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Qwest charts different video course
By: By Carol Wilson
While AT&T and Verizon aggressively deploy video services via their U-Verse and FiOS TV offerings, respectively, Qwest Communications is pursuing a very different video strategy...
Level 3’s Crowe sees new market emerge
By: By Carol Wilson
Admitting his company “stubbed its toe” this year, Level 3 Communications Chairman and CEO James Crowe told the CitiGroup’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference today that the emerging IP optical and IP wireless markets are what “we’ve been planning on and hoping for, for a number of years” and Level 3 is ready to compete successfully...
CES: Comcast unveils ’08-model cable competitor
By: By Sarah Reedy
In what was the first keynote from a cable company executive in the Consumer Electronic Show’s history, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the audience that the cableco is now the fourth largest residential phone service provider in the United States, surpassing Embarq in subscribers...
CES: Microsoft celebrates IPTV success, adds apps
By: By Sarah Reedy
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show this week with encouraging news for skeptical IPTV followers...
CLEC veteran Royce Holland looks ahead
By: By Carol Wilson
On what he hopes will be the eve of a successful acquisition by Paetec, McLeod USA CEO Royce Holland is looking forward to not working full time. But he still has a lot to say about the competitive service provider space he helped create, as an early member of the Metropolitan Fiber Systems team and the founder of Allegiance Telecom (now XO Communications)...
Content, quality, convergence drive IPTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Telephony Associate Editor Sarah Reedy spoke to Ervin Leibovici, chief executive officer of content delivery provider BitBand, to get his perspective on the trends that will drive IPTV in 2008...
Qwest not taking IPTV bait
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fiber-to-the-node networks to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks, Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller told the investment community today...
AT&T CEO looks ahead to the new year
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is seeing unprecedented growth in bandwidth demand and has transformed itself to capitalize on that trend with a seamless, IP-based global network, the company’s chairman and Chief Executive Officer told the AT&T Investor Day audience this morning...
AT&T hits 40Gig coast to coast
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today said it has expanded to 40 Gb/s capacity on more than 50,000 miles of its IP/MPLS national network, as part of the latest push to meet growing demand for online video and other IP-based traffic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
