OIF aims to ease optical provisioning
By Ed Gubbins
The Optical Interworking Forum will introduce later this year an implementation agreement, or IA, to help carriers automate optical network provisioning...
Testing the limits of the customer premises
By Tim McElligott
The slow but increasingly steady growth of fiber-to-the-home deployments has test equipment manufacturers believeing a prosperous future is well in hand...
In the Spotlight: Nortel’s Philippe Morin
By Ed Gubbins
Philippe Morin, the former president of Nortel Networks’ optical business, was named the head of its newly created Metro Ethernet group yesterday. He spoke to Telephony’s Ed Gubbins later that day...
Ciena intros mini-MSTP
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is introducing a half-size version of the 4200 multiservice transport platform (MSTP) it unveiled a year ago...
Jersey to be Alcatel/Lucent’s R&D HQ
By Ed Gubbins
Though the combination of Lucent Technologies and Alcatel will be headquartered in Paris, its global research and development center will be housed in Lucent’s current offices in New Jersey with the operations of Bell Laboratories...
Siemens lands Toronto Wi-Fi network
By Carol Wilson
Siemens Communications is making its entry into the North American municipal wireless market, announcing today that it has landed Toronto Hydro Telecom, as a customer...
Re-running the NPVR concept
By Dan O'Shea and Vince Vittore
Network-based personal video recording is getting more sophisticated, but licensing is still an issue...
Zhone adds EFM copper bonding to BLC
By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies announced new line cards for its flagship broadband loop carrier (BLC) platform today that deliver Ethernet services over bonded copper loops....
Verizon targets media industry
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced its intention to provide IT services to the U.S. entertainment and broadcast industries by unveiling a version of its digital media platform that supports National Television System Committee signal used in North America, Central America and Japan. ...
Cable: Telcos no threat
By Carol Wilson
Cable executives don't fear competition from the telcos, but they are worried that Wall Street is too concerned about the potential loss of video revenues...
At ECI, Chiaro technology in limbo
By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom has declined to comment on the ultimate fate of the technology created by its former partner, defunct core router vendor Chiaro Networks...
MoCA finishes first cert wave
By Vince Vittore
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance announced that it has finished its first wave of interoperability certification...
New ECI minishelves take broadband outside
By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom unveiled a set of broadband products today for the outside plant, the smallest of which is now available in North America...
Fifth GPON vendor gets on Bell ‘short list’
By Ed Gubbins
A month ago, UBS Investment Research maintained that AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon Communications had narrowed the GPON equipment search to four equipment vendors. Since then, at least two analysts have claimed that a fifth vendor, Entrisphere, is also on that list...
Entrisphere steps into GPON market
By Vince Vittore
Entrisphere this week will unveil its entry in the Gigabit passive optical network market with a platform targeted directly at the North American market...
Adtran, Alcatel go down-market
By Vince Vittore
This week's TelecomNext show will feature plenty of talk about the ongoing tri-company request for proposals for Gigabit passive optical network access networks...
Analyst: Adtran getting into FTTP
By Ed Gubbins
Adtran will soon enter the residential fiber access market with a new platform called the Total Access 5000, according to a note issued this week from Morgan Keegan analyst Simon Leopold...
VON: Global Crossing expands IP service portfolio
By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Global Crossing has joined forces with iPass to add wireless remote access to its Global Remote Connectivity service...
Comtrend brings multimode DSL into the home
By Vince Vittore
Comtrend today announced it has developed what could be the first multimode DSL wireless router designed for use in the residential market...
Redback thinks small
By Vince Vittore
Redback Networks today announced the extension of its SmartEdge Service Gateway family with a new platform aimed specifically at the residential broadband market....
CeBIT: ECI previews OTN gear
By Ed Gubbins
HANOVER, Germany--ECI Telecom offered a preview this week of product enhancements that will come to North America later this year. Exhibiting at the CeBIT trade show in Germany and absent from the Optical Fiber Communications/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference in Anaheim, Calif., the Israeli optical equipment vendor announced new versions of its SDH products that it will apply to its Sonet gear toward the end of this year....
DT, Infineon announce VDSL2 deployment.
Deutsche Telekom is deploying a standards-compliant VDSL2 solution in 10 cities in Germany, offering video over 50 Megabit per second downstream/10 Mb/s upstream networks, according to Infineon Technologies, which provided its VDSL VINAX chip-set...
General Bandwidth expands, contracts, moves north
By Vince Vittore
General Bandwidth this week announced a new name, a new headquarters and a new expansion in product set. Other than that, there's nothing new....
Calix extends reach toward home
By Vince Vittore
Calix announced today that it is extending the reach of its product line to include an access node....
Cox goes all-Juniper, all-the-time
By Carol Wilson
Defying conventional wisdom, Cox Communications is putting all of its router eggs in the Juniper Networks basket...
