Ethernet News
Extreme acquires Soapstone’s assets for less than $5M
Ethernet equipment vendor Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR) has acquired the remaining core technology assets of Soapstone Networks (Pink Sheets: SOAP.PK) for an undisclosed sum that Extreme will only say is less than $5 million...
Alcatel-Lucent brings 100G to the edge
Alcatel-Lucent today unveiled new 100-gigabit-per-second Ethernet interfaces for its edge networking gear that will be commercially available in the middle of next year...
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....
Overture's Ceterus buy mixes carrier Ethernet markets
Overture Networks announced today it has acquired equipment vendor Ceterus Networks for an undisclosed sum...
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....
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...
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...
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....
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
As the country feels itself slipping into the fog of a potentially lasting economic downturn, those in the telecom industry can name the sensation more precisely...
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...
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...
