In the Spotlight: Adva CTO Christoph Glingener
By: By Ed Gubbins
In January, equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking named Christoph Glingener to the newly created post of chief technology officer. The former head of Siemens’ dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) group...
BT outlines new management structure
By: By Dan O'Shea
BT has made several new management appointments following last week’s reorganization of the company into two new business units and the naming of Andy Green as BT’s CEO of Group Strategy and Operations...
Narad becomes PhyFlex
By: 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...
Greenquist takes over at Telcordia
By: By Tim McElligott
Telcordia lured Daniel Carroll out of retirement two years ago to bring discipline to the company’s operations, strengthen its relationships with core carrier customers and grow its business internationally. With that done, according to the company, Carroll will step aside tomorrow to let Mark Greenquist take over....
Verizon Business offers voice quality tools
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced new ways for its enterprise customers to insure they maintain voice quality when converging services onto a single data pipe...
Meru launches 802.11n line
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Meru Networks today unveiled a line of enterprise wireless LAN equipment based on the still-under-development IEEE 802.11n standard, joining the growing line of WLAN vendors choosing to commercially launch the robust broadband technology before it the standard is finalized...
Zhone unveils optical transport gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies unveiled today the new optical transport platform it had promised to introduce in recent months...
Profits down but Verizon sees growth
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today reported growth in its first-quarter revenues, particularly its Verizon Wireless operations, but saw profits shrink 8.4%, due in part to FiOS costs and the divestiture of two business units...
AT&T names new CEO, chairman
By: Ed Gubbins
Ed Whitacre, the chairman and CEO of AT&T, will retire in June, he announced at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Friday. Randall Stephenson, the company’s chief operating officer since 2004, will assume both roles....
Alltel boosts revenues, subs
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Leading rural wireless provider Alltel added 237,000 subscribers in the 1st quarter and boosted revenues 13% to 2 billion. The carrier now has just over 12 million customers, up 11% from the first quarter of last year...
Moving fuels shift from wireline service
By: By Carol Wilson
New research is showing that almost half of all households that move shift their new telecom service to a non-traditional service provider such as a wireless operator, a cable company or a VoIP provider...
U.S. still ‘trouble’ for Extreme
By: By Ed Gubbins
The U.S. remains a “trouble spot” for Extreme Networks, the company reported along with its fiscal third-quarter earnings Thursday...
NetCracker at the center of another transformation
By: By Tim McElligott
CHICAGO. NetCracker Technology said from the show floor at TeleStrategies’ Billing & OSS World that its service and network provisioning solution will help another Tier 1 operator transform its business. Amsterdam’s UPC broadband, Europe’s largest cable operator will transform its service layer using NetCracker’s technology. ...
Nortel lands WiMAX contract in Quad-Cities
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is laying down a mobile and fixed WiMAX network in the Quad Cities, a group of four cities in western Iowa and eastern Illinois clustered around the Mississippi Riv...
Oracle putting weight behind communications group
By: By Tim McElligott
CHICAGO--Oracle used TeleStrategies’ Billing and OSS Worlds stage this week to promote continuing enhancements to the software applications that now make up its communications global business unit, particularly in billing and revenue management...
Ericsson sees global network growth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson painted a rosy picture for future wireless infrastructure growth today, reporting moderate growth in its own network equipment in the 1st quarter and projecting mid-single-digit growth for GSM/W-CDMA networks for 2007...
Level 3 predicts CDN patent fights
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the midst of a much-publicized patent dispute between voice-over-IP (VoIP) provider Vonage and Verizon Communications, Level 3 Communications today foreshadowed increasing conflicts over intellectual property in the future and plans to participate in those fights in the content distribution arena...
Norwegian company buys Valere Power
By: By Tim McElligott
Launching a start-up in 2001 and growing it through the downturn into a market leader in the North American DC power equipment market as Valere Power did must have shown something to Norway’s Eltek ASA...
Qtel to buy majority of telco in Pakistan
By: By Dan O'Shea
Qatar Telecom is continuing its expansion into new markets with the opening of its home market to competition earlier this year...
Qualcomm grows as Nokia face-off looms
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm today reported record shipments of its voice and data radio chipsets for its fiscal second quarter ending April 1...
Tellabs turning to partners for ONTs
By: By Ed Gubbins
Pinched by negative margins on its customer premises gear, Tellabs is considering turning to partners to help it supply optical network terminals (ONTs) to fiber access equipment customers such as Verizon Communications...
Icahn gets backing in Moto board fight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola management’s efforts to keep upstart billionaire investor Carl Icahn off the board were rebuffed by a shareholder advisory service today, increasing the pressure on Motorola to open up to Icahn’s proposal to overhaul the company’s business model...
Vonage gets to keep selling
By: By Dan O'Shea
Vonage can continue to recruit new voice over IP customers while it appeals the ruling that its VoIP service violates three patents held by Verizon. ...
AT&T mobile unit growth slows
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the middle of AT&T’s massive rebranding campaign of Cingular, the wireless business unit lost a bit of its momentum, adding 1.2 million net subscribers in the first quarter compared to the 2.4 million it added in Q4 of last year...
Updated: Tellabs suffers from drop in FTTC sales to BellSouth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs reported a drop in first-quarter revenue today driven by weaker sales of fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) equipment to BellSouth following that carrier’s acquisition by AT&T...
Integrated OSS/BSS tops carrier back office wish list
By: By Tim McElligott
According to results released today from a survey commissioned by Amdocs, the top priority of service providers when it comes to their back office is an integrated operations and business support system portfolio....
Alcatel-Lucent warns of a first-quarter slip
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent today warned that its first-quarter results, to be reported in May, will be worse than expected...
China IPTV market ready to bust out?
By: By Carol Wilson
HANGZHOU, China--The co-founder of a leading Chinese telecom equipment vendor is predicting that China soon will be the largest IPTV market in the world, with as many as 1 million subscribers by year’s end, because it has overcome the significant barriers to deployment of the new technology...
MFA Forum tackles backhaul
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The MFA Forum, which promotes deployment of multi-protocol label switching, has launched a new initiative to address the role of IP/MPLS for backhaul transport of traffic from mobile radio access networks...
Leapstone joins Oracle SDP club
By: By Tim McElligott
Oracle revved up its content and service delivery message machine last week at NAB2007 in Las Vegas with several announcements involving deployments with media and entertainment companies and demonstrations of its partner-based solutions...
