eWEEK EDITORS

When Lucent Technologies walked out of merger talks with Alcatel last week, it took a giant leap for independence, but only one small step toward actually making it on its own. Lucents comeback is by no means a sure thing, analysts said. “Its couched in how well they do recovering in areas where they failed, […]

For Charles Lee, its all about wallet share. In the Verizon Communications chairman and co-CEOs lexicon, corporations have a telecommunications wallet filled with money earmarked for their local phone company, long-distance carrier, wireless provider, cable service, and on and on. Verizons goal is to increase that wallet share by expanding its traditional phone services to […]

The application service provider model is doing more than just taking form. It now can be plotted along an x and y axis. In addition to generalized ASP distribution, the market is starting to define itself by vertical industries and horizontal infrastructure. That means the future for integrators and consultants may become far more complicated […]

As the dust settles over the rubble of the e-business earthquake, many analysts and pundits are trying to spin good news out of the carnage. “A shakeout was long overdue,” they proclaim. “Only healthy companies will survive.” I can agree with that. But then they mistakenly predict that the big players will dominate the market […]

WorldCom, operator of one of the largest internet protocol backbones in the world, sees speed and volume as keys to the future. To achieve a bigger, faster backbone, the company is implementing or testing next-generation products and technologies ranging from Multiprotocol Label Switching to Internet Protocol version 6. Despite the collapse of many Internet-related businesses, […]

A new technique for transmitting data over copper has enabled one vendor to achieve performance identical to fiber-optic media on bundled phone lines, a technology carriers plan to use to sell high-speed services to customers without fiber links. Actelis Networks has 13 pending patents defending its rights to Spatial Division Multiplexing, a technology that allows […]

Exodus Communications is growing and traces that performance to the breadth and depth of its services. “The breadth of managed service offerings, which we get through our own technology that weve developed in-house, is not matched by competitors,” says Bruce Talley, vice president of services marketing. Exodus, led by CEO Ellen M. Hancock, reports the […]

A year ago, the Montana Power Co. said it would sell all of its energy-related operations and invest the proceeds in its telecom subsidiary, Touch America. The deal gave young Touch America $1.3 billion in cash and no debts. The company put some of that cash to good use in 2000 when it acquired Qwest […]

McLeodUSA provides integrated communications services in a number of Midwest, Southwest, Northwest and Rocky Mountain states, as well as long-distance, advanced data and Internet services in all 50 states. Today, the companys infrastructure includes 396 Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches, 50 voice switches, 1.1 million local lines and 21,622 route miles of fiber-optic network, and serves […]

Sometimes being lucky is just plain smart. Intermedia Communications executives were smart enough to start the Tampa, Fla., company at a prosperous time, nearly 13 years ago. And they were lucky enough to survive the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and grow their telephone company into a full-sized service provider competing directly against the big boys. […]

PeopleSoft has bet all its chips on the hand it will play today in Las Vegas, as it unveils its first front-office software suite, designed to run on the Internet. The company, its customers and competitors will soon learn if PeopleSoft is going to be a winner or walk away from the table empty-handed. PeopleSoft […]

You might say Time Warner Cable is sitting pretty. Its $4 billion network upgrade to fiber optics will be virtually complete this year, boosting reliability and enabling new product offerings. It has bought and sold cable properties for more economical, streamlined business; more than 90 percent of its 12.7 million customers are now clustered in […]