Comptel: MetaSwitch, Cisco team up on CLEC solution
ORLANDO--MetaSwitch and Cisco Systems have teamed up to deliver what they are calling a SIMPLE solution for CLECs, and have signed 20 customers to the offering...
Comptel: Actelis boosts CLEC standing
Ethernet-over-copper provider Actelis Networks has announced that CLEC Broadview Networks is deploying its products to provide Metro Ethernet service...
Comptel: Rooftop collocation may be next
ORLANDO--If broadband wireless technology proves more successful in this generation than in earlier versions, the next great frontier for collocation could be building rooftops...
Alcatel’s Ethernet switch grows, its router shrinks
Alcatel today unveiled a larger version of its Ethernet aggregation switch and a smaller version of its services router today...
Comptel: A wholesale comeback
ORLANDO--When the telecom bubble burst, the wholesale market was probably hit the hardest. The fiber glut and the demise of many CLEC customers combined to drive down prices and drive out some players...
Comptel: McLeod adds local wholesale
ORLANDO--McLeodUSA today formally launched wholesale voice services, including both a UNE-P replacement product and Wholesale DLC Service on the TDM side, as well as an IP-based service aimed at Internet service providers and VoIP providers...
Comptel: XO strengthens wholesale push
XO Communications added two more pieces to its wholesale puzzle today, announcing completion of the 18,000-mile fiber optic network and a business realignment that separates its wholesale operation from its sales to large enterprise customers...
Comptel: Nextlink opens wireless channel
ORLANDO--Nextlink, the broadband wireless arm of XO Holdings, today announced a reseller program to make wireless connections for both backhaul and last-mile connections easier to access...
Turin bids on White Rock
Turin Networks has bid about $3 million for most of the assets of White Rock Networks, according to the Dallas Business Journal...
FTTH Con: Muni broadband advocate sees ‘rosy picture’
LAS VEGAS--After years of fighting to protect the rights of municipalities to provide broadband and other telecom services, Jim Baller, an attorney with the Baller-Herbst Law Group, has to admit he’s breathing a lot easier these days...
Optimum Lightpath: Growth ‘R’ Us
Being over budget is not usually a good thing, but for Optimum Lightpath, the success of its Metro Ethernet service has led to a faster-than-expected buildout of fiber to businesses in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area that the Cablevision subsidiary serves. This month, the company expects to have “lit” 2000 buildings in the densely populated area...
BellSouth goes unwired in two more markets
Continuing its strategy to roll out broadband wireless access in more markets, BellSouth this week said it will launch service in select parts of Albany, Ga., and Paducah, Ky., by later this month...
FTTH Con: Fiber show crowd looks east
The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Conference in Las Vegas this week has had a decidedly Asian bent to it, as attendees are taking notes from some of the world’s leading fiber authorities...
VDSL2 chip delays drag Ikanos revenue
Chip maker Ikanos Communications warned late Wednesday its third- and fourth-quarter revenue would fall below analysts’ expectations due to delays in some of its newest products as well as “manufacturing constraints and general weakness in the communications industry.”...
FTTH Con: Emerson enters FTTP OSP market
LAS VEGAS--Emerson Network Power entered the market for fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) outside plant products this week...
Fujitsu Network Communications names new CEO
Fujitsu Network Communications named Satoshi Ikeuchi its new chief executive officer today...
California to issue video franchises
California late last week became the latest state to create a statewide video franchise program, a move that had been expected since both sides of the state legislature and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had earlier expressed support for such a law...
Calient brings MEMS to fiber access
Calient Networks is starting a new chapter as it brings its core optical network technology to access networks...
Zhone misses third-quarter revenue target
Zhone Technologies’ third-quarter revenue will be 20% to 24% lower than previously expected, the company announced late Wednesday....
Turin adding staff after Broadwing win
With a nationwide U.S. carrier as a new customer, equipment vendor Turin Networks is hiring. As part of a five-year contract, Broadwing began deploying the largest version of Turin’s Traverse multiservice transport platform ...
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