Sky's no limit for mobile backhaul
With every announcement of a multimedia-friendly mobile device like the iPhone, the broadband pipes of wireless networks fill with more promise that 2007...
Cisco wants architecture partner role
Armed with an increasingly comprehensive product portfolio, Cisco Systems is hoping to forge much closer relationships with service providers, becoming...
AT&T puts its bet on bonded VDSL2
AT&T gets asked a lot about whether its fiber-to-the-node, or FTTN, architecture brings enough bandwidth to the home to meet future demands for, say,...
Details emerge in Motorola’s Tut merger
A single top-tier U.S. carrier played a large, influential role in the merger negotiations between Motorola and Tut Systems, regulatory filings revealed this week. Clues suggest that carrier could be Verizon Communications...
Spirent assures triple play for Canadian carrier
Spirent Communications has landed a contract to support Canadian carrier Telus with with service assurance solutions to support quality of experience for the carrier’s triple-play customers...
So long, Sonet
This could well be the last year of significant sales of Sonet and SDH transport gear, according to industry analysts and vendors...
Microsoft makes overtures to rural market
Orlando. Microsoft’s general manager of the communications sector at Microsoft, Harry Patz, addressed approximately 600 members of the rural service provider community today at the OPASTCO Winter Meeting with a singular message: We want to partner with you....
Ciena aims to diversify with cable clients
Ciena has sold its CoreDirector optical switch to cable operator Cox Communications, part of the vendor’s effort to penetrate the cable space and thus diversify its customer base...
Nortel boasts of PBT validation
Nortel Networks boasted today about having been selected, along with Siemens, to supply carrier Ethernet gear for British Telecom’s 21st Century Network initiative. In particular, Nortel claimed the win was a “major vote of confidence” from a top-tier carrier for Nortel’s chosen metro technology, Provider Backbone Transport...
Arris, Tandberg to unite against Cisco, Motorola
By offering to acquire Tandberg TV this week, Arris will challenge Cisco Systems and Motorola for the residential video and triple-play equipment market...
Verizon spins off local lines in three states
Verizon announced this morning it is spinning off its local lines in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to its shareholders and will merge that spin-off into FairPoint Communications, a North Carolina-based conglomerate of rural local exchange carriers...
Carrier Ethernet beginning to dominate
Metro Ethernet and cellular backhaul are hot investment areas for service providers, as they continue to converge their data services onto Internet Protocol backbones, according to the latest report from Infonetics, “Service Provider Plans for IP/MPLS: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific.”...
Vendors await return of AT&T spending
With regulatory approval of the AT&T/BellSouth merger resolved, equipment vendors that supply the two companies eagerly await a return to typical spending patterns, which many say paused while regulatory approval was delayed. ...
Embarq, AT&T: Access line loss stabilizing
Two major telephone companies are once again saying that access line loss is slowing. The same comments were made in November when third quarter results were announced, but many industry analysts were skeptical, given the sharp rise in cable VoIP and service bundle choices...
Zhone GPON, pseudowire gear coming
Zhone Technologies is planning to introduce new products in the next few months related to gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) and pseudowires, chief executive officer Mory Ejabat said at an investor conference this week...
Ciena quietly partners with Anda Networks
Ciena has partnered with Anda Networks to offer the latter’s Ethernet access and aggregation technology with its own products, according to sources familiar with the two equipment vendors....
Fired Nortel CEO finds work
Frank Dunn, the former chief executive officer of Nortel Networks who was fired amid a financial scandal, is now employed by Ontario consultancy QCL Growth Partners...
A Telephony Podcast: Interview with John Giere, CMO of Alcatel-Lucent
The recently completed merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies created a new communications technology powerhouse. John Giere, chief marketing officer of Alcatel-Lucent, discusses the implications of the merger and the direction of the new company...
Dittberner: U.S. may be in IPTV Top 10 after all
One week after reporting that the United States is not among the 10 countries with the most IPTV subscribers, research and consulting firm Dittberner admitted that the U.S. may be in the top 10 after all...
Carrier Access warns of fourth-quarter revenue drop
Carrier Access today warned of “softness” in its fourth-quarter financial results as the company works to broaden and diversify its customer base...
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