Qwest charts different video course 

By Carol Wilson

While AT&T and Verizon aggressively deploy video services via their U-Verse and FiOS TV offerings, respectively, Qwest Communications is pursuing a very different video strategy...

NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom 

By Tim McElligott

For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...

Qwest not taking IPTV bait 

By Carol Wilson

Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fiber-to-the-node networks to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks, Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller told the investment community today...

New extra-flexible fiber put to the test 

By Ed Gubbins

In October, Connexion Technologies which deploys wholesale fiber-to-the-premises networks became the first company to deploy a new type of fiber from Corning...

Verizon strikes back on wireless backhaul 

By Carol Wilson

The empire is striking back on wireless backhaul. But instead of springing Darth Vader and robotic probes to seek out the rebel forces that have been courting wireless carriers with better backhaul solutions, Verizon Partner Solutions has decided to clean up its act...

Texas FTTH provider OEN goes dark 

By Ed Gubbins

Optical Entertainment Network is mum on why it is discontinuing all services. Calls placed to the company’s offices are met only by a prerecorded message stating that all services are being discontinued “due to circumstances beyond our control.”...

Verizon field-tests 100 Gb/s FTTP transport 

By Ed Gubbins

Verizon successfully completed its first field test of a 100 gigabit per second optical transmission on Friday, the company announced today, just days after trumpeting a 40 Gb/s deployment elsewhere...

TXP ushers in multivendor FTTP 

By Ed Gubbins

Third-party optical network terminals could lower fiber network costs...

Verizon lights 40G network 

By Carol Wilson

As promised earlier this year, Verizon Business has gone live with a 40 Gb/s network, using Juniper Networks’ T-series core routers to carry Internet traffic at that speed between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and on its multi-protocol label switched network between Washington and New York City...

Verizon DSL giving way to FiOS  

By Ed Gubbins

Verizon Communications reported another sharp drop in DSL customer additions in the third quarter as it continued to rack up customers for its FiOS fiber-to-the-home services, some of which made the switch from DSL...

Verizon gives a glimpse of futuristic FiOS apps  

By Carol Wilson

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--As its FiOS network nears the end of its fourth year, when it was projected to pass 7 million households, Verizon this week gave the media a glimpse of what has been going on behind the curtains to add new functionality to the system...

Telephony LIVE: Megacarrier RFPs loom large over tech innovation 

By Ed Gubbins

DALLAS--Major carrier consolidation is adding both price and time pressure to equipment suppliers, raising questions about the prospects for technological innovation, according to attendees here at the Telephony LIVE show....

Q&A: Verizon's Terry Denson 

Terry Denson, vice president of FiOS TV content strategy and acquisition for Verizon, spoke at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Orlando last week...

FTTH Con: Start-up opportunities abound in triple-play 

By Ed Gubbins

ORLANDO--The battle between telcos and cable operators to bring triple-play services to consumers is creating a variety of opportunities for start-up companies, according to Jim Jones, managing director of Scale Ventures, a venture capital firm...

FTTH Con: Corning gets the bends 

By Ed Gubbins

ORLANDO--Corning introduced a new highly flexible fiber at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference this week that can make sharp turns with minimal attenuation of the signal it carries, easing deployment for carriers...

FTTH Con: Alcatel-Lucent details GPON’s successor 

By Ed Gubbins

ORLANDO--With major carriers such as Verizon Communications deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Alcatel-Lucent today described some likely successors to GPON at the FTTH Conference today...

The last 100 yards 

By Tim McElligott

The last mile of a fiber network is mostly stable and standardized -- right up to the point it crosses into the home, where it is often neither...

Tellabs moves ONTs indoors 

By Ed Gubbins

Tellabs has introduced an optical network terminal (ONT) designed to be deployed inside customer homes, Chief Executive Officer Krish Prabhu said during an investor conference this week...

Analyst: BellSouth likely goes FTTN 

By Ed Gubbins

Discussions at the NXTcomm trade show point to an increasing likelihood that AT&T brings its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) architecture to the former BellSouth territory rather than grow the fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) technology already deployed there, according to Morgan Keegan analyst Simon Leopold...

Vendor: U.S. not ready yet for indoor ONTs 

By Ed Gubbins

TXP introduced a new optical network terminal (ONT) architecture today aimed at easing some of the power-related challenges of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) installation. But the Texas-based vendor isn’t selling the product in the U.S. anytime soon due to a lack of demand here for indoor ONTs...

Asian broadband dominance grows 

By Ed Gubbins

The influence of Asian markets on the broadband sector loomed ever larger in the first quarter, according to new data from Dittberner Associates. Trends in DSL and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment and subscribers were led by Asian carriers and vendors...

Long Lines short-lists Embarq Logistics, Wave7 

By Dan O'Shea

Embarq Logistics, which will be exhibiting at Nxtcomm 2007, and fiber equipment vendor Wave7 are deploying a fiber-to-the-premises network for South Sioux City, Neb., customers of Long Lines, an independent operating company serving more than 100 communities in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota...

Narad becomes PhyFlex 

By Ed Gubbins

Narad Networks changed its name to PhyFlex Networks this week as it introduced a new line of Ethernet switches for fiber-based access networks...

Ikanos gets into FTTH 

By Ed Gubbins

Ikanos Communications, one of the world’s top suppliers of VDSL chips, entered the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) market this week with the introduction of a new residential gateway...

Updated: Motorola to sell ECI gear 

By Ed Gubbins

ECI Telecom has partnered with Motorola to penetrate the North American market, the companies announced today...