Equinix Opens Fourth Data Center in the Silicon Valley

Equinix opened its fourth Internet Business Exchange (IBX) center in the Silicon Valley. The new 120,000 square foot center is located in Sunnyvale and will add approximately 1,800 cabinets and increase Equinix's Silicon Valley footprint to more than 500,000 square feet. The center was originally built-out in 2001 at an estimated cost of $80 million and was acquired by Equinix through a long-term lease announced 14 months ago. Equinix is investing $15.0 million in upgrades to the facility.http://www.equinix....

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UNH-IOL Advances IPv6 Application Testing with Moonv6

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has completed a weeklong round of testing on the "Moonv6" network, the world's largest multi-vendor IPv6 network. The event included a public demonstration of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) running on a native IPv6-only connection.The UNH-IOL test ran mixed applications traffic (voice, video and data) between its network testing lab in Durham, New Hampshire and the U.S. Army's...

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Extreme Leverages MAC-in-MAC to Scale Ethernet to 16 Million Users

Extreme Networks introduced new capabilities based on emerging Ethernet standards that enable its BlackDiamond 12K platform to address the scalability of service provider aggregation networks for business and residential subscribers.Extreme Networks' "Multidimensional Ethernet" capabilities are comprised of three key dimensions:MAC-in-MAC scalability, Ethernet Cross Connect technology, and Hierarchical Quality of Service (QoS). Iometrix, the lab used to certify Carrier Ethernet products and services for the Metro Ethernet Forum, was commissioned...

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Nortel Appoints Darryl Edwards as EMEA President

Nortel has appointed Darryl Edwards as president of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, replacing Steve Pusey who is leaving the company to join Vodafone Group Plc as its Chief Technology Officer. Edwards has been with Nortel for 14 years. Most recently, Edwards was Nortel president of Northern Europe, Middle East and NETAS, Nortel's joint venture in Turkey. In the past, he has been CEO of Nortel Israel and of Nortel Networks Germany. Prior to joining Nortel, Edwards spent 13 years at GPT. He will continue to be based in Maidenhead,...

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Bell Canada Announces Executive Appointments

Bell Canada announced the following changes to its leadership team.Wade Oosterman is appointed President of Bell Mobility and Bell Distribution Inc. (BDI), as well as Chief Brand Officer of Bell Canada, effective immediately.Stephane Boisvert, former Senior Vice-President, Global Client Solutions Sales of Sun Microsystems Inc., is appointed President of Bell Canada's Enterprise business, replacing Isabelle Courville, which has decided to step down.http://www.bell...

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Vonage Adds 256,000 VoIP Lines in Q2

Vonage reported Q2 revenue of $143 million, up 141% from $59 million in the year-ago quarter. Net loss for the quarter was $74 million, down 14% from $85 million in the prior quarter.Vonage added 1,005,000 net subscriber lines during the twelve months ended June 30, 2006, including approximately 256,000 during the second quarter, the second highest level of net additions in the Company's history. Vonage ended the second quarter with over 1,853,000 total subscriber lines, an increase of 16% from the prior quarter and 119% above the year-ago level.Total...

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Verizon Reaches 6.1 million Broadband Customers, including 375,000 for FiOS Internet

Verizon reported Q2 revenue of $22.7 billion, up 25.6 percent from second quarter 2005. Reported quarterly earnings were $1.6 billion, or 55 cents per diluted share, compared with $2.1 billion, or 75 cents per share, in the second quarter 2005 -- including 9 cents per share in special items for severance and related pension and benefits charges, and for employee relocations and merger integration costs.Some highlights for the quarter:Verizon WirelessAdded 1.8 million net customers in the second quarter 2006, for a total of 54.8 million customers...

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AT&T Expands its Metro Switched Ethernet Service Coverage

AT&T is expanding the reach of its "OPT-E-MAN" managed metropolitan optical transport service to cover 22 additional U.S. cities. This expansion brings the number of metropolitan areas where OPT-E-MAN is available to 41.AT&T OPT-E-MAN is a fully managed, switched Ethernet network service that provides customers with a highly efficient solution for communicating across multiple locations within a metropolitan area. The service can be configured...

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NETGEAR Introduces ADSL2+-VoIP-Wireless Gateway

NETGEAR announced worldwide availability of its Integrated ADSL2+ Modem and Wireless Router with Voice. The new DG834GV combines an ADSL2+ Modem, Router, 10/100 Wired LAN Switch, 802.11g Wireless Access Point, VoIP, and SPI Double Firewall. In addition, VPN pass-through enables safe connections to a user's business network from their home and office, while Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) and Denial of Service (DoS) attack prevention avert possible threats by scanning all incoming traffic.http://www.netgear....

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EarthLink Selected to Build out Pasadena Network

The City of Pasadena, California selected EarthLink to build, own and operate a 23 square mile citywide municipal wireless network.EarthLink will offer a symmetrical, 1 Mbps solution for customers and will work with the City to develop a digital inclusion program to offer certain qualifying residents discounted Internet access.The City of Pasadena will be an anchor tenant on the network.As part of its commitment to open access, EarthLink will enable multiple, competing providers to offer their services to consumers and businesses over its network....

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Centillium Reports Q2 Revenue of $18.3 Million

Centillium Communications, a supplier of DSL silicon, reported Q2 revenue of $18.3 million, compared with $20.3 million during the first quarter of 2006 and $18.6 million for the second quarter of 2005. GAAP results were a net loss of $1.6 million, or ($0.04) per share, for the second quarter of 2006, compared with a net loss of $313,000, or ($0.01) per share, for the first quarter of 2006 and a net loss of $3.7 million, or ($0.10) per share, for the second quarter of 2005."Although during the second quarter our net revenues were as expected, our...

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