Sprint looking for WiMAX options
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few weeks, numerous potential partners have emerged as possible saviors for Sprint’s ailing WiMAX efforts, but so far there’s been little substance to the rumors except for Sprint’s own admission it’s searching for a suitor...
New CEO Gerke vows to build on Embarq’s innovations
By: By Carol Wilson
As the newly named CEO of Embarq, Tom Gerke plans to focus on continuing the momentum Embarq has built selling new products, such as 10 Mb/s Internet access, a video sales portal and fixed-mobile convergence, and continue the company’s recent history as an innovator...
OFC: 40G, 100G debates die down
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Like last year, the evolution of 40-Gb/s and 100-Gb/s optical technology was a prominent topic at the OFC NFOEC show. But unlike last year, there is more agreement today about the timing of those technologies’ deployment in carrier networks....
Mobile ads: Will the carriers be left out?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As mobile advertising transforms into a multibillion-dollar business, the advertisers are ready to pounce. The only thing they’re missing is the valuable customer data that the operators have stored away in their databases...
IMS Plugfest tests BSS; Up next: cable, 4G
By: By Rich Karpinski
The IMS Forum today announced preliminary results of its fourth Plugfest for testing interoperability of IP Multimedia System applications and services, with a focus on bringing operations and billing systems into the fray...
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...
Sprint joins all-you-can eat line
By: By Sarah Reedy
In light of Sprint Nextel’s disappointing earnings in the fourth-quarter, the third-largest wireless carrier today announced it is following in its competitors’ footsteps by offering customers an $99 unlimited calling plan...
NXTcomm continues to spread wings
By: By Carol Wilson
NXTcomm, the telecom industry’s largest trade show, is continuing to try to expand its reach, attracting more enterprise customers by co-locating with the InfoComm show this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and expanding beyond network equipment to applications and even content...
Covergin extends SCIM to support Web services
By: By Rich Karpinski
Convergin this week added support for Java-based Web services to its service capability interaction manager (SCIM) platform, enabling carriers to link both their legacy and IMS-based networks to Web services...
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...
Pannaway adds GPON, 10 Gig Ethernet to access platform
By: Rich Karpinski
XO completes net upgrade, teams with Cisco
By: Carol Wilson
Pullen ready to hit ground running at Tellabs
By: By Carol Wilson
OFC: Verizon details plans to bring fiber to larger MDUs
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Verizon Communications is planning a major push of its fiber-to-the-home service into multidwelling units (MDUs) this year. Despite passing 2.1 million MDUs at the end of last year’s third quarter, Verizon’s FTTH network was only capable of serving 400,000 of them. The company’s technology director, Vincent O’Byrne, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins at the OFC show in San Diego this week about Verizon’s plans for MDUs this year....
OFC: Terabit Ethernet requires network overhaul
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Terabit Ethernet networks are coming, said Bob Metcalfe, a partner at Polaris Ventures who is credited with having invented Ethernet more than 35 years ago. But it’s not clear exactly when, he said. And it’s less clear what network architectures will be needed to enable them...
Google inches open GrandCentral
By: By Rich Karpinski
GrandCentral, Google’s Web-based unified communications play, began its slow escape out of private beta today with invites to the free service now available via Google’s blogging service, Blogger...
OFC: Qwest CTO maps optical’s future
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Pieter Poll, Qwest Communications’ chief technology officer, described some of the innovations critical to the future of optical networks, but he also identified hurdles to the commercial implementation of those innovations in a speech at the OFC NFOEC show today...
Comptel: Qwest Wholesale promises tighter customer focus
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--On the heels of its fourth consecutive customer service award from Atlantic ACM, Qwest Wholesale Markets is preparing to move things up a notch, according to its leadership...
NEC offers path to ‘light’ IMS
By: By Rich Karpinski
Recognizing IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) as an important end-point – but one that carriers need to approach pragmatically – network vendor NEC America today introduced its “light IMS” product set and migration path...
Comptel: CLECs should be better partners, Paetec CEO says
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--Competitive service providers should be buying and selling services more amongst themselves and being better partners, Paetec Chairman and CEO Arunas A. Chesonis told the Comptel crowd today...
Comptel: Hatteras lands another NW CLEC
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--For a North Carolina company, Hatteras Networks is getting quite a reputation in the Pacific Northwest. The Ethernet-over-copper gear maker today announced its fifth CLEC customer in that region in Quantum Communications, an Oregon-based local CLEC...
Comptel: Business assurance key for New Horizons
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--New Horizons Communications today said it has become a Vertek Financial Assurance customer, outsourcing its business assurance services to Vertek in order to better protect its bottom line...
Qwest seeks wireless partner
By: By Sarah Reedy
Qwest Communications is in need of new strategy for its wireless business, but the answer will not come from a physical investment, Qwest CEO Ed Mueller told investors today...
Comptel: Verizon to wholesale Integrated Optical Service
By: By Carol Wilson
NASHVILLE--Verizon Partner Solutions, the company’s wholesale arm, today announced a new Verizon Integrated Optical Service that incorporates ROADM capabilities into nodes or access points to enable a much wider variety of service offerings from a single point...
In-home 802.11n upgrades
By: Sarah Reedy
Juniper offers external control plane
By: Ed Gubbins
VC: Slowdown not a telecom phenomenon
By: By Carol Wilson
Even in uncertain times, venture capitalist Matt Rubins of M/C Venture Partners in Boston is still bullish on mobile broadband, CLEC investments and network infrastructure plays in 2008. Rubins spoke with Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson...
Gearing up for the digital revolution
By: By Sarah Reedy
At this time next year, the world will have gone through a digital revolution, making analog anything a thing of the past. In preparation for going all-digital, consumers are charged with putting together a digital environment that suits their own unique needs. Telecom analyst Carol Ingley felt the impending transition was so important that she started her own company, Media Mogul of the Home, and wrote a how-to book on the subject to be published in April. She shared with Associate News Editor Sarah Reedy why “digital” will be the buzzword of 2009...
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...
Wireless price wars unlimited
By: By Sarah Reedy
Despite much speculation, Sprint Nextel remained on the sidelines during last week’s race for flat-rate freedom...
