Jim Duffy

Articles by Jim Duffy

Lighting up copper loop

If fibre is not coming to a building or curb near you, it

Command performance

Performance monitoring is moving front and centre in optical networking, especially as channel speeds increase, channel spacing becomes denser and topologies change.

The fibreless city

The most important optical tool in breaking the metro bandwidth bottleneck is the fibre.

Roth replacement search begins for Nortel

Last month's news that Nortel Networks Corp. CEO John Roth will retire in 11 months casts more uncertainty over the beleaguered telecom giant.

Analysts: Lucent-Alcatel merger unlikely

As Lucent Technologies Inc. directors reportedly meet this week to discuss a merger with Alcatel SA, analysts say it's unlikely the two will come together.

Carrier spending not expected to rise

Just when you thought the news couldn't get any worse, New York-based financial services firm UBS Warburg LLC said last month that carriers have already spent as aggressively as they will from quarter to quarter this year.

Sensible start-ups

Let's consider the business propositions put forth by start-ups Equipe Communications Corp. and WaveSmith Networks Inc.

Nortel spreads MPLS across product line

Nortel Networks said late last month it will implement Multi-protocol Label Switching as a common signaling protocol across its entire optical, wireless and core IP product line.

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