Level 3 doubles CEO’s salary
Level 3 Communications doubled the salary of its chief executive officer, James Crowe, in February, following a highly acquisitive year for the company...
Carrier Access cuts costs as revenues dwindle
Carrier Access is restructuring some operations to cut costs this year after another disappointing quarter...
Hammerhead offers PBT/MPLS gateway
Edge networking vendor Hammerhead Systems today introduced a software-based solution for interworking provider backbone transport (PBT) technology with its sometimes rival, multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS)...
Level 3 completes AT&T asset buy
Divestiture orders are spreading AT&T and Verizon fiber assets through the competitive industry. Level 3 Communications today announced that it has completed the acquisition of fiber assets from AT&T in Detroit, Hartford, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Francisco and St. Louis...
Ciena searches for new CFO
Ciena has begun looking for a replacement for Joe Chinnici, who will resign his position as the company’s chief financial officer by the end of this year. Chinnici worked for the optical equipment vendor for 12 years...
Alcatel-Lucent acquires ROADM vendor Tropic
Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to acquire optical equipment vendor Tropic Networks for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced today. The two have been partners since they jointly pursued a deal to supply reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) to SBC Communications in 2004...
Freescale, Alcatel unveil GPON SoC
Freescale Semiconductor announced the introduction of its system-on-a-chip (SoC) for gigabit passive optical networks (GPON) today...
In the Spotlight: Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner
At the Optical Fiber Communications conference this week, Verizon Communications named the first two locations it will commercially deploy gigabit passive optical networks (GPON)--a higher-speed version of its current fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology. Mark Wegleitner, the carrier’s chief technology officer and senior vice president of technology and network planning, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about Verizon’s future migrations to GPON, IPTV and in-home customer premises devices...
OFC: WDM-PON chatter swells
ANAHEIM--For a technology that most people agree is years away from acceptance by North American carriers, wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical networks (WDM-PON) kept coming up in discussions at the Optical Fiber Communications conference this week...
OFC: Analyst blames Cisco for unprofitable optics
ANAHEIM--“This is an era of profitless prosperity,” Andrew Schmitt, general partner of Niquist Capital, told a crowd at the Optical Fiber Communications conference...
OFC: Level 3 mulls leapfrogging 40 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s
ANAHEIM--Executives at Level 3 Communications often ponder the migration beyond 10 Gb/s links in its network, but they’re not sure if 40 Gb/s or 100 Gb/s is the best next step, according to Robert Feuerstein, Level 3 senior architect...
OFC: KT heralds world of connected devices
ANAHEIM--Telecom service providers must move beyond the business of connecting people to pursue the business of connecting devices as a means to offer more sophisticated services, a Korean Telecom executive told listeners at the Optical Fiber Communications conference Wednesday...
OFC: Verizon vows 40 Gb/s this year, 100 Gb/s by 2010
ANAHEIM-- Verizon Business is increasing the capacity of its ultralong-haul backbone network from 10 Gb/s to 40 Gb/s in some inter-city segments this year. And it already has plans in place to begin trialing 100-Gb/s links in 18 months...
OFC: Verizon names first GPON markets
ANAHEIM--Verizon Communications is expected today to name the two places where it will begin commercial deployment of gigabit-speed passive optical networking (GPON) equipment...
Bell Labs creates optical filter chip
Bell Labs is furthering its reputation for innovation, claiming a major step toward silicon photonics. Now as Alcatel-Lucent employees, Bell Labs researchers...
AT&T CEO paid $32M for 2006
AT&T paid Ed Whitacre nearly $32 million for his work as the company’s chairman and chief executive officer last year...
CLECs FDN, NuVox merge
FDN Communications is being folded into NuVox Communications, in the latest of a series of competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) mergers in the Southeast and Midwest in recent years...
Genband acquiring Tekelec switching biz
Somehow, Charlie Vogt’s career keeps intersecting with Tekelec, only this time Tekelec is coming to Vogt. Genband, the Plano, Tex.-based vendor of which Vogt is CEO, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tekelec’s switching business unit...
Juniper adds policy control hardware
Juniper Networks introduced a new series of session and resource control (SRC) products today, adding its own hardware to a policy control solution that previously worked with a range of other gear. The result gives carriers tighter end-to-end control of application performance, the vendor said...
Global Crossing vows return to growth this year
Two years ago, Global Crossing Chief Executive Officer John Legere told investors significant revenue declines in the company’s future were “a good thing” because they signaled a transition to a more profitable business...
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