Siemens clarifies middleware position
By: By Vince vittore
Siemens said that it is using ANT Software’s Galio Client within the Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC) group but that it isn’t abandoning its own Myrio division. ...
Cisco trying to push out of box mentality
By: By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems today announced a new series of package enterprise applications that marks perhaps the company’s first concerted effort to get away from the business model that relies heavily on selling hardware,...
OEN launches HDTV studio
By: By Carol Wilson
Anticipating a boom in demand for HDTV programming, Optical Entertainment Network has launched its own studio, exclusively to develop High Definition content....
Consumer group: Video competition working in Texas
By: By Carol Wilson
A new consumer group, claiming independence from industry funding, says its research shows consumers are benefiting from Verizon’s entry into the Texas video market, even if they don’t subscribe to its service...
Japan, GEPON dominate FTTH
By: By Ed Gubbins
Japan utterly dominated fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) growth last year, contributing 80% of the world’s FTTH subscriber growth, according to data released by Dittberner & Associates this week...
Verizon cuts 3500, touts fiber savings
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon’s merger with MCI is proceeding ahead of schedule in producing synergies, and that means 3500 jobs in the new Verizon Business unit will be shed in 2006, Verizon Vice Chairman and President Lawrence Babbio announced Tuesday afternoon....
Verizon down to basics on server management
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business has added a new option for customers who want to outsource server management without giving up total control. The service, Remote Internet Protocol (IP) Application Management Service Basic, enables Verizon to manage the physical operation of servers located at any customer site, while allowing customers to continue to control applications....
KT starting WiBro test in Seoul
By: By Dan O'Shea
Korea Telecom, which debuted its much-anticipated WiBro wireless broadband service late last year at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea, has announced that it will launch WiBro on a test basis beginning tomorrow to about 200 of its employees in Seoul, South Korea. ...
Cox uses Juniper routers for backbone upgrade
By: 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...
BellSouth gets more SupportSoft
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today announced an extension of its current use of SupportSoft online customer support software to include its broadband wireless services, wireline-wireless integration and its IPTV trial....
Virginia compromises on video franchises
By: By Carol Wilson
The Virginia General Assembly has agreed on a compromise video regulation measure that speeds the entry of telephone companies into video service but requires greater investment on their part....
eLEC to add Liberty Bell to its holdings
By: By Tim McElligott
eLEC Communications has signed a letter of intent to acquire Colorado-based Liberty Bell Telecom, LLC, a local and long-distance company born from the frustrations of radio and television consumer advocate Tom Martino, who is also company founder...
Pannaway builds an Empire
By: By Vince Vittore
Pannaway Technologies announced today that Empire Telephone, an 8400-line independent based in Prattsburgh, NY, is deploying SIP-based voice-over-IP service using a combination of Nortel and Pannaway products...
Siemens looks outside for middleware
By: By Vince Vittore
Middleware vendor ANT Software announced today that Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC) has licensed its Galio Client to create TV services across a range of devices. ...
US LEC grows customer base, loss
By: By Ed Gubbins
Virtually all of US LEC's reporting metrics grew in 2005, including its revenue, customer base, employee headcount, network size and net loss, the company reported this week....
Former Ikanos exec sheds Lite on e-mail
By: By Vince Vittore
Richard Sekar, who previously was vice president of marketing for Ikanos and one of the most outspoken proponents of VDSL, is unveiling a new venture that is about as far away from the intricacies of chip manufacturing as possible...
Verizon dials in Disney
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Thursday launched online and on-demand content from Disney, drawing on the agreement between the two companies announced last fall to offer exclusive programming to its customers....
Competitive VPN players benefit from consolidation
By: By Carol Wilson
Consolidation has dramatically reshaped the independent market for virtual data services in recent months, as two major players have been acquired and two others have merged ...
AT&T claims global advantage
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is tightening its global focus on multinational enterprise customers, expanding and extending its global network with a particular focus on developing nations that its customers want to reach and on data products....
EarthLink to telecom world: Watch us now
By: By Carol Wilson
Having survived the brutal ISP wars, EarthLink is now taking dead aim at virtually every corner of the telecom market, with the possible exception of large enterprises....
Broadwing revenue flat, but loss lessens
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadwing Corp. reported this morning that fourth quarter 2005 revenue came in at $220 million, barely $1 million more than the previous quarter. ...
Comcast, AOL top access survey
By: By Vince Vittore
Comcast is the biggest U.S. provider of broadband services in the one area that matters most—revenue—according to a newly released survey by Prophis eReseach. However, AOL still has the most overall Internet access subscribers....
Optical transport market grew 22% in 2005
By: By Ed Gubbins
The optical transport equipment market grew 22% to $8.4 billion in 2005, according to data released this week by the Dell’Oro Group...
EarthLink, Google team on SF Wi-Fi
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink and Google have submitted a joint proposal to the city of San Francisco for its planned citywide WiFi network, combining a free service to be operated by Google with a paid service tier offered by EarthLink....
OPERA produces BPL spec
By: By Carol Wilson
A European-based group has issued the first open global specification for Broadband over Powerline (BPL) technology, a move which could potentially stimulate its deployment...
