• Business News - Optical Consortium Seeks Automatic Provisioning
    Posted: 03/2000 Optical Consortium Seeks Automatic Provisioning BY CHARLOTTE WOLTER A new optical internetworking initiative, the Optical Domain Service Interconnect (ODSI), opens the possibility of automating the service provisioning and bandwidth grooming that is one of ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Bandwidth Glut Yet to Surface
    Posted: 02/2000 Bandwidth Glut Yet to Surface any camps exist that believe the U.S. domestic bandwidth market will tumble as new technologies that utilize the existing fiber for higher bandwidth throughput are introduced. The increased bandwidth is expected to outpace ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Business News - AOL, Time Warner Union To Affect Telecom, Cable Industries
    Posted: 03/2000 Telco Rock Launches Telecom Portal, Auction Site Telco Rock (www.telcorock.com) has launched a website that provides the telecom industry with a way to buy and sell equipment, find jobs and people, and get the latest industry news. Telco Rock, a spinoff of ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • IN-BOX
    IN-BOX Harvesting the Farm I had this model of the next next-generation network. I called it the network to end all the other networks. I've been following dense wave division multiplexing [DWDM] startups, and the cost of optical fiber connectors. You have storage area ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Industry News
    Posted: 03/2000 Industry News PhoneCard Services Assists Comerica Securities PhoneCard Services Inc. (www.phonecardpromotions.com), a Miami-based promotional phone card company, has developed a direct-mail campaign for Comerica Securities, designed to entice attendees at an ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Business News - World Access On a Buying Spree: First FaciliCom,
    Posted: 02/2000 World Access On a Buying Spree: First FaciliCom, Then LDI, Now STAR BY KEN BRANSON World Access Communications (www.waxs.com) has announced intentions to buy its third carrier in less than a month: STAR Telecommunications Inc. (www.startel.com), in a stock ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Special Report
    Posted: 02/2000 Special Report As the Post-271 World Turns Bell Atlantic Leaps Forward in Long Distance Race By Kim Sunderland Despite the similarities, what's happening these days in the telecommunications industry isn't a soap opera. It's real life. The FCC's December ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Desperately Seeking Access Charges Reform
    Posted:  02/2000 Desperately Seeking Access Charges Reform BY KIM SUNDERLAND Now that January has come and gone, pressure has hit the boiling point regarding an access charge reform proposal, which would reduce interstate access charges by $5.6 billion annually over ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Broadband Digital Launches Free DSL Service
    Posted: 02/2000 Broadband Digital Launches Free DSL Service BY LIZ MONTALBANO While the proliferation of free communications services makes the launch of free Internet access old hat, a startup venture has tried out a new look with the announcement of free digital ...More
    February 1, 2000
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  • Net2Phone Boosts Quality, Viability of VoIP with v.10
    Posted: 02/2000 Net2Phone Boosts Quality, Viability of VoIP with v.10 Net2Phone Inc. (www.net2phone.com) has announced the rollout of Net2Phone v.10 software worldwide, with features that position the company and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) in general as a viable ...More
    February 1, 2000
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