Adva takes aim at ‘God boxes’
By Ed Gubbins
At the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last week, Adva Optical Networking’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Protiva vowed to be nimbler and more cost-competitive than rival vendors with versatile multiservice transport platforms (MSTPs) aimed at metro networks...
In the Spotlight: Jeff Weber, AT&T
By Ed Gubbins
At a panel discussion on the future of video services at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last Tuesday, Jeff Weber, AT&T’s vice president of video products, fielded questions on a variety of IPTV topics, bringing his own experience to bear as a telco video veteran...
Verizon links with Softbank
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business said today it has entered into a strategic alliance with SoftBank Telecom to share networks and services for multinational customers doing business in Japan...
Industry connects on interconnection
NEW YORK—The 2007 cbx, or Customer Business Exchange, Hosted by the interconnection facility operator telx, brought together more than a thousand people and hundreds of communications and content companies in New York City’s financial district last week, all of them focused on how interconnection with one another fits into their strategies....
Vendor: U.S. not ready yet for indoor ONTs
By Ed Gubbins
TXP introduced a new optical network terminal (ONT) architecture today aimed at easing some of the power-related challenges of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) installation. But the Texas-based vendor isn’t selling the product in the U.S. anytime soon due to a lack of demand here for indoor ONTs...
Infinera goes 40 Gb/s, looks beyond 100 Gb/s
By Ed Gubbins
Optical switch vendor Infinera announced new products and customer wins in advance of the NXTComm trade show next week and hinted at future products with significant increases in capacity...
Wave 7 adds GPON to access platform
By Carol Wilson
Access equipment maker Wave 7 Optics today said it has added gigabit passive optical network capabilities to its Trident7 Universal Access Platform...
Zhone aims for smarter GPON
By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies today unveiled the gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) system it has been promising since the beginning of the year...
Juniper unveils new core router
By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks revealed its newest core router today after months of industry speculation...
MegaPath adds Juniper to SSL offering
By Carol Wilson
Managed services provider MegaPath today announced it is extending its suite of security services to include Juniper’s Secure Access SSL VPN product family for Secure Socket Layer-based remote access...
Redback targets ‘megabit mobility’
By Ed Gubbins
Redback Networks introduced a new multiservice edge (MSE) router today with more capacity and functionality than its previous gear...
Fujitsu enters packet optical game
by Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications unveiled a new packet optical networking platform this week that combines Sonet and Ethernet switching with WDM....
Covad lives up to ADSL2+ promise
By Carol Wilson
As promised last year, Covad Communications is now offering ADSL2+ to small businesses in 11 metropolitan markets, featuring data service at speeds up to 15 Mb/s downstream...
Asian broadband dominance grows
By Ed Gubbins
The influence of Asian markets on the broadband sector loomed ever larger in the first quarter, according to new data from Dittberner Associates. Trends in DSL and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment and subscribers were led by Asian carriers and vendors...
Analyst: Nortel mulling Juniper partnership
By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks may be evaluating a potential partnership with Juniper Networks, according to one Wall Street analyst...
Cisco CRS-1 becomes billion-dollar business
By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems reported nearly $250 million in orders for its CRS-1 core router in the third fiscal quarter, implying a billion-dollar annual run rate for the three-year-old product...
IDC: PBT 'wildly over-hyped'
By Ed Gubbins
Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technology has been “wildly over-hyped” as a way to reduce carrier capital and operating expenditures, IDC analyst Eve Griliches said in a new report published today...
In the Spotlight: Adva CTO Christoph Glingener
By Ed Gubbins
In January, equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking named Christoph Glingener to the newly created post of chief technology officer. The former head of Siemens’ dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) group...
Zhone unveils optical transport gear
By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies unveiled today the new optical transport platform it had promised to introduce in recent months...
Ikanos gets into FTTH
By Ed Gubbins
Ikanos Communications, one of the world’s top suppliers of VDSL chips, entered the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) market this week with the introduction of a new residential gateway...
Updated: Motorola to sell ECI gear
By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom has partnered with Motorola to penetrate the North American market, the companies announced today...
Verizon Business adopts new customer service model
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business has launched an ambitious plan to change the way it handles customer service, and is exploring other options as well to bring capabilities such as fixed-mobile convergence to its customers as a network service...
In the Spotlight: Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon Business
By Ed Gubbins
Last month, as director of network technology development for Verizon Business, Glenn Wellbrock announced the company’s first commercial 40 Gb/s deployments, saying it was necessary to relieve capacity constraints in some places but that the cost benefits aren’t there. He recently spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about deploying 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s networks, integrating optical and IP networks and breaking down the wall between routing guys and transport guys...
WDM-PON faces upstream battle
By Ed Gubbins
As Verizon begins deploying Gigabit passive optical networks this quarter, industry talk is increasing about a potential next step for WDM-PONs...
Acquisition puts Sonus on edge
By Tim McElligott
Two of Sonus Networks' strategic imperatives the last year or so have been to expand its wireless solutions and extend its focus from the network core out to the network edge...
