SuperComm 2003

Alcatel acquisition debuts with edge routers
Jun. 16, 2003
Start-up TiMetra Networks has at long last revealed the reasons why Alcatel acquired the company. The 3-year-old company unveiled its line of edge routers two weeks ago at SuperComm in Atlanta.

Telecom show features long-lost sight: Optimism
Jun. 09, 2003
Perhaps it was news of equipment deployments and the promise of new services. Or the expectation of renewed network buildouts. Or hope that current regulations would soon be relaxed. Whatever the reason, there was ...

Verizon exec talks up FTTP
Jun. 09, 2003
Verizon Network Services President Paul Lacouture sat down with Jim Duffy, managing editor of The Edge at Network World, at last week's SuperComm exhibition to discuss FTTP.

Automated service saves AT&T users plenty
Jun. 09, 2003
Financial services company Metavante reports saving at least 500 hours worth of staff time every month - the equivalent of about three full-time positions - since it started using AT&T's Electronic Bonding automated ...

Ex-Cabletron crew gains new funding for start-up
Jun. 06, 2003
A new company with deep Cabletron roots this week announced $7 million in second-round financing from private investors.

Redback, Cisco push out their BRAS
Jun. 03, 2003
Redback has announced plans to port its service management system (SMS) software to its edge policy enforcement box called SmartEdge. The combination of the two will give service providers the ability to aggregate ...

MCI joins with Nortel to shift to IP-based network
Jun. 03, 2003
MCI is more than two-thirds of the way through a conversion from circuit-based telephone service to voice over IP-based service in 51 of the largest cities in the U.S. The move would allow it to build the foundation ...

RBOCs along for the MPLS ride
Jun. 02, 2003
The RBOCs plan to roll out MPLS-based VPN services in their regions, and then nationwide as they get long-distance approval and build out their IP backbones.

SLAs not necessarily guaranteed with MPLS
Jun. 02, 2003
The potential benefits of MPLS VPNs are customer-specific, and the highly touted benefit of end-to-end quality-of-service may be just a myth if your service traverses more than one network.

Avici's legacy at the edge
Jun. 02, 2003
ATLANTA -- At Supercomm 2003 this week, Avici Systems unveiled a series of linecards for its routers designed to enable carriers to converge multiple services over their IP/MPLS networks.

IBM, Cisco team on content delivery
May. 29, 2003
IBM and partners will unveil at the Supercomm trade show in Atlanta next week an integrated system for carriers and organizations that want to manage and distribute multimedia content.

VeriSign CEO Sclavos talks telecom
May. 28, 2003
Here's a little-known fact about $1 billion-plus company VeriSign: Its telecom business actually generates about as much revenue as its security business and much more than its very visible domain registration business. ...

Carrier show to demo MPLS, more
May. 26, 2003
When SuperComm 2003 convenes next week in Atlanta vendors will make a big push to prove that highly touted yet emerging communications technologies really do work.

SuperComm 2003 show guide
May. 26, 2003
SuperComm 2003 starts June 1 in Atlanta, bringing together the telecom industry at one of its most challenging times. We bring you a guide to the must-see events at the show.

Agere pushes chips for lower network costs
May. 22, 2003
New processors made by Agere Systems for telecommunications services platforms pack a variety of functions and high-speed performance into a small space, potentially paving the way for carrier gear with lower prices, ...

Adva enhances optical mux
Apr. 17, 2003
Adva is introducing at SuperComm 2003 in June optical multiplexer capabilities that give customers more options when using both coarse (CWDM) and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) on the same platform.

What Alcatel saw
Jun. 11, 2003
Start-up TiMetra Networks has at long last revealed the reasons why Alcatel plans to acquire the company.

Larscom, Vina deal receives final blessing
Jun. 04, 2003
Larscom and Vina Technologies will be merged by the end of the week, Larscom Wednesday announced at SuperComm 2003, meaning the two companies can expand their work on access devices that deliver broadband services to ...

AT&T's customer service push
Jun. 03, 2003
AT&T says it is investing $500 million this year to 'significantly improve customer experience' across all network services.

Lucent enters market, exits business
Jun. 03, 2003
Lucent this week unveiled a compact Class 5 switch targeted at rural local exchange carriers, cable companies and other independent operating companies.

Show to focus on broadband ROI
Jun. 02, 2003
Technology is willing but the business case remains suspect heading into SuperComm 2003.

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