Ericsson sees global network growth
Ericsson painted a rosy picture for future wireless infrastructure growth today, reporting moderate growth in its own network equipment in the 1st quarter and projecting mid-single-digit growth for GSM/W-CDMA networks for 2007...
Level 3 predicts CDN patent fights
In the midst of a much-publicized patent dispute between voice-over-IP (VoIP) provider Vonage and Verizon Communications, Level 3 Communications today foreshadowed increasing conflicts over intellectual property in the future and plans to participate in those fights in the content distribution arena...
Tellabs turning to partners for ONTs
Pinched by negative margins on its customer premises gear, Tellabs is considering turning to partners to help it supply optical network terminals (ONTs) to fiber access equipment customers such as Verizon Communications...
Alcatel-Lucent warns of a first-quarter slip
Alcatel-Lucent today warned that its first-quarter results, to be reported in May, will be worse than expected...
Motorola ups ante in video race with Terayon
Motorola continued its IPTV arms race today by announcing an acquisition of Terayon Communications, a vendor of digital video processing equipment...
Zhone moves into new optical trials
Zhone Technologies reported a 3% sequential revenue decline in the first quarter, as it continues to try to grow revenue from newer products faster than that from older products declines...
Iowa telcos seek FCC pressure on incumbents
A group of Iowa telcos and their conference calling partners are in Washington this week, hoping to convince the Federal Communications Commission to pressure large incumbents such as AT&T, Embarq, Qwest and Verizon to stop blocking calls and start paying about $20 million in back access charges...
AT&T’s U-Verse deployment gains speed
AT&T is accelerating its deployment of U-verse triple-play services, the company said today. The carrier claims to be averaging about 2,000 U-Verse installations a week now, five times the rate in January...
FTTH connections double in last four quarters
Of the 7.9 million homes in the U.S. that are passed by fiber optics, 1.34 million are now connected, which nearly doubles the number form March of last year...
Adtran comes out of the rough
Adtran today reported a return to healthy spending among major U.S. carriers in the first quarter despite earlier predictions of a lingering pause in their purchasing...
Ikanos gets into FTTH
Ikanos Communications, one of the world’s top suppliers of VDSL chips, entered the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) market this week with the introduction of a new residential gateway...
Icahn blasts Motorola board in open letter
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn appealed to Motorola shareholders to elect him to the company’s board in a letter dated yesterday. In the letter, which will be mailed to shareholders along with proxy ballots allowing them to elect him for the board, Icahn pledged to apply his business expertise to improve Motorola’s management...
Updated: Motorola to sell ECI gear
ECI Telecom has partnered with Motorola to penetrate the North American market, the companies announced today...
In the Spotlight: Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon Business
Last month, as director of network technology development for Verizon Business, Glenn Wellbrock announced the company’s first commercial 40 Gb/s deployments, saying it was necessary to relieve capacity constraints in some places but that the cost benefits aren’t there. He recently spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about deploying 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s networks, integrating optical and IP networks and breaking down the wall between routing guys and transport guys...
Nortel replaces CPO after a year
Nortel Networks is replacing its chief procurement officer a year and two months after appointing him, the company announced today...
Novel funding sources emerge
In a lackluster market for U.S. venture capital, telecom firms are increasingly turning to newer and more creative sources of funding...
Acquisition puts Sonus on edge
Two of Sonus Networks' strategic imperatives the last year or so have been to expand its wireless solutions and extend its focus from the network core out to the network edge...
Carriers decry 40 Gb/s prices
Capacity constraints might be pushing some carriers to upgrade their 10 Gb/s networks, but some of them are also warning equipment vendors that if 40 Gb/s gear is too expensive, it will be eclipsed by 100 Gb/s gear before long...
WDM-PON faces upstream battle
As Verizon begins deploying Gigabit passive optical networks this quarter, industry talk is increasing about a potential next step for WDM-PONs...
Cable bundles leaving telcos in the cold
An annual study of the battle for eyeballs between cable and telco rivals show cable companies are still winning the war, with no change expected soon...
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