Occam outgrows Tellabs partnership
Occam Networks’ three-year partnership with Tellabs expires this month, without having generated much revenue....
Former White Rock CEO to lead Aktino
Industry veteran Lonnie Martin, a longtime ADC Telecommunications executive who also helped found White Rock Networks, has stepped in to lead Aktino....
XO weighs debt options in a difficult market
XO Communications is mulling a range of options for paying down its $377 million in debt amid a turbulent credit market. ...
Adva CEO: How AT&T is holding Ciena ‘hostage’
Adva Optical Networking announced restructuring moves this week after reporting a disappointing” 2007. On the company’s quarterly earnings call Tuesday, CEO Brian Protiva spoke out on a number of topics in response to analyst questions...
Zhone adds active Ethernet option
Zhone Technologies introduced active Ethernet equipment to its access portfolio today, adding active Ethernet modules to its access platform as well as new customer premises gear, giving carriers the option of high-speed broadband over point-to-point fiber....
ECI unveils MPLS-based Ethernet platform
ECI Telecom today introduced a suite of carrier Ethernet gear spanning from metro core networks to customer premises....
Optical market hits six-year high
Last year was the best one for the optical equipment market since 2001, according to analysts...
Telepresence: Ready for its close-up
Late arrivals and missed connections could be a thing of the past if telepresence continues to gain popularity among high-flying executives...
Pushing copper's speed limits
Equipment vendors are discovering new ways to get more bandwidth out of copper access lines...
Middleware snags stalling HD, DVR rollouts
Shortcomings in middleware are causing headaches among some rural telcos, interfering with their plans to offer high-definition (HD) video and digital video recorder (DVR) services....
More PBT control planes coming soon
Though Soapstone Networks took the lead in addressing the market for a control plane to manage Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) networks, it won’t be alone for long. ...
Verizon beefs up DSL
Verizon Communications, which has come under fire for neglecting its non-FiOS customers, today said it is rolling 7 Megabit per second DSL service in 12 Eastern states and the District of Columbia by the end of 2008....
Ixia goes end-to-end on IPTV quality
Ixia today announced an end-to-end triple-play quality assurance system that the IP performance testing company has been developing with Bell Canada for more than two years. ...
Nortel takes novel approach to 40G, 100G
Nortel Networks introduced new equipment today allowing carriers to migrate from 10 Gb/s links to 40 Gb/s and eventually 100 Gb/s. A key aspect of the new gear is its ability to enable these migrations while maintaining the characteristics of the existing network—something Nortel achieved through a novel approach that applies wireless technology to optical networks...
Extreme beefs up PBT
Extreme Networks made a string announcements today aimed at enabling broader deployment of Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technology, the connection-oriented Ethernet transport technology championed by Nortel Networks and others....
Why Ciena sees an even brighter year ahead
Ciena continues to benefit from a booming optical market, raising its annual revenue expectations today after a successful 2007. But the company said it’s also taking advantage of the difficulties rival vendors are having in integrating mergers and acquisitions...
Zayo still on acquisition prowl
Tight capital markets may have slowed telecom consolidation in 2008, but Zayo Bandwidth is not deterred. The company went public last summer with its strategy of acquiring fiber assets in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and has lived up to that plan, with a total of six acquisitions...
Verizon strives to automate fiber patch panels
Verizon Business is testing various ways to remotely reconfigure patch panels--the thousands of short fiber connections between transport, switching and outside plant equipment in every central office. And a small group of innovative equipment vendors are offering a range of options for doing just that...
Verizon Business certifies Overture gear
Ethernet access gear-maker Overture Networks today announced that its equipment has been certified by Verizon Business, enabling Overture gear to be installed at customer premises and Verizon co-location sites in order to deliver Ethernet services over copper and fiber lines...
Cisco unveils compact new edge router
Cisco Systems today unveiled a new edge router powered by its own silicon designs, trumpeting the new product’s compact form factor and built-in functionality...
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