Zayo lights Northeastern ‘express lane’
Zayo Bandwidth has stitched together networks from three different acquisitions to light a new optical network in the Northeast that the company claims will offer lower latency because it takes an especially direct route...
Verizon Business makes professional services push
Verizon Business today announced a major new push into professional services, making products out of things the telecom giant is already doing for many of its enterprise customers...
Survey shows managed services boom
The latest results from a multi-year Ovum study, commissioned by Cisco Systems, confirm the telecom market’s move to managed services, a strategy that Cisco has embraced for its service provider customers...
MU brings “Dynamics” to service assurance
MU Security today announced a major change in its corporate strategy, as well as a new name – MU Dynamics -- to reflect the broader role the company wants to play in helping service providers prevent network downtime. ...
NXTcomm 2008: Everything under the sun
With a high-powered keynote schedule and slew of exhibitors representing the latest technology trends, telecom's mega-event is set to sizzle in Las Vegas...
Naked DSL drives AT&T broadband growth
Though only a few years ago multiple state regulators tried unsuccessfully to force BellSouth to offer standalone DSL service, the company's current owners have embraced the idea...
Cable regains high-speed Internet momentum
Through 2006, Information Gatekeepers Inc. had predicted in its quarterly high-speed access reports that telcos were positioned to overtake cable's early lead in broadband deployment. That prediction changed in 2007...
Turning on the computing spigot
As IT and communications converge, a number of different business models will develop. One that already is taking hold in Lafayette, La., involves a municipal fiber network, a wholesale services provider and a computing platform company offering a service dubbed IT on demand...
Embarq move raises questions about quad-play model
Embarq’s severance of its partnership with Sprint Nextel for the wireless portion of its bundled offerings raises questions about to what extent the company will remain true to the strategy of fixed mobile convergence laid out by former CEO (now Sprint CEO) Dan Hesse...
NDS teams with Cox for next-gen user interface
In a move to differentiate its television offering, third-largest cable provider Cox Communications today announced it has chosen NDS to implement a next-generation video user interface (UI). ...
More disturbing numbers for telcos
Two separate sources this week are offering up more analysis showing the telcos are falling behind the cable companies in the broadband and video battle...
Cogent revamps sales as productivity sags
Cogent Communications is making sweeping changes in its sales force to reduce churn and boost productivity following the lowest quarterly sales productivity numbers in the company’s history....
IT execs plan, don't test, business continuity
Business-continuity planning is a growing priority among Chicago-area businesses, but convincing them to fully test their plans remains a challenge, according to AT&T’s annual business continuity survey...
Was Google Clearwire investment a 'steal'?
We know what Sprint/Clearwire needed: cash to fund a new, massive greenfield WiMAX network. But what did Google, one of the surprise investors in yesterday’s deal, get for its $500 million investment? And was it something that the service providers in the equation should have been so willing to "sell off"?...
Clearwire-Sprint WiMAX deal reborn
The deal that was lost has now been found. Sprint and Clearwire have resurrected their WiMAX joint venture, this time with the added bonus of a $3.2 billion investment from Google, Intel and three cable companies...
HD, DVR take-up drive DirecTV growth
DirecTV, the largest direct-broadcast satellite television provider and the third-largest pay-television provider in the United States, today reported a 10.4% increase in earnings due largely to an uptake in digital video recording (DVR) and high-definition (HD) services...
Broadweave to heal iProvo by shedding wholesale fiber model
Broadweave Networks, a provider of fiber-based triple-play services in greenfield developments, has acquired the municipal fiber network of Provo, Utah, vowing to improve the operation by replacing its open-access wholesale model with one in which Broadweave both owns the network and offers services over it...
Qwest wireless switch adds another nail to MVNO coffin
Until Monday the main casualties of the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) fallout have been small boutique operators, but now Qwest Communications is giving up on its virtual operator relationship with Sprint, opting instead to sell the standard Verizon Wireless service available at any cellular kiosk. The MVNO business model isn’t just failing the niche players; it isn’t working for the big retail operators either...
Wild idea? AT&T, others to launch Skype competitor, firm predicts
With voice lines eroding rapidly, AT&T, British Telecom, NTT and other incumbent carriers will soon launch their own IP telephony competitor to Skype, essentially writing off voice revenues entirely while moving customers to data, wireless and IPTV services, investment banking firm ThinkPanmure predicted today....
Allot expands NetXplorer options
Deep packet inspection, or DPI, has been under something of a cloud lately because of concerns from regulators and consumers alike that Internet service providers are using the technology to block some peer-to-peer traffic in the name of network management. ...
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