TELECOMNEXT: MEF takes on EFM OAM, wireless
The Metro Ethernet Forum is expanding its certification program to include a variety of Ethernet access media, including copper, fiber, passive optical networks and wireless technology....
TELECOMNEXT: Broadwing launches media service
Hoping to ride the booming interest in IPTV, Broadwing today announced a fiber-based real-time media multicast service that enables broadcast and content distribution companies to distribute to multiple locations from its 180-network point of presence....
Verizon Business ramps up Private IP service
Verizon Business today announced a set of application-aware tools that will enable its Private IP service customers to better ensure the performance of applications such as voice over IP and video. ...
VON: Global Crossing expands IP service portfolio
SAN JOSE--Global Crossing has joined forces with iPass to add wireless remote access to its Global Remote Connectivity service...
NeuStar extends peering to Asia
Clearinghouse services provider NeuStar has extended its reach, announcing today that it has entered into agreements with the Hong Kong Internet Exchange and the Japan Internet Exchange to offer its SIP-IX suite of network peering services among IP networks....
Adva updates metro WDM platform
Adva Optical Networking released the newest version of its FSP 3000 wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) platform late last week....
Redback thinks small
Redback Networks today announced the extension of its SmartEdge Service Gateway family with a new platform aimed specifically at the residential broadband market....
OFC: Level 3 declares bandwidth price plummet over
ANAHEIM--The age of rapidly falling bandwidth prices is over, according to Robert Feuerstein, senior architect at Level 3 Communications....
OFC: Lambda Optical intros 40G crossconnect
ANAHIEM--Lambda Optical Systems introduced a new all-optical crossconnect today focused on 40 Gb/s wavelengths....
Cisco trying to push out of box mentality
Cisco Systems today announced a new series of package enterprise applications that marks perhaps the company’s first concerted effort to get away from the business model that relies heavily on selling hardware,...
Cox uses Juniper routers for backbone upgrade
Cox Communications will use Juniper Networks T-series core routing platform to upgrade its national backbone network, the two companies announced today...
BellSouth gets more SupportSoft
BellSouth today announced an extension of its current use of SupportSoft online customer support software to include its broadband wireless services, wireline-wireless integration and its IPTV trial....
WEB EXTRA: The Grant County Case
To those longing for more competition and choice than that provided by incumbent carriers, the case of Grant County, Wash., offers an age-old warning: Be careful what you wish for...
WEB EXTRA: Unwiring Minneapolis
William E. Beck is deputy chief information officer and director of business technology development for the city of Minneapolis. He has also headed up the city’s broadband wireless initiative, begun in mid-2004. Beck spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about that initiative...
TI aims high with new processor
Though its current generation of advanced multimedia phone processors have yet to hit the market in the U.S., Texas Instruments this week went ahead and unveiled the next generation. At the 3GSM World Congress TI detailed a chipset that an Alcatel executive described as packing the combined power of PC, gaming console and digital camcorder....
MEF begins carrier Ethernet QOS testing
The Metro Ethernet Forum began the next phase in its year-old carrier Ethernet certification program today by commencing testing equipment for quality of service characteristics....
Small telcos gang up on video
A group of Oklahoma and Missouri telephone companies is tackling the high cost of head-end equipment through a unique agreement that lets them share expenses...
Big telco initiatives not the whole broadband story
When it comes to grabbing headlines or making an impression on Wall Street, major fiber initiatives are certainly the ticket...
Hillcrest inching closer to service provider deals
Consumers will change service providers to gain access to easier content navigation, according to research commissioned by Hillcrest Labs, makers of the HoME navigation system with its Loop remote control device....
Hughes finds Motive for satellite data support
Motive today not only announced a new customer for its automated management software, but also its first satellite customer, thus becoming a software partner to al three categories of broadband service providers – DSL, cable modem and satellite....
