Juniper smartens up the edge
Juniper Networks today announced an overhaul of its edge routing platforms meant to add greater intelligence, control and features to the network edge via the vendor’s Junos operating system....
Verizon expands WAN optimization offering
Verizon Business today announced an expansion of its wide-area network (WAN) optimization service...
New Reliance Globalcom unit takes on global carriers
Reliance Globalcom is gearing up to compete for global data business with the likes of AT&T, Verizon Business, BT, Orange Business and others...
Verizon expands UC offering with Cisco
Verizon Business today became the first US-based service provider to offer a managed unified communications (UC) and collaboration service based on the newest version of Cisco Systems’ Unified Communications Manager...
Soapstone CTO departs following product launch
Larry Dennison, chief technology officer at Soapstone Networks, left the company this week....
Ciena unveils new Ethernet access gear from Worldwide Packets
Ciena today unveiled two new Ethernet access products to come from its acquisition of Worldwide Packets (WWP)....
COMPTEL: Economic issues looming
The recent U.S. economic crisis hasn’t slowed CLEC business models significantly yet, but many expect it will and soon....
COMPTEL: Deltacom makes $20M network expansion
Competitive service provider Deltacom today announced a $20 million network upgrade to its eight-state Southeastern U.S. network...
Overture moves upstream to Ethernet aggregation
Access equipment vendor Overture Networks made a bid to move further upstream in carrier networks today by unveiling a new product for aggregating traffic...
COMPTEL: ECI lands Caribbean fiber deal
Triton Telecom, a unit of Cobian International Group, will use ECI Telecom’s optical and Ethernet gear to build the first direct submarine cable links between Miami and Puerto Rico...
COMPTEL: Pangaea extends its Ethernet reach
Pangaea Networks, an Ethernet services company focused on enabling carriers to make end-to-end Ethernet connections for enterprise customers...
In the Spotlight: Ciena CEO Gary Smith
As the CEO of a major telecom network equipment provider, Gary Smith is concerned, along with his customers, about the coming exaflood of Internet traffic...
MegaPath expands service options
MegaPath today announced expanded services options intended to extend the competitive service providers reach into the business community....
Extreme boosts 10-GigE density
Extreme Networks unveiled a new carrier Ethernet switch for metro networks today that the vendor is hailing as denser and less expensive than similar products from major competitors....
Nortel to abandon carrier Ethernet, optical
Nortel Networks' decision to sell its metro Ethernet division (which includes optical networks) surprised many in the industry today...
Verizon virtualizes data centers
Verizon Business announced a new professional services offering today that will enable businesses to adopt virtualization...
Managing the Future
In many respects, Optimum Lightpath is an unusual CLEC....
CLECs strategize for the second half
Following a rocky second quarter, competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) updated their view of the market at the Jefferies investor conference this week...
Level 3 unveils new data platform
Level 3 Communications today announced the completion of a major undertaking to deploy a new Enterprise Data network architecture that integrates its two major acquisitions...
Testing alliance aims to help carrier IP test labs
A group of testing vendors Tuesday said they’ve developed a framework that will help carriers more easily test multi-vendor IP networks and gear running in their labs....
Foundry adds PB, PBB to the edge
Foundry Networks today introduced a new line of Ethernet switches that brings provider backbone bridging (PBB) to edge and aggregation networks...
Zayo: CLEC woes mean buyer’s market for fiber
Zayo Group, which has made a string of acquisitions in recent months, said it has thus far benefitted from a buyer’s market for fiber assets....
XO enhances Ethernet
XO Communications today announced enhancements to its Ethernet product portfolio intended to extend the reach of its copper-based Ethernet offering and make higher speeds more affordable to its customer base....
TWTelecom confronts gorilla with good news
Before inviting questions from analysts on the company’s second-quarter earnings call today, Larissa Herda, TWTelecom’s chief executive officer addressed what she called “the 800-pound gorilla in the room” (usually called “the elephant”): the economy....
Verizon adds managed network access control
Verizon Business is upping the ante in the managed security game, adding network access control to its portfolio....
