VZW's future network 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

CTO Dick Lynch discusses how Verizon Wireless isn't changing its business model, but pursuing two separate ones...

Blowtorch hopes to catch fire 

Blowtorch Entertainment came on the scene this fall armed with more than $50 million in initial funding and a goal to create a media company for a young-adult audience...

Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007 

We spent 2007 writing about the news and talking to news-makers. Now Telephony's editors tell you their highlights -- and lowlights -- of the year that was...

Faster, cheaper broadband not enough 

By: By Carol Wilson

U.K. broadband customers are paying less and getting higher speeds, but they are still not happy, according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2007 U.K. Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study...

MegaPath sings national ‘Duet’ 

By: By Carol Wilson

Competitive service provider MegaPath is taking its converged voice and data offering, known as “Duet,” to its national footprint, the company announced this week...

New network ties Savvis acquisitions together 

By: By Carol Wilson

A year after announcing its upgrade plans, Savvis is coming to market with a new network offering based on integration of its data centers into a global network serving about 20% of Internet routes...

Start-up launching bonded cable-DSL 

By: By Ed Gubbins

A British start-up is planning to launch managed broadband services in the U.S. that will bond ADSL lines as well as broadband lines from multiple providers...

NSN to do lab trials of LTE with VZW 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AMSTERDAM--Nokia Siemens Networks will conduct lab trials of its Long Term Evolution gear in the U.S. for Verizon Wireless, NSN head of customer and market operations Christoph Caselitz confirmed today...

Former Motorola CTO joins Cisco  

By: By Sarah Reedy

Cisco Systems today announced that former Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior will be joining the company as its new CTO, just days after her resignation from Motorola...

Ethernet a cable bright spot 

By: By Carol Wilson

While most of the cable industry earnings seem headed for the doldrums at best, Ethernet sales to businesses could well represent the rare bright spot...

Nokia Ovi plans grow more ambitious 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AMSTERDAM--Nokia plans to take the offensive with Ovi in 2008. At its annual Nokia World conference, the company unveiled not only a plan to include unlimited music downloads through Ovi with the purchase of a Nokia music phone but also a blueprint for its new Web services portal ...

LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Throughout its short history, Verizon Communications has kept its wireline business separated from its wireless business. Last week, however, when the companies announced their plans with Vodafone to jointly pursue Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a next-generation network technology, the name on the press release didn’t have a ‘Wireless’ tacked to its end...

IP Prime readies MPEG-2 networks for ‘HD tsunami’ 

By: By Sarah Reedy

IP Prime developer SES Americom today announced the general availability of its MPEG-4 high-definition television service, the IP-Prime HD-4...

XO taps Cisco for national upgrade 

By: By Carol Wilson

XO Communications today said it is using Cisco Systems’ CRS-1 carrier routing system to more than double the capacity of its national IP network...

Verizon conducted WiMAX trials with Vodafone 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon has conducted WiMAX trials with partner Vodafone as part of its 4G technology selection process, Verizon Communications executive vice president and chief technology officer Dick Lynch said Thursday...

Updated: Verizon taps LTE for 4G, citing scale, global harmonization 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Communications is breaking from the CDMA camp, announcing today that it has selected Long Term Evolution, the 4G technology of competing GSM technologies, as its next-generation network architecture...

All I want for Christmas is Xbox 360 Live  

By: By Sarah Reedy

AT CES last year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told attendees to expect the integration of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox Live with its Microsoft IPTV platform to come to the market by Christmas 2007. With December right around the corner, eager Xbox fans have yet to see the online social community move into their living rooms...

In the Spotlight: Zayo CEO Dan Caruso 

By: By Carol Wilson

Telephony Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson spoke to Zayo Chief Executive Officer Dan Caruso about his company’s meteoric rise...

Verizon strikes back on wireless backhaul 

By: By Carol Wilson

The empire is striking back on wireless backhaul. But instead of springing Darth Vader and robotic probes to seek out the rebel forces that have been courting wireless carriers with better backhaul solutions, Verizon Partner Solutions has decided to clean up its act...

AppTrigger targets carrier Web 2.0 layer 

By: By Rich Karpinski

AppTrigger will release a new version of its application session controller next week to make it easier for service providers to “abstract” away call-control elements using Web services, enabling more rapid Web 2.0-style service delivery...

Meru, Avaya deploy mother of all WLAN networks 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Meru and Avaya have begun deploying what may be the largest private wireless LAN network in the country...

Verizon Business enhances e-bonding 

By: By Carol Wilson

In an effort to make the business of doing business easier, Verizon Business today announced expanded e-bonding capabilities and an enhanced customer portal for large business customers and government agencies...

Berners-Lee: Web to Go from WWW to GGG 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Tim Berners-Lee, generally credited with inventing the World Wide Web, has jumped on the “social graph” bandwagon, proclaiming the concept of detailing and sharing data across a social network of friends as the next leap forward in computer networks...

NCTA, TiVo team on HD DVRs  

By: By Sarah Reedy

Cable companies ramped up their presence in the home today with the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s announcement that it will introduce a new external adapter to enable TiVo digital video recorders to access switched digital cable channels without a set-top box...

IBM targets carrier SOA, Web 2.0 

By: By Rich Karpinski

IBM this week rolled out new products focused on helping service providers leverage Web 2.0-style technologies to more rapidly design and deploy new services...