Jean McManus, Verizon: Through the IPv6 looking glass

GPON sales pass EPON for the first time, hitting record level

Week in research: Telecom equipment sales recover; Peru a ripe target for investment

Infonetics" Carrier Ethernet ports take center stage

FairPoint extends its Vermont broadband reach, but is it enough to satisfy customers?

Infonetics: Ethernet Mobile Backhaul hits the Big Time

Where we're at with broadband stimulus and rural Internet access

Kevin O'Toole, Comcast Business Services

Brian Crotty, Chief Operating Officer, Broadview Networks

Maura Mahoney, Sidera

Articles from Samantha Bookman

1. BT holds the line in fiscal Q4, doubles fiber customer base to 1.5 million Explore FierceTelecom (May 14 2013) Europe , Metro Ethernet Openreach, which was impacted by regulatory price changes and a shaky European economy, nevertheless saw fiber broadband and Carrier Ethernet stem overall revenue losses, keeping them at 3 percent for the quarter and 1 percent for the year. (Read Full Article)

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2. Failures and triumphs on the road to broadband ubiquity Explore FierceTelecom (May 3 2012) Access , Middle Mile Still, efforts to build truly high speed, future-proof networks are moving forward, through both nonprofit organizations as well as private companies that are staking their future profitability on network builds--not just fiber, but hybrid networks featuring coax and fiber, like those being built by MSOs like Comcast. Upgrading the capacity of copper has enabled Ethernet over Copper services to remain viableand will extend the service life of the existing copper network. (Read Full Article)

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3. Dave Williams, MegaPath Wholesale Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 16 2012) Middle Mile , Wholesale , Wholesale / Exchange Williams Leading Megapath Wholesale through a rebranding process is a new challenge for David Williams, Senior Vice President, MegaPath Wholesale. The former Covad Wholesale changed its name in October 2011, a year after Megapath merged with Speakeasy and Covad Communications to create one of the largest facilities-based networks in the United States. Much of Williams' 17-plus-year career has been spent at Covad or its predecessor. In 2001, he led marketing and business development at NextWeb, a fixed-wireless business ISP in California that later became part of Covad Wireless in 2006. At the time of the Megapath-Speakeasy merger, Williams was general ... (Read Full Article)

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4. Kevin O'Toole, Comcast Business Services Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 16 2012) Middle Mile , MEF , Business Ethernet , Managed Data Services , Metro Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul , Cable / MSO Comcast has long been delivering Ethernet over its existing coax lines to small and medium business customers. And the MSO's infrastructure has been key to providing wireless backhaul services for wireless operators. (Read Full Article)

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5. Fiber hunter: How to improve Internet access by digging up forgotten fiber lines Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 7 2012) Middle Mile For cash-strapped city officials looking to provide high-speed Internet access to residents, the solution may be right under their feet.  Service providers and local governments around the country in the 1990s and early 2000s, galvanized by the promise of fiber optic communications and bolstered by a strong economy, invested trillions of dollars in building out fiber loops. But many of those lines now sit either underused or completely unused and forgotten. (Read Full Article)

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6. Where we're at with broadband stimulus and rural Internet access Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 15 2012) Access , North America Consumer and business demand for better, faster broadband also appears to be picking up, as is the competition to provide it. Incumbent carriers like CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are bridging speed gaps with technologies like Ethernet over Copper, while cable operators, fast moving up in the broadband pack, offer Internet technologies that utilize their existing coax lines. (Read Full Article)

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7. Brian Crotty, Chief Operating Officer, Broadview Networks Explore FierceTelecom (Nov 2 2011) Middle Mile , Managed Data Services In May, Broadview's High Bandwidth Dedicated Internet Access service, which leverages fiber optic connections and Ethernet technology to deliver 100 Mbps, was recognized by Unified Communications magazine with its Product of the Year award as a groundbreaking advancement in UC. (Read Full Article)

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8. Brian Worthen, CEO, Mammoth Networks Explore FierceTelecom (Nov 2 2011) Middle Mile Offering wholesale telecommunications services to ISPs even as the speed and complexity of the Internet grew, Worthen led the company as Mammoth evolved into a Layer 2 aggregator with the ability to bring disparate technologies and offer services via a single managed platform. "Private line is constantly growing and no one is requesting OC-3 and DS3s anymore--it's all GigE or 10 Gig or 2.5 Gbps. We'll be spending a lot of time upgrading our infrastructure just to support those larger capacity circuits." (Read Full Article)

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9. Jim McGann, Senior Vice President, Charter Business Explore FierceTelecom (Nov 2 2011) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Cable / MSO Taking the business services tack toward profitability is a relatively recent move by cable MSOs including Charter Communications (Nasdaq: CHTR), whose Charter Business division has moved aggressively in the past year to expand its Ethernet reach beyond metro areas and serve small to medium businesses in the U.S. heartland. (Read Full Article)

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10. Maura Mahoney, Sidera Explore FierceTelecom (Aug 9 2011) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet Maura Mahoney, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Sidera, has had a front seat in one of the industry's most compelling business moves: splitting RCN Metro away from its parent company, RCN, delisting from the Nasdaq and rebranding as Sidera, with a new focus on improving and expanding fiber network service to its business customers. "(W)e wanted to take this as an opportunity to relaunch the company and go forward with who we are," Mahoney said in a 2010 interview with FierceTelecom. "We did not want to see ourselves as another Tier 2 service provider, we ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   RCN   Level (3)   sidera

11. Week in research: Telecom equipment sales recover; Peru a ripe target for investment Explore FierceTelecom (Jul 28 2011) Infonetics Telco equipment on the upswing: The recession put a big damper on sales of telecom and datacom equipment, but there are encouraging signs that the market is picking up. "...(R)evenues continue to rise and will do so through 2015 at an overall compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5%," says Jeff Wilson, principal analyst at Infonetics Research. "Service provider mobile and wireless infrastructure and enterprise and data center networks make up the largest portions of revenue, and growth through 2015 is fueled by a wide variety or product segments, from communications and security in the enterprise, to service ... (Read Full Article)

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12. FairPoint extends its Vermont broadband reach, but is it enough to satisfy customers? Explore FierceTelecom (Jul 13 2011) Cable / MSO Smith's take on the carrier's fiber future was, naturally, quite different. "I think you'll see more [Carrier] Ethernet over Fiber as we move forward. We have a commitment to build more (broadband); we just received a Vermont Telecommunications Authority grant to build out in the Jeffersonville area. ... We also have an agreement with the dept. to build, in 2012 and 2013, $7 million worth of expanded broadband." Compared to some rural areas--rural Washington State, with neglected or nonexistent Verizon lines, comes to mind--Vermont is practically in the midst of a broadband boom. Additionally, state regulators in Vermont ... (Read Full Article)

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13. Jean McManus, Verizon: Through the IPv6 looking glass Explore FierceTelecom (Jun 6 2011) National , Regional As executive director of Packet Technology and Transport in Verizon's Corporate Technology Organization, McManus is leading the IPv6 initiative across Verizon's business units focused on migration to IPv6. A veteran of GTE Government Systems, she also leads a technical team with responsibility for IP, Carrier Ethernet, and optical network architecture for Verizon's wireline networks To say Jean McManus is enthusiastic about the transition to IPv6 would be an understatement. As executive director of Packet Technology and Transport in Verizon's Corporate Technology Organization, McManus is leading the IPv6 initiative across Verizon's business units focused on migration ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   NTT   Verizon Communications Inc.

14. Infonetics" Carrier Ethernet ports take center stage Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 14 2011) Infonetics Things are looking up in the long term for high speed networking ports, particularly 100G and 100GE (Gigabit optical and Ethernet), which will be the major port player from 2015 to 2030, according to Infonetics Research. "There is a lot of excitement these days around 100G and 100GE, and whether or how soon 100G prices will cause 40G sales to decline," said Michael Howard, principal analyst for carrier and data center networks and co-founder of Infonetics. (Read Full Article)

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15. Infonetics: Ethernet Mobile Backhaul hits the Big Time Explore FierceTelecom (Oct 15 2010) Mobile Backhaul , National Ethernet mobile backhaul hits the big time: Networking service providers have been talking mobile backhaul for quite awhile now, and Infonetics Research backs up that interest with a new report that says Ethernet mobile backhaul equipment sales will spike to $8.2 billion worldwide from 2014. The market saw a big jump in 2009 of 36 percent year-over-year to $4.8 billion and 80 percent of total backhaul spending. News release. (Read Full Article)

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16. Neutral Tandem picks charter customers for its Ethernet eXchange solution, schedules deployment Explore FierceTelecom (Jul 29 2010) Business Ethernet , Cable / MSO , Vertical Systems Neutral Tandem (Nasdaq: TNDM) has selected 10 service providers to participate in its Ethernet eXchange Charter Customer Program, and is ready to start deploying the interconnect solution in six U.S. markets including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and New York. The named providers include RCN Metro Optical Networks, Tinet, PAETEC, Deltacom, US Signal, Mosaic NetworX, Wilshire Connection and ION Holding Co. Ethernet exchanges are a more efficient way to interconnect multiple service providers. The Charter program was put together with the idea of a collaborative product development process that would allow eXchange customers to have input all the ... (Read Full Article)

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17. GPON sales pass EPON for the first time, hitting record level Explore FierceTelecom (Jun 4 2010) Global Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) deployments in China led to a 40 percent surge sequentially in sales of GPON equipment--both optical line terminals and optical networking terminals--in the first quarter of 2010, reports Dell'Oro Group. The market saw a record 70 percent increase in revenues over the same period last year, surpassing sales of Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON) for the first time. The massive growth is largely due to China Unicom and China Telecom both deploying GPON equipment in that bandwidth-hungry nation. Those purchases put Huawei, the primary supplier to China's telecom market, at the top of ... (Read Full Article)

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