Comptel: Nextlink opens wireless channel
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Nextlink, the broadband wireless arm of XO Holdings, today announced a reseller program to make wireless connections for both backhaul and last-mile connections easier to access...
Optimum Lightpath: Growth ‘R’ Us
By: By Carol Wilson
Being over budget is not usually a good thing, but for Optimum Lightpath, the success of its Metro Ethernet service has led to a faster-than-expected buildout of fiber to businesses in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area that the Cablevision subsidiary serves. This month, the company expects to have “lit” 2000 buildings in the densely populated area...
AT&T in Ethernet evolution
By: By Carol Wilson
Like very other major data service provider, AT&T is developing a portfolio of Ethernet services. But the company faces a different type of service evolution than most...
Vendors push Ethernet OAM as standards mature
To help carriers offer stringent quality of service and strict service level agreements for Ethernet service, equipment vendors are increasingly bringing to market equipment with Ethernet operations...
Ikanos’ ADI buy yields VDSL2 gateway
By: By Ed Gubbins
Chip vendor Ikanos Communications today unveiled a VDSL2 residential gateway reference platform using the network processor it acquired from Analog Devices (ADI) in January...
Telco Systems acquires IP DSLAM vendor
By: By Ed Gubbins
Telco Systems has acquired IP DSLAM maker Critical Telecom, the company announced today...
InFocus: The next phase in Ethernet Development
By: By Fred Ellefson, Vice President of Etherjack Alliances, ADVA Optical Networking
The trend toward Ethernet as the preferred medium for transporting IP-based business applications has been long forecasted, and the swing from early adoption to mass-market deployment appears to be at last underway. ...
Start-up launches optical burst switching
By: By Ed Gubbins
Matisse Networks exited stealth mode today, threatening to turn the optical equipment industry on its ear with its optical burst switching (OBS) technology...
Analyst: Nortel eyeing Force10
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks might be considering an acquisition of Ethernet switch vendor Force10 Networks, according to Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Joe Chiasson...
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...
Huawei takes Alcatel's optical crown
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel was bumped from its spot as the world's leading supplier of optical networking hardware for the first time ever in the second quarter, according to Infonetics Research....
White Rock suspends operations
By: By Ed Gubbins
The directors of White Rock Networks decided to suspend virtually all of the company’s operations today and furlough most of its employees while the company attempts to quickly end its search for an acquirer...
Sales of Ciena's MSTP 'going crazy' overseas
By: By Ed Gubbins
In what one analyst called a "lovely quarter," Ciena reported $152.5 million in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, beating analysts' average expectations by nearly 7%. Revenue was 16% higher than in the higher than a year earlier. ...
Extreme names new CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks named Mark Canepa its new president and chief executive officer today...
In the Spotlight: Kamran Sistanizadeh, Yipes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Yipes co-founder and chief technology officer Kamran Sistanizadeh recently spoke with Telephony’s Senior Writer Ed Gubbins about managing carrier Ethernet services and SLAs and where the industry’s habits in that regard are headed...
RAD extends Ethernet for Yipes
By: By Dan O'Shea
Yipes Enterprise Services and RAD Data Communications are set to announce next week that the service provider and vendor are working together to extend Yipes Ethernet services across leased DS-3 and OC-3 facilities...
Hatteras gets mid-band Ethernet on RUS list
By: By Tim McElligott
This week, Hatteras Networks announced that its Mid-Band Ethernet products have made the list thanks to deployments at Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative and Home Telephone Co....
Ciena adds TDM, Ethernet pseudowires
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena has fine-tuned its DN 7000 multiservice edge platform with more pseudowire and Ethernet interworking capabilities, the equipment vendor announced today...
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....
BellSouth takes Ethernet everywhere
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today announced availability of Ethernet for access to business virtual private network services across the Southeast...
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. ...
Mid-band Ethernet hits the big time
By: By Ed Gubbins
The mid-band Ethernet market has been bubbling for a few years, but it passed an important tipping point last week...
BellSouth offers mid-band Ethernet
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today unveiled new Mid-Band Metro Ethernet Services that will make Ethernet access more available to smaller businesses and branch offices of larger businesses...
InFocus: Multidimensional Ethernet
By: By Harpreet Chadha
Given the goal of Metro Ethernet to make access less expensive, carriers ideally would prefer a single piece of equipment that serves both business and residential customers rather than segregating them through different equipment as is often done now. Here’s how multidimensional Ethernet can extend the reliability, scalability, and performance of Ethernet...
Globalcomm: Nortel makes metro Ethernet moves
By: By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--Less than a month after announcing the formation of a new Metro Ethernet division, Nortel Networks made a string of announcements regarding that group’s latest developments...
