Exclusive: Marketing and sales under stress
A survey of marketing and sales executives and professionals in the telecom industry has revealed that an increasingly complex competitive and service environment is combining with ongoing internal corporate pressures to create a perfect storm through which marketing and sales organizations are trying to navigate...
NTCA urges self-reliance through regional and national networks
ORLANDO--With recent merger and acquisition activity among national carriers limiting rural providers’ choice of access and purchasing power and threatening their very future, the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association urged members to consider or reconsider cooperating on the construction of regional and national networks...
Nortel CFO steps down
After a two-year run, Peter Currie will resign his post as chief financial officer of Nortel Networks, the company said today...
Amedia’s GPON gateway to take ONTs inside
Amedia Networks today unveiled plans for a new gigabit passive optical network (GPON) home gateway designed to replace both broadband home routers and the optical network terminals (ONTs) that typically sit outside the home in PONs...
Mega-carriers wield 800-pound purses
The AT&T/BellSouth merger wreaked havoc on equipment vendors late last year, as both carriers curbed spending. But the tension didn't subside when the...
A new MPLS debate heats up
Increasing interest in provider backbone transport, or PBT, technology as a simpler, cheaper alternative to multiprotocol label switching, or MPLS, has...
Worldwide Packets gets into aggregation
After seven years in access networks, Worldwide Packets is moving upstream...
A Telephony Podcast: Inter-Carrier Ethernet
The Metro Ethernet Forum is at work on an external network-to-network interface (E-NNI) that would address issues created by inter-carrier Ethernet connections. Telephony’s Jason Meyers and Ed Gubbins discuss the challenges being confronted by the MEF and the rest of the carrier Ethernet community....
Occam sees 75% annual revenue growth
Occam Networks reported 75% revenue growth in 2006, with $68.6 million in annual revenue. And its net loss shrank nearly 80% last year to $1.9 million...
Broadband advocate outlines eight steps to national plan
The Baller-Herbst law firm, a vocal broadband advocate best known as a supporter of municipal broadband, has published an eight-step plan to achieve a national broadband strategy...
Digium steals two Adtran execs
A pair of Adtran executives has left the company to lead Digium, an eight-year-old maker of open-source enterprise telephony platforms based in the same town...
Ciena execs wooed by recruiters
Ciena is ratcheting up its compensation packages in an effort to retain key executives as the company’s return to profitability has led to outside offers for its top talent...
Zhone planning new WDM transport gear
Late in this year’s first quarter or early in the second, Zhone Technologies plans to introduce new optical transport gear based on its next-generation Single Line Multiservice (SLMS) architecture...
Extreme gets a makeover
Extreme Networks’ new chief executive officer Mark Canepa has reorganized the equipment vendor’s corporate structure and business focus as part of an effort to improve the company’s overall effectiveness after a difficult year...
Ellacoya beefs up deep packet inspection
Ellacoya is taking the next step in its product evolution, today announcing the e100, a scalable box that can support line-rate deep-packet inspection at rates up to 20 Gigabits per second, supporting up to 500,000 active subscribers and doing content inspection at 10 Gbps wire speeds...
Ciena confirms ZTE partnership
Ciena has been in a quiet partnership with Chinese equipment vendor ZTE since September 2005, the company has confirmed...
Adtran anxiously awaits AT&T’s next moves
Adtran joined Tellabs today in predicting that conditions which led to revenue shortfalls in last year’s fourth quarter will continue in this year’s first quarter...
Tellabs’ fourth-quarter woes may continue
Calling the fourth quarter of 2006 a “tough” one for the company, Tellabs said the first quarter may be no easier....
Alcatel-Lucent issues Q4 warning
Alcatel-Lucent won't report quarterly earnings for the first time as a combined company until Feb. 9, but already the new megamerger in town has issued a warning that fourth-quarter 2006 revenue will be lower than Alcatel's 2005 figure--and that new cost-cutting measures may lie ahead...
UBS: Verizon may add 1.1M fiber subs this year
Verizon Communications could add another roughly 1.1 million subscribers to its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network this year, according to estimates made by UBS Investment Research...
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