Cisco CRS-1 becomes billion-dollar business
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems reported nearly $250 million in orders for its CRS-1 core router in the third fiscal quarter, implying a billion-dollar annual run rate for the three-year-old product...
NCTA: Comcast more interested in next-gen mobile
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Comcast is more interested in using the AWS spectrum it purchased to explore what’s coming next in mobility and wireless than in offering “just another cell phone,” Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said Tuesday...
NCTA: Media execs fear government, not Google
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Major media executives expressed more impassioned concern over unnecessary government regulation than encroachment on their turf by new media companies such as Yahoo! and Google...
Icahn bid for Moto board seat fails
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though the vote tally is not yet official, billionaire investor Carl Icahn conceded last night that he hadn’t garnered the necessary support to take over a Motorola board seat in his proxy fight with the handset giant...
NCTA: Tandberg unveils SDV system
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS – Tandberg Television, now part of the Ericsson empire, this week launched its new switched digital video system, promising a massively scalable, fully redundant platform to enable cable companies to add more capacity to current networks...
NCTA: Putting the genie back in the bottle
By: By Carol Wilson
The U.S. cable industry appears poised, and even eager, to convince consumers they don’t want to skip ads after all...
Turin gets in T-1 bonding game
By: By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks unveiled a new edge aggregation system today that bonds T-1 lines together to deliver Ethernet services over copper infrastructure...
NCTA: Martin confronts his cable critics
By: Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS – The chairman came, he talked, he left. But at least he showed up. ...
Fast enough for you?
By: By Ed Gubbins
The telecom industry has forever wrestled with the question of how much bandwidth to deliver to residential consumers. But this year, a chorus of authoritative voices is offering new proposals for specific speed goals...
Foundry makes service provider drive
By: By Ed Gubbins
With a recent boost from the federal government and enterprise customers, router vendor Foundry Networks is making an aggressive drive into the service...
Telkomsel expands Tektronix relationship
By: By Dan O'Shea
Indonesian mobile operator Tekomsel has expanded an existing vendor relationship with Tektronix for the vendor’s network management and diagnostics solutions, including protocol analyzers, to be used in the carrier’s new test labs...
Cogent to double pace of connections
By: By Ed Gubbins
Having declared positive cash flow today for the first time in its eight-year history, Cogent Communications vowed to double the pace at which it connects buildings to its network this year...
The hunt for the next RAZR
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After a long period of resurgence, Motorola has fallen out of favor in the last year. It has seen its seemingly unstoppable climb back to the top of the...
IPTV in China: Shanghai surprises
By: By Carol Wilson
Successful enough for DaZhong Zhang, vice president of Shanghai Media Group and CEO of its IPTV joint venture, BesTV, to feel in the position to offer advice to what he sees as a laggard IPTV market – the U.S...
Nokia Siemens to cut 9000 jobs; layoffs start in Europe
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks today said the company would cut 9000 jobs, about 15% of its total staff, over the next four years as part of an integration program designed to save the combined company EUR 1.5 billion (U.S. $2 billion) annually by 2010...
Nortel’s good quarter raises doubts about second half
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks beat Wall Street analysts’ expectations in the first quarter, but part of its success has analysts suspecting a hard time for the vendor in the second half of the year, particularly in its Carrier Networks division. ...
Verizon ‘say on pay’ vote close
By: By Carol Wilson
An effort by dissident shareholders to get a voice on executive pay at Verizon has apparently generated enough support that the votes cast at yesterday’s shareholder meeting will have to be recounted....
Vonage won’t get retrial
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has refused to grant Vonage a retrial of the patent case it lost against Verizon Communications earlier this year. ...
M5 gets aggressive on Voice as Service
By: By Carol Wilson
M5 Networks, the competitive service provider serving mid-sized companies in New York and Chicago with hosted VoIP and advanced features, is getting more aggressive with its marketing message, deciding to proclaim “The end of the Phone System.”...
Microsoft buys mobile ad company
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft today said it has agreed to buy mobile advertising firm ScreenTonic for an undisclosed amount, marking the software giant’s commercial entrance into the infant mobile ad space...
Peak8 offers customer service solution
By: By Carol Wilson
A new Web service is claiming to offer broadband service providers an opportunity to turn their current customer service problems into a revenue center with a higher quality of customer satisfaction...
Martin publicly opposes call blocking
By: By Carol Wilson
According to multiple accounts published on the Web, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said today that the commission has instructed large telcos such as AT&T and Qwest not to block calls placed to smaller LECs that are actually being routed overseas or to conference calling facilities...
IDC: PBT 'wildly over-hyped'
By: By Ed Gubbins
Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technology has been “wildly over-hyped” as a way to reduce carrier capital and operating expenditures, IDC analyst Eve Griliches said in a new report published today...
USTelecom supports USF cap
By: By Tim McElligott
Walter McCormick, president and CEO of trade association USTelecom, threw his organization’s weight behind a recommendation from the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service this week to temporarily cap further growth of fund distribution to wireless carriers and competitive service providers....
Virgin Mobile to go public
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Virgin Mobile USA has filed plans with the SEC to issue up to $100 million in stock, taking public the venture between Sprint and the U.K.’s Virgin Group...
Citizens off to good start in '07
By: By Tim McElligott
Citizens Communications included the results of recently acquired Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises in its earnings call today and reported first quarter revenue of $556.1 million....
Sprint slips into the red
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint reported a $211 million loss for the 1st quarter as the company continues to shed postpaid customers and lose ground to its two larger competitors AT&T and Verizon Wireless...
Airvana acquires UMTS/femtocell firm
By: By Dan O'Shea
The acquisition comes as Airvana has been broadening its technology strategy toward fixed-mobile convergence, in-building solutions and universal gateways that provide access to core network services for UMTS, CDMA2000, Wi-Fi and other IP-based wireless devices...
Extreme takes Ethernet aggregation down-market
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks today introduced a scaled-down version of its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch for low-density applications...
Alltel launches ‘Day Pass’ access to mobile Internet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel launched a new daily access plan to its mobile data services, designed to tempt customers into signing up for monthly data plans...
