FiberNet expands nationally as capacity demand grows 

By: By Ed Gubbins

FiberNet is embarking on a $2-million network expansion project to add capacity to its network and connect new metro markets just as the company is reporting an increase in higher-bandwidth optical transport services not seen in some time...

Why Cisco’s U.S. service provider business is down 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Cisco Systems reported a decline in orders among U.S. service providers in the quarter ending in April but insisted it was a temporary phenomenon...

Ethernet's metro traffic police 

By: By Ed Gubbins

The philosophy of Ethos Networks, an Israeli vendor exiting stealth mode this year, is that if the network is so congested in some places that some traffic will be deleted, then that excess traffic shouldn't be allowed in the network in the first place, so that the bandwidth it might consume can be put to better use...

Active Ethernet grows in PON's shadow 

By: By Ed Gubbins

When it comes to fiber-to-the-home technology in North America, passive optical networks get all the attention. But FTTH based on active Ethernet technology is quietly growing more prevalent...

Perfect timing 

By: By Betsy Harter

Carrier Ethernet is emerging as a mobile backhaul technology, but it must overcome timing and synchronization issues...

PBT's next priority: Services 

By: By Ed Gubbins

At first, PBT was dismissed as merely point-to-point. Now that it's branching out, anther thorny issue is coming into view...

Ethernet goes small-time 

By: By Carol Wilson

Growing demands at small- to medium-sized businesses make them a prime target for Ethernet services...

MEF to streamline wholesale Ethernet services 

By: By Ed Gubbins

The Metro Ethernet Forum continues its important work on a range of industry standards fronts. Perhaps one of the forum's most auspicious efforts is its most recent one: the formation of a new wholesale access group assembled to author a set of standard procedures for ordering Ethernet services on a wholesale basis...

U.S. leads legacy-WDM migration 

By: By Ed Gubbins

The Market for packet optical networking equipment -- populated by vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Fujitsu Network Communications, Meriton Networks (now Xtera Communications, Nortel Networks and Tellabs -- was developed to help carriers around the world transition from legacy Sonet and SDH networks to a mix of WDM and Ethernet...

XO finds demand for higher Ethernet speeds 

By: By Carol Wilson

Businesses are asking for higher Ethernet speeds than originally predicted, leading XO Communications to launch service offerings in the 15 Megabit per second and 20 Mb/s range, XO said today. ...

Adva aids Ethernet handoff 

Adva Optical Networking introduced a new demarcation device designed to manage the interface between carrier networks....

Towerstream lights up first building 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Towerstream is taking a page from Cogent Communications’ book, announcing today that it is providing a gigabit broadband capacity to the General Motors building in midtown Manhattan, marking the first time it has provided service to an entire building rather than an individual business...

Why Enablence is acquiring Wave7 Optics 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Enablence Technologies, a four-year-old Canadian component vendor, has agreed to acquire fiber access equipment vendor Wave7 Optics....

Adtran’s latest gear gains momentum 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Adtran is enjoying an increase in momentum for its new products, which helped the equipment vendor beat expectations in the first quarter, reporting a 1% sequential revenue growth in defiance of historical seasonal trends....

Cisco targets telco back-office consolidation 

By: Rich Karpinski

Via acquisition and new data center switch releases, Cisco Systems is pitching service providers hard on its vision for building and consolidating next-generation telco data centers....

Broadband, bundles lure SMBs 

By: By Carol Wilson

Judging by the number of telecom companies targeting small- and medium-sized businesses, it would seem these are salad days for customers in the space....

Independents embrace Ethernet demarcation devices 

By: By Joan Engebretson

A single solution helps to provide out-of-footprint connectivity and monitoring...

CTIA: Next-generation backhaul hits the floor 

By: Sarah Reedy

Wireless backhaul vendors increase capacity, ease Ethernet migration...

Martin takes reins at Aktino 

Industry veteran Lonnie Martin, a longtime ADC Telecommunications executive who also helped found White Rock, has stepped in to lead Aktino, an Ethernet-over-copper company hoping to capitalize on the current boom...

Tellabs’ rebound postponed, analyst says 

Tellabs’ optical strength may offset other issues...

Alcatel-Lucent claims to leapfrog edge router leaders 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Alcatel-Lucent says the new edge routing products it introduced today give it a jump on market leaders Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, offering terabit-per-second capacity in a single chassis. But it’s not clear how Alcatel’s latest offering will stack up against new edge gear expected from Cisco later this year...

Occam outgrows Tellabs partnership 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Occam Networks’ three-year partnership with Tellabs expires this month, without having generated much revenue....

Former White Rock CEO to lead Aktino 

By: Carol Wilson

Industry veteran Lonnie Martin, a longtime ADC Telecommunications executive who also helped found White Rock Networks, has stepped in to lead Aktino....

Adva CEO: How AT&T is holding Ciena ‘hostage’ 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Adva Optical Networking announced restructuring moves this week after reporting a disappointing” 2007. On the company’s quarterly earnings call Tuesday, CEO Brian Protiva spoke out on a number of topics in response to analyst questions...

Zhone adds active Ethernet option 

Zhone Technologies introduced active Ethernet equipment to its access portfolio today, adding active Ethernet modules to its access platform as well as new customer premises gear, giving carriers the option of high-speed broadband over point-to-point fiber....