Briefs, Competition Watch and Crosstalk

A collection of short news items from our current print edition

 

Briefly

BANDWIDTH
Cogent gets boost from TXU
Cogent Communications boosted its footprint in Dallas through a fiber agreement with TXU Communications. The deal gives Cogent fiber access to 20 additional buildings in downtown Dallas.

People moving

Kumar Shah, long-time chief marketing officer of AccessLan, will become president and CEO of Occam Networks, which develops broadband loop equipment.

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Crosstalk
Online   Had to be done On the heels of announcing a $50.6 billion loss probably the largest in corporate history JDS announces the sale of its three corporate jets. Lucent, which also plans to shed an airplane, sells its exclusive golf course for $51 million.	Offline Check your facts, Joe While discussing the long-haul market, Qwest Communications CEO Joe Nacchio said Enron would write down its wholesale backbone business a juicy tidbit, but one Enron says is not true.  (See related story)

SOFTWARE
NetScreen secures Cox Business
Cox Business Services is using NetScreen Technologies' NetScreen-5 integrated security services in its new high-speed commercial Internet offering, Cox Business 

Internet, which provides tiered bandwidth speeds to commercial customers. NetScreen's network access functionality helps Cox securely network multiple users as the hardware blocks unauthorized Internet traffic.

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CONTENT
Moving from the edge to the mainstream

Edge-streaming media delivery company Vividon expanded its U.S. presence by opening sales offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Vividon's streamers allow ISPs and corporate networks to deliver on-demand streams of rich edia content by providing sustainable throughput capabilities to support more than 650 M/bs of content streams.

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COMPETITION WATCH
House majority leader Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, said Congress will vote on the Tauzin-Dingell Bill in September. The House is expected to approve the measure, which should receive considerably more opposition in the Senate.

Verado Holdings announced the sale of its DSL customers to EarthLink and Covad Communications. The deal follows Verado's decision last quarter to sell its dial-up subscriber base to EarthLink.

EurekaGGN, a facilities-based CLEC, last week bought the New York assets of ISP Wired Environments. The acquisition was announced on the same day EurekaGGN completed a $20 million funding round.