Worldwide Packets gets into aggregation
By Ed Gubbins
After seven years in access networks, Worldwide Packets is moving upstream...
A Telephony Podcast: Inter-Carrier Ethernet
The Metro Ethernet Forum is at work on an external network-to-network interface (E-NNI) that would address issues created by inter-carrier Ethernet connections. Telephony’s Jason Meyers and Ed Gubbins discuss the challenges being confronted by the MEF and the rest of the carrier Ethernet community....
Zhone planning new WDM transport gear
By Ed Gubbins
Late in this year’s first quarter or early in the second, Zhone Technologies plans to introduce new optical transport gear based on its next-generation Single Line Multiservice (SLMS) architecture...
Ellacoya beefs up deep packet inspection
By Carol Wilson
Ellacoya is taking the next step in its product evolution, today announcing the e100, a scalable box that can support line-rate deep-packet inspection at rates up to 20 Gigabits per second, supporting up to 500,000 active subscribers and doing content inspection at 10 Gbps wire speeds...
Ciena confirms ZTE partnership
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena has been in a quiet partnership with Chinese equipment vendor ZTE since September 2005, the company has confirmed...
Sky's no limit for mobile backhaul
By Dan O'Shea
With every announcement of a multimedia-friendly mobile device like the iPhone, the broadband pipes of wireless networks fill with more promise that 2007...
AT&T puts its bet on bonded VDSL2
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T gets asked a lot about whether its fiber-to-the-node, or FTTN, architecture brings enough bandwidth to the home to meet future demands for, say,...
Cisco wants architecture partner role
By Ed Gubbins
Armed with an increasingly comprehensive product portfolio, Cisco Systems is hoping to forge much closer relationships with service providers, becoming...
Spirent assures triple play for Canadian carrier
By Dan O'Shea
Spirent Communications has landed a contract to support Canadian carrier Telus with with service assurance solutions to support quality of experience for the carrier’s triple-play customers...
So long, Sonet
By Carol Wilson
This could well be the last year of significant sales of Sonet and SDH transport gear, according to industry analysts and vendors...
Ciena aims to diversify with cable clients
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena has sold its CoreDirector optical switch to cable operator Cox Communications, part of the vendor’s effort to penetrate the cable space and thus diversify its customer base...
Nortel boasts of PBT validation
By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks boasted today about having been selected, along with Siemens, to supply carrier Ethernet gear for British Telecom’s 21st Century Network initiative. In particular, Nortel claimed the win was a “major vote of confidence” from a top-tier carrier for Nortel’s chosen metro technology, Provider Backbone Transport...
Carrier Ethernet beginning to dominate
By Carol Wilson
Metro Ethernet and cellular backhaul are hot investment areas for service providers, as they continue to converge their data services onto Internet Protocol backbones, according to the latest report from Infonetics, “Service Provider Plans for IP/MPLS: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific.”...
Zhone GPON, pseudowire gear coming
By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is planning to introduce new products in the next few months related to gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) and pseudowires, chief executive officer Mory Ejabat said at an investor conference this week...
In the Spotlight: Joav Avtalion, Oversi
By Ed Gubbins
Oversi closed a $6-million funding round this month that brought the two-year-old Israel-based company’s total funding to $7.4 million. Oversi makes content delivery and storage systems meant to accommodate video content in an age of increasing peer-to-peer traffic. Oversi’s chairman and chief executive officer Joav Avtalion (also the former interim CEO of Pillar Data, Larry Ellison’s storage firm) spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about the company’s emergence from stealth mode and its plans for content delivery networks...
US LEC takes MPLS VPNs nationwide
By Ed Gubbins
US LEC has extended its multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) virtual private network (VPN) service nationwide...
Verizon, Asian carriers team on trans-Pacific link
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business announced this morning that it is partnering with a consortium of Asian service providers to build a multi-terabit optical submarine cable system directly linking the U.S. mainland and China. Construction of the Trans-Pacific Express is expected to start in the first quarter of next year, with completion scheduled for the third quarter of 2008...
Juniper routes 40-Gb/s over 10-Gb/s cores
By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks has introduced a new physical interface card for its T-series core routers meant to satisfy demand for 40-Gb/s backbones among carriers with 10-Gb/s networks...
ITU: RAD unveils new Ethernet strategy
By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--RAD Data Communications this week unveiled a new Ethernet access strategy that supports multiple forms of access networks and provides the ability to remotely troubleshoot service quality using an intelligent demarcation capability...
Juniper’s IPTV plans advance
By Ed Gubbins
A new software release on Juniper Networks’ SDX-300 Service Deployment System this week is helping fulfill the vendor’s architectural vision for triple-play networks, one that promises more efficient use of networks...
Enterprises embrace 10-Gb/s Ethernet
By Ed Gubbins
The number of large and medium-sized enterprises using 10-Gb/s Ethernet for their core networks could grow by a third next year, according to a recent study by InfoPro...
In the Spotlight: Sam Mathan, Matisse Networks
By Ed Gubbins
Just before Thanksgiving, Matisse’s chief executive officer Sam Mathan told Telephony’s Ed Gubbins where Matisse is headed next....
Alcatel bulks up its multiservice crossconnect
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel has boosted the capacity of its multiservice crossconnect, the vendor announced today...
Tellabs CEO: BPON to dominate GPON in 2007
By Ed Gubbins
Though Verizon Communications has pledged to start deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear this year, most of the PON equipment it deploys next year will probably be lower speed broadband PON (BPON), according to Krish Prabhu, chief executive officer of Tellabs, Verizon’s primary BPON supplier...
Tut irons out MPEG-4 set-top wrinkles
By Ed Gubbins
Tut Systems is working through the kinks that stalled the availability of its MPEG-4 set-top boxes for high-definition television (HDTV). Though the vendor was unable to fulfill orders for those set-tops in the second quarter due to problems with middleware and conditional access functions, those problems are now being resolved, according to multiple sources...
