Calient doubles down
With a new chief executive officer and new funding, Calient Networks isn’t adopting a new strategy—it’s just promising a more aggressive pursuit of its previous plans....
Qwest CEO: It’s the interface, stupid
Edward Mueller’s view of the future sets him apart from most telecom CEOs. He’s not building Qwest into a company that will deliver its own voice, data, video and wireless services to its consumer customers. Instead, Mueller is pointing Qwest toward a different kind of future...
Sharedband launching bonded DSL in Seattle this week
British startup Sharedband expects to launch its bonded broadband offering in the United States this week, starting in Seattle and planning to expand throughout the country this year...
Verizon sees no slowdown
Verizon today confirmed what AT&T said last week -- if there is an economic slowdown taking place, it isn’t having a major impact on the telecom business...
Churn plagues Provo's muni fiber network
Defending the city's wholesale fiber-to-the-premises network initiative this month, Lewis Billings, the mayor of Provo, Utah, told local press that subscriber growth has been substantial over the life of the project...
Juniper CEO boasts Ethernet validation
In Juniper Networks’ fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday, CEO Scott Kriens continued to tough-talk carrier Ethernet equipment vendors. But this time, he had more numbers to back him up...
AT&T: Pair-bonding to come in ‘late 2008’
AT&T said today it expects to begin pair-bonding advanced DSL lines in “late 2008,” pushing back the expected arrival of what the company says is an important part of its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) initiative...
New CEO describes Sorrento’s second life
Though optical transport equipment vendor Sorrento Networks was absorbed by Zhone Technologies in 2004, a new incarnation of Sorrento launched this month, acquiring those products back from Zhone. Its CEO Jim Nevelle spoke with Telephony about the startup’s plans...
Why Ciena acquired Worldwide Packets
Ciena’s surprise announcement of its plans to acquire Ethernet access vendor Worldwide Packets left some analysts scratching their heads yesterday, largely because Ciena declined to offer many details on key justifications for the deal and its terms...
Grande’s Texas triple-play network goes up for sale
Texas cable overbuilder Grande Communications announced today it was pursuing “strategic alternatives,” potentially selling its fiber network and triple-play business...
Q&A: Gillis Cashman, MC Venture Partners
After eight years at MC Venture Partners, Gillis Cashman made partner this month at the venture capital firm, which focuses on technology and communications startups. Cashman, who sits on the boards of Cavalier Telephone, Zayo Bandwidth and cable player Baja Broadband, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about the future of CLECs and current economic trends shaping the telecom service provider space and investment in it...
XO shakes up pricing models
XO Communications continued its aggressive assault on the competitive services market today with a new pricing strategy that lets customers pay strictly for bandwidth and not for a specific number of access lines...
Anticipation grows for Tellabs M&A
After having cooled in the second half of last year, expectations for a Tellabs acquisition are rising once again with the start of the new year...
Triple-play prices grow more elastic
As competition heats up for triple-play telecom services, the prices for those offerings are becoming more elastic—something customers are finding when they threaten to switch providers...
New Edge brings CoS to ADSL
New Edge Networks is keeping its promise to bring a better quality ADSL service to small to mid-sized businesses, announcing today it will introduce class-of-service offerings that allow customers to tag and prioritize services over ADSL lines...
MegaPath adds ADSL 2+
Competitive service provider MegaPath today announced its ADSL 2+ offering, which it is delivering using the Covad Communications service footprint. ...
Rivulet CEO Ed Kennedy on fine-tuning IP networks
Earlier this week, former Tellabs executive Ed Kennedy was named chief executive officer of Rivulet Communications, a new equipment startup aimed at improving service quality in IP networks...
Qwest charts different video course
While AT&T and Verizon aggressively deploy video services via their U-Verse and FiOS TV offerings, respectively, Qwest Communications is pursuing a very different video strategy...
Verizon COO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
Verizon Communications is not seeing the same slowdown in consumer markets that AT&T reported this week, according to Denny Strigl, Verizon’s chief operating officer...
Ex-Tellabs exec Ed Kennedy now CEO of Rivulet
Break time is over for Ed Kennedy. The former president of Tellabs’ North America division, who was once considered a likely candidate to become Tellabs’ chief executive, is now leading a new telecom equipment start-up. ...
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