Shaking the family tree
By: By Vince Vittore and Carol Wilson
How recycling AT&T will affect the telecom industry's environment...
AT&T spotlights disaster recovery
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T doesn’t normally train for disasters when “it’s 75 degrees and sunny outside,” according to Ken Smith, team lead of AT&T’s Network Disaster Recovery unit. But next week, the unit will make an exception, putting its 16 years of disaster recovery experience on exhibit as part of the TelecomNext trade show in Las Vegas...
Asian DSL hitting saturation point
By: By Vince Vittore
The U.S. still had the second largest number of DSL users behind China at the end of 2005, but European markets such as the Italy, Spain and Germany are growing are rapid clips, according to the latest research from Point-Topic....
NCTA, minorities unite on video franchise fight
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cable companies and minority civil rights groups combined their efforts today in launching a new lobbying group dedicated to broadband issues and focused immediately on fighting proposed federal legislation that would grant national video franchises to telecom carriers...
VON: Notebaert calls net neutrality a commercial issue
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Network neutrality issues can be easily handled with the existing commercial agreements framework, Qwest Communications CEO Richard Notebaert told the VON conference today...
VON: Global Crossing expands IP service portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Global Crossing has joined forces with iPass to add wireless remote access to its Global Remote Connectivity service...
VON: Lessig sounds call to arms
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE, Calif.--The Internet applications and development community needs to get itself organized to take on the big telecom service providers in Washington, or risk seeing network service providers take over control of the Internet and stifle innovation in the process, Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig told VON's Communications Policy Summit here today....
Cisco weighs in on net neutrality
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems weighed in on the issue of network neutrality in a letter to Congress last week, affirming the importance of neutrality but urging lawmakers to refrain, for the time being, from enacting legislation on the subject....
Cloudmark addresses growing cost of spam
By: By Tim McElligott
Cloudmark, a company launched in 2001 by the co-founder of Napster, Jordan Ritter, and Vipul Ved Prakash, the creator of Vipul's Razor, a collaborative spam filtration network, and one of MIT's Top 100 Young Innovators winners in 2003, introduced new fingerprinting technology this week that promises faster detection and blocking of spam and new e-mail viruses for service providers....
NeuStar extends peering to Asia
By: By Carol Wilson
Clearinghouse services provider NeuStar has extended its reach, announcing today that it has entered into agreements with the Hong Kong Internet Exchange and the Japan Internet Exchange to offer its SIP-IX suite of network peering services among IP networks....
Redback thinks small
By: 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....
OFC: Tellabs GPON timeline lags Bell RFP's
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though Tellabs has been described by analysts as a front-runner in the competition to supply major U.S. carriers with Gigabit passive optical networking equipment, the vendor’s timetable for that gear appears out of synch with carrier requirements....
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...
Cingular launches mobile blogging
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today launched blogging services over its MEdia Net portal, allowing customers to instantly upload text and photos to mobile social networking sites. ...
OFC: Level 3 declares bandwidth price plummet over
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--The age of rapidly falling bandwidth prices is over, according to Robert Feuerstein, senior architect at Level 3 Communications....
Report: Congress weighs national cable franchise for telcos
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Congressional lawmakers are reportedly drafting legislation that would award a national cable television franchise to local telecom carriers while leaving cable companies to contend with current local franchising restrictions. ...
AT&T targets SMB with optical service
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today introduced a DWDM-based optical access service aimed at small to mid-sized business customers. The AT&T Ultravailable Service Option 2 uses AT&T ACCU-Ring Network Access Service in a pre-packaged approach that is more affordable for smaller enterprises, the company said....
Verizon adds VoIP to call center
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business has added VoIP to its Contact Center service, enabling more flexible and scaleable services that will save money for its enterprise services, the company said Tuesday...
SkyStream's zBand hones in on MovieBeam
By: By Vince Vittore
SkyStream announced that MovieBeam is using the vendor’s zBand content delivery platform as part of a renewed push to bring video on demand service to most major metropolitan areas in the U.S. ...
OFC: Lambda Optical intros 40G crossconnect
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHIEM--Lambda Optical Systems introduced a new all-optical crossconnect today focused on 40 Gb/s wavelengths....
Making BPL sing in tune
By: by Carol Wilson
In the race to establish standards for broadband over powerline technology, Opera has announced the finalization of the first open global specification for BPL....
Megamerger casts uncertainty on wireline vendors
By: By Ed Gubbins
The proposed merger of AT&T and BellSouth has as yet unknown implications on several of the wireline equipment vendors that supply each company. (ROBERT CAPLIN/Bloomberg News/Landov/Scott Paulus) ...
Powerline makes U.S. play
By: Vince Vittore
Texas Instruments and Corinex Communications this week will announce the launch of a residential gateway product that integrates TI's AR7 ADSL2+ and RISC CPU solution with Corinex Poweline technology....
802.11n: full steam ahead
By: by Dan O'Shea
The 802.11n standardization process is finally nearing the finish line, after the IEEE's 802.11n Task Group approved a proposal in late January from the recently formed Enhanced Wireless Consortium....
Survey: Texans love video choices
By: by Carol Wilson
Competition in video services is having an immediate impact on consumers, according to a survey conducted in three Texas communities where Verizon is offering its FiOS TV service....
