Verizon launches ROADM-based service
Verizon Business today announced a new optical networking service for enterprises based on reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) from Tellabs...
India’s Reliance acquires Yipes
Reliance Communications, one of India’s largest telecom carriers, has agreed to acquire San Francisco, Calif.,-based Ethernet service provider Yipes Enterprise Services for nearly $300 million in cash, the companies announced today...
Alcatel-Lucent claims two of three Networx teams
Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary LGS today touted a partnership with Qwest Communications to bid for government services as part of the multiyear, multibillion-dollar “Networx Universal” program, but the vendor also confirmed today that it is part of a team competing with Qwest for those contracts as well...
Carrier Access officers decline pay amid new cuts
Carrier Access announced new restructuring plans late Monday after disclosing preliminary second-quarter results that fell below expectations...
Juniper shrinks broadband router
Juniper Networks introduced a new smaller version of its E320 broadband services router (BSR) today...
NXTcomm highlights
The brand new trade show provided a venue for what's next in telecom, including new thinking about the customer experience...
Motorola cuts 2100 in second quarter
About 2100 employees left Motorola in the second quarter as part of a planned reduction of about 7500, the company said in regulatory filings late Thursday...
Telus could be next takeover target
In the wake of an offer from private equity players to acquire Bell Canada, the country’s second biggest telecom carrier, Telus, may be the next takeover target for investors, Canaccord Adams analyst David Lambert said in a research note this week...
Analyst revises optical commoditization views
he optical transport equipment sector is not ripe for commoditization, Nyquist Capital General Partner Andrew Schmitt wrote in a blog this week, correcting an earlier opinion...
Investors offer $1.2 billion for ECI
ECI Telecom has agreed to be acquired by a group of investors for $1.2 billion, the company announced today...
Sycamore cuts 10% of staff
Sycamore Networks will cut 10% of its workforce this month, or 46 employees, the company announced Friday...
In the Spotlight: John Hawkins, Nortel Networks
Amid multivendor interoperability demonstrations at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago this month, Nortel Networks announced the formation of what it called a ‘PBT ecosystem’ comprised of vendors working together to publicize Provider Backbone Transport technology, a connection-oriented layer-two-based approach to Ethernet transport. John Hawkins, Nortel’s manager of carrier Ethernet marketing, spoke about Nortel’s PBT plans in advance of the show...
Covad cuts staff
Covad Communications cut 8% of its workforce in the second quarter, the company announced today...
CommScope to buy Andrew for $2.6 billion
Perhaps the second time is the charm for CommScope and Andrew. The companies announced a definitive agreement under which CommScope will acquire Andrew for about $2.6 billion (about $15 per share) in a transaction that will be at least 90% cash-based...
Adva takes aim at ‘God boxes’
At the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last week, Adva Optical Networking’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Protiva vowed to be nimbler and more cost-competitive than rival vendors with versatile multiservice transport platforms (MSTPs) aimed at metro networks...
In the Spotlight: Jeff Weber, AT&T
At a panel discussion on the future of video services at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last Tuesday, Jeff Weber, AT&T’s vice president of video products, fielded questions on a variety of IPTV topics, bringing his own experience to bear as a telco video veteran...
Sycamore sales VPs dwarf CEO pay
When he resigned as Sycamore Networks’ top sales officer last fall, Araldo Menegon was earning more than four times what his boss was...
RCN acquires Neon Communications
RCN has agreed to acquire Neon Communications for about $260 million in cash, expanding the carrier’s reach and presence in the Northeast...
Verizon links with Softbank
Verizon Business said today it has entered into a strategic alliance with SoftBank Telecom to share networks and services for multinational customers doing business in Japan...
NXTcomm survey: Spending growth ahead
A survey of 678 telecom industry professionals conducted at NXTcomm in Chicago this week by Tellabs and Telephony magazine found that a whopping 96% of respondents believe that network infrastructure spending will increase during the second half of the year...
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