Overture Networks collects $7.5M round
Overture Networks completed a $7.5-million third round of funding, the company announced today...
Ciena reaches profits ahead of schedule
Ciena reported adjusted profits earlier than promised in its second fiscal quarter...
Alcatel drags down first-quarter optical market
The global optical networking hardware market dropped 12% sequentially in the first quarter “as a direct result” of a 43% sequential revenue drop from the market’s leader, Alcatel, according to Infonetics Research...
ADC, Andrew to merge
Vendors ADC and Andrew Corp. are planning to merge in a stock-for-stock deal, the companies said today...
InFocus: Choosing the right access architecture
TDM passive optical networks were a concept that addressed the issues and expectations of the late ‘80s, but can they scale to meet the needs of the future? Click on this article and read how switched Ethernet may be the answer in providing unmatched performance and scalability for FTTH deployment...
IRS buckles on long-distance tax
The tax created 107 years ago to pay for the Spanish-American War has finally been repealed. The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is conceding the long-running legal dispute over the federal excise tax on long-distance telephone service...
Zhone adds active Ethernet FTTP gear
Zhone Technologies is adding active Ethernet equipment to its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) products...
Sycamore out of places to cut
Sycamore Networks has cut about as much of its operating costs as it can, the company said today during its April quarter earnings call...
Alcatel, HP and Microsoft collaborate on IPTV
By definition ecosystems are diverse, but three big players are forming a global relationship to bring advanced systems to carriers offering triple-play services. ...
Pannaway and Genband deploy jointly at Ritter
Pannaway Technologies and Genband will begin deploying their combined broadband solutions for the competitive local exchange carrier business of Arkansas-based Ritter Communications, making it an even dozen joint implementations for the two vendors....
Tazz adds apps to policy control
Tazz Networks today introduced an application module for its Policy Control System aimed at helping carriers customize the management of network services such as voice-over-IP (VOIP) and video....
Testing the limits of the customer premises
The slow but increasingly steady growth of fiber-to-the-home deployments has test equipment manufacturers believeing a prosperous future is well in hand...
OIF aims to ease optical provisioning
The Optical Interworking Forum will introduce later this year an implementation agreement, or IA, to help carriers automate optical network provisioning...
A look inside Nortel's locker room
Nortel Networks CEO Mike Zafirovski last week offered what he called some discussion of his progress in overhauling the equipment vendor...
IP, carrier Ethernet gear defies seasonality
The only switches and routers to see increased spending in the first quarter were those based on carrier Ethernet and Internet protocol technology, according to Infonetics Research...
In the Spotlight: Nortel’s Philippe Morin
Philippe Morin, the former president of Nortel Networks’ optical business, was named the head of its newly created Metro Ethernet group yesterday. He spoke to Telephony’s Ed Gubbins later that day...
Embarq born tonight
At the stroke of midnight, Sprint will once again be two separate companies. Unlike the release of its PCS tracking stock last decade, though, Sprint is keeping its long-distance and wireless assets together and spinning off its local business instead...
Nortel talks R&D, margin strategy
Nortel Networks and its CEO Mike Zafirovski (above) gave an update on its plans to overhaul its business today, including how it will distribute research and development spending and how it will raise operating margins...
Alcatel, Redback put Cisco, Juniper on edge
Alcatel and Redback Networks made significant gains in the multiservice edge router market in the first quarter, threatening the long-held leadership of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, according to Dittberner Associates...
Ciena intros mini-MSTP
Ciena is introducing a half-size version of the 4200 multiservice transport platform (MSTP) it unveiled a year ago...
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