Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
Texas FTTH provider OEN goes dark
Optical Entertainment Network is mum on why it is discontinuing all services. Calls placed to the company’s offices are met only by a prerecorded message stating that all services are being discontinued “due to circumstances beyond our control.”...
Internet could clog networks by 2010, study says
User demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2010, according to a study released today by Nemertes Research...
Verizon field-tests 100 Gb/s FTTP transport
Verizon successfully completed its first field test of a 100 gigabit per second optical transmission on Friday, the company announced today, just days after trumpeting a 40 Gb/s deployment elsewhere...
TXP ushers in multivendor FTTP
Third-party optical network terminals could lower fiber network costs...
Verizon lights 40G network
As promised earlier this year, Verizon Business has gone live with a 40 Gb/s network, using Juniper Networks’ T-series core routers to carry Internet traffic at that speed between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and on its multi-protocol label switched network between Washington and New York City...
Hammerhead takes PBT past point-to-point
Hammerhead Systems today unveiled a new version of its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch designed to bridge the gap between provider backbone transport (PBT) and multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technologies as well as to allow PBT to become more than just a point-to-point technology...
MetaSwitch lands Cable & Wireless
MetaSwitch has landed its first major customer in the company’s efforts to replicate its North American success in other markets...
VON: Landline not dead yet, Embarq CEO says
BOSTON--Landline companies have a future, if they capitalize on convergence possibilities and learn how to make complex services simple for customers to use, Embarq CEO Dan Hesse told the VON crowd today...
Verizon DSL giving way to FiOS
Verizon Communications reported another sharp drop in DSL customer additions in the third quarter as it continued to rack up customers for its FiOS fiber-to-the-home services, some of which made the switch from DSL...
Verizon gives a glimpse of futuristic FiOS apps
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--As its FiOS network nears the end of its fourth year, when it was projected to pass 7 million households, Verizon this week gave the media a glimpse of what has been going on behind the curtains to add new functionality to the system...
TelcoTV: New video content, STB player emerges
ATLANTA--A new company has emerged, promising to give telecom service providers relatively easy entry into video services using a combination of wireless and wireline access and specially designed consumer equipment...
Verizon pursues P2P video
When Verizon's chief technology officer Mark Wegleitner spoke at Telephony LIVE this month about the promise of peer-to-peer networking for on-demand video distribution, he acknowledged the irony of a longtime opponent of piracy embracing P2P video-on-demand...
Telephony LIVE: Megacarrier RFPs loom large over tech innovation
DALLAS--Major carrier consolidation is adding both price and time pressure to equipment suppliers, raising questions about the prospects for technological innovation, according to attendees here at the Telephony LIVE show....
ECI Telecom introduces new broadband access features
ECI Telecom, the Israeli equipment vendor, today introduced new broadband access features to its Hi-FOCuS-5 Multi-Service Access Node product line, aimed at enhancing IPTV and video services...
Zhone mines fertile copper Ethernet market overseas
Zhone Technologies is taking advantage of a fertile market overseas for Ethernet over copper (EoC) equipment, introducing more EoC gear today and hailing what it claims is the world’s largest EoC deployment to date...
Q&A: Verizon's Terry Denson
Terry Denson, vice president of FiOS TV content strategy and acquisition for Verizon, spoke at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Orlando last week...
FTTH Con: Start-up opportunities abound in triple-play
ORLANDO--The battle between telcos and cable operators to bring triple-play services to consumers is creating a variety of opportunities for start-up companies, according to Jim Jones, managing director of Scale Ventures, a venture capital firm...
FTTH Con: Corning gets the bends
ORLANDO--Corning introduced a new highly flexible fiber at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference this week that can make sharp turns with minimal attenuation of the signal it carries, easing deployment for carriers...
FTTH Con: Alcatel-Lucent details GPON’s successor
ORLANDO--With major carriers such as Verizon Communications deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Alcatel-Lucent today described some likely successors to GPON at the FTTH Conference today...
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