FTTH Con: Fiber show crowd looks east
By Ed Gubbins
The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Conference in Las Vegas this week has had a decidedly Asian bent to it, as attendees are taking notes from some of the world’s leading fiber authorities...
FTTH Con: Verizon FiOS ads keep it simple
By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--In its marketing campaign to attract consumers to its fiber-to-the-premises triple-play service, Verizon Communications is employing the “KISS” principal: keep it simple, stupid...
FTTH Con: Emerson enters FTTP OSP market
By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--Emerson Network Power entered the market for fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) outside plant products this week...
Fujitsu Network Communications names new CEO
By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications named Satoshi Ikeuchi its new chief executive officer today...
California to issue video franchises
By Dan O'Shea
California late last week became the latest state to create a statewide video franchise program, a move that had been expected since both sides of the state legislature and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had earlier expressed support for such a law...
Calient brings MEMS to fiber access
By Ed Gubbins
Calient Networks is starting a new chapter as it brings its core optical network technology to access networks...
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: National video franchises unnecessary
Though Verizon Communications has helped wage a legislative battle this year to enable nationwide franchising for video service, the carrier claims not to need a federal franchise to meet its video market penetration goals....
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.’...
Verizon planning local content unit
By Carol Wilson
Verizon is beginning to assemble an editorial staff for a new FiOS TV channel that will feature highly local content...
FiOS TV reaches Indiana
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Tuesday announced plans to deploy FiOS TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 2007, marking its first video service in that state...
Start-up launches optical burst switching
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...
VON: BellSouth plans major VDSL2 upgrade
By Ed Gubbins
BOSTON--BellSouth will upgrade many of the shorter loops in its fiber-to-the-curb network to VDSL2 over the next two years, delivering about 80 Mb/s to the home, according to a report this week from Investor’s Business Daily...
Siemens unveils “multi-haul” optical gear
By Ed Gubbins
Siemens introduced a new optical transport platform today that brings some of the vendor’s long-haul technology to regional and metro networks....
Lucent sells Novera’s WDM-PON in Japan
By Ed Gubbins
Lucent Technologies has struck a partnership with Novera Optics this week wherein Lucent’s services arm will sell, integrate and support Novera’s wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical networking (WDM-PON) gear in Japan...
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...
AT&T favors HomePNA over MoCA
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has selected HomePNA 3 as the preferred in-home distribution technology for its fiber-to-the-node triple-play offering...
RAD extends Ethernet for Yipes
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...
Verizon multi-room DVR differentiates FiOS
By Carol Wilson
Verizon’s new multi-room DVR capability creates a competitive differentiator for the service provider’s FiOS TV service, Bruce McGregor, Digital Home analyst for Current Analysis, said Tuesday. But the service provider must work out a few kinks. ...
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...
Verizon owns 81% of U.S. FTTH subs
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications owns about 81% of all fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in the United States, according to a report released today from Ovum-RHK...
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...
