In the spotlight: Siemens’ Harald Braun 

By: By Carol Wilson

Harald Braun brings a high-level energy to any conversation about telecom. As President of Siemens Communications Networks Division, he’s also looking at the big picture, and to kick off 2007 he came up with his own list of seven major trends. He spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson on his “Seven for 2007” list...

VeriSign launches content delivery platform 

By: By Carol Wilson

VeriSign today announced a major new product initiative and its first customer for that new product...

Verizon, Asian carriers team on trans-Pacific link 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon Business announced this morning that it is partnering with a consortium of Asian service providers to build a multi-terabit optical submarine cable system directly linking the U.S. mainland and China. Construction of the Trans-Pacific Express is expected to start in the first quarter of next year, with completion scheduled for the third quarter of 2008...

ITU: AT&T makes ITU ‘premiere’with disaster recovery focus 

By: By Carol Wilson

HONG KONG--This year’s ITU Telecom World 2006 not only marks the global show’s first appearance outside Geneva, Switzerland, but also AT&T’s first appearance as an exhibitor...

ITU: Telecom technology attempts to aid economic development 

By: By Carol Wilson

HONG KONG--The Chinese government promised cooperation with potential investors, a European regulator promised to keep hands off industry standards and Cisco Systems’ chairman promised more innovation--all in the name of enabling telecom technology to solve some of the world’s economic development challenges. ...

A Telephony Podcast: ITU Telecom World Preview 

The ITU Telecom World show commences for the first time in Hong Kong next week. Telephony Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson discusses how she expects the event’s Asian debut to be different as she prepares to cover the show...

ABI: Media servers rising 

By: By Carol Wilson

Media server technology will play a growing role as digital content and distribution is increasingly a multi-platform affair, reports ABI Research. As a result, a media server strategy is increasingly a required part of major platforms for both the retail and service provider markets, according to ABI’s report, “Home Media Servers and Entertainment Hubs.”...

TelcoTV: Content developer acquisitions unlikely 

By: By Dan O'Shea

DALLAS--Content company executives for the most part don’t believe in the possibility that telcos could acquire or invest in studios and other content developer to help them create exclusive content for their IPTV efforts...

Verizon launches Private IP at Layer 2 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon Business today expanded its Private IP service portfolio, giving enterprise customers an option for using its multi-protocol label switched (MPLS) backbone network without surrendering control of their IP routing...

In the Spotlight: Matt Desch, Iridium Satellite 

By: By Jason Meyers

Matt Desch--former CEO of Telcordia, 13-year veteran of Nortel’s executive ranks and a long-time fixture in the mobile and broadband worlds--was recently named CEO of Iridium Satellite. Telephony’s Jason Meyers talked to Desch about Iridium’s legacy, the capabilities of its network and what the future holds...

In the spotlight: John Grady, Nextlink Wireless 

By: By Carol Wilson

Nextlink Wireless is a sister company to XO Communications, focusing on last-mile broadband wireless access using LMDS spectrum licenses in the top 75 U.S. markets. As a carrier’s carrier, Nextlink sells to both wireless and wireline operators as well as large entities such as the federal government. John Grady, director of marketing for Nextlink, spoke to Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about the role his firm can play in business continuity planning...

Razorline finds disaster recovery a bigger seller  

By: By Carol Wilson

Razorline, a Louisiana-based provider of hosted IP-PBX services, had always included business continuity in its sales pitch to small and mid-sized businesses in the New Orleans area. Needless to say, that sales pitch is resonating much more today...

Comptel: Wayport goes beyond hot spots 

By: By Carol Wilson

ORLANDO--Wayport is probably best known as the company who provides Wi-Fi networks to hotels and airports, but as Wi-Fi becomes ubiquitous, it has plans for much more than hotspots...

Comptel: Rooftop collocation may be next 

By: By Carol Wilson

ORLANDO--If broadband wireless technology proves more successful in this generation than in earlier versions, the next great frontier for collocation could be building rooftops...

Verizon touts FiOS market, cost-cutting success 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon today issued its own report card for its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network and services, seeking to show the investment community that the $18 billion, six-year investment strategy deserves an ‘A.’...

VoIP changing business continuity 

By: By Carol Wilson

Voice-over-IP technology can play a significant role in enabling businesses to stay up and running in the face of diverse disasters, but only if those businesses have planned in advance to use the best of what’s available today. Read this continuing business continuity special report here...

VON: EarthLink expands line-powered voice 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--EarthLink is expanding its line-power VoIP offering to nine new cities, adding Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington...

Juniper boosts broadband router capacity  

By: By Ed Gubbins

Juniper Networks is boosting the capacity of its E320 broadband services router this month, keeping a promise made last year...

AT&T tackles disaster recovery challenge 

By: By Carol Wilson

Disaster recovery has been very much on people’s minds a year after Hurricane Katrina, but for AT&T, disaster recovery and business continuity have been an ongoing challenge that isn’t associated with any single event but with many. Click here to read this business continuity special report...

In the spotlight: MegaPath’s Greg Davis 

By: By Carol Wilson

Three months after Netifice and MegaPath merged, creating the new MegaPath as a national provider of managed IP services, the company said this week it is making an equity investment in DSL.net, a broadband service provider operating out of 350 collocation spots in 12 New England and Mid-Atlantic states. The acquisition is a bit of a departure for MegaPath as DSL.net operates its own DSLAMs, taking the managed service provider into the facilities-based business. Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson spoke with Greg Davis, vice president of marketing for MegaPath, on the pending acquisition...

AT&T favors HomePNA over MoCA 

By: By Ed Gubbins

AT&T has selected HomePNA 3 as the preferred in-home distribution technology for its fiber-to-the-node triple-play offering...

Verizon brings bandwidth on demand to wholesale 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon's wholesale organization today said it will trial what is believed to be the industry's first bandwidth-on-demand solution for carrier customers next week in New York City. ...

BellSouth announces virtual Metro Ethernet 

By: By Carol Wilson

BellSouth today added new classes of service to its Metro Ethernet offering, creating Virtual BellSouth Metro Ethernet Service, designed to meet specific business needs....

Cable Labs finalizes DOCSIS 3.0 specs 

By: By Carol Wilson

Cable Labs yesterday released its final specifications for DOCSIS 3.0, the latest generation of cable modem technology. The much-anticipated specs will allow cable companies to better compete against fiber optic initiatives....

Earthlink muni-nets gain Ethernet backhaul 

By: By Dan O'Shea

EarthLink has rounded out its network backhaul scheme for the municipal wireless networks it is building in Philadelphia, New Orleans and other cities, having announced a partnership this week with broadband wireless vendor DragonWave to provide Ethernet-based backhaul from towers and building rooftops. ...