The movement to get regional Bell operating companies into the long-distance arena in more states seemed about to grind to a halt last week, because of problems in an e-commerce platform targeted at the telecom industry.
Lucent Technologies Inc. this week tried a fresh attempt to push unified messaging, desktop videoconferencing and other multimedia-friendly applications into enterprise networks.
Lucent Technologies Inc. is upping the ante for service providers that need to cram ever more remote access dial-in ports into the same amount of space in their central offices and IP "super POPs."
None of the fights and accusations you've seen between George W. Bush and John McCain quite compare to a tussle going on between the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and his congressional tormentors.
While Lucent Technologies Inc. this week said it would spin off a new company whose products and services would focus on enterprise customers, it will stop short of populating the new firm with a full range of LAN and WAN products.
Lucent Technologies Inc. isn't sending 100 percent of its enterprise portfolio over to the new enterprise spinoff it announced yesterday. And that could spell additional challenges for the new company as it tries to get its bearings in the enterprise data market.
A long-time supplier of frame relay devices and DSU/CSUs has introduced a line of economical integrated-access devices designed to let an enterprise attach different-sized sites to a variety of high-speed carrier services, including robust new digital subscriber line (DSL) options.
E-commerce ventures such as Netscape and Sun's iPlanetE-Commerce Solutions aren't just targeting big telecom carriers because they think the service providers might be interested in heavy-duty transaction platforms such as iPlanet's ECXpert. The e-commerce companies know that for the regional Bell operating companies it's practically a regulatory requirement that they use such products -- or create their own.
A new national data-services carrier is betting it can attract enterprise users by guaranteeing to install circuits in 45 days or less - no ifs, ands or buts.
Bell Atlantic Corp. says it is now processing orders from competitive local exchange carriers on time, following recent allegations that it has missed installation dates on tens of thousands of CLEC orders in New York State.
If you're considering any kind of converged voice and data network, or just attending conferences where the speakers talk about convergence, I'm sure you've heard this line.
If regional Bell operating companies are ready to make a big push into long distance, they sure didn't make a very good show of it this week.
Bell Atlantic Corp. is having trouble provisioning its local competitors' orders in New York - less than two months after it won long-distance authority precisely
Web content distribution startup Akamai Technologies Inc. last week dove deep into the field of streaming media by acquiring Intervu Inc. in a stock swap worth $2.8 billion.
Visit the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Web site, and you'll find more than 100 electric utilities that have applied for - and received - government authorization to become telecom carriers since 1996. Sound good? Well, don't terminate your long-distance or local carrier contract just yet. First you have to find an electric utility whose telecom business actually includes enterprise-level voice and data services with top-notch customer support.