Cable's IP push may await 2008
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable companies are exploring use of IP to offer nteractive TV services, but face economic challenges that could delay that effort until 2008 or after, said Michael Arden, principal analyst and author of the new study, “Worldwide Cable TV Infrastructure, CPE and Services.”...
Broadwing posts best-ever quarter
By: By Carol Wilson
Continuing a trend among competitive carriers, Broadwing today announced the strongest EBITDA performance in its corporate history, based largely on increases in data/broadband revenues and significant cost-cutting measures...
BellSouth takes Ethernet everywhere
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today announced availability of Ethernet for access to business virtual private network services across the Southeast...
XO targets Level 3 wholesale business
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today said it has turned up a national inter-city network and is taking dead-aim at Level 3 Communications in providing a national IP backbone...
Qwest posts second profitable quarter
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest posted its second quarterly profit on strong cost control and broadband growth, despite a slight sequential decline in revenues...
Ikanos to acquire Doradus
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband chipset developer Ikanos Communications announced that it has agreed to acquire Doradus Technologies, a developer of advanced signal processing products for wireline and wireless communications and consumer applications...
MetaSwitch takes aim at cable industry
By: By Carol Wilson
Having firmly established its softswitch technology in the independent and competitive telephone markets, MetaSwitch is expanding its focus to the cable TV industry, announcing a new product platform designed to let cable companies provide business VoIP services....
Time Warner Telecom buys Xspedius
By: By Carol Wilson
Time Warner Telecom has joined the consolidation party. Late Thursday, the company said it will acquire Xspedius Communications for $531.5 million and buy its way into 31 additional metropolitan markets in the process...
UPDATE: Verizon Wireless team touts A-IMS
By: By Dan O'Shea
Industry observers who thought the IP multimedia subsystem concept was the latest in a long line of well-intended but generally convoluted technology standards can now size up Advances to IMS (A-IMS), an evolutionary reference document compiled over the last year by Verizon Wireless and several of its vendor partners...
Covad financial picture brighter
By: By Carol Wilson
The good news continues at Covad Communications, as the company posted its best-ever financial quarter, although revenue growth was small....
DSL, cable voice numbers both up
By: By Carol Wilson
DSL line growth exceeded cable modem growth for the first time in the Federal Communications Commission’s bi-annual report on high-speed service for Internet access, the federal agency reported today...
Verizon adds headsets to branded CPE
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon will now sell its own branded version of headsets, aimed at its broadband customers who use applications such as online gaming and VoIP. ...
Earthlink muni-nets gain Ethernet backhaul
By: By Dan O'Shea
EarthLink has rounded out its network backhaul scheme for the municipal wireless networks it is building in Philadelphia, New Orleans and other cities, having announced a partnership this week with broadband wireless vendor DragonWave to provide Ethernet-based backhaul from towers and building rooftops. ...
Merger helps drive AT&T profit jump
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T CFO Rick Lindner today said the company is reaping the benefits of the AT&T-SBC merger even faster than expected, posting an 81% increase in earnings per share, surpassing analysts’ expectations...
Broadwing names new CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadwing named Stephen E. Courter its new chief executive officer today as well as the newest addition to the carrier’s board of directors....
Force10 adds packet-over-Sonet cards
By: By Ed Gubbins
Force10 Networks today added packet-over-Sonet capabilities to its TeraScale E-series switch/routers in an effort to help service providers transition from Sonet-based core networks to 10-Gb/s Ethernet pipes....
VoIP quality continue to decline, Brix says
By: By Carol Wilson
The quality of Internet telephony continues to decline, even as the service goes mainstream, according to service assurance provider Brix Networks....
BellSouth profits up 12%
By: By Carol Wilson
In what could be its last quarterly earnings announcement, BellSouth posted a 12% increase in profits and a 14% increase in earnings per share, based primarily on wireless and broadband successes...
Pac-West halfway through national expansion
By: By Carol Wilson
Pac-West Telecomm said today that it has added four more states to its national infrastructure, reaching a 50% coverage milestone....
AT&T rolls out Homezone
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T, with satellite TV partner EchoStar Communications, began offering its previously announced Homezone broadband service in San Antonio, Texas, and parts of Ohio. ...
UPDATE: Microsoft, Nortel team up
By: By Dan O'Shea
Microsoft, which late last month unveiled a roadmap for new unified communications capabilities to be integrated with software such as Microsoft Office, has aligned with Nortel Networks on a broad, four-year unified communications strategic partnership...
OPASTCO: Peering offers ILECs real promise
By: By Carol Wilson
HOT SPRINGS, Va.--Independent telephone companies face major competition from the newly merged AT&T and Verizon, as well as from wireless substitution and cable VoIP services. But they can head some of those threats off by offering their own VoIP and IP-services and creating a nationwide peering network...
OPASTCO: Rural telco unity increasingly important
By: By Carol Wilson
HOT SPRINGS, Va.--Independent telephone companies are at a critical juncture in their history and run multiple risks in both the regulatory and competitive arenas, speakers at the 43rd Annual OPASTCO Summer Convention and Trade Show warned Monday...
Collaboration key to corporate success
By: By Carol Wilson
Enterprises who enable and facilitate greater employee collaboration are more financially successful, according to new research conducted by Frost & Sullivan and sponsored by Verizon Business and Microsoft....
Closed mergers face more scrutiny
By: By Carol Wilson
Months after the AT&T/SBC Communications and Verizon/MCI mergers were closed, a federal judge may force new conditions on the merging partners...
