TelcoTV: Content developer acquisitions unlikely
By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--Content company executives for the most part don’t believe in the possibility that telcos could acquire or invest in studios and other content developer to help them create exclusive content for their IPTV efforts...
Pseudowire key to new cellular backhaul options
By Joan Engebretson
A technology originally aimed at carrying different types of data traffic across an IP backbone has found a new application that’s not in the backbone. The technology, pseudowire, is now being deployed in Ethernet-based access networks to support a need we’ve been hearing a lot about lately—cellular backhaul...
In the Spotlight: Matt Desch, Iridium Satellite
By Jason Meyers
Matt Desch--former CEO of Telcordia, 13-year veteran of Nortel’s executive ranks and a long-time fixture in the mobile and broadband worlds--was recently named CEO of Iridium Satellite. Telephony’s Jason Meyers talked to Desch about Iridium’s legacy, the capabilities of its network and what the future holds...
In the spotlight: John Grady, Nextlink Wireless
By Carol Wilson
Nextlink Wireless is a sister company to XO Communications, focusing on last-mile broadband wireless access using LMDS spectrum licenses in the top 75 U.S. markets. As a carrier’s carrier, Nextlink sells to both wireless and wireline operators as well as large entities such as the federal government. John Grady, director of marketing for Nextlink, spoke to Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about the role his firm can play in business continuity planning...
Horizon Chillicothe chooses Tandberg
By Dan O'Shea
Ohio-based carrier Horizon Chillicothe Telephone this week said it is deploying Tandberg Television’s iPlex video head-end for an expansion of the channel line-up for its pioneering TV over VDSL ATM network...
iPass beefs up remote access portfolio
By Kevin Fitchard
iPass today said it has completed the integration of its recently acquired broadband arm, GoRemote, into its network of secure remote access solutions for enterprise, giving it connectivity options ranging from home Wi-Fi to wide area 3G access...
AT&T’s FTTP, FTTN mix in question
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T’s mix of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) and fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) has become the subject of increasing scrutiny among industry analysts of late. One analyst maintains the company isn’t doing as much FTTP as it promised. Another predicts the company will soon do more FTTP than previously indicated...
Report: Adtran wins AT&T’s wireless backhaul business
By Ed Gubbins
Adtran may have turned an anchor into a sail, winning a multimillion-dollar deal to supply AT&T with optical products that dragged down the vendor’s revenue expectations earlier this year...
Comptel: TI unveils residential gateway products
By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Texas Instruments this morning announced five new solutions for manufacturers of residential gateways, based on its UR8 processor architecture. The new xDSL chips are aimed at enabling maximum flexibility and functionality in the design of residential gateway products...
Comptel: Actelis boosts CLEC standing
By Carol Wilson
Ethernet-over-copper provider Actelis Networks has announced that CLEC Broadview Networks is deploying its products to provide Metro Ethernet service...
Comptel: Rooftop collocation may be next
By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--If broadband wireless technology proves more successful in this generation than in earlier versions, the next great frontier for collocation could be building rooftops...
Alcatel’s Ethernet switch grows, its router shrinks
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel today unveiled a larger version of its Ethernet aggregation switch and a smaller version of its services router today...
FTTH Con: Fiber show crowd looks east
By Ed Gubbins
The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Conference in Las Vegas this week has had a decidedly Asian bent to it, as attendees are taking notes from some of the world’s leading fiber authorities...
FTTH Con: Emerson enters FTTP OSP market
By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--Emerson Network Power entered the market for fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) outside plant products this week...
Calient brings MEMS to fiber access
By Ed Gubbins
Calient Networks is starting a new chapter as it brings its core optical network technology to access networks...
Vendors push Ethernet OAM as standards mature
To help carriers offer stringent quality of service and strict service level agreements for Ethernet service, equipment vendors are increasingly bringing to market equipment with Ethernet operations...
Ikanos’ ADI buy yields VDSL2 gateway
By Ed Gubbins
Chip vendor Ikanos Communications today unveiled a VDSL2 residential gateway reference platform using the network processor it acquired from Analog Devices (ADI) in January...
Aztek reboots with E911 gateway
By Ed Gubbins
Aztek Engineering got a new name, new funding and a new chief executive officer this week as it embarked on a new business of selling remote gateways for emergency services...
Rural providers keeping pace with DSL
By Tim McElligott
The National Exchange Carrier Association today issued a progress report on rural telephone companies’ broadband deployment efforts and said that despite operating in low-density, higher-cost markets, they match the penetration rates of non-rural carriers...
VON: BellSouth plans major VDSL2 upgrade
By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--BellSouth will upgrade many of the shorter loops in its fiber-to-the-curb network to VDSL2 over the next two years, delivering about 80 Mb/s to the home, according to a report this week from Investor’s Business Daily...
VON: Covergence downsizes IP security gear
By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--Covergence introduced a smaller version of its IP edge security appliance today...
Siemens unveils “multi-haul” optical gear
By Ed Gubbins
Siemens introduced a new optical transport platform today that brings some of the vendor’s long-haul technology to regional and metro networks....
Lucent sells Novera’s WDM-PON in Japan
By Ed Gubbins
Lucent Technologies has struck a partnership with Novera Optics this week wherein Lucent’s services arm will sell, integrate and support Novera’s wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical networking (WDM-PON) gear in Japan...
Cisco shrinks CRS-1, wins Sprint
By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems introduced a smaller version of its giant CRS-1 core router today while announcing Sprint as a customer of the platform...
Sales of Ciena's MSTP 'going crazy' overseas
By Ed Gubbins
In what one analyst called a "lovely quarter," Ciena reported $152.5 million in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, beating analysts' average expectations by nearly 7%. Revenue was 16% higher than in the higher than a year earlier. ...
