SBC won't repeat DSL goofs, exec says
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications will not repeat the mistakes it made in deploying DSL as it rolls out Project LightSpeed and IPTV, executive vice president of operations Zeke Robertson told an Austin, Texas, audience of global service providers Monday...
Motive targets digital home, ease-of-use
By: By Carol Wilson
The new strategy, dubbed Motive 2.0 by Chairman and CEO Scott Harmon, is intended to make Motive the preferred partner of service providers globally as they deploy new IP-based services including IPTV...
FiberNet finding paths to growth
By: By Carol Wilson
FiberNet, the interconnection, collocation and transport provider, is branching out in a major way, seeking to become a Voice over IP peering point, a professional services company and a major point of interconnection between legacy and next-generation Ethernet services....
Linksys, MCI team to target small biz
By: By Carol Wilson
Cisco Systems subsidiary Linksys today unveiled an IP-based services platform for voice, data and video that specifically targets service providers, value-added resellers and their small business customers....
Building on the three Cs
By: By Carol Wilson
As telcos scramble to get video into their service bundle, convergence, customization and consumer control are key elements...
Question remains whether telcos will surpass cable
By: By Carol Wilson
Analysts disagree on which group will win high-speed access race...
XO spins off CLEC business
By: By Carol Wilson
After months spent pondering its future, XO Communications took the unusual step of breaking itself apart, spinning the existing competitive carrier business off...
Determining the device
By: By Vince Vittore
For all its promise to bring a different viewing experience to the world, IPTV must deal with certain facts, among them the difficulty in determining the device consumers should use to navigate through an often-complex world of video applications...
IPTV's interface challenge
By: By Vince Vittore
Carriers, vendors struggle to devise a user-friendly presentation, but many agree search function will likely be key...
Cavalier launches video
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive local service provider Cavalier Telephone this week launched its video offering, delivering 150 channels of TV service to the 150,000 homes it passes in Richmond, Va., using ADSL 2+ and MPEG-4 compression...
XO loss up slightly
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today reported a slightly higher loss on lower revenues, compared with the second quarter of this year, but posted much lower losses compared with the year-previous quarter...
Bush FCC nominees have industry approval
By: By Carol Wilson
President Bush’s choices of Deborah Tate and Michael Copps for the Federal Communications Commission seem to have struck a proper balance...
Bell Canada, Nortel launch rural tech showcase
By: By Carol Wilson
Bell Canada and Nortel have launched a technology showcase in the Township of Chapleau, Ontario, designed to trial communications technologies in rural committees to determine their social and economic benefits...
BellSouth announces MDU partnership
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today announced a new partner in its effort to connect multi-dwelling units to its bundled service network...
Iowa towns split on muni broadband
By: By Ed Gubbins
Voters in Iowa split in their support of municipal broadband in votes cast yesterday in 32 mostly small towns...
Trio finally unveils IPTV play
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO—SES Americom, the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative and the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association officially took the wraps off their partnership that will over the smallest telcos a relatively inexpensive way to offer IPTV....
Power center shifting in IPTV
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO--In the emerging IPTV world, the power center is moving away from set-top box vendors and toward a more diverse group of software and content providers, according to Andrew Bovingdon, head of marketing and product management for ANT Software...
BellSouth teams with Pulte Homes
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth has signed up the first alliance under its new BellSouth Community Technologies initiative, landing a deal as preferred provider of communications and entertainment services to new homes built by Pulte Homes, the largest U.S. home builder by revenue...
IGI says DSL will catch cable in ‘06
By: By Carol Wilson
A new report from IGI Consulting says aggressive marketing of DSL by the telephone companies will enable them to catch up to the once-dominant cable companies in the high-speed access market by mid-2006. The report can be viewed at no charge at www.igigroup.com. ...
BellSouth taps Lucent for IMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BellSouth is completing the circle of next-generation network architectures between its co-owned wireless carrier Cingular and SBC Communications, announcing today it has selected Lucent Technologies IP Multimedia Subsystem platform as the launch point for voice over IP and possible future converged services....
Redback lands Covad
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications will use Redback Networks’ SmartEdge Service Gateway to build out its next-generation voice and data network, the two companies announced today...
Cogent lands Russian contract
By: By Carol Wilson
Cogent Communications today announced it will provide Internet service to RUNNet, a federal network of Russian universities, through its Amsterdam PoP...
CEO: XO spin-off boosts wireless, CLEC business
By: By Carol Wilson
The breakup of XO Communications stands to benefit both its CLEC business and the wireless assets the company is now spinning off into a separate entity, XO CEO Carl Grivner said this morning in a telephone interview...
Terayon makes its telco debut
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO -- Terayon Communication Systems, which has spent all of its history in the cable market, today is moving into the telco world with a new version of its DM 6400 Network CherryPicker ad insertion platform designed specifically for IPTV deployments. ...
Juniper thinks dynamically for IPTV
By: By Vince Vittore
Juniper today is launching a new version of its E-series router that is being positioned for IPTV deployments....
