WaveSmith's edge switch is replacing Marconi gear at Global NAPs -- but where's the IP?

It's all part of a grand plan to focus on higher-level stuff -- notably, softswitches

Pat Gelsinger was up to his old tricks at Intel's Developer Forum this week

Slightly used European carrier seeks buyer. Clean credit rating preferred

Broadwing is the first customer of Tellabs' 6400, which it acquired when it bought Ocular Networks

The switch-maker says it's got a way for carriers to carve up optical bandwidth and deliver more services

Latest from Ottawa: more layoffs, a reorg of long-haul optical, and the potential sale of the components division

The DC Court of Appeals has sided with the RBOCs, after the US Supreme Court rules for competitive carriers

Nortel has a new box to bridge the gap in its next-gen Sonet offerings. Is there another message here?

Startups see key value in combining Sonet and DWDM in metro gear. Two have announcements today

Vodafone's bottom line looks like a bloodbath, but core revenues and margins are solid

Williams Communications, The U. of Tulsa, and Network Test are behind Light Reading's latest test

A group of ex-Nortel employees licenses technology and forms content and security processor startup Seaway Networks

Japan's leading cable maker is axing portions of its OFS acquisition in the wake of further losses

Will its remote backup and mirroring service over optical fly where other storage service providers have flopped?

Despite heavy losses, the company's looking ahead to ONI merger and a renewed focus on international carriers

Riverstone says it nudged aside Cisco in another win at KT Corp. Is the router vendor putting all its eggs in one basket?

Startup BTI Photonics says its subsystem can take a lot of the sweat out of developing transport equipment

Redback gets some sorely needed cash, but the company isn't boosting its revenue estimates

T-Mobile is the only gem that still glimmers in DT's battered crown

M&A rumors and layoff concerns increase as Sycamore's business continues to droop

Innovance launches Corvis-like products. NEC and Tellium offer a halfway house

The Optical Oracle predicts that only two or three of today's IP core router players will survive the telecom winter

Packet Design says its new product watches and listens to routers in the network. Will carriers listen?

Will 1+1=1? Juniper looks to get a leg up on Cisco in the edge router market UPDATED 1:30PM ET

After defaulting on debt payments and being delisted from Nasdaq, the metro fiber carrier files for restructuring

MPLS VPNs are gaining momentum, as two switch/router vendors, Laurel and Riverstone, add features

Startup's huge, honking IP service edge switches are ready for display at Supercomm

IP services startup gets more dough for its network devices, which it plans to show off at Supercomm

Vendor says it doesn't see the market for a high-end OEO grooming switches at this time UPDATED 5/20 10:30 AM

Qwest's networking division has another engineering shakeup, raising hopes it will buy from startups again

White Rock joins the CWDM crowd with an eight-port device

The latest financials appear to show progress. Can Cogent prove the skeptics wrong?

Two new multisource agreements threaten to eat away the market for Xenpak optical transceivers, says RHK

South Korean CDMA specialist sets out to the help the little guys battle AT&T, Sprint, & Verizon

The executive credited with making Fujitsu a market leader in Sonet equipment has been lured away by Cisco

The carrier's banking on Ethernet as its next big business connectivity service. Are hopes too high?

The US Supreme Court has upheld the FCC pricing method for unbundled services -- a victory for competitive carriers

Redback says it's improved its edge router for service providers -- and it has more trash talk for Cisco

Along with other aging, well-funded core routing startups, Pluris is white-knuckling it these days, as layoffs show

Nortel gets optical with Brocade, soon after Cisco and Brocade break up. Coincidence?

This group's pushing hard for non-RPR Ethernet in carrier networks. Can it work? UPDATED 5/14 1:30 PM

Cisco is prepping a set of core routers that go to terabits (in theory) -- but they can't be tied together

Announces products, big and small, plus customers in Italy... and Alaska!

Fujitsu broadens its product lineup with two new metro DWDM boxes from its ADVA agreement

It'll generate huge revenues in the long term, but it isn't going to drive demand for GPRS networks anytime soon, says Ovum

Force10's getting ready to ship a 10-Gig Ethernet switch, which it demonstrated at N+I this week

Carl Russo, once head of Cisco's optical networking group, has left the company

Cisco looks to breathe new life into switching and routing product lines with optical enhancements like CWDM

And only half the industry players will still be around in 2010, according to the latest Light Reading survey

Stealthy startup's planning an access system that will 'never' run out of bandwidth

Sprint, SBC, and Verio announce VPN services at N+I, and equipment providers rush to congratulate themselves

Picks a fight with Qualcomm by calling for a limit on royalty payments for the use of 3G patents

After Cisco's cheery earnings report, battered equipment stocks ratchet up gains UPDATED 5PM ET

Cisco CEO John Chambers presents his company as a poster child of economic success after its earnings spark optimism

A former Agere exec on a juicy retirement package joins forces with startup MegaSense. Does that make Agere happy?

The technology to enable wireless Internet access on planes is on the runway. When will it be cleared for takeoff?

Profits higher than expected, but CEO John Chambers still won't call the bottom

Its shares hit an all-time low as rumors, rivals, and customer woes drive it into single digits UPDATED 05/08, 10:33 AM

Mukesh Chatter's stealthy startup has raised $37M, but the company says it will close $45M

Intrusion detection and anti-virus applications are showing up on security appliances with gigabit capacity

It's official -- SMS means more revenue. Why didn't the U.S. Carriers think of this earlier?

NetVmg opens itself up to a new market and further validates the idea of route optimization

Has it been hibernating? Retrenching? Whatever it is, the metro startup's ready to show its wares publicly

Embattled startup has slashed its headcount and is spinning off its wireless business

Sprint has technology & marketing edge according to the Wireless Oracle report on how U.S carriers are preparing for 3G

Company plans to announce huge upgrade to IOS software in the next couple of weeks; touts network resiliency

Sources say Juniper is now eyeing Unisphere; in the meantime, Unisphere spins out its voice business

The latest version of Canada's key research network could boost commercial deployment as well

CEO Bijan Khosravi says this round will help bring the startup to breakeven next year

Thousands go without service after Verizon loses a fiber optic cable serving 15,000 phone lines

Cisco buys two previously mysterious spin-ins to help revive its cable/broadband and Internet switching products

After Sycamore's earnings warning on Tuesday, layoff rumors sprout while speculation talk simmers

RIM has extended enterprise strategy and carrier partnerships.