Muni Wi-Fi: Its limitations
By: By Carol Wilson
The recent spate of criticism regarding municipal Wi-Fi networks falls into two different categories: technology and business case. Read part three of this special report on muni Wi-Fi...
AT&T pledges IPTV network overhaul in BellSouth territory
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T today announced plans to bring its U-verse video broadband service to South Carolina, a state formerly in BellSouth territory...
Muni Wi-Fi: Proceed with caution
By: By Carol Wilson
Even as U.S. municipalities, small and large, continue to plan and build out municipal Wi-Fi networks, new independent research is challenging the return on investment those cities will reap, as well as the wisdom of assumptions being made about economic development benefits...
Sprint to buy ZTE WiMAX CPE
By: By Carol Wilson
ZTE USA and Sprint Nextel today announced they have signed a master purchase agreement under which ZTE will supply its WiMAX PC cards and home networking gear to Sprint for its national WiMAX rollout...
Qwest announces ULH upgrade
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications today said it has jumped into the ultra-long-haul pool, upgrading its national fiber-optic network to provide up to 40 gigabits of service. As part of the upgrade, Qwest has tripled the number of ad/drop ports for ultra-high-speed services, and made its QWave services available in more communities and to more customers...
Juniper shrinks broadband router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks introduced a new smaller version of its E320 broadband services router (BSR) today...
CRG-West rides IP content boom
By: By Carol Wilson
The transition to an all-Internet protocol network and subsequent boom in content is fueling more than one type of network business model...
Virtela speeds business apps
By: By Carol Wilson
Global service provider Virtela today unveiled a new suite of managed services that it says enables faster application delivery and collaboration over a wide area network...
XO announces bandwidth on demand solution
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced a new wholesale service offering that will enable its ISP, international, wireless and other telecom customers to buy bandwidth at bulk rates and have it provisioned on-demand across XO’s national footprint...
Intelliverse lays Brix on VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
Hosted VoIP provider Intelliverse today said it is adding customer-monitoring to its services, using converged service assurance capabilities from Brix Networks...
Verizon links with Softbank
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business said today it has entered into a strategic alliance with SoftBank Telecom to share networks and services for multinational customers doing business in Japan...
NXTcomm: Verizon launches FMC portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon this week launched a portfolio of fixed/mobile convergence products targeting the enterprise segment and drawing on the capabilities of both Verizon Business and Verizon Wireless...
Four service providers earn Communications Innovators Awards
By: By Dan O'Shea
CHICAGO--Towerstream, AT&T, Yipes Enterprise Services and Verizon Communications were the winners of the first Communications Innovators Awards at a Leadership Forum held during NXTcomm and co-hosted by Telephony and consulting firm New Paradigm Resources Group...
Clearwire partners with Echostar, DirecTV
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire today said it has signed mutual distribution deals with EchoStar and DirecTV, allowing Clearwire to sell the two satellite providers’ TV services and allowing EchoStar and DirecTV to sell Clearwire’s broadband wireless service...
MegaPath extends reach of managed voice, data, security
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed service provider MegaPath today announced it is expanding the reach of its “Duet” service, a managed IP data, voice and security offering targeting small to mid-sized businesses, initially targeting the Northeast U.S. but planning expansion nationwide...
Verizon to offer certified e-mail service
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Online said today it will help its customers identify spam and phishing attempts by offering a free service that identifies e-mail from valid commercial and nonprofit volume senders. ...
AT&T offers accelerated Web apps
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is now offering a managed service that allows enterprises to speed up the performance and responsiveness of Web-based applications. ...
MegaPath adds Juniper to SSL offering
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed services provider MegaPath today announced it is extending its suite of security services to include Juniper’s Secure Access SSL VPN product family for Secure Socket Layer-based remote access...
Five win share of second GSA contract
By: By Carol Wilson
The U.S. General Services Administration decided to spread the wealth further in awarding the second of its two Networx contracts, worth up to $20 billion over the next 10 years, naming AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications, Sprint and Verizon Business as winners...
Covad lives up to ADSL2+ promise
By: By Carol Wilson
As promised last year, Covad Communications is now offering ADSL2+ to small businesses in 11 metropolitan markets, featuring data service at speeds up to 15 Mb/s downstream...
In the spotlight: Global Crossing’s Gary Breauninger
By: By Carol Wilson
Gary Breauninger became executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Global Crossing in April, when his predecessor, Anthony Christie, moved to London to become managing director of Global Crossing’s United Kingdom and European operations. Breauninger previously oversaw Global Crossing’s financial operations as senior vice president for planning and business finance, with a particular focus on the operations aspect. Breauninger spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson...
NextLink taps Ceragon for broadband wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ceragon Networks scored a massive win for its wireless point-to-point solution this week, announcing that NextLink, XO Communications’ broadband wireless division, is deploying its FibeAir high-capacity links in 75 U.S. markets...
IPTV lessons from China
By: By Carol Wilson
On the surface--and even several layers down--there appears to be very little about the Chinese IPTV market that applies to the U.S. After all, the Chinese companies that are delivering IPTV are all government-owned...
NCTA: Comcast more interested in next-gen mobile
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Comcast is more interested in using the AWS spectrum it purchased to explore what’s coming next in mobility and wireless than in offering “just another cell phone,” Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said Tuesday...
Meru launches 802.11n line
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Meru Networks today unveiled a line of enterprise wireless LAN equipment based on the still-under-development IEEE 802.11n standard, joining the growing line of WLAN vendors choosing to commercially launch the robust broadband technology before it the standard is finalized...
