Optimum Lightpath's Low Latency Optical Transport Offers Microsecond SLA

Cablevision's Optimum Lightpath group announced the availability of a point-to-point, low-latency, optical transport service for customers in the finance, healthcare, media and government sectors. The service is available on pre-equipped and pre-conditioned routes on Optimum Lightpath's footprint, and based on a simple, flat-rate pricing model.Optimum Lightpath said it can deliver speeds down to the microsecond level with guaranteed Service Level...

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Alcatel-Lucent names John Dickson as head of Operations

Alcatel-Lucent announced the appointment of John Dickson as head of Operations, replacing Michel Rahier, who is pursuing other interests outside Alcatel-Lucent. He will oversee the procurement, hardware and software supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, and real estate activities of the company.Dickson most recently served as President and CEO of Agere Systems, a global leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless data, and public and enterprise networks that subsequently merged with LSI. Prior to Agere Systems John served as executive vice...

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Alcatel-Lucent Enhances 9500 Microwave Packet Radio

Alcatel-Lucent has enhanced its microwave packet radio portfolio for the North American market with additional features and support for additional frequency bands to better address the needs of mobile service providers. The microwave packet radios can be used to interconnect 2G, 3G and LTE cellular base stations between each other and the fiber metro network. At each hop they aggregate any type of traffic (TDM, ATM and Ethernet) and then transport...

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Verizon Tests IPv6 on FiOS

Verizon has begun testing IPv6 for its FiOS services. The month-long trial involves FiOS-enabled customer homes with customized CPE - provided by Verizon - that can support both IPv6 and IPv4. The dual protocol setup will also be implemented on Verizon's edge gateway routers. Verizon employs 6PE technology, which uses IPv6-provider edge routers to connect across the company's IPv4 MPLS core. The IPv6 traffic is then sent over IPv6-capable peering...

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Verizon CEO: Smartphone Revolution Centered in U.S.

The smart phone revolution" is already centered in the U.S. and America's communications companies are deploying "game-changing" fiber networks and 4G LTE networks that "will leapfrog the world in wireless," said Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon's chairman and CEO in a session at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York."In a 4G world, wireless will connect everything," Seidenberg said. "There's really no limit to the number of connections that can be...

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AT&T Outlines $1 Billion 2010 Network Projects

AT&T outlined plans to invest approximately $1 billion in 2010 to scale its delivery of applications, mobility and cloud services within the United States and internationally. The spending is part of the company's previously announced CAPEX plans.Specific areas of AT&T's planned investment in 2010 include:Global Network Expansion Deploy, upgrade or add diverse IPv6-capable MPLS nodes to support Layer 3 VPN and Global Managed Internet Services,...

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Cisco Unveils Second Generation Unified Computing System

Cisco announced several additions to its Data Center 3.0 portfolio, including its second-generation Unified Computing System aimed at accelerating the promise of virtualization while uniting compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy-efficient system. The enhancements are aimed at helping data centers to transition to 10 Gigabit architectures, virtualization, unified fabric solutions, cloud computing and green...

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U.S. Court Vacates FCC Order on Net Neutrality

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the FCC does not have the authority to regulate the way Comcast manages peer-to-peer traffic on its network. The 3-0 court decision focused on the FCC's "ancillary authority" over broadband services. The ruling vacated an FCC Order issued in August of 2008 in which the FCC concluded that Comcast's management of its broadband Internet networks contravenes federal policies...

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Vivek Badrinath Named CEO of Orange Business Services

Vivek Badrinath has been appointed executive vice president in charge of Enterprise Communication Services, grouping Orange Business Services and the Enterprise Line of Business. Based in Paris, Vivek Badrinath will report to Stéphane Richard, chief executive officer of France Telecom-Orange, and will be a member of the Group's Executive Committee.Most recently Vivek Badrinath was executive vice president in charge of the Networks and Operators division...

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