Take your ringtone and shove it!
Liberty Global, the parent company of Europe's largest cable operator, UPC Broadband, inked a deal today to acquire Cablecom of Switzerland.
LINX CEO John Souter discusses resilience, security, and the politics of peering
A year later, San Francisco's muni WiFi project is still little more than a gleam in the mayor's eye
Here's a shocker: Needham analysts see growth – and profits – coming to Zhone through the Paradyne acquisition
John Malone's Liberty Global splashes $2.2 billion on Swiss cable operator Cablecom, which was set for an IPO
A lack of licensed spectrum could become a big issue for ISPs looking to implement WiMax in the US, but it helps Sprint Nextel
Having babies ain't just for dames no more!
Cisco continues to snap up small companies like popcorn -- it will pay $12.5 million for memory startup Nemo Systems
Evening announcements provide good news for SafeNet and another disappointment for Hifn
Alternative UK operator THUS expects improved financial results and remains on the prowl for an acquisition target
Chinese vendor has been in talks with Tellabs and Ciena about potential OEM deals, according to Light Reading sources
Carrier has a two-stage plan for fixed/mobile convergence services, and it's moving forward quickly, sources say
Carrier has a two-stage plan for fixed mobile convergence services, and it's moving forward quickly, sources say
Former Lightconnect CEO has resurfaced to tackle the LX4 transceiver market
Alcatel, IPTV, and the moon are vying for top news billing at next week's Broadband World Forum in Madrid
Rumors of big deals sent the stock up yesterday, but shares are sobering up today. Is ZTE interested?
NASA hops on the Google shuttle.
Nordic broadband execs discuss where municipal networks can really work
Now on LRTV: Softswitch executive says the US VOIP market is hard to peg and still comparatively small
Last week LightReading offered a sneak peak into Google's Internet backbone network aspirations. Armed with another $4 billion in cash, Google is force to be reckoned with.
The enterprise WLAN job market is as fluid as ever
Pair have unveiled new IP DSLAMs ahead of next week's Broadband World Forum Europe event in Spain
So what'd I do on vacation? Short answer: I didn't get killed.
Strange tales from NJ startups starting with 'T'
Schadenfreude never felt so good.
Scuttlebutt suggests incumbent is mulling a bid for CDMA base-station startup
Is there a Chinese speaker in the house?
Vonage is plowing forward with IPO plans in the wake of Skype's $2.6B windfall, but some believe an acquisition looms
Mmmmm mmmmm! Gimme that tasty spud cocktail!
Supremes tackle a big one.
Sources inside Marconi's corridors believe that Ericsson is planning a bid for the British vendor, but not everyone's convinced
RIM inks chip deal to add features as 3G wireless email access market hots up
Sources inside Marconi believe Ericsson is planning a bid for the British vendor, but not everyone's convinced
MPEG-4 video encoding startup Modulus Video scores $10M in Series B funding
Armed Navy superdolphins menace human race.
VOIP directory company hits new post-IPO high.
The Germans have a word for it.
Spawned in the depths of the sea...
Tellabs may find its way into edge markets through an acquisition of Redback, some analysts speculate
As HP sets up service delivery platform collaboration scheme, OSS giant Telcordia looks set to enter the fray
Struggling softswitch vendor is on life support but may have found a savior in Tdsoft
Human urine, pig sperm put to uncommon uses.
Presidential appeal raises $600.
Talk of Huawei's bid for Marconi resurfaces, boosting the share price of the British incumbent equipment provider
Introduces new products, talks up integration possibilities
Word has it the tunable laser company's suitor is laser giant Coherent Inc.
What could possibly go wrong?
Finally, an MVNO deal by a major MSO. This week Quebec cable operator Videotron inked a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) deal with Rogers Wireless, the sister company of Canada's largest cable company, Rogers Cable.
The North American incumbents are revving up their GPON plans and a long-awaited RFP could arrive in November, sources say
Meru marketing VP jumps to Cisco
WLAN software startup expected to announce more funding next week
VON brings a raft of product releases for VOIP testing and monitoring as carriers focus on live environments
He was the walrus.
Speculation continues on the winner of the BellSouth IMS RFP, with Lucent now seen as having an edge over Sonus
Souping up its high-end metro platform with 40-Gbit/s channels, ROADM, and Raman amplification
The ROADM market is getting rough and tumble. Capella raises $10M, while Metconnex engages JDSU in a courtroom battle
The UTOPIA broadband service is facing a price war with incumbent broadband providers
Energis has picked the optical networking provider to be its supplier of long-haul DWDM equipment
In cheese worship, the Dutch have the louder Gouda.
Remembering the worst business trip, ever.
Deal with UK regulator creates a new access network division, avoiding potential barrier to 21CN
Unstrung Insider cites three competing ways to deliver TV to mobile users
Chinese firm redefines respect.
You'd have thought chief marketing officers would be good at marketing themselves. Think again...
XML processing startup's new CEO is Mike Knudsen from QLogic
Please stop Plaxo-ing me, you Pinto lovers...
The 5 million-member ISP has plans to roll out 'Vonage-like' service in two weeks
Colt will launch a new range of Ethernet service offerings later this year
Wacky vicar deletes the begats.
Carrier plans HSDPA network launch in 2006 and talks down potential of mobile WiMax
10-Gbit/s Ethernet startup raises another chunk of change, and one lead investor says it's ready for IPO
FEMA moves in mysterious ways.
To shut down its legacy networks in four years as it moves thousands of businesses to a converged IP backbone
All the news unfit to print.
Does Google want to copy everything?
Municipal broadband networks are gaining momentum, but consumers haven't noticed
The routing guru is off to pursue startup life again, with Procket's former COO
Guess what company was the third largest communications investment made by venture capitalists in 2004.
Search Sumo gets in the secure WiFi ring
LR invites vendors to participate in a comprehensive, independent test of GGSN performance capabilities
LR invites vendors to participate in a comprehensive, independent test of GGSN performance capabilities
Lowering expectations: What Bush does best.
The pseudowire systems vendor adds another $16.25M to its coffers
Search giant is spending hundreds of millions on a core global network to serve up content
More than three-quarters of service providers surveyed by Heavy Reading say they've deployed VOIP
More than three-quarters of service providers surveyed by Heavy Reading say they've deployed VOIP
Bill Owens wishes Nortel had stuck it out in DSL, says he needs a new CTO, and sounds off about the competition
One pill makes you larger...
Depends on how one defines 'recovery.'
Macromedia and Cisco launch new conferencing suite, will compete with WebEX and Microsoft
New German backers are evaluating the startup's MetroMesh technology
Capitalism explained.
Stop alien mind control while remaining stylish.
Sources say Tellabs has all but sewn up a very big optical equipment RFP at Verizon
New shrunken versions of the company's 15008 router aim to bring carrier Ethernet to the edge
Scandinavian software player snaps up mediation and network inventory businesses for $22M to broaden portfolio
Utah Congressman accuses Baby Bells and cable MSOs of inhibiting the growth of broadband in the US
If it looks cool, who cares what it does?
NetCentrex, Telenet, and Cablecom size up the listing possibilities, but the market's not ready for everyone
It ain't Willy Wonka.
They've just slashed the sex-crime rate.
High-speed WLAN startup looks for triple-play action with PCCW
...or does Phil moonlight as a heavy-metal frontman?
It's Friday, it's been a long week, I can't even tell if this is real or a joke anymore.
The House Commerce Committee has released a first draft of it Telecom Act overhaul legislation
Word on the street is that the secretive FMC startup is working with massive Japanese carrier NTT
With tunable laser vendor Agility announcing its own acquisition, Iolon appears to be next
Software snafu leads Cisco to warn customers that software from Corvil has been generating inaccurate data
Pack the sunscreen.
Session controller vendor from the UK will roll into VON with its convergent-friendly pitch
US carrier becomes first foreign player to adopt horrid South Korean acronym
Larry's vacation plans shot to hell.
Wall Street gives optical components a lift, with Citigroup upgrading JDSU and Merrill Lynch blessing Corning
Ophelia's got the wobblies.
We need to harness this guy.
'Certainly, we have seen MSN hire people who, for example, formerly worked for Google or in some cases temps...'
The 10.7 million shares held by Corning could be sold off soon, and that might not be a bad thing
Former Danish staff plan a legal challenge over the loss of stock options, but Tellabs says they simply expired
Missed the hearings? Let's catch you up.
WSJ tech guru Walt tests fiber vs cable.
NexTone lands industry vet Malik Khan as its new CEO
Incumbent vendor leans on Airspan for sale of fixed-wireless kit and LG for mobile equipment
Gay apparel is a dead giveaway.
Emergency management takes many forms.
Novera Optics, six years and several business plans later, is pushing a new form of PON that has taken hold in Korea
Concerned Mom targets hummers.
Service provider feasts on Inkra's remains and uses its platform to offer managed firewalls and other services
How the hell are you supposed to shave with something that's the size of a small aircraft carrier?
These people should have to take a bath every few days, put on clean clothes, and keep their hair trimmed neatly...
Cisco Systems pitched its progress in IP video with broadband service providers, including Softbank BB and SureWest, at IBC 2005 in Amsterdam.
Officials say business is great, stock's up 10 percent. Is there a PTT customer in the future?
What’s driving growth in use of reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers? Cisco, Heavy Reading, and Veroxity tell all
Quiet-running startup grabs $19.8M in funding, works on secure fixed/mobile convergence box for building VPNs
Quiet-running startup raises $19.8M, works on secure fixed/mobile convergence box for building VPNs
Startups had a median valuation of $23.5M in Q2.
I want this, and I want it now.
Company set to launch a residential VOIP service that won't require subscribing to AOL, plans to redouble marketing efforts
Seeing Is Believing Interest in mobile TV services exploded in 2005, and it's winning acclaim from mobile operators worldwide
You thought the Shriners were hellraisers?
Hairy men gone wild.
Aperto scores $17M while rival Navini appears to have chalked up another $25M
So I take a note for your again...
For the art lovers amongst you, Rockwell meets Us Weekly, sorta.
Service providers at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Berlin say that carrier-class Ethernet still has a ways to go
NetCentrex CTO Olivier Hersent discusses IMS, IP telephony, and croissants
Dr. James Dodd, managing director of Anthem Corporate Finance, talks telecom recovery
More than 350 folks from service providers and tech vendors gathered in London to talk VOIP, IP video, IMS, and next-generation IP networks
Chip startup revs wireless LAN up to 240 Mbit/s
Reversing order could be hazardous to your job.
Wireless tracking technology appears to be next big enterprise push for Cisco
They're dosing my relatives.
The first round of Carrier Ethernet certifications included a lot of do-overs, the Metro Ethernet Forum says
Awards its first carrier Ethernet service-compliant certificates to 39 products from 16 vendors
Larry may have to change his wedding plans.
A little wireless hurricane PR, if you please.
Today's science news
Mobile WiMax standard could be ratified by month end
A small piece of Équipe lives on, and it's targeting the software side of the ATCA equation
Like a bird on the, er, wireless...
What the world needs now...
Visiting John Cioffi, the 'Father of DSL'
Skype investor explains how Skype's functionality is designed to eliminate a key 'point of friction' in eBay's auctions
Bush père et fils survey the flooding.
The components firm closes 'Series 2' funding to help ramp its VOA array
What's in a name for Video54
The Woody Allen-ification of wireless
What does eBay really want with Skype? Readers don't quite get it...
eDonkey, the Internet company with the most curious name, leads P2P.
Now that Light Reading has gone All Skype All the Time...
Skype now accounts for more than 46% of all North American Internet telephony traffic.
One-time push-to-talk startup takes total VC injection to $25M
It doesn't curdle your dreams.
A man goes to the doctor...
And God called the pasta Spaghetti; and the gathering together of the seasonings called he Marinara: and God saw that it was good.
Just got a note from a concerned employee of a company still missing 51 employees since Hurricane Katrina...
How much are the users really worth?
CTC's owner, Columbia Ventures, has its paws on several popular telecom concerns and is evidently using CTC to do some rolling up in a big way in the Northeast.
Internet retailer's share price dips as it makes the ultimate online purchase, buying VOIP service provider Skype for $2.6 billion
Enhances its 7750 Service Router to improve support for legacy Layer 2 services
Dr. Ben Marble, American hero, heckled Dick Cheney.
I won't argue that whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger. I've been married for seven years, by the way...
The Virginia-based VOIP provider is undergoing the latest in a string of outages that started this summer
New modular box will combine STS1 crossconnect, WDM, and packet processing, sources say
Good Lord! Mahi Networks founder Kevin Pope is enlisting at Hammerhead Systems
The unbearable lightness of being a kid.
Unstrung Insider claims 'cellevision' could become a breakthrough, mass-market mobile data service
'She came at me with her Hello Kitty® parasol!'
Reports say China Telecom is starting to clamp down on Skype.
Partners with Thomson and Intel on user-friendly set-top boxes
Even in disaster, Southerners have their standards.
WiMax and 3G might be bloodthirsty competitors, but they’re moving to common ground, says BT honcho
Unstrung Insider claims 'cellevision' could become a breakthrough, mass-market mobile data service
New IOS vulnerability relates to FTP and Telnet authentication
No accounting for taste.
Exxon feels your pain. Not.
Make way, Fantastic 4: Here come the Hurricane Czar!
Dick urged to perform an anatomical impossibility.
BT and Telenor keynotes highlight different strategies over aggregation networks
Seven years and $200M later, tunable laser vendor Agility finds a buyer
From the email hopper, a real stinker.
Maybe my gaydar's outta whack...
BT Wholesale's Paul Reynolds discusses BT's 21CN, soccer, video's impact on telecom carriers, and haggis (not really)
I know hurricanes are a boon to generator salesmen. But hosted PBX hawkers? Who knew?
Ask for the chef's special sauce.
Enterprise VOIP catches on, video raises the eyebrows, and a lager loosens the lips
Previously announced WiMax OEM deal also includes development of mobile 802.16e kit
Scum-sucking lowlife faces slap on hairy knuckles.
Outsourcing: Which is better?
Those small differences that matter so much
Skype for $2-3B? You don't say...
After talking up edge routers and pseudowires, the company reveals it's got an XML strategy, too
Heading into the IBC 2005 conference in Amsterdam this week, Terayon Communication Systems announced plans to add support for MPEG-4/AVC on its DM 6400 Network CherryPicker digital video processing platform.
Can 100 songs really satisfy the MP3 generation?
The dependence of next-gen communications on basic public utilities severely limited their usefulness
Airgo grabs more funding as it goes for the high-end SOHO market
Since Jan. 2, 2004, Ciena's stock has lost 68% of its value.
The move to next-gen networks causes carriers to rethink everything
Financial guru says it's inevitable that the PTTs will pull an IBM, migrating to consulting and enterprise services
Company's boost of the numbas sends shares soaring
Dontcha hate when that happens?
Vendor targets 35 percent marketshare of lucrative 3G infrastructure business
The Italians are breaking out their Members Only jackets and LA Looks hair gel for a little retro celebration today...
Plus ça change on the Anglo-French relations front.
Beware the Google Monster.
Cable & Wireless's pledge to use Cisco's CRS-1 is only half as big a deal as you might think
Intel Capital makes its largest investment in Eastern Europe to date
Embarks on his final three-hour cruise.
A movement is afoot to improve the way MSPPs handle Ethernet, and a new type of box may be in order
Teams up with Flash company Macromedia to bolster its service delivery platform offering to carriers
We resume our series of achondroplasic reportage.
Chappaquiddick explained.
Broadband, wireless, and IP convergence is happening across the world
Visiting the 'Loo of the Year'
Teams up with Flash company Macromedia to bolster its service delivery platform offering to carriers
French incumbent says it's made a breakthrough in guaranteed service levels for multipoint Ethernet with the help of Atrica
France's Free buys a WiMax operator, and Interoute swallows a hosting firm, Via Net.Works
Unstrung poll cites 2009/2010 as likely timeframe for commercial network launch, as incompatibility fears remain
France's Free buys a WiMax operator and Interoute swallows a hosting firm, Via Net.Works
Without missing a beat, I grabbed his finger and shook it, as you would a whole hand...
The wraps come off the 'Future of Telecom - Europe 2005' event at the Olympia Conference Centre in London this week
Monkeys would have handled things better.
Some women do not take rejection well.
Startup finds a friend and adds $15M to the coffers
We don't need no water; let a report from Infonetics detail the burn
Crushable clay figurine outsmarts Bush.
A lovely couple who thoroughly deserve each other...
Nokia linked to Chinese TD-SCDMA deal, Telabria goes live in the UK, and WiMax conflicts arise
As Matt Desch heads towards a bumper 'Golden Goodbye' payout, former Lucent man Dan Carroll takes the helm
The core router company has shed its optical roots, turning its Israel operation into a spinoff
Wales: Now available in bottles!
The world's only rodent-powered mobile?
Deutsche Telekom is embarking on a €3B FTTC project that will help deliver über bandwidth to German homes
Amid rumors that Tellabs may opt to become part of a larger supplier, Krish Prabhu says the company will thrive alone
A tax rebate buried in yesterday's Lucent SEC filing
Ciena's CEO makes a good living.
Better margins and a foot in the door at France Telecom could signal a turnaround... or not
Israeli silicon vendor claims early success with OFDMA technology
Previously muted Israeli silicon vendor claims early success with OFDMA technology
Better living robotically
Monkey tires of show bidness.
Eleven-year-old Amedia bets Ethernet switched optical access is the big secret to big bandwidth
