Broadband subscriber base to double by 2011
The number of broadband subscribers worldwide will nearly double over the next five years to more than half a billion, according to research analysis firm In-Stat...
Windstream grows NC presence with CT buy
Windstream will acquire CT Communications in the second half of this year for approximately $585 million, the companies said today. In the process, Windstream eliminates a growing competitor in a growing market...
Speculation swirls around Nortel, Avaya
Nortel Networks is among the companies in talks with Avaya about a possible acquisition, according to the Wall Street Journal...
Worldnet founder: Copper landlines gone by 2013
The copper “last mile” line to the house won’t exist in six years, according to Tom Evslin...
Asian broadband dominance grows
The influence of Asian markets on the broadband sector loomed ever larger in the first quarter, according to new data from Dittberner Associates. Trends in DSL and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment and subscribers were led by Asian carriers and vendors...
Analyst: Nortel mulling Juniper partnership
Nortel Networks may be evaluating a potential partnership with Juniper Networks, according to one Wall Street analyst...
Supreme Court backs dismissal of Bell anti-trust suit
The United States Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of Bell companies in upholding a district court’s dismissal of an antitrust suit against the carriers. According to the Court, the plaintiffs lacked enough facts to justify what it pointed out would be a very expensive evidence discovery process...
Carrier Access exposes Mangrove’s roots
Equipment vendor Carrier Access revealed new details last week surrounding Mangrove Systems, the company it acquired for $8 million in March. Mangrove had slightly more than $3 million in total assets at the end of last year—less than half their value a year earlier...
Juniper CEO vows internal overhaul
Speaking to investors at the company’s annual shareholder meeting today, Juniper Networks chief executive officer Scott Kriens vowed to improve the router vendor’s efficiency and productivity...
IP/MPLS edge spending surges
Global spending on service provider switching and routing equipment was up 12% from a year ago to $2.4 billion in the first quarter, according to Ovum-RHK...
Time Warner Telecom punts on new name
Time Warner Telecom has given itself more time to come up with a new name....
Cisco CRS-1 becomes billion-dollar business
Cisco Systems reported nearly $250 million in orders for its CRS-1 core router in the third fiscal quarter, implying a billion-dollar annual run rate for the three-year-old product...
Turin gets in T-1 bonding game
Turin Networks unveiled a new edge aggregation system today that bonds T-1 lines together to deliver Ethernet services over copper infrastructure...
Foundry makes service provider drive
With a recent boost from the federal government and enterprise customers, router vendor Foundry Networks is making an aggressive drive into the service...
IDC: PBT 'wildly over-hyped'
Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technology has been “wildly over-hyped” as a way to reduce carrier capital and operating expenditures, IDC analyst Eve Griliches said in a new report published today...
Extreme takes Ethernet aggregation down-market
Extreme Networks today introduced a scaled-down version of its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch for low-density applications...
Alltel launches ‘Day Pass’ access to mobile Internet
Alltel launched a new daily access plan to its mobile data services, designed to tempt customers into signing up for monthly data plans...
In the Spotlight: Adva CTO Christoph Glingener
In January, equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking named Christoph Glingener to the newly created post of chief technology officer. The former head of Siemens’ dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) group...
Zhone unveils optical transport gear
Zhone Technologies unveiled today the new optical transport platform it had promised to introduce in recent months...
AT&T names new CEO, chairman
Ed Whitacre, the chairman and CEO of AT&T, will retire in June, he announced at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Friday. Randall Stephenson, the company’s chief operating officer since 2004, will assume both roles....
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