China Unicom has launched an ambitious Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) product that will serve 29 provinces in the country.
To make this network build a reality, the service provider is going to leverage Alcatel-Lucent’s (NYSE: ALU) GPON equipment, includ…
Ericsson has been chosen by Chorus, the wholesale arm that will soon be spun out of Telecom New Zealand, to provide fiber cable for its contribution to the country’s Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) network initiative.
Although financial terms o…
Confirming rumblings we’ve touched on previously, Verizon today officially unveiled the company’s new home monitoring platform for existing broadband, TV and phone customers. The “Home Monitoring and Control” service costs users an additional $10 a mon…
Microwave leaders vie for supremacy: Infonetics’ Q2 2011 Microwave Equipment vendor market share and forecast report showed that Ericsson, NEC and Huawei are all now within one market share point of each other in the microwave market. Richard Webb, dir…
As U.S.-based utilities move ahead with their smart grid plans they will spend more of their capital dollars on telecom equipment and services throughout 2011, a new study by the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) reported.
The UTC study, “Utilities Telec…
Core routers angle upward: As adoption of 100 Gbps technologies increases, adoption of core routers capable of handling next generation speeds is on a growth path, according to Dell’Oro Group. The service providers core router market grew 11 percent ye…
BT (NYSE: BT) and ZTE (Shenzhen: 000063.SZ) have created an R&D pact to explore new opportunities in next-gen wireline, wireless and mobile services.
Under the terms of the agreement, the partnership will combine ZTE equipment and network solutions wit…
Deutsche Telekom (XETRA: DTE.DE) and France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) have formed a joint equipment purchasing and procurement venture that they claim will save both providers about $1.9 billion a year.
Structured as a 50/50 joint venture, the two once state…
Internet2 has appointed its long-running partner Level 3 Communications (Nasdaq: LVLT) to help them build its nationwide 8.8 Tbps network, which will support over 200,000 community anchor institutions, including K-12 schools, libraries, community colle…
Lightower Fiber Networks is employing Ciena’s (Nasdaq: CIEN) ActivSpan 565 Advanced Services Platform to deliver native transport solution for a global entertainment and broadcast company.
In this particular application, the end-user needed a solution …