Analyst: Adtran getting into FTTP
By Ed Gubbins
Adtran will soon enter the residential fiber access market with a new platform called the Total Access 5000, according to a note issued this week from Morgan Keegan analyst Simon Leopold...
OFC: Tellabs GPON timeline lags Bell RFP's
By Ed Gubbins
Though Tellabs has been described by analysts as a front-runner in the competition to supply major U.S. carriers with Gigabit passive optical networking equipment, the vendor’s timetable for that gear appears out of synch with carrier requirements....
OFC: Level 3 declares bandwidth price plummet over
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--The age of rapidly falling bandwidth prices is over, according to Robert Feuerstein, senior architect at Level 3 Communications....
Verizon courts MDUs with FiOS
By Carol Wilson
Verizon today unveiled its plans for delivering FiOS to multiple-dwelling units. While the company has already wired about 57,000 such units nationally, Verizon is now touting that effort as it gets more aggressive in its sales....
OFC: New optical investors to get smarter
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM—The optical equipment industry has enjoyed an influx of investment capital over the past half year, but although that money has been spread relatively evenly so far, investors will become increasingly discriminating over the next few months, Credit Suisse financial analyst Paul Silverstein said. ...
The race to get in on GPON
by Ed Gubbins
The first winners and losers in this decades-long battle could be decided this month....
Cisco ROADM gets meshy
By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems introduced upgrades to its ONS 15454 multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) this week that include a path to mesh-based reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing (ROADM)...
OEN launches HDTV studio
By Carol Wilson
Anticipating a boom in demand for HDTV programming, Optical Entertainment Network has launched its own studio, exclusively to develop High Definition content....
Ciena: Big orders keep coming
By Ed Gubbins
The trend toward larger orders of optical equipment that Ciena reported in December is continuing, the company reported during its fiscal first-quarter earnings call today...
Consumer group: Video competition working in Texas
By Carol Wilson
A new consumer group, claiming independence from industry funding, says its research shows consumers are benefiting from Verizon’s entry into the Texas video market, even if they don’t subscribe to its service...
Japan, GEPON dominate FTTH
By Ed Gubbins
Japan utterly dominated fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) growth last year, contributing 80% of the world’s FTTH subscriber growth, according to data released by Dittberner & Associates this week...
Verizon cuts 3500, touts fiber savings
By Carol Wilson
Verizon’s merger with MCI is proceeding ahead of schedule in producing synergies, and that means 3500 jobs in the new Verizon Business unit will be shed in 2006, Verizon Vice Chairman and President Lawrence Babbio announced Tuesday afternoon....
SureWest reports jump in FTTP subs
By Vince Vittore
SureWest Communications said the number of subscribers on it fiber-to-the-premises network topped the 20,000 mark in the fourth quarter of 2005....
UBS: Four GPON vendors make Bell ‘short list’
By Ed Gubbins
According to a research note issued today by UBS Investment Research, the number of equipment vendors still competing to supply Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear to Verizon Communications has been narrowed to four...
Verizon dials in Disney
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Thursday launched online and on-demand content from Disney, drawing on the agreement between the two companies announced last fall to offer exclusive programming to its customers....
This winter saw highest FTTH growth ever
By Ed Gubbins
Though fiber deployment typically slows in winter months, the growth of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments reached its highest level ever this winter, according to data released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association....
Fujitsu turns up GPON PR machine
By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications announced a “hybrid” approach to the Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) market this week, the latest in a string of publicity efforts the vendor has made since declaring its entry into the GPON space earlier this month...
WWP lands North Kansas City
By Carol Wilson
North Kansas City, Mo., will use World Wide Packets technology to build a fiber-to-the-premises network, the company announced today. ...
Calix completes OSI buy, unveils GPON ONT
By Vince Vittore
Calix is wasting no time getting into the Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) market. On the same day that it announced the closing of it acquisition of Optical Solutions Inc., the company also unveiled a new set of GPON optical network terminals...
Cisco inches Ethernet closer to access
By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems today announced a new Ethernet switch and multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) as part of an effort to expand some of its metro product lines into the access market...
Nortel partners not pleased
By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks was short a couple of valentines this month, as two of its equipment vendor partners singled out the company as a disappointment ...
TIA: More U.S. fiber deployed in 2005 than in 1998
By Ed Gubbins
The amount of fiber deployed in the U.S. last year exceeded that deployed amid the exuberant gold-rush days of 1998 and will continue to climb, according to an annual report released this week by the Telecommunications Industry Association....
Avici restructures, weighs ‘strategic alternatives’
By Ed Gubbins
Avici Systems announced a restructuring of its company today aimed at lowering the optical equipment vendor’s break-even point as it begins to evaluate strategic alternatives including a sale of the company...
NTCA: ADC land FTTx deal in Georgia
By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO--ADC announced today at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association show that Pineland Telephone Cooperative, has started deploying the vendor’s OmniReach Fiber Distribution Hub (FDH) as part of a large-scale fiber-to-the-node deployment...
Bells focus on OLT prices in GPON RFP
By Ed Gubbins
Details of the request for gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) equipment issued jointly by AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon Communications indicate a focus on the price of central office gear, according to a recent research note from Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Joe Chiasson...
