Ciena reports tier-one spending slowdown
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena lowered its expectations for its fiscal year today, citing a broad slowdown in spending among tier-one carriers, particularly in North America, that the company believes could last a few quarters....
Broadweave to compete with rivals on its own FTTP network
By Ed Gubbins
Broadweave Networks will compete for customers over the same fiber network its rivals use – the network Broadweave now owns....
Zhone offers VDSL2, bonded ADSL2+
By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies unveiled new IP DSLAMs this week in accordance with the vendor’s strategy of using two technologies to help carriers offer advanced services over their current copper infrastructure....
FiOS TV getting small-business traction
By Carol Wilson
When Verizon came along with FiOS TV, Bob Malone was quick to sign up – the first business to do so, in fact. ...
Foundry adds PB, PBB to the edge
By Ed Gubbins
Foundry Networks today introduced a new line of Ethernet switches that brings provider backbone bridging (PBB) to edge and aggregation networks...
Muni fiber networks bounce back
By Carol Wilson
The headlines surrounding municipally funded telecom networks have been dominated by bad news this year....
Qwest’s best-laid plans for DNC get last-minute twist
By Carol Wilson
After more than a year of careful planning to accommodate the Democratic National Convention at Denver’s Pepsi Center, Qwest Communications found itself scrambling at the last minute to also wire that city’s Invesco Field at Mile High...
TXP merger promises better GPON economics
By Ed Gubbins
TXP, a vendor of optical network terminals (ONTs) -- the customer premises equipment in fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks -- is merging with Cambridge Industry Group (CIG), an ONT vendor based in China....
Broadband competition: Is this as good as it gets?
By Ed Gubbins
Competition in the broadband space is currently about as good as it’s going to get for the foreseeable future, and could even backslide, according to Blair Levin, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus....
Zayo: CLEC woes mean buyer’s market for fiber
By Ed Gubbins
Zayo Group, which has made a string of acquisitions in recent months, said it has thus far benefitted from a buyer’s market for fiber assets....
iControl leverages security to automate home
By Carol Wilson
Wireline connections are being cut at an alarming rate, and broadband revenues are also tailing off, at least for telecom service providers....
Questioning the coming Internet clog
By Ed Gubbins
One of the nation’s top authorities on global Internet traffic growth says his latest data show no reason to fear network capacity shortages, as traffic growth may even be slightly decelerating. ...
What the telecom industry will do about DPI
By Carol Wilson
Based on public perception, Deep Packet Inspection would seem to be a technology either headed for the scrap heap or doomed to very limited applications. ...
The consumer-friendly version of DPI
By Carol Wilson
One U.K. ISP is using DPI in a way intended to improve customer service – with its customers’ permission....
Minnesota scraps multicity muni fiber plans
By Ed Gubbins
After years of study, prospects for a multicity municipal fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) project in northeastern Minnesota were dashed this month as a key city rejected the plan...
What DPI can do for you
By Carol Wilson
Despite the very public black eye given to deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, a growing number of technology companies are incorporating DPI or similar technology into their products....
Verizon customers helping shape video products
By Carol Wilson
Verizon is taking new approach to testing and launching consumer products, using a group of selected customers to do its beta testing and linking those customers directly to its engineers...
Verizon ups in-home FiOS speeds to 175 Mb/s
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications announced a new set of home gateways for its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network Wednesday aimed at opening up home networks for future bandwidth needs and enabling multiple wireless networks today....
AT&T vows to keep spending
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T reaffirmed its capital spending plans for the year today, quelling fears in the market that it would trim its budget amid macroeconomic pressures....
AT&T: Economy squeezing broadband
By Carol Wilson
AT&T is seeing some consumers terminate home broadband connections for economic reasons...
IPTV World Forum: How important is the user interface?
By Sarah Reedy
Jeff Campbell, general manager of cable operator Express High-Speed Internet, was one of the few faces of the cable industry at the IPTV World Forum this week in Chicago. ...
IPTV World Forum: Moving beyond the triple play
By Sarah Reedy
Aggressive discounting of the service bundle might have won subscribers to IPTV, but it won’t retain them. ...
Tellabs seeks ‘pockets of optimism’ overseas
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs vowed to push harder into overseas markets Tuesday as weakness in North America weighed on its second-quarter results....
Adtran navigates ‘constrained,’ ‘sluggish’ spending
By Ed Gubbins
While reporting solid second-quarter results today, equipment vendor Adtran acknowledged a tight spending environment in both the carrier and enterprise sectors....
Broadweave buying Houston FTTP network
By Ed Gubbins
A Texas bankruptcy court on Wednesday is expected to approve the sale of Eagle Broadband’s IPTV business to Canadian carrier Interworld Telecommunications and the sale of its Houston-area fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network to Broadweave Networks....
