Vendors push Ethernet OAM as standards mature
To help carriers offer stringent quality of service and strict service level agreements for Ethernet service, equipment vendors are increasingly bringing to market equipment with Ethernet operations...
AT&T takes back 2000 DSL tech support jobs
AT&T is returning 2000 previously outsourced DSL technical support jobs to its own payroll, the company announced...
NCTA-funded study claims $100 billion in savings
A study commissioned by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association is claiming consumers and small businesses could save up to $100 billion over the next five years because they now have a choice for local telephone service...
Ikanos’ ADI buy yields VDSL2 gateway
Chip vendor Ikanos Communications today unveiled a VDSL2 residential gateway reference platform using the network processor it acquired from Analog Devices (ADI) in January...
Telco Systems acquires IP DSLAM vendor
Telco Systems has acquired IP DSLAM maker Critical Telecom, the company announced today...
FiOS TV reaches Indiana
Verizon Tuesday announced plans to deploy FiOS TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 2007, marking its first video service in that state...
Aztek reboots with E911 gateway
Aztek Engineering got a new name, new funding and a new chief executive officer this week as it embarked on a new business of selling remote gateways for emergency services...
Rural providers keeping pace with DSL
The National Exchange Carrier Association today issued a progress report on rural telephone companies’ broadband deployment efforts and said that despite operating in low-density, higher-cost markets, they match the penetration rates of non-rural carriers...
Analyst: Nortel eyeing Force10
Nortel Networks might be considering an acquisition of Ethernet switch vendor Force10 Networks, according to Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Joe Chiasson...
VON: Level 3 gets new look
BOSTON--While its buying binge may not be over, Level 3 Communications is already looking like a different company and exploring some of its new options...
VON: CopperCom’s capture of IOCs continues
BOSTON--With a range of solutions and deployment scenarios from switch replacement and cap-and-grow scenarios to customer care and voicemail, CopperCom announced this week it has racked up four more independent operating company customers...
VON: BellSouth plans major VDSL2 upgrade
BOSTON--BellSouth will upgrade many of the shorter loops in its fiber-to-the-curb network to VDSL2 over the next two years, delivering about 80 Mb/s to the home, according to a report this week from Investor’s Business Daily...
VON: Covergence downsizes IP security gear
BOSTON--Covergence introduced a smaller version of its IP edge security appliance today...
Siemens unveils “multi-haul” optical gear
Siemens introduced a new optical transport platform today that brings some of the vendor’s long-haul technology to regional and metro networks....
Lucent sells Novera’s WDM-PON in Japan
Lucent Technologies has struck a partnership with Novera Optics this week wherein Lucent’s services arm will sell, integrate and support Novera’s wavelength-division multiplexing passive optical networking (WDM-PON) gear in Japan...
Savings wars: Cable, telco lobbyists tout consumer benefits
Feeling any richer? According to cable and telco lobbyists, we should all soon reap billions of dollars in benefits from their competition...
A TelephonyOnline Podcast: IPTV and Consumer Habit
TelephonyOnline talks to Neale Martin, an industry futurist and a keynote speaker at Telephony’s IPTV Workshop next week at VON in Boston, about consumer behavior and how it could impact the introduction of IPTV. Hear Martin’s views on how what service providers need to do to make their video offerings different...
Lucent, Alcatel shareholders approve merger
Shareholders of both Alcatel and Lucent Technologies voted to approve the proposed merger of the two companies today...
Alcatel merger vote nears
Shareholders of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies will vote tomorrow on whether to approve the merger of their two companies....
Huawei takes Alcatel's optical crown
Alcatel was bumped from its spot as the world's leading supplier of optical networking hardware for the first time ever in the second quarter, according to Infonetics Research....
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