Extreme CEO to step down this year
After 10 years as CEO of Extreme Networks, Gordon Stitt will retire within in the next few months, the Ethernet equipment vendor announced today....
Academics say FCC flunking on USF
A group called the Keep USF Fair Coalition, comprising mostly representatives from American universities, issued a report yesterday highlighting the steep price the academic community would pay if the FCC moves forward with its proposed flat-fee charge for the Universal Service Fund on all phone numbers...
Jersey to be Alcatel/Lucent’s R&D HQ
Though the combination of Lucent Technologies and Alcatel will be headquartered in Paris, its global research and development center will be housed in Lucent’s current offices in New Jersey with the operations of Bell Laboratories...
Adva’s U.S. push cools in Q1
About six months after promising “dramatic” investment in the United States to expand its presence here, German equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking reported tepid momentum here in its first-quarter earnings...
Siemens lands Toronto Wi-Fi network
Siemens Communications is making its entry into the North American municipal wireless market, announcing today that it has landed Toronto Hydro Telecom, as a customer...
Generation gap hits equipment side
vendor success depends on ramping up next-gen sales legacy declines...
Re-running the NPVR concept
Network-based personal video recording is getting more sophisticated, but licensing is still an issue...
Broadwing goes adjusted EBITDA positive
Broadwing declared positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) on an adjusted basis for the first time today...
Redback, Alcatel partnership thins
Redback Networks’ relationship with its rival and key reseller Alcatel thinned in the first quarter. Though Alcatel contributed 12% of Redback’s revenue last year, it contributed only 5% of Redback’s revenue in the first quarter....
BellSouth up, industry down in J.D. Power study
BellSouth reclaimed its position atop the J.D. Power and Associates rankings of business voice service providers in both local and long-distance, a year after finishing third in both categories...
AT&T suffers major DSL outage
AT&T Internet services today suffered a major DSL outage in the upper Midwest, affecting thousands of customers...
Tellabs cashes in on wireless transport
Tellabs reported strong top-line growth for the first quarter, defying predictions that its traditional crossconnect business has peaked. "There's still a lot of life in this business," said CEO Krish Prabhu (above)...
Extreme sales force under pressure
Ethernet equipment vendor Extreme Networks reported what it called a disappointing fiscal third quarter (ended March 31), blaming its problems partly on a shortage of sales staff and vowing to fill that vacuum as soon as possible....
Lucent expects 2006 revenue decline
After having previously anticipated no revenue growth this year, Lucent Technologies now expects its fiscal 2006 revenue to be down from the $9.4 billion it reported last year...
Zhone adds EFM copper bonding to BLC
Zhone Technologies announced new line cards for its flagship broadband loop carrier (BLC) platform today that deliver Ethernet services over bonded copper loops....
Verizon targets media industry
Verizon Business today announced its intention to provide IT services to the U.S. entertainment and broadcast industries by unveiling a version of its digital media platform that supports National Television System Committee signal used in North America, Central America and Japan. ...
Minnesota may test the Utopia model
A group of small towns in northeastern Minnesota is considering a multi-municipal fiber project similar to Utah's Utopia project. If pursued, the effort...
Cable: Telcos no threat
Cable executives don't fear competition from the telcos, but they are worried that Wall Street is too concerned about the potential loss of video revenues...
Low legacy sales drag Zhone’s revenue
Zhone Technologies missed its revenue and earnings expectations for the first quarter following a drop-off in sales of its legacy equipment that the company attributed to a combination of seasonality and a customer migrating from Zhone’s legacy to next-generation gear....
Juniper vows to keep Lucent partnership
Reporting its highest ever quarterly revenue contribution from partner Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks this week quelled expectations that the partnership would dissolve following Lucent’s acquisition by Alcatel....
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