Carriers decry 40 Gb/s prices
By Ed Gubbins
Capacity constraints might be pushing some carriers to upgrade their 10 Gb/s networks, but some of them are also warning equipment vendors that if 40 Gb/s gear is too expensive, it will be eclipsed by 100 Gb/s gear before long...
Hammerhead offers PBT/MPLS gateway
By Ed Gubbins
Edge networking vendor Hammerhead Systems today introduced a software-based solution for interworking provider backbone transport (PBT) technology with its sometimes rival, multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS)...
Freescale, Alcatel unveil GPON SoC
By Ed Gubbins
Freescale Semiconductor announced the introduction of its system-on-a-chip (SoC) for gigabit passive optical networks (GPON) today...
In the Spotlight: Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner
By Ed Gubbins
At the Optical Fiber Communications conference this week, Verizon Communications named the first two locations it will commercially deploy gigabit passive optical networks (GPON)--a higher-speed version of its current fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology. Mark Wegleitner, the carrier’s chief technology officer and senior vice president of technology and network planning, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about Verizon’s future migrations to GPON, IPTV and in-home customer premises devices...
OFC: Level 3 mulls leapfrogging 40 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--Executives at Level 3 Communications often ponder the migration beyond 10 Gb/s links in its network, but they’re not sure if 40 Gb/s or 100 Gb/s is the best next step, according to Robert Feuerstein, Level 3 senior architect...
OFC: KT heralds world of connected devices
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--Telecom service providers must move beyond the business of connecting people to pursue the business of connecting devices as a means to offer more sophisticated services, a Korean Telecom executive told listeners at the Optical Fiber Communications conference Wednesday...
Bell Labs creates optical filter chip
By Ed Gubbins
Bell Labs is furthering its reputation for innovation, claiming a major step toward silicon photonics. Now as Alcatel-Lucent employees, Bell Labs researchers...
Juniper adds policy control hardware
By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks introduced a new series of session and resource control (SRC) products today, adding its own hardware to a policy control solution that previously worked with a range of other gear. The result gives carriers tighter end-to-end control of application performance, the vendor said...
Tellabs may have won Qwest ROADM deal
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs may have won a deal to supply Qwest Communications with reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), according to one Wall Street analyst...
Updated: AT&T announces global expansion
By Carol Wilson
AT&T today is detailing plans to spend $750 million on improving its global IP backbone to enable the company to “enhance and expand its portfolio of retail and wholesale” services...
Arbor beefs up service provider security
By Dan O'Shea
Arbor Networks has introduced security enhancements for service provider networks through the new version 3.6 of its Peakflow SP platform...
Ikanos offers truckless loop diagnosis
By Ed Gubbins
Ikanos Communications today introduced new software designed to allow carriers to qualify and diagnose local access loops for broadband without dispatching a technician to the customer premises...
Foundry adds packet-over-Sonet cards
By Ed Gubbins
Foundry Networks introduced packet-over-Sonet (POS) interfaces for its core and metro routers today...
Tellabs brings fiber to AT&T’s table
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs, the chief supplier of fiber access gear to Verizon Communications and the former BellSouth, has been having more intimate discussions with AT&T following its merger with BellSouth, according to the vendor’s chief financial officer, Tim Wiggins...
Comptel: XO launches national bandwidth services
By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--XO Communications is capitalizing on its recently completed national fiber optic backbone to offer high-capacity services to enterprises and other carriers with built-in guarantees on price and installation, along with a 90-day risk-free trial offer...
Actelis debuts Ethernet switch
By Carol Wilson
Actelis Networks is charting a path of steady growth in the Carrier Ethernet space, announcing today that it is introducing a new switch, has signed a new customer and is bringing an industry veteran on board to expand operations...
Ciena unveils Ethernet-over-copper gear
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena announced new carrier Ethernet equipment today, publicly acknowledging for the first time an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Anda Networks reported by Telephony last month...
Calix, Nortel partnership wanes
By Ed Gubbins
Broadband access equipment vendor Calix today announced a joint marketing agreement with Nortel Networks that will supplant the three-year reseller agreement between the two that was due to expire this year...
Edge network market thins out
By Ed Gubbins
In the fast-growing edge router market, the field of equipment choices is narrowing as intense competition, amid a rush of investment, weeds out marginal...
Alcatel-Lucent gets a chokehold on optical
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent last year became the first company to claim more than 20% of the optical networking market, thanks mostly to the Alcatel side of the house, according to data released this week by Ovum-RHK...
In the spotlight: Charter’s Ted Schremp
Charter Communications today announced that it has signed up its 500,000th telephone customer, with seven out of 10 of those customers taking the company’s triple play bundle...
3GSM: Ericsson to start LTE interoperability work
By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--Ericsson said it will begin interoperability testing with other vendors on its Long Term Evolution radio technology next quarter and plans to have equipment deployed with its first carrier customer by the first quarter of 2009...
Analysts predict an AT&T switch
By Carol Wilson
Pike & Fischer has added its voice to chorus of those predicting AT&T will have to alter its strategy and invest in deploying fiber-to-the-home in order to compete with cable operators in the video business...
Amedia’s GPON gateway to take ONTs inside
By Ed Gubbins
Amedia Networks today unveiled plans for a new gigabit passive optical network (GPON) home gateway designed to replace both broadband home routers and the optical network terminals (ONTs) that typically sit outside the home in PONs...
A new MPLS debate heats up
By Ed Gubbins
Increasing interest in provider backbone transport, or PBT, technology as a simpler, cheaper alternative to multiprotocol label switching, or MPLS, has...
