Qwest names new CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Qwest Communications has named Edward Mueller its new chief executive officer, replacing Richard Notebaert, who retires on Wednesday...
LightEdge uses Actelis to displace T-1s
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed service provider LightEdge Solutions said today it is deploying Actelis Ethernet-over-copper products to offer voice, data and network service bundles to small to mid-sized businesses in six Midwestern and Southwestern states...
Former SunRocket users still suffering
By: By Carol Wilson
A group of former SunRocket VoIP subscribers are still suffering the ill effects of that company’s demise, as the transition to new VoIP operators has been bumpy...
IP services brighten XO Holdings’ Q2 picture
By: By Mark Donahue
Despite positive gains for its IP services, XO Holdings posted a slightly higher net loss for the second-quarter this week and saw a dip in revenue over the same period...
Muni Wi-Fi boosted by post-disaster performance
By: By Carol Wilson
The performance of the still-nascent Minneapolis Wi-Fi network following the collapse of the Minneapolis I-35 bridge last week should inspire other municipalities to consider being anchor tenants of their own municipal Wi-Fi networks, according to one industry observer...
Global Crossing gets mixed results in Q2
By: By Mark Donahue
Global Crossing reported second-quarter results today that saw the service provider suffer a net loss despite higher revenues...
EarthLink unwires Corpus Christi
By: By Carol Wilson
Today at 10:30 a.m., the wires will be cut in Corpus Christi, as EarthLink announces the completion of the citywide Wi-Fi network there. What began as a city-run network to enable more efficient reading of gas meters now becomes a privately owned network, as Corpus Christi’s city government becomes both the anchor tenant and the fiber network provider to EarthLink’s wireless Internet access service...
Cisco touts collaboration, Web 2.0 as earnings rise
By: By Rich Karpinski
Cisco reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, and boosted its guidance for the year, driven by emerging video, collaboration and Web 2.0-style applications that CEO John Chambers said are increasing the demands placed on enterprise and carrier networks...
Microsoft Silverlight scores with MLB
By: By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft rolled out its first high-profile deployment of a Web site based on its Silverlight rich media platform this week at MLB.com...
Google adds ads to Map mashups
By: By Rich Karpinski
Google has quietly released new functionality for its Google Maps API that lets developers add AdSense text ads to Google Maps they create...
After profits tumble, Sprint sees better days
By: By Carol Wilson
Sprint Nextel saw its second quarter profits fall 95% over the second quarter of 2006, but Sprint Nextel Chairman and CEO Gary Forsee emphasized the company’s position for growth in addressing industry analysts...
Smoothstone adds call routing to IP services
By: By Rich Karpinski
Smoothstone IP Communications, a provider of converged IP services for mid-sized enterprises, this month will unveil new tools to enable its users to control how calls are routed and queued over its network...
Policy makers seek stronger E911 solutions for VoIP
By: By Joan Engebretson
New legislation and a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) from the Federal Communications Commission aim to address lingering incompatibilities between emergency number or 911 service and voice-over-IP service...
Calix quietly raises $75M
By: By Ed Gubbins
Calix sold nearly $75 million in preferred stock this summer without publicly announcing the transaction, dampening speculation that the equipment vendor might go public any time soon...
AT&T expands U-verse to Oklahoma City
By: By Mark Donahue
AT&T announced the launch today of its U-verse service for parts of the Oklahoma City area...
Cisco co-founder launches DWDM start-up
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems co-founder Len Bosack is launching a new equipment start-up today aimed at bringing optical networking to people who are more comfortable with routers than optics...
Caspian founder launches edge router start-up
By: By Ed Gubbins
The founder of router vendor Caspian Networks has launched a new company he hopes will apply Caspian’s concepts to a more cost-effective set of products. ...
Sycamore discontinues another Eastern Research product
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks decided late last month to discontinue marketing or developing the BSG line of products it obtained through its acquisition of Eastern Research last year...
NXTcomm draws 15,000+
By: By Carol Wilson
NXTcomm officials will release their audited attendance numbers next week, showing that the first-ever event in Chicago in June drew 15,273 people in total, 8202 of which conference and exhibit attendees...
Acquisition boosts CenturyTel in Q2
By: By Mark Donahue
CenturyTel reported solid second-quarter earnings today as the rural service provider’s acquisition of Madison River Communications positively impacted revenues and access line and Internet user numbers. ...
Alcatel-Lucent cancels Adva orders
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent pulled away from its partnership with Adva Optical Networking in the second quarter, dragging down Adva’s revenue and even canceling some existing orders for Adva’s wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) gear, Adva said today...
Muni Wi-Fi: Its limitations
By: By Carol Wilson
The recent spate of criticism regarding municipal Wi-Fi networks falls into two different categories: technology and business case. Read part three of this special report on muni Wi-Fi...
AT&T Wireless approves Wavecom M2M solution
By: By Joan Engebretson
AT&T Wireless customers that use cellular service for machine-to-machine communications should require fewer service calls for equipment upgrades in the future...
Nortel North America president resigns
By: By Ed Gubbins
The president of Nortel Networks’ North American operations will resign at the end of this month, the company announced late Wednesday...
Carrier Access axes management, seeks buyer
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carrier Access has replaced two co-founders on its management team--including its chief executive officer--both of whom will focus now on exploring “strategic alternatives” for the company as its revenue continues to dwindle...
Qwest close to new CEO, Notebaert said
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications’ outgoing Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert hinted broadly this morning that an announcement is forthcoming of his replacement. In the Q&A session following what could be his last earnings call with Qwest, Notebaert told analysts the new executive will be announced “sooner rather than later.”...
AT&T pledges IPTV network overhaul in BellSouth territory
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T today announced plans to bring its U-verse video broadband service to South Carolina, a state formerly in BellSouth territory...
Infinera revenue explodes
By: By Ed Gubbins
In its first quarter as a public company, equipment vendor Infinera reported more than $58 million in second-quarter revenue, a nearly 19% increase sequentially and a 1360% increase from a year earlier...
Alcatel-Lucent defends against price attacks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent’s second-quarter revenue beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts but fell short of earnings expectations, leading many analysts to focus on the vendor’s margins...
Study claims telcos can overtake cable
By: By Carol Wilson
A new consumer satisfaction study by the Cloes Fornell International Group reports that consumers say they will consider a service bundle sold by a telecom company over one sold by a cable company, and casts some doubts on whether the first-mover benefit is as significant as conventional wisdom would dictate...
