Yipes taps debt market
By Ed Gubbins
Yipes Enterprise Services completed its fourth round of funding, taking in $17.5 million in credit and equity, the company announced this week, tapping the debt market for the first time in its seven-year history...
Grand Mound expands CLEC with CopperCom switch
By Tim McElligott
Grand Mound Cooperative Telephone Association has replaced its legacy Class 5 switching system with CopperCom’s Converged Switching eXchange next-generation switch as part of the Iowa-based CLEC expansion strategy...
Verizon rolling out FiOS features
By Carol Wilson
Verizon today launched the first of what it promises will be many distinctive features of its FiOS TV service--one-touch “widgets” that immediately display local weather and traffic information...
Ciena reaches profits ahead of schedule
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena reported adjusted profits earlier than promised in its second fiscal quarter...
Alcatel drags down first-quarter optical market
By Ed Gubbins
The global optical networking hardware market dropped 12% sequentially in the first quarter “as a direct result” of a 43% sequential revenue drop from the market’s leader, Alcatel, according to Infonetics Research...
White Rock boosts grooming capacity
By Ed Gubbins
White Rock Networks is doubling the capacity of its VLX 2020 optical transport system. Whereas the 2020 previously offered 2.5 Gb/s and 5 Gb/s VT1.5 grooming, a new “daughter” line card available in August (one that piggybacks onto the existing controller card) will allow it to offer 5 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s...
InFocus: Choosing the right access architecture
By Ram A. Rao
TDM passive optical networks were a concept that addressed the issues and expectations of the late ‘80s, but can they scale to meet the needs of the future? Click on this article and read how switched Ethernet may be the answer in providing unmatched performance and scalability for FTTH deployment...
Zhone adds active Ethernet FTTP gear
By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is adding active Ethernet equipment to its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) products...
Sycamore out of places to cut
By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks has cut about as much of its operating costs as it can, the company said today during its April quarter earnings call...
The most innovative telco in America?
By Carol Wilson
Ringgold Telephone is ahead of the game on IPTV, FTTH, MVNOs and just about everything else. But is it winning?...
Networking by committee
By Tim McElligott
Group projects can be a recipe for disaster. But in South Dakota, where people depend on one another, working together gets things done...
OIF aims to ease optical provisioning
By Ed Gubbins
The Optical Interworking Forum will introduce later this year an implementation agreement, or IA, to help carriers automate optical network provisioning...
Testing the limits of the customer premises
By Tim McElligott
The slow but increasingly steady growth of fiber-to-the-home deployments has test equipment manufacturers believeing a prosperous future is well in hand...
In the Spotlight: Nortel’s Philippe Morin
By Ed Gubbins
Philippe Morin, the former president of Nortel Networks’ optical business, was named the head of its newly created Metro Ethernet group yesterday. He spoke to Telephony’s Ed Gubbins later that day...
Occam makes 10-gig move
By Carol Wilson
Occam Networks today announced new 10-gigabit Ethernet optical transport capabilities for its BLC 6000 broadband loop carrier product line...
Ciena intros mini-MSTP
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is introducing a half-size version of the 4200 multiservice transport platform (MSTP) it unveiled a year ago...
Adva’s U.S. push cools in Q1
By Ed Gubbins
About six months after promising “dramatic” investment in the United States to expand its presence here, German equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking reported tepid momentum here in its first-quarter earnings...
SureWest balances FTTH growth, profits
By Ed Gubbins
Strong revenue growth in SureWest Communications’ fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) business offset declining revenue from its voice and DSL group in the first quarter...
Verizon extends public interest programming
By Carol Wilson
Verizon has agreed to offer public interest programming and national organizations focused on civil rights and diversity as part of the video-on-demand package for its FiOS TV service...
Broadwing goes adjusted EBITDA positive
By Ed Gubbins
Broadwing declared positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) on an adjusted basis for the first time today...
Fiber-connected U.S. homes doubled since October
By Ed Gubbins
The number of U.S. homes connected to fiber has doubled in the past six months, according to new data released today from Render Vanderslice and Associates...
Tellabs cashes in on wireless transport
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs reported strong top-line growth for the first quarter, defying predictions that its traditional crossconnect business has peaked. "There's still a lot of life in this business," said CEO Krish Prabhu (above)...
Minnesota may test the Utopia model
By Ed Gubbins
A group of small towns in northeastern Minnesota is considering a multi-municipal fiber project similar to Utah's Utopia project. If pursued, the effort...
Lucent signs reseller agreement with WWP
By Carol Wilson
Lucent Technologies and World Wide Packets have signed a global reseller agreement and announced their first major customer today as well...
Metro Ethernet equipment market explodes
By Ed Gubbins
Global spending on metro Ethernet equipment nearly doubled last year to about $5 billion, according to new data from Infonetics Research, which projects the market to triple by 2009....
