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...
Infinera to take over Corvis, supply Broadwing
By Ed Gubbins
Broadwing has selected Infinera’s optical switching platform for its network and will transfer control of its equipment manufacturing and network maintenance support functions to Infinera, the companies announced today...
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...
The next ROADM
By Ed Gubbins
As ROADMs have evolved from core to metro to multi-degree functions, they've only become more important to carriers. Where are they headed next?...
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...
Louisiana muni fiber project returns to court
By Ed Gubbins
The Lafayette Utilities System’s plans to deploy a municipal fiber-to-the-home network hit another snag late last week as two residents of the Louisiana town appealed a recent court decision that gave a green light to the project....
UBS: Bell GPON picks coming in July
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications is likely to select its first supplier of gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) equipment within the next two weeks, according to UBS Investment Research...
Verizon debuts 100 Meg MoCA routers
By Carol Wilson
Most new customers of Verizon’s FiOS service now are being connected using a new home router that can support service at speed up to 100 Megabits per second....
Second time around IPTV Warwick goes with Pannaway
By Tim McElligott
As an early player in VDSL technology, Warwick Valley Telephone Co. learned important lessons about its application and limitations. ...
AT&T uses Globalcomm to outline bandwidth plans
By Carol Wilson
One of the real question marks surrounding the Globalcomm 2006 trade show in Chicago this month was the participation of service providers, now that USTelecom, the major service provider organization, is running a separate trade show in March...
AT&T announces largest FTTP build
By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced its largest fiber-to-the-premises network build-out to date, reaching a 20,000-home master-planned community near Houston, as part of Project Lightspeed....
GPON contest moves to 2006 second half
By Ed Gubbins
Those who expected Bell carriers to select suppliers for anticipated gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) deployments by the end of this year’s first half have been disappointed...
Ever-expanding Adva eyes WiMAX
By Ed Gubbins
The day after Adva Optical Networking announced last week’s acquisition of Movaz Networks, Adva’s chief executive officer Brian Protiva visited with several WiMAX companies at the Globalcomm trade show to learn more about WiMAX’s applicability to Adva’s business...
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....
Globalcomm: New start-up takes ROADM to the edge
By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--A new subsystem start-up is emerging from stealth mode at the Globalcomm trade show this week, proposing to take reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) from core and metro networks to the edge...
Globalcomm: Nortel makes metro Ethernet moves
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...
Globalcomm: Adva acquires Movaz
By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--Adva Optical Networking has agreed to acquire Movaz Networks, the companies announced today...
Globalcomm: AT&T content with Project Lightspeed bandwidth
By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO--Chris Rice isn’t worried about having enough bandwidth. In fact, the AT&T executive shrugs off concerns raised within the telecom industry that AT&T’s fiber-to-the-node approach with Project Lightspeed will not be able to support near-term demand for high-definition TV and HD-based digital video recording, much less longer term for bandwidth...
Globalcomm: Tellabs unveils GPON, VDSL2 FTTC gear
By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--Tellabs is unveiling its long-awaited gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) platform at the Globalcomm trade show in Chicago this week, as well as adding a faster form of DSL to its fiber-to-the-curb system...
ROADMs return
By Ed Gubbins
Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, or ROADMs, were a big part of the optical product activity at the last two Supercomms, and the same is true of Globalcomm 2006...
Seattle seeks input on citywide FTTP
By Ed Gubbins
The city of Seattle is moving forward in its consideration of a citywide fiber-to-the-premises network...
