T-Mobile’s VoIP play may hurt cable more than telco
T-Mobile’s entrance into the landline business today is the latest encroachment of the fixed voice market from a competitor without a fixed voice network. ...
Nokia Siemens extends multi-haul gear both ways
Nokia Siemens unveiled the latest release of its Surpass hiT 7300 metro/regional network platform today, boosting capacity for ultralong-haul links and extending its reach further into metro optical networks....
NXTcomm08: CableLabs CEO calls for telco, cableco cooperation
The telecom and cable industries need to cooperate in supporting the U.S. State Department in its plan for the quadrennial reorganization of the ITU-T, the global telecom standards body...
NXTcomm08: Telecom innovation at risk, Infinera’s Singh says
LAS VEGAS--Innovation within the telecommunications industry is at risk because of lower R&D spending, particularly at the component level, said Jagdeep Singh, president and CEO of Infinera, Thursday to the NXTcomm08 keynote audience. ...
NXTcomm08: Pet care among the possibilities of home networks
LAS VEGAS--In the future, will telecom providers care for your dog when you travel?...
Ericsson ups the ante for GPON
LAS VEGAS--In addition to its suite of IPTV, backhaul and mobile platforms, Ericsson this week at NXTComm08 demonstrated a 10 Gb/s Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) for IPTV, what it calls the world’s first. The system has four times the bandwidth of existing GPON making it the highest switch capacity on the market...
Strigl: U.S. telecom industry unfairly maligned
LAS VEGAS--Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl took on the critics of the U.S. telecom industry Wednesday in his NXTcomm08 keynote speech, saying the U.S. leads the world in broadband and mobile “in the ways that count”...
NXTcomm08: Accedian offers real-time SLAs
LAS VEGAS -- Accedian Networks on Tuesday announced the availability of an element management system (EMS) promising to enable what the company calls “real-time service level agreements (SLAs)” for Ethernet and IP services....
NXTcomm08: Adtran takes VDSL2 to the node
LAS VEGAS -- Adtran today announced the addition of VDSL2 technology to its 1100 series of remote access nodes...
NXTcomm08: Alcatel combines PBB, VPLS
LAS VEGAS -- Alcatel-Lucent today unveiled a method for transporting business services through metro networks that combines the vendor’s familiar multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) with Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) -- a Layer 2 technology whose use represents a departure for the vendor...
NXTcomm08: ECI adds edge ROADM, ADM card
LAS VEGAS--ECI Telecom today introduced a new version of its reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) for edge networks....
Building the 21st century central office
For more than a century, the central office is where the telecommunications industry has hung its hat. But the job for which these unassuming but ubiquitous brick houses were built, and the technology within them, are changing dramatically...
The shortest path not taken
It's been nearly 50 years since Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra created the algorithm that would form the basis of the widely used routing protocol...
Bernstein's bottom-line man
Craig Moffett is no fan of FiOS, but he thinks YouTube may boost AT&T and Verizon...
XO investors, fearing bankruptcy, call for Icahn’s ouster
As famed investor Carl Icahn does battle with Yahoo this week in an attempt to usher a merger with Microsoft, tensions are also mounting between Icahn and shareholders of XO Holdings, who fear his treatment of that company’s debt could drive it to bankruptcy....
Fujitsu’s packet optical platform goes PBT
Fujitsu Network Communications announced support for Provider Backbone Bridging - Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) in its year-old packet optical networking platform today, saying it will now recommend the connection-oriented Layer 2 technology over other transport methods in metro networks...
Calix promises more bandwidth and flexibility
Two new products announced today by Calix are aimed at helping service providers address the surge in demand for bandwidth by increasing both capacity and flexibility at the edge of the network....
Carrier Ethernet vendors preview new wares at NXTcomm08
Some equipment vendors set to unveil new carrier Ethernet gear at the NXTcomm08 trade show next week are spilling the beans a week early, including Redback Networks, RAD Data Communications and Aktino....
Gridpoint offers smarter network management
Gridpoint Systems, a new startup focused on traffic management, today unveiled a metro edge network node designed to maximize efficiency in carrier networks. ...
Verismo bypasses PC for Internet TV
Silicon Valley start-up Verismo Networks this week joined the list of technology vendors that wants consumers to add a new device to the home...
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