In the Spotlight: Juniper Networks' Stephen Elop
Stephen Elop joined Juniper Networks in January in the newly created post of chief operating officer. Formerly at Adobe Systems through its acquisition of Macromedia (where he was CEO), Elop spearheaded a sweeping internal overhaul of Juniper this year. He spoke to Telephony earlier this month about the changes...
Verizon’s FiOS gets 20-20 vision
Verizon Communications today launched a symmetric 20 Mb/s service over its FiOS network, setting a new industry standard for speed and addressing the growing need for upstream bandwidth to accommodate user-generated content...
AT&T “approaching” 10,000 IPTV installs per week
AT&T nearly doubled the weekly installation rate of its U-verse IPTV service in the third quarter, the company announced along with its quarterly earnings today...
TelcoTV: New video content, STB player emerges
ATLANTA--A new company has emerged, promising to give telecom service providers relatively easy entry into video services using a combination of wireless and wireline access and specially designed consumer equipment...
Render defends his FTTH data
Michael Render, president of RVA Market Research and Consulting, is defending the data in his most recent fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) report following questions from another analyst about its accuracy...
Verizon pursues P2P video
When Verizon's chief technology officer Mark Wegleitner spoke at Telephony LIVE this month about the promise of peer-to-peer networking for on-demand video distribution, he acknowledged the irony of a longtime opponent of piracy embracing P2P video-on-demand...
Occam board to give CEO M&A incentive
Amid a wave of investor disappointment, Occam Networks’ board of directors hope to amend the employment contract of the company’s chief executive, Bob Howard-Anderson, to remove any disincentive he might have to sell the company...
FTTH data under renewed scrutiny
Two weeks after the FTTH Council announced the number of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in North America had topped 2 million, another analyst is openly questioning the validity of those numbers...
Angry Occam investors call for management’s ouster
Filing restated financial reports for recent years this week, Occam Networks claimed to have put its long restatement process behind it. But investors on the company’s quarterly earnings conference call late Wednesday unleashed a barrage of scathing criticism...
AT&T, EchoStar speculation swells
There is a 65% chance that AT&T will buy EchoStar’s DISH Network satellite TV service within the next 12 months, according to Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet in a research report published today...
Adtran blames flat third quarter on two customers
Adtran blamed sequentially flat third-quarter revenue on two major carrier customers that significantly cut spending in the quarter...
Nortel settles SEC fraud case for $35M
The same day that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit alleging accounting fraud at Nortel Networks, the equipment vendor agreed to settle the case for $35 million, the SEC said today...
Infinera to raise more funds
Infinera is looking to raise more than $100 million in a new public offering of stock, the company announced late last week...
Telephony LIVE: Megacarrier RFPs loom large over tech innovation
DALLAS--Major carrier consolidation is adding both price and time pressure to equipment suppliers, raising questions about the prospects for technological innovation, according to attendees here at the Telephony LIVE show....
ECI Telecom introduces new broadband access features
ECI Telecom, the Israeli equipment vendor, today introduced new broadband access features to its Hi-FOCuS-5 Multi-Service Access Node product line, aimed at enhancing IPTV and video services...
Zhone mines fertile copper Ethernet market overseas
Zhone Technologies is taking advantage of a fertile market overseas for Ethernet over copper (EoC) equipment, introducing more EoC gear today and hailing what it claims is the world’s largest EoC deployment to date...
Q&A: Verizon's Terry Denson
Terry Denson, vice president of FiOS TV content strategy and acquisition for Verizon, spoke at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Orlando last week...
Funding the exaflood
Data-rich services may push up the price of broadband access...
Advertiser claims Verizon inflated FiOS numbers
Less than two weeks after Verizon Communications celebrated its two-year anniversary of FiOS TV, an advertiser is accusing the carrier of fudging subscriber data for the fiber-based service...
New Siemens CEO slams Nokia joint venture
Six months after the company launched a joint venture with Nokia, Siemens’ new Chief Executive Officer Peter Loescher said he is dissatisfied with the results...
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