Ciena rides optical sales to profitability
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena reported its return to profitability under generally accepted accounting practices today on both a quarterly and annual basis. And the company owed much of its success to sales of optical equipment—Ciena’s oldest business but one that it struggled to become less reliant on during the telecom downturn...
ADC bemoans AT&T merger limbo
By Ed Gubbins
ADC Telecom blamed uncertainty over the pending AT&T/BellSouth merger in part for some missed revenue in its recent quarter and low visibility in the current quarter...
AT&T races to launch 13 FTTN markets in 3 weeks
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T will begin launching more live markets for its Project Lightspeed fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) services next week, the company said today. Though the carrier has so far only launched those services in two cities (San Antonio in June, followed by Houston), it is still striving to use the last three weeks of the year to meet its goal of launching Lightspeed in 15 markets in 2006....
Report: Ericsson to buy Entrisphere
By Ed Gubbins
Ericsson is likely to acquire access equipment vendor Entrisphere for about $290 million in order to help win a contract to supply AT&T with passive optical networking gear, according to Swedish technology newspaper Ny Teknik...
Hawaiian Telcom struggles for independence
By Ed Gubbins
Hawaiian Telcom’s revenue grew and its net loss shrank in the third quarter, but the former Verizon subsidiary admitted it is struggling with efforts to adjust to life as a standalone company...
Tellabs’ sales of FTTP gear dip
By Ed Gubbins
Sales of Tellabs’ fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) gear dipped in the third quarter as a major customer (most likely Verizon Communications) made an “inventory correction,” making more use of the gear it had already purchased, Tellabs said...
Time Warner Telecom changes its name
By Ed Gubbins
Time Warner Telecom is changing its name. To what, exactly, isn’t completely certain...
Optimum Lightpath: Growth ‘R’ Us
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...
Fujitsu Network Communications names new CEO
By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications named Satoshi Ikeuchi its new chief executive officer today...
Analysts ponder pace of Verizon GPON rollout
Verizon Communications has vowed to begin deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear for its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) service before year’s end...
Verizon details FTTP cost curves and ROI
In a lengthy presentation Wednesday morning, Verizon Communications chief financial officer Doreen Toben illuminated the future trajectory of costs and returns associated with the company’s FiOS fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployment....
Verizon touts FiOS market, cost-cutting success
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.’...
White Rock suspends operations
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...
Optical market hits four-year high
By Ed Gubbins
The optical equipment market performed better in the second quarter than it has in the past four years, Ovum-RHK said. ...
Spending, revenue diverge
By Ed Gubbins
North American carriers surprised analysts in the second quarter by upping spending on wireline networks beyond previous expectations, and curiously cutting spending on wireless networks...
Adva’s Movaz acquisition gets cheaper
By Ed Gubbins
The acquisition of Movaz Networks by Adva Optical Networking lost about 15% of its value between the time Adva announced the deal and its completion late last month, Adva revealed today...
Broadwing posts best-ever quarter
By Carol Wilson
Continuing a trend among competitive carriers, Broadwing today announced the strongest EBITDA performance in its corporate history, based largely on increases in data/broadband revenues and significant cost-cutting measures...
FiOS daylight ahead, Seidenberg says
By Carol Wilson
Verizon has turned a corner in its ambitious fiber-to-the-premises buildout, and can now see “a lot of daylight” in its strategy to deliver voice, data and advanced video services, Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg told financial analyst today. ...
Infinera goes un-public
By Ed Gubbins
Another whopping round of venture capital funding for an optical switch maker that many predicted would go public could be a reflection of just how challenging the public market is for telecom equipment vendors these days...
Verizon names GPON vendors
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications named its chosen suppliers of gigabit passive optical networking equipment today: Alcatel, Motorola and Tellabs....
Tellabs’ outlook grows cloudy
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs reported stronger than expected sales in the second quarter, reporting $549 million in revenue, a 19% increase from a year earlier. While the vendor reported a slight drop in visibility for the next quarter, it also addressed some of its long-term prospects and future potential...
Broadwing sheds light on Infinera deal
By Ed Gubbins
In an interview with Telephony this morning, Broadwing offered more details into the deal announced late yesterday in which the carrier is turning over its equipment manufacturing business to Infinera while deploying that vendor’s gear in its network...
Adtran lowers 2006 expectations again
By Ed Gubbins
Three months after lowering its revenue expectations for 2006, Adtran lowered them again this morning, citing uncertainty in sales of some of its optical products this year...
Municipal networks threaten incumbent revenues
By Carol Wilson
A new report from Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Services says municipal broadband networks do pose a threat to incumbent service providers, particularly where Wall Street and the investment community is concerned...
Globalcomm: Anda expands, woos new partner
By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--Anda Networks announced a new Ethernet-over-copper product and a new round of funding at the Globalcomm trade show this week as it worked to win an original equipment manufacturer partnership with an unnamed major vendor....
