VON: Dialcom takes on big guys in unified collaboration  

By: Sarah Reedy

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Unified collaboration provider Dialcom introduced the North American market to Spontania, a real-time collaboration platform, at the VON show this week. ...

Verizon Wireless reveals open-network strategy 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Wireless kicked off its developer program in New York today, revealing the first details of just how open-access will work on CDMA network. Verizon will maintain control over pricing plans for third -- party services and devices on its networks, but it appears surprisingly willing to give outsiders access to key elements of the network...

Adva CEO: How AT&T is holding Ciena ‘hostage’ 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Adva Optical Networking announced restructuring moves this week after reporting a disappointing” 2007. On the company’s quarterly earnings call Tuesday, CEO Brian Protiva spoke out on a number of topics in response to analyst questions...

VON: Broadsoft marketplace brings carriers into Web 2.0 equation 

By: By Rich Karpinski

VoIP platform vendor BroadSoft announced at the VON.x show this week a set of APIs and developer programs that will let developers integrate voice into their Web applications, leveraging service provider networks...

Qualcomm buys ad-targeting firm 

By: Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm is throwing its hat into the mobile advertising ring, announcing on Tuesday the $32-million purchase of Irish wireless content-targeting technologist Xiam, which has developed a platform that bridges the carrier’s customer data with advertising and content delivery platforms....

NextWave targets TV over WiMAX 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

NextWave revealed a new video delivery platform today designed to deliver Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) capabilities to new WiMAX networks, using technology from its IPWireless and PacketVideo acquisitions...

Verizon builds 18-city optical mesh 

Verizon Business will deploy a combination of optical mesh networking gear and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) across the US this year that the carrier expects will radically change its network provisioning processes by allowing far more automation and efficiency....

Sprint T-Mobile: New mega-carrier or four-network nightmare? 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Wall Street claims T-Mobile is eyeballing financially weakened Sprint, but would integrating Sprint’s alien network technologies into its global GSM footprint be more trouble than it’s worth?...

Why Ciena sees an even brighter year ahead 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Ciena continues to benefit from a booming optical market, raising its annual revenue expectations today after a successful 2007. But the company said it’s also taking advantage of the difficulties rival vendors are having in integrating mergers and acquisitions...

What AT&T will buy for $1 billion 

By: By Carol Wilson

AT&T’s $1-billion in investment in global infrastructure, announced today, is a reflection of multiple global telecom trends, including the move to managed services and the consolidation of server farms in centralized data facilities as well as a general growing demand for bandwidth driven in part by video...

WiMAX spotlight shifts to India 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

While Sprint sorts out its financial woes, South Asia and India have started hogging the WiMAX limelight. This week Tata Communications became the second major operator to wholeheartedly embrace WiMAX in India, and the third on the subcontinent....

T-Mobile Europe tries out femtocells; will USA follow? 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

T-Mobile Ventures invests in Ubiquisys, while T-Mobile USA pushes ahead with Wi-Fi, but the common protocol used by both approaches could link the networks together...

OFC: Why optical components are ripe for recovery (really) 

By: By Ed Gubbins

SAN DIEGO--At the OFC NFOEC show, familiar lamentations of an overcrowded and unprofitable components and modules sector dampened the mood among attendees. But to at least one Wall Street analyst, this dour sector suddenly seems ripe for investment...

Exclusive: Reed Hundt on the 700 MHz auction, P2P throttling 

By: By Ed Gubbins

SAN DIEGO--Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt formed Frontline Wireless with plans to build a nationwide emergency communications network using spectrum auctioned off by the FCC. Among other things, Frontline has proposed that the FCC apply open access requirements to the spectrum. Reed spoke with Telephony in an exclusive interview at the OFC NFOEC optical trade show this week...

The fiber trough is over 

By: By Ed Gubbins

The amount of cabled fiber shipped last year topped even that in the heady days of 2001, according to CRU Analysis...

TIA study: Economic downturn won’t deter telecom 

By: By Sarah Reedy

According to the Telecommunications Industry Association’s “2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast” for the global telecommunications industry, there has been a healthy uptake of telecom services, both at home and abroad, with international markets seeing more growth than domestic markets...

ECI adds Sonet to packet optical play 

By: By Ed Gubbins

ECI Telecom is adding its ante to the North American packet optical networking space. The Israeli equipment vendor today announced a Sonet-based version of its XDM 300 optical platform for the North American market...

Ekinops adds GigE rings to optical transport 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Ekinops is beefing up its optical transport platform with ring-based Ethernet capabilities as the French vendor works toward a larger presence in the United States...

New box brings open IPTV home 

By: By Carol Wilson

A Dutch company is trying to bring IPTV to the masses over the Internet via a business model that uses corporate sponsorships to subsidize distribution of a key piece of hardware that ties together Internet video with existing video products...

In the Spotlight: Virtela's Bill Dodds 

By: By Carol Wilson

As a managed service provider, Virtela operates a virtual network, using the physical facilities from a broad array of partners to serve multinational corporations, including the increasingly popular undersea cable routes. The recent cable cuts in the Mideast raised concerns about the security and reliability of global networks and services, which Virtela Co-President Bill Dodds discussed with Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson...

MWC: Nortel takes a closer look at EDGE 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--While the rest of the Mobile World Congress did back flips for the latest radio access craze, Long Term Evolution, Nortel Networks was talking 2G. The vendor is proposing that operators take another look at the EDGE networks of yesteryear, and specifically buy its new software upgrade to the GSM base station, Evolved EDGE...

MWC: Linux platforms battle for attention 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Android prototypes dominated the Linux hype at the Mobile World Congress, but Google’s pet operating system wasn’t the only Linux platform to debut at annual GSM event...

MWC: WiMAX Forum to certify at 700 MHz 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--The WiMAX Forum today said it would include 700 MHz in its future certification profiles, creating a new opening for WiMAX vendors to sell their gear. With the forum officially pursuing 700 MHz, the stage may be set for a showdown between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution as both technologies are now targeted squarely at the spectrum...

MWC: Alcatel-Lucent, NEC form LTE venture 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Alcatel-Lucent and NEC are creating an joint venture focused solely on Long Term Evolution in a bid to bring the 4G technology to market as quickly as possible. The partnership, announced here at the Mobile World Congress, has been running on silent for the last six months, and has already defined an LTE base station design the two plan to begin production of this year...

MWC: Mobile TV gets a mixed report card  

By: Sarah Reedy

BARCELONA--Despite positive growth, many early adopters give up on mobile TV...