Carrier Ethernet technology PBT took its buzz to a whole new level last week

Recommendations from two influential proxy firms should dispel any rumors that the Terayon-Motorola marriage is in jeopardy

Europe's spectrum refarming policy could disadvantage carriers such as 3 Group, and the operator is fighting it

Optical vendor adds to its user list in Europe, where BT reportedly has visibility into how Infinera's platform works in the field

You will be

In this week's VC summary, Visage Mobile, PicoChip, and 'Flirtomatic' look to find out if money can buy love

More pics and grins from Chicago

The GPON vendors were out in full force at NXTcomm. Here are some highlights and photos

Men are more prone to human bites... So now you know

Kelly Egan of Swarmcast says his company's service is complementary to what content delivery networks can provide

NXTcomm Day 3: Broadband

A Comcast exec says the MSO is ready to go when the FCC ban on set-tops with integrated security comes into effect on July 1

3GPP and European standards outfit ETSI are pooling their IMS standards efforts

More pics from NXTcommm

Huawei lands a monster GSM deal with China Mobile, strikes reseller deals, and talks of continuing, though slower, growth in APAC

We've confirmed that some top cable engineers got together Wednesday to get the 'RF-Over-Glass' standards project rolling

Here are a few tidbits from steamy, stormy Orlando

Parting NXTcomm shots from the Cisco CEO

Former members of RPR startup Luminous are taking on Symmetricom in network timing technology

Spirent COO says test system vendor isn't lining itself up for an acquisition, but rumors flew on the NXTcomm show floor

More photos from NXTcomm 2007

Wake up! It's quiz time!

DPI vendor buys two companies and racks up funding to possibly buy more

What's happening across the globe? You don't want to know

Sprint exec confirms talk of possible spinoff or merger options for the operator's WiMax unit

Now Sprint says that a 'major, major routing company' is getting into the WiMax game

Now Sprint says that a 'major, major routing company' is getting into the WiMax game

Competition in Ethernet-over-copper is going to get stiffer now that Adtran's in the game

With the OCAP and CableCARD stars aligning, ADB believes the time is right to re-enter the US cable set-top market

You can get a cream for that, you know...

Welcome the new LR Chicago bureau

After a year in the job, Nortel CTO John Roese tells LRTV how things are changing now that the days of corporate malfeasance are behind them. He’s very excited at seeing the results of all Nortel's R&D being rolled out to customers, especially for IPTV, and how after a bit of neglect there’ll be a greater focus on network management, with maybe a purchase in the wind. Plus a bit of banter on the debate around PBT and why 100 Gig may not be here quite as soon as you think

Ciena’s Gary Smith on whether Optical+Ethernet is a real equipment category or just a carrier fad. After returning to profitability, Ciena’s seen huge growth, but how does it keep this going, and is there a purchase to be made in the access arena? Plus, why we might be seeing 100 Gig sooner than you think

Is IPTV mass market? Not at Wal-Mart apparently. Microsoft TV's Christine Heckart on the latest developments in IPTV. It's got a new name: Mediaroom. Plus, despite its increasing presence in the market, why Cisco isn't seen as a competitor and AT&T's quite happy with the way things are going

Canada's second operator is in talks to buy the country's national incumbent

Verizon's shopping for DPI technology. Who'll win?

They've been talking about it for ages, but carriers are finally in a position to take on the more traditional content providers. But do telcos have the X-factor? Motorola CEO Ed Zander keynotes. And an update on IPTV

As NXTcomm in Chicago winds down today, here are some sights and snaps from this week

Dave Wentker, VP, Mobile Innovations at Visa, discusses how mobile payments will change consumers (and merchants) as devices get smarter and IT systems become more sophisticated

The four big MSOs rolling out mobile services with Sprint are not exactly racing to offer them

Dave Wentker, VP of Mobile Innovations at Visa, says the mobile payment business would benefit from newer phone handsets, and more innovation by merchants who want to reach their customers everywhere

Chillin' at the, er, conference center with Zander & co.

Meet Mr. Stiff

In addition to freeing up shelf space for HDTV services, operators must also accomodate the February 2009 digital TV transition

Chicago could be the next major US city to announce a muni deployment

Level 3's big push into the enterprise market may not require any more acquisitions, one exec says

The European WiMax scene was busy this week with marriages and divorces

Rumors of the company's demise have been greatly exaggerated, says the new chairman

Verizon's CEO promises 4G in 2010, while Moto's Zander says this time it's personal (and mobile)

Verizon's CEO promises 4G in 2010, while Moto's Zander says this time it's personal (and mobile)

Verizon is about to issue a major optical/packet platform RFP that could include a request for PBT

Doesn't the iPhone already promise you the Web anyway?

Look who's paying attention to NXTcomm

Redundancy reigns when tradeshows attack

Giles Corey spins in his grave

Video test system vendor's CEO says an IPO is on the roadmap as IneoQuest's customer list grows beyond 300

I dumpeth my in-box upon thee...

World's top handset vendor streamlines its corporate structure and financial reporting segments

Attention cable operators: A flood of MPEG-4-based HDTV content is coming your way courtesy of HBO

Genband is a leading provider of VoIP and multimedia applications, signaling and media gateways for softswitched-controlled or IMS-based fixed and mobile networks. These applications and solutions enable service providers to rapidly deploy multimedia services, while providing a foundation to transition legacy networks to next generation networks.

Day One of the show, and one of the big themes is convergence. It's been talked about for a while, but where are we at? AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and Nortel CTO John Roese give LRTV their views. Tomorrow it's content: Is it still king?

A party artifact

Cisco has unveiled a WiFi-based mesh system that will allow cable MSOs to deploy and market wireless Internet and backhaul services

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced at NXTComm a new wireless real time video sharing service

The iPhone will now let you talk for longer

The session-management company's CEO and COO step down; some say the company might be in play

And definitely don't covet thy neighbor whilst driving

IMS isn't enough for carriers' next generation service creation plans – they need Web 2.0 too, say major operator CTOs

Seems like smaller shows are the way forward for many wireless vendors

First there was Supercomm. Then there was Globalcomm. Now there is NXTcomm. As the new show is set to open in Chicago, LRTV takes a peek at what’s on offer this week.

Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner says that HD VOD is in development and that the FiOS network has the capacity to bring it home

Keynote time. Sound familiar?

Nortel's Carrier Ethernet Ecosystem brings together vendors focused on provider backbone transport interoperability and marketing

NextWave continues on its European wireless broadband spectrum spending spree with a 65 percent stake in WiMax Telecom

Huawei jobber accused of spying

Good question: Who's entering the market with a next-gen or 'universal' edge QAM? Better question: Who isn't?

NeuStar Fiduciary Services is helping Spirit Telecom perform surveillance actions such as wiretaps in order to comply with a federal regulation

The relative newcomer in Ethernet-over-copper finds help as the market braces for Adtran's arrival

Terayon says the CAP-1000 has enough horsepower onboard to rate-shape high-definition MPEG-4 video streams

Toddler falls off the wagon at Applebee's

Bring on the magicians and jugglers, too

Orange's Unik FMC service grows in France, but the operator will have to up its game to have the same success in other markets

With the NXTcomm show starting this week, Unstrung looks at upcoming devices from Apple, RIM, HTC, and more

With the NXTcomm show starting this week, Unstrung looks at upcoming devices from Apple, RIM, HTC, and more

Will there be demand for T-Com shares in Croatia?

Remembering Ed Wrankle

Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson get the call as AT&T prepares to deploy GPON in 2008

Scott Wickware, VP, Carrier Networks, Nortel, says 3G hasn't delivered. But 4G, which includes WiMax, is where Nortel has a unique market opportunity. Amazing how things change when you add just one more ""G""

Alcatel and others think wireless voice networks could be the next hot market for IP routing

ECI Telecom is in talks about a potential $1.2 billion takeover by a group of investment firms led by Swarth Investments

'Well, Duh' news of the day

Alcatel's former Golden Boy has disappeared from view since the merger with Lucent

Voice-over-IP equipment makers line up announcements ahead of NXTcomm

Sources say Sybase and other bidders are still out there, waiting, as Harbinger tries to gain controlling stake in Openwave

A Verizon shelf offering could signify the company wants to buy back part of its wireless unit from Vodafone

Scientific Atlanta's D-PON gives MSOs an option for those home developments that insist upon FTTP

Matt Beal, CTO of BT Wholesale says the carrier is remaking itself, inside and out, as it continues down the path toward building the 21st Century Network

Dr. Alireza Mahmoodshahi, CTO, Colt Telecom Group, says if carriers don't start thinking in terms of switching to native Ethernet services now, their problems will only get worse as their networks expand

AT&T, Verizon may put Amber Alert on high

FCC Chairman might finally get around to voting on Comcast's request for a full review on its already-denied set-top waiver request

GPON is the big access story at NXTcomm; here are some names to watch

BroadLogic's product plans got a big push following a new round of funding led by Comcast Interactive Capital

Saudi Arabia's HiTs Telecom plans $1 billion investment in Africa, targeting 10 operations by 2010

The next couple of years look pretty sweet for MSOs, but watch out beyond that

Carriers and regulators are looking to create separate business divisions to house incumbent fixed-access networks

What would Jesus regulate?

A ground-breaking test, commissioned by Light Reading and the European Advanced Networking Test Center, put Cisco's IPTV gear to the ultimate test

A Light Reading-commissioned test suggests Cisco's end-to-end IPTV architecture can scale to 1 million users

A new bill with à la carte overtones caused FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to smile, and the cable industry to go on the defensive

Sprint promises a WiMax market update at NXTcomm and says it's considering different funding possibilities

Sprint promises a WiMax market update at NXTcomm and says it's considering different funding possibilities

Inspired by surging traffic demands, Tiscali plans to pump more money into its North American operations

Nortel says it will add Ethernet access and ROADM capability to its 6500 optical platform. But where's PBT?

No, seriously, that's the name of Comcast's theme park

Egypt-based Orascom Telecom has given up on talks to buy a stake in Brasil Telecom, but it has plenty of M&A opportunities in mind

Based on what's been revealed so far, most M-CMTS deployment activity is occurring overseas

Possible new annoying fashion trend

Enhancements to BEA's Weblogic platform could be big news for other service delivery platform vendors

The new module allows customers to quickly and easily upgrade 40-Gbit/s service capabilities over existing 10-Gbit/s networks

A WiMax deal with Clearwire inches DirecTV and Echostar closer to the coveted triple play

Digital content news bonanza

Or why you shouldn't marry your cousin

Vodafone reported annual revenues of $61 billion in 2006/2007, a 6 percent increase from the previous year

CEO Pat Russo is looking for untapped $$$ in the company's patent portfolio, according to sources

Don't poke pooch with that poison needle just yet

International standard bodies could determine WiMax's fate this year

Pan-African operator receives a $320M loan package from development banks to expand telecom coverage

Do the RBOCs get it?

New spec lets cable MSOs assist law enforcement agencies with wiretaps on high-speed broadband connections

Those aren't chocolate sprinkles

Be glad your morning wasn't really this 'interesting'

With more cases like this, wiretapping may become less important for effective law enforcement

UK cable operator says a small investment in DNS gear will make its broadband service more responsive and its network more secure

Raketu's service is like SkypeOut without the download

Some unexpected friends have come to the aid of Cablevision and its fight for the Remote Storage-Digital Video Recorder

Juniper vs the serial patent plaintiff

Just add water and click

Or how a couple of high-profile mobile launches could drag WiFi into the cellular spotlight

A closer look at a BPON bargain

Zhone says its new line-powered ONT will make fiber-to-the-home more affordable

Scandinavian carrier pulls no punches as its chairman says it needs a more visionary leadership

As Italian operators argue over mobile TV subscriber numbers, other carriers oppose EC proposals for DVB-H to become a standard platform

Cable's key set-top suppliers say they are gearing up for the rapidly approaching ban on boxes with integrated security

How can the phone giant boost its presence in the vital corporate market in the US?

As telcos' frustration with the video franchising process grows, the push for statewide franchise legislation becomes more intense

Ciena's new 40G Shelf lets carriers mix and match 10G and 40G services over a single strand of fiber

RGB has jumped into the variable bit rate VOD game, aiming to improve bandwidth efficiency

A reviewer is less than impressed with the first attempt at a souped-up PC outfitted with a CableCARD slot

Qwest Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert has announced that he will retire once a replacement can be found

With the T1600, Juniper hopes to outdo Cisco's core-router density and add more service awareness to boot

Cisco invests in P2P equipment vendor Oversi, which is targeting the content delivery network sector with its traffic management servers

Akamai and Limelight showed strength on expectations of strong demand in content delivery

Randall Kruep's latest startup is now in the hands of Vikash Varma, former P-Cube CEO

ITC slaps ban on some Qualcomm 3G chips

Starz says its Vongo Internet movie service isn't stealing premium cable customers, but the sub base of the young offering remains a mystery

Swedish giant buys its way into the out-of-the-box service delivery platform (SDP) market with the acquisition of Drutt

How to prevent people from spitting on the police

Nortel is facing a fine of less than $100 million over its accounting scandal – less than expected – according to a Bloomberg report

Vodafone says proposals made by John Mayo-backed activist investment firm ECS would undermine its business strategy

A disappointing first quarter and a tepid outlook for the second quarter sent SeaChange shares reeling today

The ROADM component startup names Krishna Bala, a name out of the optical bubble, as its new CEO

Limelight is gearing up for its debut on Nasdaq tomorrow morning and will be opening at a higher price than originally planned

The missing link?

CableLabs may have just issued an RFI on PacketCable 2.0, but there's plenty of road to travel before MSOs will deploy it

The mobile industry looks to 2007 as the inflection point for the mobile Internet at the Mobile Entertainment Forum's annual event

An activist investment firm has sent a letter to Vodafone asking that it sell its 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless

Infinera shares are up more than 40 percent over its offer price

NBC's digital maidservant?

C&W decides $40 million bonuses aren't enough. Honest!

France Telecom buys Deutsche Telekom's Spanish broadband unit Ya.Com for €320 million and looks set to sell its Dutch business to DT

Social networking goes mobile in the UK this month as Orange prepares to launch Bebo in the wake of Vodafone's MySpace service

Following a successful IPO, it appears BigBand is wasting no time using its new heft to squash potential competitors

For 22 more days, it's the next best thing

Vendors need to get their act together by July 13 if they want to participate in the PacketCable 2.0 RFI

The WiMax operator still needs more money, and investors don't seem happy about it

ITU approval is one big step towards 4G status for WiMax

The components manufacturers make nice and agree on a price for OCP's outstanding shares

Car trips just got more nauseating

The DL on XKL

Jivin' Ivan

Openwave's board has rejected Harbinger's offer and Sybase deal likely falling apart, according to sources

Universal Remote Control is trying to ensure that cable subs will enjoy a true 'hands on' experience when MSOs begin deploying OCAP

Verizon to Comcast and back to Verizon. With some DirectTV thrown in, too

Sycamore concludes stock option grant dates were deliberately altered by its former CFO

Good news for IPO hopefuls – wireless data router vendor sees its stock jump 16 percent in the first few hours of trading

New day, new rumor: Nokia Buying Palm?

Avaya must pay its private equity suitors up to $250 million if it kills the agreed $8.2 billion takeover deal

Inder Singh seeks new pastures as Prudential exits research sector

Content owners say mobile operators must open their networks and simplify data pricing to the mobile entertainment market

Mobile carriers love the economics of Ethernet backhaul, but pitfalls abound on the road from TDM to Ethernet, finds Heavy Reading

What does the MVNO filing for Chapter 11 mean for the mobile content industry?

BigBand has filed suit against Imagine Communications, a company run by former BigBanders

As expected, the erstwhile Cisco exec becomes top dog at Joost

Ericsson's M&A spree continues with a €310 million bid for billing specialist LHS, a move that beefs up its business systems offering

C-COR is selling off its Outside Plant and Installation Services unit for $7M

Capex from Cingular is expected to ramp up in the second half of this year according to one Wall Street analyst

A Warner Bros. exec says offering movies simultaneously on DVD and VOD could make good business sense

Good quality, low on content

The Flashwave 9500 combines Sonet, ROADM, and carrier-grade Ethernet services all in one box

Meaningful differentiation that users never see

If you use a pay phone, you are a criminal

Service delivery platform vendors Aepona and Appium are merging to better compete with the big guns

Private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG strike cash deal to buy PBX vendor Avaya, but the door is still open to rival bids

The FCC curses the NY courts

C-COR, Harmonic, Motorola, and Scientific Atlanta are said to be in Comcast's 'early stage' switched digital video tech trials

A Forrester study indicates that consumers who want their cable TV on an à la carte basis underestimate the value of programming

Avaya will be bought out by private-equity firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG Capital, say reports

Content news cornucopia

Elevation, a PE firm part-owned by U2's Bono, takes a $325M stake in the smartphone maker

Nokia Siemens deals with some staffing issues

With a bigger and more feature-packed router, Redback and its new owner Ericsson take on the IP equipment industry's big guns

WiMax backers get a lift with news that the technology has taken the first step towards becoming part of the ITU's 4G standards roadmap

'Primetime has lost its urgency'

Game over for FierceGameBiz

New Prince track via Verizon

Yucky stuff

The high cost of wireless broadband

Airband, Gemini Technologies, and SiGie Semiconductor see dollar signs in this week's VC roundup

Volpi gets loosed

Sweet, juicy archaeology

Nortel and Silver Lake Partners are the two players down the stretch, with a deal that could surpass $9B, sources say

An FCC ruling affecting the multiple-dwelling unit sector gets a mixed reaction from cable's top lobbying arm

It's also lawyer-bait

Cablevision is following through on its threat to fight an earlier court decision that put the brakes on its 'Remote Storage' DVR

IMS and SIP won't be enough to battle the speedy development cycles of Web 2.0 mashups

Speculation is heating up that Indian mobile operators Spice Telecom and IDEA Cellular are in merger talks

Sorry, but Yogi is a bear here