Carrier WiFi equipment hits its stride: BelAir Networks, Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Ruckus Wireless accounted for more than two-thirds of carrier WiFi equipment revenue in 2011, Infonetics Research said, in a year that saw global revenue grow 35 percent….
Optical spending surges: Purchases of optical networking equipment, including WDM and SONET/SDH, rose 8 percent globally between Q3 and Q4 of 2011–from $3.4 billion to $3.6 billion, says Infonetics Research, and 13.3 percent in the Asia Pacific region…
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) says that Frontier Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: FTR) has deployed Infinera’s ATN for its metro network in Pennsylvania. Frontier already uses Infinera’s DTN systems in its fiber-optic backbone network.
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) says that Frontier Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: FTR) has deployed Infinera’s ATN for its metro network in Pennsylvania. Frontier already uses Infinera’s DTN systems in its fiber-optic backbone network.
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…