Yesterday we reported Verizon is now offering 15 Mbps ADS2+ service to about 4 million of their DSL customers. The new 15/1 Mbps tier costs $50 for users who bundle Verizon voice service, or $60 standalone. Light Reading’s Carol Wilson offers additional technical detail, including the fact the faster speeds are being offered at customer [...]
P-OTS hardware sales rise: The optical network equipment market is recovering globally–except in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Asia), where sales remain flat, Infonetics Research reports. Asia Pacific, particularly China, leads the spending drive for optical hardware, with sequential growth of 8.1 percent in the second quarter of 2010. Globally, equipment sales grew 2.9 [...]
Telekom Austria (NYSE: TKA) likes what it sees with its hybrid fiber/copper VDSL network, so it’s going to expand the network footprint to cover 40 percent, or 1.59 million of the country’s homes by the end of the year. Currently offering 30 Mbps downstream speeds, Telekom Austria believes it will hit its goal of two [...]
Australia’s National Broadband Network may continue to be the subject of political debate but that’s not stopping it from starting the construction of its ambitious last mile fiber open access network. Among the first of five initial sites to be built out on the NBN is Townsville. In total, the five sites will connect about [...]
Australia’s opposition coalition has introduced an alternative broadband program that, should it win in the August 21st election, will replace the Labor government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) plan. Following Australian incumbent service provider Telstra’s agreement to sell its wireline network infrastructure to the government for the NBN, the coalition said it wanted to shut down [...]
Despite opposition from political groups, a report in The Wall Street Journal revealed that the Australian government now plans on upping the coverage of the National Broadband Network (NBN) project from 90 to 93 percent. However, not everyone is in love with the NBN. Critics of the NBN, including the Liberal-National opposition coalition, argue that [...]
Solid earnings in Alcatel-Lucent’s (NYSE: ALU) IP and wireless segments and strong growth in North America helped to partially offset a decline in fixed access revenues for the second quarter of 2010, the operator reports. Alcatel-Lucent’s overall revenues were down 2.4 percent compared to last year, at EUR3.8 billion. However, CEO Ben Verwaayen maintained the [...]
Alcatel-Lucent’s (NYSE: ALU) standings in China’s wireline broadband market got a lift this week by winning Fiber to the Home (FTTH) contracts with both China Telecom and China Mobile. Although neither service provider would reveal financial terms of the deal, China Mobile will deploy Alcatel-Lucent’s PON gear in 14 provinces, while China Telecom will deploy [...]
Fiber to the Premises (FTTP)-based broadband may be at the core of Australia’s NBN Co.’s National Broadband Network, but the realities of the country’s tough terrain is forcing the service provider to use satellites in areas that can’t be reached with fiber. NBN Co. will spend up to $876.5 million on two KA band satellites [...]
After deploying 100 Gbps optical technology on its optical core transmission networks in Europe, Verizon (NYSE:VZ) now wants to see how 100 GigE could fit into its Metro Ethernet network. Verizon did not have to look far to conduct this field trial. Instead of installing new gear, the carrier simply leveraged the Alcatel-Lucent’s 7450 ESS–the same [...]