Ethernet News
Nortel could suffer most on enterprise side
Nortel Networks has been searching for a buyer for its Metro Ethernet business unit (which also includes its optical business), implying that, if a sale were completed, the longtime telecom equipment vendor could end up looking more like a chiefly enterprise vendor, such as Cisco Systems....
Ovum: Optical market to shrink 5% in 2009
Ovum has revised its outlook for the global optical equipment industry to account for changes in the global economy seen since the research and analysis firm’s last report in June....
BT deal a big plus for Tellabs
The announcement earlier this month that BT had selected Tellabs as a strategic supplier for managed Ethernet access equipment was significant in several ways for both companies...
Overture's Ceterus buy mixes carrier Ethernet markets
Overture Networks announced today it has acquired equipment vendor Ceterus Networks for an undisclosed sum...
Ciena: Mid-sized telcos milking legacy networks
Ciena reported seeing a divergence in carrier spending patterns in its most recent quarter, as its largest customers cautiously continued network upgrades at a slower pace while smaller carriers showed less willingness to make similar upgrades....
Surviving the Recession: Business Services
As telecom carriers look to tailor their residential consumer offerings for an increasingly budget-conscious mass market, they may find an even less forgiving environment among business customers...
Fluke changes tune on carrier Ethernet testing
Fluke Networks will begin shipping a new carrier Ethernet analyzer that breaks from traditional Ethernet testing methods for an approach specifically suited to carriers offering Ethernet as a service....
Nortel's Optical, Ethernet Chief Morin talks 40G
Nortel Networks today announced its 36th and 37th customer wins for the 40-gigabit-per-second optical gear it released in April: UK carrier Surf Telecoms and Canadian carrier Telus...
Chip vendor: PBB-TE interest down greatly
Lightstorm Networks introduced a new carrier Ethernet chip set today focusing on access networks, with support for a variety of transport alternatives including Provider Backbone Bridging...
Business wireline growth turns negative
US businesses have added almost 700,000 wireline access lines in the past five years to hit 5.3 million landline connections in total...
Infinera, Juniper, Internet2 team on 100-GigE test bed
A group of network operators and equipment vendors have agreed to work together to establish a test bed for 100 gigabit-per-second Ethernet technology to help accelerate its development....
Hatteras sheds 25% of staff in 'best quarter ever'
Hatteras Networks shed about 25% of its 80-person workforce today, including two vice presidents, to prepare for economic turmoil next year...
TelcoTV: Vendors rethink home networking technologies
Actiontec launches DSL gateway for triple plays, while others debate the best way to enable the digital home...
Cisco unveils long-awaited new edge router
Cisco’s new ASR 9000 aggregator bears much in common with its core router...
Nortel describes 'deteriorating' scene
Reporting third-quarter earnings today, Nortel Networks described a spending environment that is bad and getting worse rapidly....
Cogent scores by losing a customer
Cogent Communications found one way to benefit from a sagging economy in the third quarter by scooping up the end-user clients of a service provider customer that fell on hard times...
TWC broadband growth another blow to Bells
Time Warner Cable boasted of having outsold the Bells in the broadband game in the third quarter...
SMB market holding steady, providers say
Two providers in that market say their latest numbers suggest that caution is warranted but fear is probably not....
Alcatel-Lucent’s new CEO vows big overhaul
Alcatel-Lucent's new chief executive officer promised sweeping changes today during his first quarterly earnings call at the helm of the struggling megavendor....
PBB Steals the Stage
Two years ago, Nortel Networks' newly minted metro Ethernet division made a splash at the Globalcomm trade show by introducing provider backbone transport technology in its carrier Ethernet switch....
Verizon's FiOS fuels Juniper’s top line
Despite an uncertain market, Juniper Networks reported a healthy third quarter Thursday thanks in large part to its role supplying equipment for Verizon Communications’ fiber-to-the-premises network....
Level 3: Sales slowdown disconnected from demand
Level 3 Communications echoed other telecom companies today in reporting recent delays in purchases among enterprise and service provider customers....
AT&T wireline picture gets bleaker
When AT&T announced its third-quarter earnings this morning, most of the attention went to 3G iPhone sales...
Mushroom offers hosted T-1 killer
Mushroom Networks today introduced a hosted broadband bonding service meant as a faster, cheaper alternative to T-1s....
Updated: Tellabs cuts investment in access business
Tellabs is shifting its development efforts away from its access equipment business in favor of more lucrative areas...
