Work Log

2007-05-15T22:13:00.002-05:00

Moved Blog To New Location

This blog has moved to...

layer1transport.blogspot.com

2007-05-06T23:27:00.000-05:00

Raptor Networks

http://raptor-networks.com/

2007-05-06T23:03:00.000-05:00

Force 10(G) Infinera

Taking this opportunity, I caught up with Singh, who is the president and the CEO of Infinera. "It has been the inverse of the perfect storm for us," he says. While rest of the industry was shrinking and cutting back its investments in DWDM-related research, Infinera was boosting its spending. Now with carriers opening their wallets, and demand for bandwidth rising due to increased sales of broadband connections and other IP-related services, Infinera finds itself in an enviable position of being at the right place at the right time with the right technology.

Read more here.

2007-05-03T16:37:00.000-05:00

Ceterus UTS 1000

WSI's service provider then proposed a new possibility: the Ceterus Universal Transport System (UTS). TheUTS allows Ethernet transport over common Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) links, such as DS3s.

Read more here.

2007-04-22T21:35:00.001-05:00

DWDM Optical Network Engineer - SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet

PodSnacks: SONET

2007-04-06T12:44:00.000-05:00

PodSnacks: SONET

At the core of virtually every carrier and MSO's data and voice network sits a technology we have been using since 1984. By some estimates, over 99% of all of the voice and data traffic that touches a carrier or MSO network crosses a SONET facility before it finishes its journey. In today's PodSnack, Michel explains SONET to you.

Listen here.

Star Telephone selects Ciena's CN 4200 platform

2007-04-06T12:40:00.000-05:00

APRIL 3, 2007 -- Star Telephone, an independent operating company (IOC) based in southeastern North Carolina, has selected Ciena Corp.'s (search for Ciena) CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform for its core network infrastructure upgrade. Star is transitioning its legacy SONET network to a next-generation, service-enabled architecture to better support the delivery of high-bandwidth services, including metro Ethernet, wireless, high-speed data, and IPTV.

Read more here.

2007-04-06T12:30:00.000-05:00

DWDM Optical Network Engineer - SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet

This position requires regular travel throughout the United States and Europe as necessary - travel average between 20% and 40% of engineer's time.

2007-04-02T15:06:00.000-05:00

NOC Tech Miami

2007-01-12T23:43:00.000-05:00

CAT Communications

I received a call from Tito Thomas looking to buy all kinds of telecommunications equipment.

813-770-6874
catcommunications@verizon.net

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Kineticom

2006-12-25T17:27:00.000-05:00

Kineticom

A Transport Engineer has responsibilities for decisions regarding interconnections in his or her markets. They are responsible for decisions regarding current and future facility connectivity. The studies performed by the Transport Engineer support the decisions made on the method of transport, selection of a provider, least cost routing, budget considerations, sizing of the transport medium, diversity considerations, vendor contractual benefits, as well as capacity availability and timing issues. The Engineer is responsible to fully analyze alternative means of transport such as microwave, dark fiber, or ATM, obtain quotes from vendors, and perform a total cost analysis. Transport Engineers interface with multiple providers to resolve chronic trouble areas and improve down time on the network. Transport Engineers direct the Facility Engineers when, where and how to order all needed facilities. This includes monitoring capacities and issuing orders for new projects to augment existing quantities. These items include those such as Digital Cross Connect Systems, multiplexers, DSXs, microwave radios, and all ancillary equipment. Transport Engineers attend special project meetings, and participate on many conference calls pertaining to all projects, which require connectivity via facilities. They help provide current status of new circuits, changes in their projects, and track progress of OCN service implementation. The Engineer designs the plans for new SONET network solutions for their markets and interfaces with the LECs to construct those services. A major function for the Transport Engineer is the responsibility of management of Capital and Expense budgets for their markets. They solicit data from Interconnect/Traffic Engineering, RF Engineering, and the Forecasting group to build, track and maintain their piece of the budgets for Finance.

Read more here.

2006-08-24T14:23:00.000-05:00

OC3072

OC-3072 Packet Classification

2006-08-11T11:49:00.000-05:00

SONET over SDH

Had an interesting circuit last night. It was an OC3. They had it designed over two SM04 SDH facilities on each side of a Ciena Core director. We had to provision the to iMTN BBDCS on either side of the Ciena ring to convert the SONET to SDH and back to SONET again. I wasn't aware how they could do that or that it could even be done until I worked that circuit. Always something new to learn in telecommunications.

2006-05-25T15:47:00.000-05:00

Mapped channelized OC12 in Alcatel 1680 SONET Mux.

2006-05-10T16:34:00.000-05:00

Questions for Interview

1. Please provide and example of the types of circuits that I would be working on...

t3
ds3
sts1

oc3
oc12
oc48
oc192
oc768

DWDM

2. Would I only be working on broadband circuits? Would I never be working on narrowband circuits?

3. Would I ever work with Cisco routers.

4. Would I be working layer 1 issues only or would I sometimes be working on layer two switches?

2006-05-09T01:49:00.000-05:00

Hotcut Frame Relay To IP

I joined a bridge for customer hotcut. Customer is cutting from frame relay DS3 service to IP DS3 service. Customer will move to new router at customer premise. I unmapped NEC 2400 STS1 across SONET ring and remapped STS1 across same SONET ring now going to new router on our end replacing old frame relay switch.

The new portion of the circuit path had not been pre-tested and the new circuit was not coming up. We discovered that the new circuit path had been provisioned to the wrong router on our end. I had provisioning join the bridge and redraw the equipment path drawing to the correct router. I then called the switch site and had them rewire the new path to the correct router. Circuit came up on new routers at that time.

2006-05-01T22:43:00.000-05:00

Open Source Router Blog

2006-04-30T20:04:00.000-05:00

Reva Systems

The Reva Tag Acquisition Processor, a rack-mounted network appliance and Java software to manage large numbers of RFID readers, capture and process lots of data from RFID tags, and push this data into line-of-business applications.

Read article here.

www.revasystems.com

2006-04-20T17:34:00.000-05:00

Strix Systems

What was remarkable in particular about Strix Systems' equipment in particular is how outwardly simple it is to deploy..." "Put it where it makes sense and let it see if it can "mesh up" with other nodes. This is the kind of thing that a neighborhood can get together to do". Steve Stroh, CONXX, Inc.

2006-04-20T17:19:00.000-05:00

That's the game plan of Sprint Nextel Corp., which has bought up another one of its affiliates. On Thursday, the company announced that it has paid $1.3 billion for UbiquiTel Inc., a wireless affiliate based in the thriving metropolis of Conshohocken, Pa.

Read article here.

2006-04-20T17:12:00.000-05:00

Sprint is continuing its coerced buying spree in the wake of its merger with Nextel. It announced today it is buying its fifth PCS affiliate, UbiquiTel, to stave off a lawsuit accusing Sprint of violating its affiliate agreement.

Read article here.

2006-04-10T12:08:00.000-05:00

Talked with Scott Rode American Communications.

2006-04-05T20:50:00.000-05:00

DS3 circuit had been installed and tested good. Customer Cisco router now can't pass all 5's data pattern through Tellabs 6500 BBDCS. Will send backbone circuit back to provisioning to redraw circuit path and remove BBDCS T3 line card.

2006-04-03T14:26:00.000-05:00

Received call from Chris Carter Goodman Networks 866-255-4638 ext 110 looking for Alcatel 1603 skills.

2006-04-02T00:02:00.000-05:00

Salvaged a DS3 hotcut Friday night. Circuit was provisioned for B1 BBDCS to B3 BBDCS. Circuit slipped through quality control. Didn't notice until had customer down on old path. Couldn't map new path to bring customer back up on new path. Found vacant timeslot on installed OC48 facility between the two BBDCS's. Mapped the B1 appearance to the available timeslot on the installed OC48 facility. Mapped the B3 appearance to the same available timeslot on the same installed OC48 facility. Customer came up on new path at that time. Had on-call provisioner redraw circuit path in circuit data base.

2006-03-31T00:58:00.000-05:00

Received a telephone call from Michael Grossman from Telecoast.

2006-03-31T00:54:00.000-05:00

A customer went down today. The telco pulled out the new path of a recent DS3 hotcut that I did. Thankfully the old facilities were still in place so we were able just cut him back to the old path and restore service.

2006-03-21T16:56:00.000-05:00

Working on non-concatonated OC12 circuit between Texas and Florida at this time. Customer has Nortel Optera 3500 equipment at both ends.

2006-03-14T16:19:00.000-05:00

Working on OC3 circuit in Chicago at this time.

2006-03-14T15:04:00.000-05:00

Working on OC12 circuit in New York City at this time.

2006-03-13T17:46:00.000-05:00

Ethernet Reaches for 100-Gig

2006-03-13T17:42:00.000-05:00

Building boom for Wi-Fi networks

2006-03-13T15:23:00.000-05:00

Hayes Communications

2006-03-09T06:20:00.000-05:00

fibernet

FiberNet manages and operates the 60 Hudson Street Meet-Me-Room. Known as the premier carrier hotel in the world, 60 Hudson Street houses over 100 different domestic and international networks. The Meet-Me-Room offers users a carrier-grade colocation facility allowing for immediate interconnection access to these networks.

2006-03-09T06:13:00.000-05:00

Physical Layer

2006-03-09T05:58:00.000-05:00

Framing Format: C-bit vs. M13

Today a customer called in and had a WBDCS ds3 circuit. I see the circuit is down. He says he wants C-bit Parity. I say it should be M13 because it's channelized for 28 T1's. He changes his end to M13 and I say see there you fixed it. He says he has another circuit and it is C-bit Parity and he wants C-bit Parity on this one. I check his other circuit and sure enough it's set for C-bit Parity. So we change both ends to C-bit Parity and it comes up and he says he's happy and that's how he wants to leave it and use it like that. So I had always thought if you had a ds3 with a WBDCS on it and it was channelized for 28 T1's you had to have M13. I'll have to talk with the guys at work about this one.

And I think I figured out why Larry doesn't like to use the SMS GUI for WBDCS work and instead prefers to use the QuickPad cut-through. Because the SMS WBDCS GUI doesn't work for sh*t.

2006-03-09T05:54:00.000-05:00

Additional Skills
Cisco Routers
Adtech remote test set. (optical and electrical)
React remote test set.

2006-03-09T05:48:00.000-05:00

Telecom Bloggers
Dana Blankenhorn
Jeff Pulver
David Isenberg
Om Malik
Mark Gibbs
Keith Shaw
Paul McNamara

2006-03-09T05:47:00.001-05:00

Telecom Publications
Network World
Telephony
Light Reading

2006-03-09T05:47:00.000-05:00

Areas of Interest
Fiber
OTDR

2006-03-09T05:46:00.000-05:00

Skills
TL1
SONET

2006-03-09T05:43:00.000-05:00

Network Elements of Expertise

NEC 2400
Alcatel 1648
Alcatel 1603
Alcatel 1680
Cisco 15454
Tellabs 6500
iMTN BBDCS
WBDCS

2006-02-17T20:27:00.000-05:00

Deciding the future of Ethernet

Scaling Ethernet to new heights - as much as 100Gbps - and developing 10G Ethernet for copper wiring and internal system backplanes were among the chief issues at last week's DesignCon conference in Santa Clara.

Read more here.

2006-01-18T15:16:00.000-05:00

Switched Ethernet

Switched ethernet is a packet-switching technology that dramatically reduces the network congestion caused by using the CSMA/CD medium access control over shared media. Sometimes known as a switched hub, a switch offers guaranteed bandwidth per port and operates at the medium access control sublayer of the network access layer of the TCP/IP protocol suite.

Read more here.

2006-01-18T15:01:00.000-05:00

Fundamentals of Enterprise Network Security

Program ID: EE-260
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 1.8

Read more here.

2006-01-05T19:58:00.000-05:00

WiMax Deployment Models

It is widely expected, therefore, that multiple antenna schemes will be a key attribute of WiMax systems. Table 4 from last-mile wireless vendor SOMA Networks Inc. summarizes the options.

2005-12-15T23:02:00.000-05:00

Alcatel 1680 OGX

Worked on OC12 transversing Alcatel 1680 OGX. Customer ordered telco on both drops. Two passthrough nodes on the ring. Customer Cisco router at drop 1 can see soft loop on STS12C at handoff to drop 2 telco. Customer Cisco router at drop 2 can see soft loop on STS12C at same drop 2 handoff address. Drop 2 Cisco router cannot see soft loop on STS12C at first passthrough noded beyond handoff location. Seeing "Incoming Fade" alarm on OC12 at handoff point. Will dispatch fiber tech to handoff point firt thing in the morning.

2005-12-08T21:26:00.000-05:00

Ciena K2

Industry sources have long said the K2 wasn't in working order when Ciena bought it and that the company has had to work long and hard to get it out the door. Others say it's still a dud. The latest rumor? Ciena may kill development of the K2 altogether.

Read more here.

2005-12-08T21:22:00.000-05:00

Worked with customer to install OC3 circuit transversing Ciena K2 and Sycamore 16000. Found circuit not mapped on OC48 in the Alcatel 1680 ring between the two network elements.

2005-12-06T15:46:00.000-05:00

Mapped DS3 Circuit

I just finished mapping a DS3 circuit between Dallas, Texas and Witchita Falls, Texas. The network elements consisted of one Cisco 15454, three Alcatel 1648 rings, one Tellabs 6500 BBDCS, and one iMTN BBDCS. The circuit was mapped STS1. There was on dsx3 electrical breakout crossconnect at the midway point central office. Telco carrier provided last mile at both ends to customer premise. Will use Adtech test set mapped in at iMTN BBDCS to test circuit to customer premise in both directions at this time.

2005-12-05T19:31:00.000-05:00

StrataLight Powers Cisco's OC768

In this 'fastest IP network' demonstration, two of Cisco's new CRS-1 core routers were located within MCI Points of Presence in San Francisco and San Jose, California. The routers, both equipped with short-reach 40-Gbps OC-768c optical client interfaces, were interconnected over MCI fiber facilities using StrataLight OTS-4000 Optical Terminal Subsystems in conjunction with Cisco ONS 15454 SONET MultiService Transport Platforms, which provided optical amplification.

Read here.

2005-12-05T18:58:00.000-05:00

Cisco's CRS-1 Goes Optical

Cisco's principal announcement for the CRS-1 concerns a pair of cards with high-speed DWDM optics. This opens the possibility of the box launching IP traffic onto DWDM wavelengths directly, bypassing the Sonet layer.

Read here.

2005-12-02T19:29:00.000-05:00

Discussing telecom industry with co-workers. Talking about the new at&t, Verizon, and Sprint/Nextel. Wondering what will become of Bell South, Qwest, and Cincinatti Bell.

2005-12-02T19:27:00.000-05:00

Worked with customer and telco to install OC3 circuit from Ohio to Florida. Mapped Adtech test set into Tellabs 6500 BBDCS at midway point in Nashville, Tennessee. Tested circuit good both ways to hard fiber loops at customer premise demarcs in Florida and Ohio. Pulled test set out and normalled circuit at Nashville. Customer Cisco routers plugged into circuit at both ends. Routers came up with 100% good extended ping at this time.

2005-11-29T12:36:00.000-05:00

LAMBDA Optical Systems

LAMBDA Optical Systems has position open in Reston, Virginia.

Added LAMDA to blogroll in left hand column.

Contact: Abdella Battou abattou@lopsys.com

2005-11-10T17:40:00.000-05:00

Wikipedia

T-Carrier

2005-11-09T14:52:00.000-05:00

Working on ds3 with Pete. Pete says check out Powerwave.

2005-11-08T16:23:00.000-05:00

Ciena K2 OC3

Working on two OC3 circuits that run through Ciena K2. Item one good working and protect. Getting loss of signal on protect side of item 2. Will try hard fiber loop from customer at this time.

2005-11-08T15:15:00.000-05:00

DWDM OC48

Working on OC48 over DWDM. Cisco router on one end. Juniper router on the other end. Three telco carriers in between routers. Cisco router seeing loop but taking errors. Fiber tech cleaning fibers at this time.

2005-08-23T12:56:00.000-05:00

The majority of the Company's fiscal 1999 revenue was derived from sales
of its MultiWave Sentry 4000(TM) long-distance optical transport equipment.

2005-08-22T12:04:00.000-05:00

From : Brian Wherry
brian.wherry@cisinternational.com
Sent : Monday, August 22, 2005 6:53 AM
To : dkenline@hotmail.com
Subject : Nortel DMS Techncial Specialist

DMS 100 freelance technical specialist.

specific skills and experience with DMS 100.

Brian Wherry.

2005-08-20T22:20:00.000-05:00

Full C-Band Tunable Laser Makes DWDM Affordable

2005-08-20T22:08:00.000-05:00

Ciena is providing Flag Telecom with an advanced optical transport solution that includes technologies such as forward error correction (FEC) and Raman amplification to support ultra-long network routes.

2005-08-20T02:44:00.000-05:00

Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)

2005-08-20T02:37:00.000-05:00

CoreStream Agility
Optical Transport System

2005-08-20T02:31:00.000-05:00

CIENA is helping MCI build an efficient infrastructure to allow the migration of all types of customer traffic - from voice to IP/MPLS - onto a cohesive and automated network that extends coast to coast. CoreStream will provide a reliable optical ULH backbone that integrates software-configurable wavelength switching. CoreStream's ultra long-haul capabilities will allow MCI to eliminate costly electrical signal regenerations, while automated wavelength switching will allow MCI to remotely provision wavelengths.

2005-08-20T02:22:00.000-05:00

NoaNet picks Ciena CoreStream to extend network backbone

2005-08-20T02:20:00.000-05:00

CoreStream is designed for use in high capacity long-haul applications and is part of Ciena's new LightWorks™ architecture for building intelligent optical networks.

2005-08-20T02:18:00.000-05:00

CoreStream offers carrier-class reliability through enhanced network management with Ciena's WaveWatcher® enabling network operators to maintain and monitor all of their CoreStream elements from a single console.

2005-08-20T01:20:00.000-05:00

From : John Scrivens jscrivens@rincon-tech.com
Sent : Friday, August 19, 2005 10:09 AM
To : "Doug Kenline" dkenline@hotmail.com
Subject : RE: Consulting for Ciena

customer in Ottawa Canada
installing a CoreStream product.
Apparently having problems with the NCP module
and the boot prompt.

>From: "John Scrivens" jscrivens@rincon-tech.com
>To: dkenline@hotmail.com
>Subject: Consulting for Ciena
>Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:59:16 -0700
>
troubleshooting Ciena Core Stream product.
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>
>
>John Scrivens
>
>RINCON TECHNOLOGY
>
>VoIP DID: 678.368.4088
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>Mobile: 404.642.9831
>
>jscrivens@rincontechnology.com
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2005-06-09T18:10:00.000-05:00

telesthesia
telegram
telegraph
telecast
telephone
telecommunications
television
telecommute

2005-03-01T16:18:00.000-05:00

Telecom Transport Engineer

Tellme Tellecommunications Company

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2004-12-05T11:15:00.000-05:00

UMTS

What is UMTS?

Standing for "Universal Mobile Telecommunications System", UMTS represents an evolution in terms of services and data speeds from today's "second generation" mobile networks. As a key member of the "global family" of third generation (3G) mobile technologies identified by the ITU, UMTS is the natural evolutionary choice for operators of GSM networks, currently representing a customer base of more than 850 million end users in 195 countries and representing over 70% of today's digital wireless market [source: GSM Association].

Read here.

2004-10-26T20:42:00.000-05:00

Doug Kenline
2103 B Powers Ferry Road
Marietta, Georgia 30067
dkenline@hotmail.com
678-361-4494
Education

Denver University
Master of Business Administration Program
Passed GMAT Entrance Exam
Admitted in to MBA program
Finished 1st Semester Economics and Business Course
Held B Grade Average
March 1986

Bachelor of Science
Electronics Engineering Technology
DeVry Institute of Technology
Phoenix, Arizona
February 1985

Associate of Applied Science
Electronics Engineering Technology
DeVry Institute of Technology
Phoenix, Arizona
October 1983

Experience

December 2001 - Present
Sprint Telecommunications
Senior Network Operations Specialist
Broadband Service Delivery
Physical Layer Service Center
Atlanta, Georgia

- DS3 and OCn Service Delivery
- Sonet Mapping
- Optical Circuits concatonated and non-concatonated.
- Alcatel 6500 Broadband DCS
- Alcatel 1603 SMX Sonet MUX
- Alcatel 1603 NMX Sonet MUX
- Alcatel 1680 Sonet Add Drop Mux
- Cisco Router
- Verify router and switch configurations
- React Remote Circuit Test System
- TRS Trouble Reporting and Tracking System
- FMS Circuit Provisioning Database

April 1999 - December 2001

Sprint Telecommunications
Network Operations Specialist II
Broadband Service Assurance
Physical Layer Service Center
Atlanta, Georgia

- DS3 and OCn Service Assurance
- SONET
- Cisco router
- Internet Protocol
- Kentrox IDSU
- Narrow Band DCS
- Wide Band DCS
- React 2001
- Broadband DCS
- ATM
- Frame Relay
- ADM
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Powerpoint

May 1996 - April 1999

MCI Worldcom
Local Service Delivery
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

- DS1 loop acceptance
- Siemans ESS class 5 switch
- Nortel DMS 100
- Wide Band DCS
- Narrow Band DCS
- Hekeimian
- Channel Bank
- Number Portability
- ISDN
- Tech dispatch
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Powerpoint

January 1990 - May 1996

U S West Communications
Regional Network Management Center
Denver, Colorado

- SNA
- BANCS
- DataKit
- Trouble ticket resolution and follow-up
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word

February 1985 - January 1990

Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace
Software Test Engineer
Denver, Colorado

- Peacekeeper Missile
- Manned Manuevering Unit
- Air Force satellite proposal
- Titan Missile Payload Ferring

Interests / Skills / Hobbies

Internet
Cisco Routers
Physical Layer Transport Systems
SONET
Telecommunications
Fiber Optics
Web development
Computers

Further Reference

Work Log
Diplomas
Sprint Training
Case Studies
SVE Award
Technical Notes 1
Technical Notes 2
Old MCI Resume

2004-10-14T21:10:00.000-05:00

Apto Solutions

Apto Solutions is your premier asset recovery, telecom, and IT solutions provider. We work directly with companies in a variety of industries.

Read here.

2004-10-06T17:17:00.000-05:00

Softbank will provide the service at speeds of up to one gigabyte per second and charge users $38 a month, the company said in a statement.

Read here.

2004-10-05T22:14:00.000-05:00

http://www.towerstream.com

2004-10-05T22:01:00.000-05:00

In rural areas, historically a lucrative market for traditional phone companies, about 2,000 tiny telecom start-ups with names like Prairie iNet LLC are offering high-speed wireless Internet access and phone service for far less than the incumbents.

Read here.

2004-10-05T19:38:00.000-05:00

Long Haul 10 gig Ethernet over SONET

For the field trial, the Optillion TOP 4010 WAN PHY transceiver along with Nortel's Optera LH OC-192 DWDM transmission equipment and Extreme Network's Black Diamond 6800 10 Gbit Ethernet switch were used. One 10 GbE traffic pipe was carried between two points extending a distance of more than 600 km. For the Ethernet data rate, it was adapted to 9.95 Gbit/s to match the OC-192 requirement and then transparently SONET/SDH framed by the Optillion XENPAK module.

Read here.

2004-10-02T22:44:00.000-05:00

Undersea Cable

If we confine ourselves to the North Atlantic, all cables laid prior to 1988 were analogue (coaxial).

Read here.

2004-10-02T17:41:00.000-05:00

Network Operations Center

Marietta FiberNet offers a 24X7 Network Operations Center for all repair and maintenance issues.

Read here.

2004-10-02T17:34:00.000-05:00

Marietta Fibernet

Marietta FiberNet chose Southern Telecom as its fiber provider due to the company's direct connectivity to major carrier hotels and ability to provide continuous network connections to major office buildings in downtown Atlanta. The multiple routes and facility infrastructure created by the expanded footprint provide physical diversity and protection to Marietta FiberNet's customers, as the company expected.

Read here.

2004-10-02T12:12:00.000-05:00

ONI

For one, there's CEO Hugh Martin, an energetic talker and former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers entrepreneur-in-residence who bounces around a glass-walled office framed with drawings of yachts.

Read here.

2004-10-02T10:51:00.000-05:00

Marietta, Georgia

But for every success story, what about the communities that failed: One of the communities is Marietta, Ga., a city similar to Taunton's make-up lost approximately $25 million from its fiber optic venture, said Bob W. Lewis, board manager of Marietta's Board of Lights and Water.

Read here.

2004-10-01T21:15:00.000-05:00

FPL Fibernet

Read here.

2004-10-01T19:15:00.000-05:00

Dark Fiber Providers

Read here.

2004-10-01T18:59:00.000-05:00

Dark Fiber

The dark fiber solution consists of several pieces: the inter-city dark fiber, such as between New York City and Dallas; the metro dark fiber, between the intercity fiber provider's point of presence and your building; and the sites that house amplifiers and interconnect points.

Read here.

2004-09-10T04:44:00.000-05:00

Golden Telecom

The Russian telecom market is on fire, and alternative operator Golden Telecom Inc. (Nasdaq: GLDN - message board) looks to be taking advantage of that market. The company is set to announce its fourth-quarter and full-year 2003 results Thursday, with investors and suppliers looking for more good news from the business services player.

Read here.

2004-09-10T04:35:00.000-05:00

Microsoft IPTV: Now That's Italian!

Both carriers are part of what Microsoft TV's marketing chief, Ed Graczyk, calls the "early adopter program," though the Italian carrier isn't as advanced as its Swiss neighbor, as it has the TV-over-DSL system in lab trials only. "We expect consumer trials to start in early 2005, and for Telecom Italia to quickly scale up to thousands of households," says Graczyk, who is in Amsterdam for the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2004 that starts today.

Read here.

2004-09-09T15:56:00.000-05:00

In it for the long haul: Optical transport systems go the distance

A change is brewing for long-haul networks. Companies such as Qtera and Corvis are developing ultra long-haul optical transport systems that can send traffic as far as 3200 to 5000 kilometers without electrical regeneration. These systems could encourage carriers to rethink their network architecture.

Read here.

2004-09-09T15:43:00.000-05:00

Movaz Networks

I am pleased to say that we have completed our ninth consecutive quarter of revenue and our best Q1 performance ever. Revenue for Q1 of 2004 increased 67% over the same quarter in 2003. In addition to this we added three new customers, which brings our total number of customers to 46.

Read here.

2004-09-09T15:24:00.000-05:00

Force10 Networks

Skeptics have abounded, but customers, partners, and investors (to the tune of $209 million to date) have all shown faith in the company that was the first to market with a full-featured switch capable of wire-speed performance at 10 Gbit/s.

Read here.

2004-09-09T15:14:00.000-05:00

Tried & True? Not for VOIP

The future network cost and service revenue implications of picking a mediocre Class 5 migration vendor are enormous. Incumbent network operators of all sizes must be prepared to bite the bullet, cap their legacy systems, and migrate to a multisource paradigm with new vendors, if existing suppliers aren't up to the task.

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2004-09-09T15:03:00.000-05:00

VOIP Boom Boosts Ulticom

Ulticom's figures, which were released after the market closed on Wednesday, show just how much the market has picked up in the past year. It reported revenues of $16.1 million, up 22 percent from the first quarter's $13.2 million, and up a whopping 71 percent compared with last year's $9.4 million.

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2004-09-09T14:59:00.000-05:00

La. tags $40 million for fiber-optic link

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Kathleen Blanco surprised participants at an information-technology research conference Thursday by announcing that the state will spend $40 million to link Louisiana universities to a high-speed fiber-optic communications network.

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2004-09-09T14:35:00.000-05:00

Network Engineer

There is a major telecommunications company in the Alpharetta area in need of a Network Engineer. This candidate must have specific knowledge and experience with installation and maintenance of DWDM and SONET networks.

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2004-09-09T06:00:00.000-05:00

Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing

Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is a fiber optic transmission technique that employs light wavelengths to transmit data parallel-by-bit or serial-by-character.

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2004-09-09T04:31:00.000-05:00

Lightpath

Since 1988, Lightpath has delivered voice, data, Internet, and video solutions for businesses of every size and complexity in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Utilizing the power of its own fiber optic network, Lightpath delivers a powerful competitive advantage to its customers.

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2004-09-08T22:17:00.000-05:00

Cisco Skips Class 5

In the world of softswitches, Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) remains conspicuously absent. But it's not clear that the company will fire up its M&A machine to mind the gap.

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2004-09-08T22:13:00.000-05:00

The Softswitch Name Game

VOIP is reaching a stage where its popularity could hamper its progress with carriers, according to a recent report from Heavy Reading, Light Reading's paid research arm.

No one is questioning the strength of VOIP in the long run. But the flood of startups pouring into the market could be causing carriers to slow their move to new VOIP architectures.

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