Sycamore wins KT backbone contract
By Ed Gubbins
Siemens and Sycamore Networks have been selected to supply core optical switching equipment for a nationwide backbone by South Korean carrier KT...
OnFiber launches ‘alternative access’ service
By Ed Gubbins
OnFiber today announced the launch of a new access service that uses fiber to bridge the gap between enterprises and alternative telecom providers such as interexchange carriers and competitive carriers...
Carriers start placing bets on home network technology
By Vince Vittore
Most still keeping options open, but early deployments will focus on coax...
Adding a touch of class to Ethernet
By Ed Gubbins
The day is fast approaching when it will seem odd that Ethernet was ever thought of as lacking class...
Bonding that binds
By Dan O'Shea
Circuit bonding for TDM networks hasn't generated much fanfare yet, but it could help carriers boost their Ethernet efforts and effectively support other applications as they continue to migrate to IP networks...
Alcatel, Amdocs team up for IPTV
By Dan O'Shea
Alcatel and Amdocs, already working together on SBC's Project Lightspeed broadband upgrade, have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop and end-to-end solution supporting deployment of triple-play services, including IPTV, by other broadband service providers...
UBS: Fujitsu likely winner of Verizon ROADM RFP
By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications is the likely winner of a Verizon Communications contract for reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), according to a research note issued this morning by UBS, which estimated the contract to be worth $50 million per year...
Alltel, ADC team to distribute OmniReach
By Dan O'Shea
Alltel Communications Products, a group within Alltel that markets equipment and services, has forged an agreement with ADC to distribute that firm's OmniReach product line as its premium FTTX solution...
Siemens pairs with General Bandwidth
By Ed Gubbins
Siemens Communications is partnering with General Bandwidth, increasing its investment in the six-year-old equipment vendor and reselling its G6 media gateway...
Converged access is where the action is in telecom
By Rob Munoz
The convergence of communications and computer access technologies is emerging as a growing market force sweeping across each of the two industries. This convergence is happening on a large scale within wireline and wireless access infrastructure equipment...
IOCs go IP with Occam
By Carol Wilson
Occam Networks today announced three new customers for its Internet protocol-based broadband loop carrier system...
Netopia lines up access options
By Vince Vittore
Netopia yesterday announced it has adopted Analog Devices’ Fusiv network processor and new ADSL2+ bonding reference platform as the foundation for Netopia’s MiAVo (Media in Audio/Video out) bonded ADSL2+ gateways...
Lafayette voters overwhelmingly OK fiber network
By Carol Wilson
Residents of Lafayette, La., turned out Saturday in relatively high numbers to approve building a city-owned fiber-to-the-home network by almost a two-thirds majority...
Navigating the communications convergence
By Rahul Sachdev
This article describes the trend toward convergence and explores obstacles to success in a converged world. It also examines how a common customer relationship management (CRM) layer across application silos empowers telcos to succeed in the new world of convergence...
Pannaway to beef up voice offering
By Vince Vittore
Pannaway plans to announce toward the end of this month a series of enhancements to its BAS access platform that will target incumbent carriers wanting to make the transition to voice over IP. ...
IBM joins BPL community
In less than one week, broadband over power line technology has gained two new champions. Last week, Google joined other investors in pouring a projected $100 million into BPL pioneer Current Communications, and this week, IBM announced it is teaming up with CenterPoint Energy, a Texas power company, to create a center in Houston to test BPL and to conduct a pilot field trial of 220 homes...
Sprint completes loop on Cisco relation
By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems and Sprint announced today they have taken their relationship to a new level with the carrier becoming the first service provider to achieve the Cisco IP VPN Multiservice QoS Certified status...
Blackfoot makes the big shift
By Carol Wilson
Recognizing that its traditional funding mechanisms were disappearing, the Montana independent telco made an aggressive push into IP...
The great copper beyond
By Vince Vittore
Two emerging technologies will give independents a weapon for competing against the latest and greatest cable modem offerings...
Rural America stands alone
By Tim McElligott
Shifting from a circuit-switched architecture to one with the innovative promise of the packet is good business for independent operators, but is it also a recipe for disaster?...
Ovum-RHK: Cogent has the most U.S. Ethernet ports
By Ed Gubbins
Cogent Communications has more Ethernet ports in service throughout the United States than any other service provider, according to research and analysis firm Ovum-RHK...
Sprint to test broadband wireless with Motorola
By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today said it will work with Motorola to develop, test and eventual trial broadband wireless equipment over the 2.5 GHz spectrum and collaborate with the vendor on developing and validating future mobile WiMAX solutions...
WCA: Broadsoft tests interop with SOMA, adds WISPs
By Dan O'Shea
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Broadband wireless equipment vendor SOMA Networks said at the WCA 2005 conference here that it has completed VoIP interoperability testing with Broadsoft, one of the leading VoIP applications software firms...
Interoute dips into digital distribution
By Vince Vittore
European network operator Interoute today announced the launch of the latest version of its Share service, which allows digital audio content owners to distribute files in a secure environment. ...
