Verizon extends carrier Ethernet to Asia
Verizon Business today announced it will extend the reach of its Ethernet virtual private line service (EVPL) to six countries in Asia, enabling multi-national customers to more easily connect to their facilities, financial exchanges and trading partners in that part of the globe...
Juniper CEO heralds end of carrier Ethernet
Juniper Networks’ new carrier Ethernet router, the MX960, will bring about the end of the market for carrier Ethernet gear, Juniper chief executive officer Scott Kreins said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call late Wednesday...
Juniper unveils high-density Ethernet router
Juniper Networks today introduced its most Ethernet-centric product to date. ...
Comptel: Actelis boosts CLEC standing
Ethernet-over-copper provider Actelis Networks has announced that CLEC Broadview Networks is deploying its products to provide Metro Ethernet service...
Alcatel’s Ethernet switch grows, its router shrinks
Alcatel today unveiled a larger version of its Ethernet aggregation switch and a smaller version of its services router today...
Comptel: Nextlink opens wireless channel
ORLANDO--Nextlink, the broadband wireless arm of XO Holdings, today announced a reseller program to make wireless connections for both backhaul and last-mile connections easier to access...
Optimum Lightpath: Growth ‘R’ Us
Being over budget is not usually a good thing, but for Optimum Lightpath, the success of its Metro Ethernet service has led to a faster-than-expected buildout of fiber to businesses in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area that the Cablevision subsidiary serves. This month, the company expects to have “lit” 2000 buildings in the densely populated area...
AT&T in Ethernet evolution
Like very other major data service provider, AT&T is developing a portfolio of Ethernet services. But the company faces a different type of service evolution than most...
Vendors push Ethernet OAM as standards mature
To help carriers offer stringent quality of service and strict service level agreements for Ethernet service, equipment vendors are increasingly bringing to market equipment with Ethernet operations...
Ikanos’ ADI buy yields VDSL2 gateway
Chip vendor Ikanos Communications today unveiled a VDSL2 residential gateway reference platform using the network processor it acquired from Analog Devices (ADI) in January...
Telco Systems acquires IP DSLAM vendor
Telco Systems has acquired IP DSLAM maker Critical Telecom, the company announced today...
InFocus: The next phase in Ethernet Development
The trend toward Ethernet as the preferred medium for transporting IP-based business applications has been long forecasted, and the swing from early adoption to mass-market deployment appears to be at last underway. ...
Start-up launches optical burst switching
Matisse Networks exited stealth mode today, threatening to turn the optical equipment industry on its ear with its optical burst switching (OBS) technology...
Analyst: Nortel eyeing Force10
Nortel Networks might be considering an acquisition of Ethernet switch vendor Force10 Networks, according to Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Joe Chiasson...
Juniper boosts broadband router capacity
Juniper Networks is boosting the capacity of its E320 broadband services router this month, keeping a promise made last year...
Huawei takes Alcatel's optical crown
Alcatel was bumped from its spot as the world's leading supplier of optical networking hardware for the first time ever in the second quarter, according to Infonetics Research....
White Rock suspends operations
The directors of White Rock Networks decided to suspend virtually all of the company’s operations today and furlough most of its employees while the company attempts to quickly end its search for an acquirer...
Sales of Ciena's MSTP 'going crazy' overseas
In what one analyst called a "lovely quarter," Ciena reported $152.5 million in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, beating analysts' average expectations by nearly 7%. Revenue was 16% higher than in the higher than a year earlier. ...
Extreme names new CEO
Extreme Networks named Mark Canepa its new president and chief executive officer today...
In the Spotlight: Kamran Sistanizadeh, Yipes
Yipes co-founder and chief technology officer Kamran Sistanizadeh recently spoke with Telephony’s Senior Writer Ed Gubbins about managing carrier Ethernet services and SLAs and where the industry’s habits in that regard are headed...
RAD extends Ethernet for Yipes
Yipes Enterprise Services and RAD Data Communications are set to announce next week that the service provider and vendor are working together to extend Yipes Ethernet services across leased DS-3 and OC-3 facilities...
Hatteras gets mid-band Ethernet on RUS list
This week, Hatteras Networks announced that its Mid-Band Ethernet products have made the list thanks to deployments at Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative and Home Telephone Co....
Ciena adds TDM, Ethernet pseudowires
Ciena has fine-tuned its DN 7000 multiservice edge platform with more pseudowire and Ethernet interworking capabilities, the equipment vendor announced today...
BellSouth announces virtual Metro Ethernet
BellSouth today added new classes of service to its Metro Ethernet offering, creating Virtual BellSouth Metro Ethernet Service, designed to meet specific business needs....
BellSouth takes Ethernet everywhere
BellSouth today announced availability of Ethernet for access to business virtual private network services across the Southeast...
