Cox uses Juniper routers for backbone upgrade
By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications will use Juniper Networks T-series core routing platform to upgrade its national backbone network, the two companies announced today...
UBS: Four GPON vendors make Bell ‘short list’
By Ed Gubbins
According to a research note issued today by UBS Investment Research, the number of equipment vendors still competing to supply Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear to Verizon Communications has been narrowed to four...
Extreme unveils upscale carrier Ethernet gear
By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks announced a new carrier Ethernet platform today, promising dramatic increases in the scale of Layer 2 networks and quality-of-service capabilities designed to serve a variety of applications, from residential to business users...
Fujitsu turns up GPON PR machine
By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications announced a “hybrid” approach to the Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) market this week, the latest in a string of publicity efforts the vendor has made since declaring its entry into the GPON space earlier this month...
Cisco inches Ethernet closer to access
By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems today announced a new Ethernet switch and multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) as part of an effort to expand some of its metro product lines into the access market...
BATM CEO: PON is wrong route
By Vince Vittore
Declaring that the passive optical network (PON) has too many limitations, Zvi Marcom, CEO of BATM, the parent company of Telco Systems, said carriers are making a mistake by not implementing active Ethernet architectures...
ntl jumps century mark
By Vince Vittore
Ntl, the UK’s largest cable operator, said it will begin field trials that will let it offer broadband data service at speeds up to 100 Megabits per second. The trials will begin in March after successful completion of lab tests. ...
WEB EXTRA: Andy Malis, Tellabs
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs Chief Technologist Andy Malis is something of a standards guru. He can say “single-segment pseudowire signaling” very quickly, as he did when he spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins recently. Read this Web Extra here...
Rita sweeps Delcambre Tel into IP Age
By Vince Vittore
Flood wipes out circuit switch forcing a quick change...
Past hurricanes teach Florida carriers a lesson
By Dan O'Shea
There were very few people along the Gulf Coast and Florida who came away from last year's biggest hurricanes unscathed, but solid preparation kept the damage at a minimum...
Dossier: Adam Cavazos, Dobson Telephone
We bring [both ILEC networks] through OC-192s and OC-48s to a host switch, the DMS-100 here in Oklahoma City...
Perfecting the Ethernet handoff
By Ed Gubbins
Standards groups are working to vault one of the final barriers to Ethernet ubiquity: dynamic, scalable inter-carrier Ethernet...
PON on a party line
By Dan O'Shea
Dhaka, Bangladesh, has no Comcast nor Time Warner, nor a cable TV giant dominating the country's largest city...
Is mesh for cable players?
By Dan O'Shea
Last October, Wi-Fi mesh vendor BelAir Networks announced that its radios would support the Cable Labs DOCSIS 2.0 standard, and also said Comcast Interactive Capital was investing in the company...
Entone, Verimatrix team up on secured VOD
By Vince Vittore
Video-on-demand platform vendor Entone Technologies and security provider Verimatrix today announced they have integrated their two products to create a secured VOD platform...
Salira deploys GE-PON for Bangladesh integrator
By Dan O'Shea
Salira Systems, a vendor of Gigabit Ethernet passive optical networking equipment, announced it has built a standards-based GE-PON architecture in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, for systems integrator Sirius Broadband...
Allied Telesyn kick starts GEPON effort
By Vince Vittore
Allied Telesyn today said it has deployed the world’s first Gigabit Ethernet PON in a commercial network, activating its integrated Multiservice Access Platform (iMAP) platform with Kansas independent telco Twin Valley Telephone. ...
Accton, Sandburst team up on metro access
By Vince Vittore
Accton Technology today announced it has developed a metro access switch using Sandburst’s HiBeam chipset...
Objects in the mirror are closer than they seem
By Steven Hawley
Broadband carriers around the world have embraced the delivery of TV and associated interactive services over switched digital video-capable networks using Internet Protocol--that’s the definition of IPTV that our industry has come to accept. But as 2006 opens, it’s time to reconsider this definition...
NEC America back in GPON hunt
By Ed Gubbins
After abandoning the passive optical networking (PON) market three years ago, NEC America has thrown its hat into the ring of equipment vendors selling Gigabit PON (GPON) gear....
Ikanos goes up the VDSL stack with ADI acquisition
By Vince Vittore
Ikanos Communications, which perhaps has been best known as a VDSL chip vendor, today announced the acquisition of the network processor product line of Analog Devices Inc. for $30 million in cash...
Fujitsu adds RPR, density to 4500 MSPP
By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications this week announced a few enhancements to its flagship product, the Flashwave 4500, including the introduction of resilient packet ring technology and a boost in density...
Overture partners with ADC
By Ed Gubbins
ADC and Overture Networks announced an original equipment manufacturer agreement today wherein ADC will immediately begin selling Overture’s ISG family of Ethernet access and transport gear worldwide, branded as the Loopstar 700 line...
Consolidated goes set-topless
By Vince Vittore
Consolidated Communications said today that it will use Entone Technologies Hydra IP video gateway to support its rollout of IPTV services. ...
