Savvis buy moves Level 3 into content delivery
By: By Dan O'Shea
With five days left in 2006, Level 3 seemed to cap a busy year of acquiring companies with one final deal--a $135 million bid to buy Savvis' content distribution network assets, announced this morning...
Juniper bids 2006 good riddance
By: By Ed Gubbins
As 2007 arrives, one company that probably welcomes the calendar change more than most is Juniper Networks, for whom next year promises to be better than this one....
Video star breaks out on blip.tv
By: By Carol Wilson
Internet video host blip.tv today is trumpeting one of its first break-out stars. Video blogger Amanda Congdon today is launching a new Web-based TV show with major national sponsors, Dove Cream Oil Bodywash and Paltalk. ...
FCC video rules likely will be challenged
By: By Carol Wilson
The Federal Communications Commission’s new rules for local video franchises are likely to be challenged on two fronts: in the courts by the cable industry and in Congress by the new Democratic leadership....
Motorola acquires Tut Systems
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola has agreed to acquire video systems vendor Tut Systems for $39 million in cash, or $1.15 per share. The move is only the latest acquisition meant to bolster Motorola’s growing presence in the residential video market. ...
Ericsson, Redback CEOs exchange vows
By: By Ed Gubbins
In a press conference this morning, Redback Networks Chief Executive Officer Kevin DeNuccio described the proposed acquisition of his company by Swedish wireless giant Ericsson as a marriage of the two most important technologies of future networks: Internet protocol and mobile networks...
VeriSign launches content delivery platform
By: By Carol Wilson
VeriSign today announced a major new product initiative and its first customer for that new product...
McDowell won’t vote on merger
By: By Carol Wilson
Approval of the AT&T-BellSouth merger is once again up in the air, as Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell announced today that he will not vote to break the current 2-2 deadlock...
FCC facing hot week
By: By Carol Wilson
Normally, the Washington power structure winds down around holiday time, but the Federal Communications Commission is winding up the year with two hot issues--the AT&T-BellSouth merger and federal video franchise rules--on the table...
Verizon, Asian carriers team on trans-Pacific link
By: 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...
IP Unity, Glenayre messaging to combine
By: By Carol Wilson
In a move designed to capitalize on fixed/mobile convergence and increased scale, IP Unity has acquired the Glenayre Messaging division of Glenayre Technologies...
A Telephony Podcast: AT&T/BellSouth Merger Concerns
The still-pending merger between the two carriers is creating financial issues and worries about the future for their technology vendors. Telephony Senior Writer Ed Gubbins analyzes the situation...
Eagle: Connex buy aids IPTV strategy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband hopes its acquisition of Connex Services, announced yesterday, will aid its burgeoning IPTV business, a company executive said....
AT&T tests ad-sponsored directory assistance
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is testing an ad-supported directory assistance service that gives callers free access to the phone numbers of specific businesses or listings by type of business, the company said today...
Eagle Broadband grows IT business via acquisition
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband last week agreed to acquire the corporate information technology (IT) customers of Houston-based Connex Services, the company announced today...
JacobsRimell gets busy in Norway across Europe
By: By Tim McElligott
While some vendors were demonstrating technology advances through Catalyst projects or providing case studies through sessions at TeleManagement World last week in Dallas, JacobsRimell demonstrated the acceptance of its standards-based fulfillment solutions with deployments at UPC Broadband and Norway’s Get...
Cisco adds $2B in financing to emerging markets
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems’ financing arm, Cisco Capital, is dedicating $2 billion per year in short-term inventory financing capacity for its channel partners in emerging countries....
‘Merger wars’ heat up Washington
By: By Carol Wilson
The political process surrounding the pending merger of AT&T and BellSouth continues to get more complicated. On Friday, Sam Feder, general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission...
Redback wins triple-play deal
By: By Carol Wilson
A new European joint venture, led by French broadband carrier Completel and electronics retailer Darty, is rolling out Triple Play services in 15 European countries, using Redback Networks’ multi-service edge routers, the company announced this week....
ITU: AT&T makes ITU ‘premiere’with disaster recovery focus
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--This year’s ITU Telecom World 2006 not only marks the global show’s first appearance outside Geneva, Switzerland, but also AT&T’s first appearance as an exhibitor...
ITU: Hitachi blends telecom, consumer electronics expertise
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--It wasn’t by accident that visitors to Hitachi’s booth at ITU Telecom World 2006 were awed by the display of a 60-inch plasma video display, featuring high-definition service...
ITU: BT launches consulting businesss
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--BT used ITU Telecom World 2006 to announce the launch of a new business unit, 21C Global Venture, that will market its next-generation network expertise to service provider customers around the globe...
ITU Reporter’s Notebook: Dec. 4, 2006
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--The first ITU Telecom World show to be held outside Geneva, Switzerland, is a decidedly Asian affair but retains many of the characteristics of its predecessors...
ITU: Telecom technology attempts to aid economic development
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--The Chinese government promised cooperation with potential investors, a European regulator promised to keep hands off industry standards and Cisco Systems’ chairman promised more innovation--all in the name of enabling telecom technology to solve some of the world’s economic development challenges. ...
ITU: Micro-funding could aid telecom development
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--Microfinancing is in the spotlight at the ITU Telecom World show here, as the global telecom community looks at ways to better leverage technology to improve the quality of life in developing nations...
