
Juniper shrinks broadband router
By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks introduced a new smaller version of its E320 broadband services router (BSR) today...
In the Spotlight: John Hawkins, Nortel Networks
By Ed Gubbins
Amid multivendor interoperability demonstrations at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago this month, Nortel Networks announced the formation of what it called a ‘PBT ecosystem’ comprised of vendors working together to publicize Provider Backbone Transport technology, a connection-oriented layer-two-based approach to Ethernet transport. John Hawkins, Nortel’s manager of carrier Ethernet marketing, spoke about Nortel’s PBT plans in advance of the show...
