Why Enablence is acquiring Wave7 Optics
Enablence Technologies, a four-year-old Canadian component vendor, has agreed to acquire fiber access equipment vendor Wave7 Optics....
Adtran’s latest gear gains momentum
Adtran is enjoying an increase in momentum for its new products, which helped the equipment vendor beat expectations in the first quarter, reporting a 1% sequential revenue growth in defiance of historical seasonal trends....
FairPoint: Now what?
With the merger finally closed, the real work begins...
Fiber beat still pulses at Bristol
Bristol, a municipality with one name, two states and two separate local governments, might be considered the poster child for municipally owned fiber networks. Bristol Virginia Utilities was a pioneer of locally owned fiber networks, building its own fiber rings in 1999 and becoming a triple-play provider of voice, data and video in 2003...
New funds take Ohio muni fiber model nationwide
The community/municipal network market might not be grabbing as many headlines these days but it hasn’t gone away. Just yesterday, the Knight Foundation agreed to pay up to $25 million for OneCommunity, a Cleveland-based non-profit group that operates a fiberoptic network in northeast Ohio, to share its approach with 25 other “Knight Communities” scattered around the US....
Level 3 aims to make long-tail content cost-effective
Level 3 Communications today announced a new aspect to its Content Delivery Network that makes it more cost-effective for content owners to distribute a broader array of content, including the so-called “long-tail” niche content that has its own challenges...
Level 3 European CEO, content president resigns
Brady Rafuse, president and chief operating officer of Level 3 Communications’ European business and president of its content markets group, has resigned, the company confirmed to Telephony today...
FTTH now being sold to 10M US homes
Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is now being marketed to more than 10 million North American homes, according to the latest report from RVA Market Research & Consulting. ...
Photuris acquired a third time
Xtera Communications’ acquisition of Meriton Networks for an undisclosed sum gets the long-haul optical equipment vendor into the hot market for metro transport gear based on Provider Backbone Transport (PBT). ...
Tellabs’ post-Verizon PON business in doubt
Tellabs’ decision to walk away from a contract to supply Verizon Communications with gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear has raised doubts about the vendor’s participation in the overall PON market....
Big all-optical switches are coming back
Despite the failure of a wave of all-optical switches near the turn of the century, a new market for large all-optical switches is opening up this year, according to one trusted source...
Martin takes reins at Aktino
Industry veteran Lonnie Martin, a longtime ADC Telecommunications executive who also helped found White Rock, has stepped in to lead Aktino, an Ethernet-over-copper company hoping to capitalize on the current boom...
XO's big bet pays off
XO Communications privately presented the chart below to top investors last December to illustrate the carrier's recent and dramatic shift in spending...
Indoor ONT market matures
Optical network terminals, the customer premises gear in fiber-to-the-premises networks, are increasingly moving from outside the home to indoors, as more equipment vendors offer that option...
Light-labeling in optical networks
For the past few years, AT&T Labs has been tinkering with a technology called "light-labeling," which can help monitor and manage performance in optical networks...
Tellabs’ rebound postponed, analyst says
Tellabs’ optical strength may offset other issues...
Are further splits in Motorola's future?
Motorola announced Wednesday that it planned to spin off its mobile phone business into a separately traded company, unlocking the value of that division as well as giving new focus to its infrastructure group. But if focusing on core businesses is the goal of Moto’s restructuring, does that mean further subdivisions of the company are waiting?...
Alcatel-Lucent claims to leapfrog edge router leaders
Alcatel-Lucent says the new edge routing products it introduced today give it a jump on market leaders Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, offering terabit-per-second capacity in a single chassis. But it’s not clear how Alcatel’s latest offering will stack up against new edge gear expected from Cisco later this year...
FTTP innovations aid Verizon’s push into big MDUs
The announcement this week that Verizon Communications was installing its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network in its largest apartment complex to date is emblematic of what the company has planned for New York City and elsewhere...
SureWest adds home monitoring to triple play
SureWest Communications announced a new remote monitoring service Tuesday that allows users to keep tabs on their home while they’re away, using live video and alerts....
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