The folks at Hatteras Networks are not shy about touting the opportunity for service providers in Ethernet over copper. At NXTCOMM, the company’s booth featured inflatable “cash cows” suspended from the ceiling. They were visible across the show floor. But the company has a few secrets. Behind a smoked-glass case ...

ECI Telecom Ltd. announced at NXTCOMM it has upgraded its XDM MSTP to be deployed in regional and long-haul networks by doubling the channel capacity and extending the reach to 2,000km. Enhancements will be available commercially by the end of the year. “Today, the segmentation between metro regional and long ...

Strategic technology innovator and IPTV pioneer TELUS confirmed Thursday it’s in talks to buy Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE), which includes Canadian national provider Bell Canada and a vast array of assets. If the talks result in such an acquisition, the move would create the country’s largest communications company, bringing together ...

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein squared off against his peers and talked spectrum auction at a panel on policy at NXTComm. A representative for the Bush administration said the government is doing as much as it can to "get out of the way" when it comes to nurturing the telecom sector: ...

A company called Real Time Content – which has an “adaptive media” platform that customizes video advertising content to match user preferences, location and time – is the latest addition to BT’s “open innovation model.” Through the open innovation model, BT both spins out efforts around promising technologies in to ...

Today at NXTComm, Ed Zander, president and CEO of Motorola Inc., examined the question of whether video is the next killer app for mobility, and seemed to arrive at "yes." Television and the handset will be the two most transformational devices going forward, he said during a keynote address. "Television ...

In an effort to help service providers counterbalance wireline voice revenue losses and stem churn, MetaSwitch is pushing further into the applications sphere with the introduction of what it’s calling a service delivery platform (SDP). There’s no standard definition for SDP, but what most folks think of when you say ...

BroadSoft today revealed that Cox Business Services is using its VoIP application software. “It’s our first big MSO win that we’re announcing,” said Scott Wharton, vice president of marketing at BroadSoft, who added the company also has several unannounced cableco customers. Cox, which Wharton said is the most successful cableco ...

While there won’t be any router relay races, NBC Universal is planning to provide around-the-clock live coverage via three screens – TV, the PC and the handheld device ¬ of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At a presentation Wednesday at NXTcomm, NBC Universal Vice Chairman and Executive Officer Bob ...

Verizon and Optimum Lightpath are the winners of the Metro Ethernet Forum’s Service Provider of the Year awards, announced today at NXTCOMM. Verizon reprises its win from 2006, taking top honors for national Ethernet service provider. Optimum Lightpath, which operates in New York City and the surrounding tri-state area, won ...

Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg provided a mid-year update on progress and plans for his company’s efforts on the network evolution and customer acquisitions fronts during a morning keynote presentation at NXTcomm. He focused on the latest advances in wireless and wireline networks as well progress toward goals on multiple fronts ...

Claiming to be the sole voice speaking at the show on behalf of the content industry, NBC Universal Vice Chairman and Executive Officer Bob Wright implored service providers and their technology suppliers to work harder together to stem the loss of video content to piracy. In a keynote presentation Wednesday ...

Alcatel-Lucent made a flurry of product and customer announcements at NXTcomm today. The news was introduced by Cindy Christy, the company’s president for North America, who pushed the themes of service and network transformation, and the industry’s move to “blended services.” The product news ranged from access to core networking ...

To facilitate video traffic, Tellabs is moving ROADM technology to the edge of the network with its new 7100 Nano Optical Transport System, which is designed to aggregate gigEs for OLT or DSLAM backhaul. As its name implies, the Nano is a small form factor (5 ru) version of its ...

CTOs from some of the industry’s largest service providers found a way to cut through a fog of technology issues and focus on business aspects of telecom at a shortish general panel discussion at NXTcomm on Tuesday. While the topics tossed their way have now become common – converged networks, ...

Time magazine had it wrong when it named “you” as person of the year in 2006; instead, argued Cisco CEO John Chambers, it should be “us.” In his keynote address at NXTcomm, Chambers said that collaboration and the concept of Web 2.0 is changing the way we live and work. ...

In just two short years, there will be 850 million mobile and remote workers – a full 25 percent of workers, according to IDC. Small wonder then that mobile e-mail continues to be a battleground for the industry, the way Iowa is to presidential candidates. At NXTComm, one more offering ...

Fueled by billions of dollars in video-related acquisitions that have taken it well beyond the ranks of wireless voice-focused competitors, top Ericsson executives detailed their efforts to provide operators worldwide an easier path to IPTV deployments. Beyond expanding Ericsson product portfolio, the buyups of Entrisphere, Redback Networks, Tandberg Television and ...

The HP-Tekelec Open IMS solution that debuted at CTIA in March has been expanded to include the BEA WebLogic SIP Server. And the three companies, which have been jointly responding to service provider RFPs, have packaged the combined, interoperable solution as “IMS in a Box.” The trio’s package deal – ...

Four component vendors have joined together to create the Road to 100G Alliance, a new organization focused on interoperability for network systems supporting 40G and greater speeds required to meet growing bandwidth demand. With 10 to 15 times bandwidth growth expected in the next three to five years, “10G is ...

Nortel Networks Ltd. at NXTcomm Tuesday announced the creation of the Carrier Ethernet Ecosystem, a multivendor industry initiative with an initial goal of promoting Provider Backbone Transport (PBT), an effort the gearmaker has been driving to make Ethernet deterministic. John Hawkins, Nortel’s carrier Ethernet marketing manager, said the initiative is ...

More than a million customers have signed up to get more information on the Apple iPhone, for which AT&T initially will be the sole service provider, and 40 percent of those individuals are not AT&T customers, the telecom giant’s newly minted Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said today in his NXTcomm ...

Reinforcing the power of IP, Verizon Communications Inc. is planning to move to an all-IP network for the delivery of its FiOS triple-play bundle – TV, VoIP and Internet access – in roughly two years. The telco currently uses a fiber-to-the-home architecture to deliver VoIP and Internet access, but uses ...

One of the barriers to fixed/mobile convergence to date has been limited availability and selection of dual-mode phones. That’s starting to change, said Shannon Bell, vice president of professional services and product management at server software company NewStep Networks, which this week at NXTcomm has joint announcements on this front ...

Covad Communications Group Inc. has tapped IP Unity Glenayre Inc. to provide it with a messaging solution that will enable the service provider to offer unified messaging to select VoIP customers, and will be its overall messaging solution for all new turn-ups going forward. The value of the deal for ...