EarthLink backs away from muni Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
EarthLink’s municipal Wi-Fi business is in tatters, and the Internet service provider itself may pull the plug on the business before too long. On Friday EarthLink Chief Executive Officer Rolla Huff said the company is looking for strategic alternatives to its muni Wi-Fi business...
Internet could clog networks by 2010, study says
By: By Sarah Reedy
User demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2010, according to a study released today by Nemertes Research...
Bringing HD video to SMBs
By: By Ed Gubbins
LifeSize leads a down-market charge with low-cost videoconferencing...
Web ads find unwanted attention
By: By Rich Karpinski
The Web advertising business is all about attracting eyeballs. But this time thanks to new, uber-aggressive approaches to better targeting Web ads it may have attracted the wrong kind of attention...
Privacy concerns grow
By: By Carol Wilson
Technology that enables service providers to know more about what their customers are doing online is constantly improving...
Copper saves the day
By: By Carol Wilson
Forbearance, fiber gaps make EFM a must for Allied Telecom...
HD showdown
By: By Sarah Reedy
With the holidays approaching, high-definition television sets will top many consumer wish lists, bringing the total of HDTV-owning households to more than 30 million...
40G at last for Verizon
By: By Carol Wilson
The long-anticipated move to a 40 Gb/s backbone network arrived last week for Verizon Business...
Open wide
By: By Rich Karpinski
Using Web 2.0, Web services and SOA to beat Internet competitors at their own game...
Young Zayo makes its fifth acquisition
By: By Ed Gubbins
Just a few months after its public launch, Zayo Bandwidth is making its fifth acquisition, the company announced today....
Spotlight On: Microsoft’s Michael O’Hara
By: By Carol Wilson
As part of its push into the business services market, Comcast this week announced plans to offer Microsoft Communication Services to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). This Internet-hosted offering enables SMBs to share documents, access calendars, track tasks and use email, and it is based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Michael O’Hara, general manager for the Communications Sector at Microsoft, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson about the partnership...
China Telecom taps IBM 'Innovation Factory'
By: By Rich Karpinski
IBM’s “Innovation Factory” -- a Web 2.0-style product to help service providers brainstorm Web. 2.0-style services -- has landed a strong endorsement from China Telecom...
Introducing the world to WooMe
By: By Sarah Reedy
San-Francisco startup WooMe publicly launched its U.S. and U.K.-based online introduction service yesterday, with the tagline, “WooMe is introducing the world, one person at a time"...
Forbearance squabble heats up
By: By Carol Wilson
The war of words is heating up between Verizon and a group of competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) determined to prevent the incumbent from getting regulatory freedom in six of its local service markets...
Verizon plums enterprise sales channels
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business is taking a new sales tact for enterprise customers, announcing in a Web conference yesterday that it is creating a new agent partnership program that targets its largest customers ...
DPI holds promise as content protector
By: By Carol Wilson
Although deep packet inspection (DPI) technology has become controversial as a means for service providers to offer tiered services or base the way they treat Internet traffic on the nature of the application, continued developments in this arena are a strong indication that DPI is likely to become more important to network operators in the coming years. Read more of this DPI special report...
Global Crossing loss grows but revenue up
By: By Carol Wilson
Despite widening losses, Global Crossing is viewing its third-quarter numbers as highly positive for the company, as it focuses on its growing revenues and cash EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) rather than earnings per share...
Level 3 advances video strategy
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications unveiled three new parts of its video initiative today, including a partnership with Move Networks to deliver high-definition (HD) video streaming over the Internet...
Global Crossing to resell Nextlink
By: By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing is now reselling broadband wireless links from Nextlink for last-mile access to business customers under a national reseller agreement announced today by the two companies...
Broadband at low frequencies
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
What's brewing at Building B?
By: By Carol Wilson
The new company has a unique way to get telcos into video quickly...
CloudShield joins P2P shaping parade
By: By Rich Karpinski
Even as Comcast and vendor Sandvine take heat for peer-to-peer traffic shaping, deep packet inspection vendor CloudShield debuted its own platform last week that leverages DPI for prioritizing P2P packets...
Google, MySpace launch social standards, targeting Facebook
By: By Rich Karpinski
The social networking wars got a lot more interesting this week, as Google and a slew of partners -- including still-market-leading MySpace.com -- debuted new APIs to enable the creation of Web-based social applications...
CenturyTel brings Broadband TV to 25 states
By: By Tmi McElligott
CenturyTel launched a Broadband TV product last week that is immediately available to anyone with the company’s broadband service...
FCC changes MDU rules
By: By Carol Wilson
As expected, the Federal Communications Commission issued new rules today that ban exclusivity clauses in video contracts for multiple dwelling units (MDUs) or other housing developments...
