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...
NDTEL gets active on FTTP
By Vince Vittore
Like many independents, NDTel is deploying fiber-to-the-premises...
How to put a small town in lights
By Vince Vittore
Columbus Tel rids its network of copper and dives headfirst into fiber...
ECI joins IP DSLAM rush
By Vince Vittore
ECI Telecom today announced the launch of its first all IP DSLAM, joining the growing ranks of traditional vendors moving into the IP market....
New Wave7 gear supports EFM, GPON
By Ed Gubbins
A new broadband access platform from Wave7 Optics adds support for Ethernet First Mile technology and Gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) to the equipment vendor’s existing Ethernet PON (EPON) offering....
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...
ATIS gathers IPTV troops
By Vince Vittore
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions today announced that it has completed the first meeting of its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF), forming four separate task forces to tackle specific issues. ...
Wave7 gets $18M more
By Ed Gubbins
Wave7 Optics announced a $18-million funding round today, raising the total investment in the five-year-old company to $86.5 million....
Muni nets can work to incumbents' advantage, Yankee advises
By Carol Wilson
A leading broadband analyst is urging telephone companies and cable companies to consider the advantage of working with –not opposing – municipal broadband networks....
Cisco puts video in starring role
By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems is using the IBC show next week as a sort of coming out party for its position in the IPTV market. ...
Verizon ponders FiOS expansion in Texas
By Carol Wilson
The Texas cable-franchising bill enacted today will speed up Verizon’s rollout of video services on its FiOS fiber to the premises network, and could prompt further fiber buildouts in that state, according to company officials. But Verizon is still not saying when it will offer video over existing FiOS networks, nor what the service will cost....
In the Spotlight: Ciena's CEO Gary Smith
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena reported better-than-expected revenue and a reduced net loss in its third fiscal quarter last week, citing a surge of activity in North American long-haul and metro optical networks that it hadn’t seen in years. Ciena’s CEO Gary Smith spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins shortly after the company’s earnings call....
New Orleans' switching facility survives
By Carol Wilson
Faced with a massive restoration effort along the Gulf Coast, BellSouth is still in damage assessment mode, and the news isn’t all bad....
Dalton FTTH network paying off
By Carol Wilson
Having achieved its goals in deploying fiber to the home for two years in Dalton, Ga., Dalton Utilities is now branching out into the surrounding Whitfield County area and beginning to explore delivering wholesale services and deploying a faster Gigabit passive optical network....
IPTV to hit its stride in 2008
By Vince Vittore
The market for IPTV will reach 21.7 million subscribers in 2009, though most of those will be in Asia and Europe, according to recent research from Parks Associates. Additionally, despite big projects launching this year and next from the likes of SBC and Verizon, the market won’t begin taking off until 2008. ...
Alcatel names first GPON customer
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel this week announced the first customer of the gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) equipment it unveiled in May. ...
Verizon denies FiOS TV launch in NY
By Carol Wilson
Verizon is denying a Web-based report that it will launch its FiOS TV service in Long Island, NY on Sept. 1. The report has been posted on the Web-based BroadbandReports.com site, from an individual who claimed to be part of a marketing trial Verizon held in N.Y....
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...
Passave punches up silicon offering
By Vince Vittore
Passave today announced two new GPON devices aimed at building on the company’s success in the Asian fiber-to-the-home market....
SBC pits Motorola set-tops against Scientific Atlanta
By Ed Gubbins
Motorola and Scientific Atlanta will supply the set-top boxes for the video portion of SBC Communications’ fiber-to-the-node deployment, Project Lightspeed....
ADC gets rural certification for OmniReach
By Dan o'Shea
FTTX vendor ADC said that its OmniReach Fiber Distribution Terminals (FDTs) have been granted product acceptance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Services (RUS)...
Carriers start placing bets on home network technology
By Vince Vittore
Most still keeping options open, but early deployments will focus on coax...
Muni nets step forward in Louisiana, step back in Congress
By Carol Wilson
In Lafayette, La., earlier this summer, municipal network advocates won a major victory at the polls, but those fortunes were seemingly reversed recently...
SureWest will launch HDTV in Q3
By Carol Wilson
SureWest Communications yesterday announced its second quarterly profit in a row, based in part on cost controls, as well as reduced losses for its broadband unit...
