Jackson Energy Authority hits 10,000 FTTH mark
By Carol Wilson
Jackson Energy Authority today announced connection of its 10,000th fiber-to-the-home customer, as part of the FTTH Conference, opening today in Las Vegas...
Verizon uses RF for FiOS TV
By Vince Vittore
FTTP network takes middle ground in first Bell video launch...
Verizon goes live with FiOS TV
By Vince Vittore
Verizon officially launched its video service riding on top of its fiber-to-the-premises launch in Keller, Texas, the same market where it unveiled the FiOS project...
Verizon's got game
By Carol Wilson
Verizon today launched its own subscription-based game service as part of its broader effort to build broadband content and sell more high-speed service. ...
Verizon, Yahoo hint at future FiOS content
By Carol Wilson
Verizon and Yahoo! today launched the co-branded service they promised eight months ago and included a new, lower-cost DSL offering aimed at luring dial-up customers onto the phone company’s high-speed Internet service...
Verizon, Yahoo! launch cheaper Internet service
By Carol Wilson
Verizon and Yahoo! today will formally launch the content and co-branding strategy announced last January that will allow Verizon Online’s DSL and FiOS customers to access content, applications and features developed by Yahoo! including music, anti-virus and other security programs, email and parental controls....
Cable speeds close in on FiOS
By Ed Gubbins
While Verizon Communications continues its efforts to add video service to its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises offering, some cable companies are cranking up broadband speeds in markets where FiOS is offered...
Indies bulk up to compete
By Carol Wilson
Two fiber-to-the-premises vendors announced new independent telco customers today, both of which are using the new technology to overbuild nearby areas and compete with other incumbents....
Seattle sleeps on city-wide FTTP proposal
By Ed Gubbins
Having been recently named the most "unwired" city in America for its pervasive wireless broadband, Seattle is considering becoming its most wired as well...
Wave7 Optics lands Southwest independent
By Carol Wilson
Valley Telecom Group has chosen Wave7 Optics to supply fiber-to-the-premises gear for its deployment in Willcox and Safford, Ariz., where the independent telco plans to compete with Qwest Communications....
Verizon take FiOS wholesale
By Carol Wilson
Verizon last week announced its first business services for its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network and reiterated its plans to sell wholesale FiOS access...
New data show rapid FTTH growth
By Ed Gubbins
Despite the slowdown in fiber deployment that typically occurs over the winter months, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) installations grew 83% since October 2004, according to new data from researchers Render Vanderslice and Associates. ...
Verizon links to movies
By Carol Wilson
Verizon today added a movie downloading service to its broadband services, giving its DSL and FiOS users access to MovieLink content...
Motorola named second source for Verizon FTTP gear
By Ed Gubbins
Motorola announced today that it has been chosen to supply equipment for Verizon Communications' fiber-to-the-premises deployment, a second supplier to compete with the existing one, Tellabs....
Qwest announces first FTTP deployment
By Ed Gubbins
Qwest Communications is hailing its first ever fiber-to-the-premises deployment in a mixed-use greenfield development south of Denver....
OFC/NFOEC: KT picks Cisco and Huawei for triple-play trial
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM, Calif.--KT, South Korea's incumbent telecom carrier, has selected equipment from Huawei Technologies and Cisco Systems' ONS 15454 multiservice provisioning platform for a field trial of triple-play service in Seoul. ...
OFC/NFOEC: MEF, EFMA combine
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM, Calif--The Ethernet First Mile Alliance has combined with the Metro Ethernet Forum....
OFC/NFOEC: SBC to deploy GPON in 2006
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM, Calif.--SBC expects to deploy gigabit-per-second-speed passive optical networks for fiber-to-the-premises applications in the second half of 2006. ...
OFC/NFOEC: Corvis becomes component vendor
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHIEM, Calif.--Corvis, the optical equipment vendor that acquired, and then shrank within Broadwing Communications, made public for the first time this week that it is now in the business of selling its own optical components to equipment manufacturers and government entities. ...
OFC/NFOEC: Crowded component vendors can't raise prices, says RHK
By Ed Gubbins
In describing the current state of the long-troubled optical component sector in his keynote address to the newly combined OFC/NFOEC show, John Ryan, founder of analysis firm RHK, reiterated the same need for consolidation that has been echoing throughout the sector for the past half decade....
Broadband Front Lines: Fios’ success lies in their hands
By Carol Wilson
This is the first story in our recurring "Broadband Front Lines" series about the challenges of deploying next-generation broadband services to users...
OFC/NFOEC: Mahi adds German CWDM gear, 10-GigE cards
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHIEM, Calif.--Metro networking equipment vendor Mahi Networks announced a new partnership with LastMile for coarse wavelength-division multiplexing equipment as well new optical Ethernet cards for its own reconfigurable dense WDM transport platform....
Verizon, TVN link for VOD
By Carol Wilson
Verizon has chosen TVN Entertainment as its video-on-demand partner for its fiber-to-the-premises network, the company announced Monday....
In the Spotlight: DynamicCity's Ben Gould
By Ed Gubbins
Municipalities mulling their own fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) initiatives have long been watching Utah’s multi-city open-access muni-FTTP project, dubbed Utopia...
BellSouth names Alcatel, Redback lead IP vendors
By Vince Vittore
Alcatel and Redback Networks today both announced that they were chosen as primary vendors for BellSouth's next-gen IP network buildout....
