AT&T picks legacy gear for new video network
NEC America scored a surprising win in the second quarter, with a significant sale of legacy optical equipment to AT&T...
Tellabs moves ONTs indoors
Tellabs has introduced an optical network terminal (ONT) designed to be deployed inside customer homes, Chief Executive Officer Krish Prabhu said during an investor conference this week...
Tellabs adds native Ethernet switching to ROADM
Tellabs is adding native Ethernet switching and aggregation to its 7100 reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM), the company announced today...
Gaming consoles to drive media adapters
Home videogame consoles will play a large role in driving the market for digital media adapters (DMAs), the devices that allow users to send audiovisual content to their televisions and stereos, according to a new report from ABI Research...
Cisco co-founder launches DWDM start-up
Cisco Systems co-founder Len Bosack is launching a new equipment start-up today aimed at bringing optical networking to people who are more comfortable with routers than optics...
Caspian founder launches edge router start-up
The founder of router vendor Caspian Networks has launched a new company he hopes will apply Caspian’s concepts to a more cost-effective set of products. ...
Alcatel-Lucent cancels Adva orders
Alcatel-Lucent pulled away from its partnership with Adva Optical Networking in the second quarter, dragging down Adva’s revenue and even canceling some existing orders for Adva’s wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) gear, Adva said today...
Alcatel-Lucent claims two of three Networx teams
Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary LGS today touted a partnership with Qwest Communications to bid for government services as part of the multiyear, multibillion-dollar “Networx Universal” program, but the vendor also confirmed today that it is part of a team competing with Qwest for those contracts as well...
Juniper shrinks broadband router
Juniper Networks introduced a new smaller version of its E320 broadband services router (BSR) today...
In the Spotlight: John Hawkins, Nortel Networks
Amid multivendor interoperability demonstrations at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago this month, Nortel Networks announced the formation of what it called a ‘PBT ecosystem’ comprised of vendors working together to publicize Provider Backbone Transport technology, a connection-oriented layer-two-based approach to Ethernet transport. John Hawkins, Nortel’s manager of carrier Ethernet marketing, spoke about Nortel’s PBT plans in advance of the show...
Adva takes aim at ‘God boxes’
At the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last week, Adva Optical Networking’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Protiva vowed to be nimbler and more cost-competitive than rival vendors with versatile multiservice transport platforms (MSTPs) aimed at metro networks...
In the Spotlight: Jeff Weber, AT&T
At a panel discussion on the future of video services at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last Tuesday, Jeff Weber, AT&T’s vice president of video products, fielded questions on a variety of IPTV topics, bringing his own experience to bear as a telco video veteran...
Verizon links with Softbank
Verizon Business said today it has entered into a strategic alliance with SoftBank Telecom to share networks and services for multinational customers doing business in Japan...
Industry connects on interconnection
NEW YORK—The 2007 cbx, or Customer Business Exchange, Hosted by the interconnection facility operator telx, brought together more than a thousand people and hundreds of communications and content companies in New York City’s financial district last week, all of them focused on how interconnection with one another fits into their strategies....
Vendor: U.S. not ready yet for indoor ONTs
TXP introduced a new optical network terminal (ONT) architecture today aimed at easing some of the power-related challenges of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) installation. But the Texas-based vendor isn’t selling the product in the U.S. anytime soon due to a lack of demand here for indoor ONTs...
Infinera goes 40 Gb/s, looks beyond 100 Gb/s
Optical switch vendor Infinera announced new products and customer wins in advance of the NXTComm trade show next week and hinted at future products with significant increases in capacity...
Wave 7 adds GPON to access platform
Access equipment maker Wave 7 Optics today said it has added gigabit passive optical network capabilities to its Trident7 Universal Access Platform...
Zhone aims for smarter GPON
Zhone Technologies today unveiled the gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) system it has been promising since the beginning of the year...
Juniper unveils new core router
Juniper Networks revealed its newest core router today after months of industry speculation...
MegaPath adds Juniper to SSL offering
Managed services provider MegaPath today announced it is extending its suite of security services to include Juniper’s Secure Access SSL VPN product family for Secure Socket Layer-based remote access...
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