Extreme takes Ethernet aggregation down-market
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks today introduced a scaled-down version of its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch for low-density applications...
In the Spotlight: Adva CTO Christoph Glingener
By: By Ed Gubbins
In January, equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking named Christoph Glingener to the newly created post of chief technology officer. The former head of Siemens’ dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) group...
Narad becomes PhyFlex
By: By Ed Gubbins
Narad Networks changed its name to PhyFlex Networks this week as it introduced a new line of Ethernet switches for fiber-based access networks...
Zhone unveils optical transport gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies unveiled today the new optical transport platform it had promised to introduce in recent months...
U.S. still ‘trouble’ for Extreme
By: By Ed Gubbins
The U.S. remains a “trouble spot” for Extreme Networks, the company reported along with its fiscal third-quarter earnings Thursday...
Updated: Avici exiting router business
By: By Ed Gubbins
Avici Systems is exiting the core router business upon which it was founded more than ten years ago to focus on software, the company announced today. ...
XO rolls out mid-band Ethernet with Hatteras
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced plans to roll out a national mid-band Ethernet service using Ethernet-over-copper gear from Hatteras Networks. A multi-million dollar contract between the two companies establishes the HN 4000 and HN 400 as the exclusive platforms for XO as it extends the reach of its Ethernet services in 60 metropolitan markets...
Ceterus collects another $20 million
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ceterus Networks collected another $20 million in funding, the equipment vendor announced today, raising its total funding to nearly $60 million...
Verizon launches national E-VPLS service
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today launched its promised national Ethernet Virtual Private Line Service (E-VPLS), a Layer 2 service that offers enterprises an easier way to link multiple locations with Ethernet without surrendering control of their routing...
Carrier Access acquires Mangrove
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carrier Access has acquired Mangrove Systems for $8 million in cash, the company announced today. The news comes more than a month after Mangrove told its suppliers it was ceasing operations...
Extreme joins PBT bandwagon
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks is joining the ranks of equipment vendors chasing the demand for Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) networking products...
Comptel: Hatteras touts new customer, product feature
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Hatteras Networks yesterday announced a new customer, competitive services provider Telekenex of California, that it is serving through a partnership with Cisco Systems that the company has had but hasn’t discussed publicly...
Actelis debuts Ethernet switch
By: By Carol Wilson
Actelis Networks is charting a path of steady growth in the Carrier Ethernet space, announcing today that it is introducing a new switch, has signed a new customer and is bringing an industry veteran on board to expand operations...
Ciena unveils Ethernet-over-copper gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena announced new carrier Ethernet equipment today, publicly acknowledging for the first time an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Anda Networks reported by Telephony last month...
Edge network market thins out
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the fast-growing edge router market, the field of equipment choices is narrowing as intense competition, amid a rush of investment, weeds out marginal...
Yipes declares positive cash flow
By: By Ed Gubbins
Yipes Enterprise Services’ cash flow from recurring operations swung positive in 2006, the privately held Ethernet service provider reported today...
InFocus: Leveraging GMPLS to deliver end-to-end Ethernet services
By: By Ralph Santitoro, Turin Networks
In order to make Ethernet services ubiquitous, service providers must be able to offer standardized services that are scalable, reliable and manageable with the quality of service that their subscribers demand. These requirements place significant demands on network operations and service provisioning...
Time Warner Telecom charts growth
By: By Carol Wilson
Time Warner Telecom topped a year of growth with a quarter of growth, as its revenues increased to $238.8 million, up from $184.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2005...
Cable making inroads into carrier Ethernet
By: By Carol Wilson
While carrier Ethernet sales are booming at AT&T and Verizon, the two incumbents’ market share is actually slipping as cable companies and CLECs make inroads, according to the latest research from Vertical Systems Group...
Designing the carrier Ethernet kiss
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Metro Ethernet Forum is trying to unravel the toughest questions surrounding inter-carrier Ethernet interfaces and they're just getting started...
Worldwide Packets gets into aggregation
By: By Ed Gubbins
After seven years in access networks, Worldwide Packets is moving upstream...
A Telephony Podcast: Inter-Carrier Ethernet
The Metro Ethernet Forum is at work on an external network-to-network interface (E-NNI) that would address issues created by inter-carrier Ethernet connections. Telephony’s Jason Meyers and Ed Gubbins discuss the challenges being confronted by the MEF and the rest of the carrier Ethernet community....
Occam sees 75% annual revenue growth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks reported 75% revenue growth in 2006, with $68.6 million in annual revenue. And its net loss shrank nearly 80% last year to $1.9 million...
Extreme gets a makeover
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks’ new chief executive officer Mark Canepa has reorganized the equipment vendor’s corporate structure and business focus as part of an effort to improve the company’s overall effectiveness after a difficult year...
Verizon Business riding merger success
By: By Carol Wilson
The first in a two-part series reflecting on the AT&T-SBC and Verizon-MCI mergers a year later...
