Convergence driving Verizon to new IP gear
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon next year plans to integrate the five IP networks it operates today onto a single IP network, utilizing new IP routers that are not yet commercially available....
COMMUNICASIA: Singapore unveils ambitious broadband plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SINGAPORE--The city-state of Singapore is aiming to become one of the most connected countries in the world in 10 years. At CommunicAsia today, Singapore’s top communications official unveiled an information and communications technology master plan that aims to make broadband access, both wired and wireless, ubiquitous across the island and put a computer in the home of every school-aged child by 2015....
Siemens, Nokia join consolidation push
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia and Siemens today said they would combine their respective network divisions, creating a huge telecom infrastructure division rivaled only by the Ericsson and the soon-to-be-combined Alcatel and Lucent Technologies. (Photographer: PAUL O'DRISCOLL/BLOOMBERG NEWS/Landov)...
Bell Labs to open R&D center in Seoul
By: By Ed Gubbins
Bell Laboratories will open a research and development center in Seoul, South Korea, next year...
Nortel offers comprehensive security program
By: By Carol Wilson
Nortel is expanding its security services portfolio, capitalizing on its networking expertise to offer service providers and enterprise customers consulting service in the security arena, along with a managed service offering and security compliance services. ...
Cogent expands market reach
By: By Carol Wilson
Cogent Communications is growing, expanding the reach of its dedicated high-speed Internet access service into new markets, and into new buildings within existing markets. ...
Verizon, PBS reach digital multicast deal
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon will carry the digital programming of public broadcasting, under an agreement announced at a Washington press conference this morning by Verizon, the Association of Public Television Stations and PBS...
Level 3 to provide Internet2 research net
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications and Internet2, a combination of more than 200 U.S. universities, have formed a partnership to deploy a new nationwide 100 Gigabit per second network to support the service and application demands of the academic and research community. ...
Report: CALEA rules endanger VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
A new industry association report claims applying federal wiretap laws to voice-over-IP services will either limit the current flexibility of those services or introduce serious security risks to domestic IP networks. ...
Covad to offer wireless access through NextLink
By: By Carol Wilson
NextLink Wireless has announced Covad Communications as its first third-party channel reseller, the two companies announced today...
Global Crossing named Juniper Elite reseller
By: By Stephanie Dell
Global Crossing has been named a Juniper Networks Elite J-Partner reseller, the companies announced today...
Cable ad revenues boom
By: By Sarah Reedy
Cable network advertising revenue is booming, according to Kagan Research’s annual survey of network executives. ...
ECI returns to M&A prowl
By: By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom may be trolling for more acquisitions soon. The company recently announced plans to raise cash through common stock offerings to fund, among other things, potential acquisitions....
EXCLUSIVE: Insight on how the network will evolve
By: By Carol Wilson
A significant new study from Insight Research attempts to take a broad look at possible telecom network evolution strategies, comparing the continued evolution of today’s networks, with the possibility of disruption by a move to an all-Internet approach or an all-wireless approach...
Verizon to wholesale DirecTV
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon will now resell DirecTV service on a wholesale basis, enabling its customers to offer a triple play package of voice, DSL and satellite TV. ...
Globalcomm: Tandberg touts product line breadth
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO--Tandberg Television is using the Globalcomm trade show floor to show off its broader range of head-end gear, following the integration of its SkyStream acquisition...
Globalcomm: Vendor execs ID trouble spots
By: by Ed Gubbins
Globalcomm: Sandvine introduces next-gen broadband management
By: by Stephanie Dell
Globalcomm: BT launches global consulting venture
By: by Carol Wilson
Globalcomm: Time Warner Telecom extends reach with Overture
By: by Carol Wilson
IP Summit: For IP-enabled applications, simpler is better
By: By Glenn Bischoff
CHICAGO--Service providers hoping to cash in on the burgeoning demand for IP-enabled applications won’t have to worry much about price resistance but will need to develop offerings that are easy to use and capable of simplifying the lives of those who use them, according to panelists speaking yesterday at the 2006 IP Summit co-sponsored by Telephony magazine and Globalcomm 2006...
Globalcomm: AT&T's OC-768 upgrade begins this summer
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO--AT&T is upgrading its IP-MPLS core network to OC-768 or 40 Gb/s links beginning this summer, CTO and Senior Vice President John Stankey said here today...
Globalcomm: Global Crossing upgrades IP backbone
By: by Carol Wilson
Globalcomm: FCC wary of video franchising ‘attack’
By: By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--As legislation addressing the subject moves through the U.S. Congress, the Federal Communications Commission is pondering what role it should play in the process service providers go through to obtain video franchises, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said today....
IP Summit: Panel discusses SME’s role in IP
By: By Stephanie Dell
CHICAGO--Making IP profitable for large, medium and small enterprises was the theme at the opening general session panel at Telephony’s IP Summit held today in conjunction with Globalcomm 2006 ...
