TW Cable surges, Qwest slows in Ethernet services
By: By Ed Gubbins
Time Warner Cable is rapidly making gains as a newcomer to the Ethernet services market, while Qwest Communications is falling behind, according to new data from Vertical Systems Group...
CLECs heat up new year
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service providers started 2008 with a flurry of announcements, indicating a determination to push hard for market share...
Carrier Ethernet's growth curve continues
By: By Ed Gubbins
The market for Ethernet services continues to grow, and in turn so does the market for Ethernet technology...
Juniper CEO boasts Ethernet validation
By: By Ed Gubbins
In Juniper Networks’ fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday, CEO Scott Kriens continued to tough-talk carrier Ethernet equipment vendors. But this time, he had more numbers to back him up...
Why Ciena acquired Worldwide Packets
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena’s surprise announcement of its plans to acquire Ethernet access vendor Worldwide Packets left some analysts scratching their heads yesterday, largely because Ciena declined to offer many details on key justifications for the deal and its terms...
XO shakes up pricing models
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications continued its aggressive assault on the competitive services market today with a new pricing strategy that lets customers pay strictly for bandwidth and not for a specific number of access lines...
Ciena antes up Ethernet for packet optical game
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is beefing up the Ethernet capabilities on its CN 4200 multiservice transport platform by adding Layer 2 Ethernet aggregation and switching, ratcheting up Ciena’s strength in the packet optical networking space...
Fujitsu wins Verizon packet optical bid
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications appears to have won a prized contract to supply Verizon with packet optical transport equipment, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
Analyst: BT’s 21CN rollout may be slowing
By: By Ed Gubbins
British Telecom may have slowed spending on its 21st Century next-generation network initiative recently, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
Turin Networks sees CDMA upside in Carrier Access buy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks today announced its intent to acquire Carrier Access for $92.7 million in cash, planning to exploit products in the latter’s development pipeline as well as expand its gear into CDMA networks...
Ciena boasts PBT win, booming metro sales
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena today claimed its first sale to a major carrier of products based on Provider Backbone Technology (PBT) as sales of metro optical equipment overall boosted the company’s quarterly revenue beyond expectations...
Nortel adds muscle, multicasting to PBT
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has updated its metro Ethernet portfolio with new hardware and software to add muscle to its Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) platform and give it the ability to manage multicast traffic...
Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007
We spent 2007 writing about the news and talking to news-makers. Now Telephony's editors tell you their highlights -- and lowlights -- of the year that was...
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...
Ethernet a cable bright spot
By: By Carol Wilson
While most of the cable industry earnings seem headed for the doldrums at best, Ethernet sales to businesses could well represent the rare bright spot...
Copper saves the day
By: By Carol Wilson
Forbearance, fiber gaps make EFM a must for Allied Telecom...
Analyst: Google making its own 10GbE switches
By: By Ed Gubbins
Google may have developed and deployed its own 10 Gb/s Ethernet switches, according to a Wall Street analyst citing multiple sources....
Hammerhead takes PBT past point-to-point
By: By Ed Gubbins
Hammerhead Systems today unveiled a new version of its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch designed to bridge the gap between provider backbone transport (PBT) and multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technologies as well as to allow PBT to become more than just a point-to-point technology...
Nokia Siemens acquires carrier Ethernet vendor
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nokia Siemens Networks announced plans to acquire carrier Ethernet equipment vendor Atrica today, in what would be the joint venture’s first acquisition...
MFA Forum becomes IP/MPLS Forum
By: By Carol Wilson
The MFA Forum, a group formed from the merger of three other groups – the ATM Forum, the Frame Relay Forum and the MPLS Forum – is changing its name once more and sharpening its focus...
Zhone mines fertile copper Ethernet market overseas
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is taking advantage of a fertile market overseas for Ethernet over copper (EoC) equipment, introducing more EoC gear today and hailing what it claims is the world’s largest EoC deployment to date...
Juniper takes its Ethernet gear to the edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks today introduced half- and quarter-sized versions of the core Ethernet router it brought to market earlier this year, hoping to compete more directly in Ethernet edge and metro markets....
New chip start-up puts carrier Ethernet in silicon
By: By Ed Gubbins
A new semiconductor start-up launched today with chips designed specifically for carrier Ethernet, hailing a new era in cost reductions for carrier Ethernet technology....
Calix takes a gig to the home
By: By Ed Gubbins
Calix has added gigabit Ethernet interfaces to the subscriber side of its optical network terminals, or ONTs, aiming to give telcos a bandwidth boost with which to compete against cable broadband....
Cisco gets into fiber-to-the-MDU
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems entered the fiber-to-the-multidwelling-unit market today with new customer premises gear based on an active Ethernet architecture and a new proprietary protocol to add resiliency....
