2004 In The News
December 17, 2004
VoIP Goes Upscale at Summit Ridge
New Telephony – When Qwest's overloaded local switch prevented it from providing services to a large new housing and business development south of Provo, Utah, the welcome wagon came out for a next-generation service provider to operate, not just voice, but also video, data and security services for consumers and businesses in the new facility. The incumbent's shortcomings may prove to be a boon for Summit Ridge, as the upscale community will have a communication system that will rival the luxury of the homes and offices being built there.
December 14, 2004
Triple Play In Utah: The iProvo FTTx Network Goes Live
Broadband Business Forecast – The first homes in the closely watched iProvo FTTx project have gone live, barely 120 days after work on the system began. HomeNet Communications, initially the only provider franchised to deliver services over the Provo municipally owned network, says it started dishing up triple-play services to the first batch of subscribers living in the "Phase 1" area of Provo that encompasses about 3,000 of Provo's 33,000 homes.
November 29, 2004
SwitchCore, a fabless supplier of highly integrated switching ICs, opens Shanghai office
Optical Networks Daily – 80-employee SwitchCore AB of Lund, Sweden, a fabless semiconductor supplier of integrated network devices for data and Internet communication, which supplies its products to companies such as Allied Telesyn, Alloptic, Dasan, Huawei/3Com, Intel, Radisys and World Wide Packets, served from offices in Stockholm, San Jose, Boston, and Singapore, and which for the six month period January 1st-June 30th 2004 reported sales of $10.43 million, announced plans to open a "small" office in Shanghai, which the SwitchCore announcement said:
November 29, 2004
Switchcore, a Fableless Supplier of Highly Integrated Switching ICS, Open Shanghai Office
Optical Networks Daily – November 26th 80-employee SwitchCore AB of Lund, Sweden, a fabless semiconductor supplier of integrated network devices for data and Internet communication, which supplies its products to companies such as Allied Telesyn, Alloptic, Dasan, Huawei/3Com, Intel, Radisys and World Wide Packets, served from offices in Stockholm, San Jose, Boston, and Singapore, and which for the six month period January 1st-June 30th 2004
reported sales of $10.43 million, announced plans to open a "small" office in Shanghai, which the SwitchCore announcement said
November 1, 2004
Carriers Take Closer Look At Oss
America's Network – Carriers are shifting their thinking about services and network connectivity, increasingly viewing services as applications provided over whatever access infrastructure is most appropriate at the time. This was the consensus view of attendees at the recent TeleManagement World forum in Long Beach, Calif.
November 1, 2004
Telecommunications Magazine – Maybe an energy crisis of the like not seen since the 1970x will prompt the kind of capital investment that the telecom industry needs, because right now, it ain't getting it, says Dave Curry, president and CEO of Spokane Valley, Wash.-based World Wide Packets.
October 13, 2004
Fiber Optics Forecast – Douglas Electric, a non-profit electricity cooperative in Douglas County, has deployed World Wide Packets' LightningEdge active Ethernet FTTx equipment on its Douglas FastNet backbone.
October 8, 2004
World Wide Packets does electrical FTTH
CED Broadband Direct – Douglas Electric, an electricity co-op based in Oregon, has deployed technology from World Wide Packets to support a fiber-to-the-home network.
October 5, 2004
Optical Networks Daily – World Wide Packets of Spokane Valley, Washington, supplier of the LightningEdge Ethernet service delivery access network solution, designed to enable delivery of simultaneous telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data, and Internet access services, to any combination of business and residential subscribers, using Ethernet over fibre and copper, announced that LightningEdge has been deployed by Douglas Electric, a non-profit electricity coop in Douglas County, Oregon, which through its Douglas FastNet network.
October 4, 2004
Douglas Electric selects World Wide Packets' active Ethernet FTTP equipment
Lightwave – World Wide Packets' LightningEdge Ethernet access equipment has been deployed by Douglas Electric, a non-profit electricity coop in Douglas County, Oregon.Douglas Electric offers business-class IP services to 20 towns and municipalities through its network, Douglas FastNet (DFN). DFN delivers bandwidth in excess of 1 Gbit/sec to subscribers.
October 4, 2004
Douglas Electric Taps on World Wide Packets
XChange – World Wide Packets LightningEdge Ethernet access solution has been deployed by Douglas Electric, a non-profit electricity coop in Douglas County, Ore.
October 1, 2004
Sizing up the fiber smorgasbord
CED Magazine – The number of telcos and broadband operators deploying or testing fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks is growing by the month. They may be uniform in the sense that the aim is to pull fiber to the customer home, but how they are going about it on the network is much more diffuse.
September 22, 2004
Small towns tired of slow rollout create own high-speed networks
USA Today – Twenty-five hundred workers. Spend enough time in this tight-knit farming community of 48,000 on the North Carolina border, and you’ll hear that figure a lot.
September 21, 2004
Taste of Oregon; DFN lights up hybrid fiber/wireless network Sean Buckley
Telecommunications Magazine – Vying for the same access to broadband and other advanced telecom services as the big NFL cities, communities are taking charge and delivering broadband via the local area municipal utility. These municipally owned telecom network movements pride themselves on using broadband to not only satisfy current residents, but also attract others to their respective regions.
September 15, 2004
FTTx Deployment Profile: Finnish Municipality Adopts Active Technology
Fiber Optics Forecast – While big city slickers the world over pine for really-high-speed broadband, most make do for now with ADSL or cable broadband delivered over aging copper wires, the tiny 9,575-resident town of Narpes/Narpio in Finland is getting FTTx, delivered over the city’s shiny, new, municipally-owned fiber backbone - and at prices lower than the town’s residents now pay for their ADSL.
September 13, 2004
Ethernet Gets Active In Its Pitch Against PON
TelephonyOnline – When Verizon Communications, SBC Communications and BellSouth banded together to put out a request for proposal for a massive fiber-to-the-premises build, the debate should have ended. At the core of the voluminous request was an expressly stated desire to deploy a passive optical network, or PON, architecture in which fiber assets are shared across the access portion of the network, with minimal electronics along the way.
September 13, 2004
World Wide Packets Supplies Active Ethernet FTTH in Finland
Converge! Network Digest – World Wide Packets has supplied its active Ethernet, "LightningEdge" platform for a municipal FTTH network in Narpio, Finland. Narpio is deploying an open access network, which providers can use to offer IP-based services such as the triple play of voice, video and data, as well as emerging services such as Video on Demand and telemedicine.
September 13, 2004
Finnish firm turns to World Wide Packets
Broadband Edge – Like many rural U.S. towns, Narpio, Finland, faced a broadband problem. Its area was considered too rural to attract investment from incumbent carriers such as Telia Sonera. And like a growing number of U.S. municipalities, Narpio decided to act on its own, creating a company, Ab Närpes Dynamo Net Närpiö Oy, to build a fiber optic network that initially is the backbone for a wireless 3G network providing voice and high-speed data but ultimately is the groundwork for an extensive fiber-to-the-home deployment. Today, Dynamo Net announced it will use World Wide Packets Lightening Edge solution as part of that municipal network.
September 13, 2004
Battling for Access: Active Ethernet vs. PON
xChange – The broadband access market is heating up. Recent months have witnessed several new companies introduce active Ethernet products, while passive optical networking (PON) vendors continue to make noise about their solution to the last mile bottleneck. Verizon has famously chosen PON for its ambitious FTTH rollout. But beyond all the hype, what are the real technical differences between the various PON flavors and active Ethernet?
September 3, 2004
Local high-tech firms noted; Five named to state’s top 100 by Washington CEO magazine
The Spokesman-Review – Five Spokane-area businesses made a magazine list of the Top 100 Washington high-tech companies. The list, published in the August issue of Washington CEO magazine, ranks technology firms based on total number of employees.
September 1, 2004
Utah’s ’other’ FTTP project rolls out.(Case By Case)
Lightwave – The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) fiber to the premises (FTTP) project has garnered at least its fair share of media attention. But as the lineup of cities and towns participating in UTOPIA and the effort’s funding parameters have approached resolution, the city of Provo and Provo City Power have launched their own municipal fiber infrastructure initiative that some of the participants cite as the largest municipal FTTP rollout in North America. The venture, dubbed "iProvo," will link about 33,000 residential and commercial buildings with fiber via an active Ethernet architecture.
September 1, 2004
CED – Two major FTTP projects in Utah reached key milestones this summer. The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) got some of its lingering funding questions answered after closing $85 million in revenue bonds for the first phase of a fiber-to-the- premises (FTTP) network that will serve 11 member cities and bring more competition to incumbent broadband providers Qwest Communications and Comcast Cable.
August 19, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS ADDS WHALEN TO TEAM, PROMOTES PICKER
Dow Jones Venture Wire People – World Wide Packets Inc., provider of Ethernet access networking products, has named Chad Whalen senior vice president of business development and has promoted Robert Picker to senior vice president of sales and customer support.
August 18, 2004
SeattlePI.com – World Wide Packets, a Spokane provider of Ethernet access networking software, named Chad Whalen, formerly of Ciena Communications, as senior vice president of business development.
August 17, 2004
CITY OF PROVO SHUNS INCUMBENTS, BUILDS OWN PUBLIC BROADBAND NET
Network World Fusion – When the incumbent local-exchange carriers and cable companies don’t step up to the plate fast enough with adequate broadband services, municipalities are taking matters into their own hands.
August 9, 2004
Provo Project Picks Gear For Fiber Network
EE Times – This city's municipal broadband project has chosen World Wide Packets Inc.'s Lightning Edge equipment as the basis of a fiber-to-the-home architecture called iProvo.
August 1, 2004
Telecommunications – The advantages of a core MPLS network are well-known, now it’s clear that operators want to extend the benefits of that MPLS core to the subscriber. With that challenge in hand, World Wide Packets has debuted two new additions (LE-54v Access Portal and LE 311v Access Concentrator) to its LighntingEdge product line that will allow service providers to offer VPS (virtual private services) over Ethernet and/or MPLS and extend Transparent LAN and VPLS (virtual private LAN services) over MPLS directly to both business and residential subscribers. Better yet, they allow service providers to offer customers on or many services over a single physical subscriber port using flexible topology and deployment scenarios, including Per Port Per VLAN and Layer 2 control frame transport.
July 27, 2004
ETHERNET MONDAY: ADVA, WWP, AND MORE
Light Reading – Several Ethernet equipment companies have faced the day with a much more positive attitudes than, say, Bob Geldof.
July 27, 2004
WORK STARTS ON LARGEST U.S. MUNICIPAL BROADBAND SYSTEM
Broadband Business Forecast – Installation has begun on the largest municipally owned broadband fiber- to-the npremises (FTTP) project so far attempted in the United States -- the iProvo system in Provo, Utah. During the next 24 months, the city of 110,000 residents, and 33,000 homes and businesses will get a system that offers triple- play and fully symmetrical broadband, wired for 100 Mb/s service to the premises although initially only 45 Mb/s will be turned on.
July 27, 2004
UTAH -- FIBER-OPTIC EQUIPMENT INSTALLED IN PROVO FOR FTTP NETWORK
Aspen Publishers – World Wide Packets, a provider of Ethernet access networking solutions, announced yesterday it has begun wide-scale deployment throughout the city of Provo for one of the nation’s largest municipal fiber-optic service delivery networks.
July 27, 2004
CITY OF PROVO, UTAH DEPLOYS WORLD WIDE PACKETS’ LIGHTNINGEDGE SOLUTION FOR MUNICIPAL FTTP NETWORK
Optical Networks Daily – World Wide Packets (WWP) of Spokane Valley, Washington, supplier of the Lightning Edge service delivery access network solution designed to enable delivery of simultaneous telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data, and Internet access services, to any combination of business and residential subscribers, using Ethernet over fibre and copper medium, announced that the City of Provo, Utah has begun deployment of Lightning Edge throughout the city for the purpose of offering broadband services to more than 33,000 residential and commercial premises.
July 26, 2004
Broadband Edge – The City of Provo, Utah, today will announce it has chosen World Wide Packets as its vendor in building out the largest municipal fiber-to-the-home network to date in the U.S.
July 26, 2004
UTAH CITY BRIDGES ‘DIGITAL DIVIDE’ WITH FIBER NETWORK
Broadband Daily – The city of Provo, UT, concerned that incumbent telecommunications providers Qwest Communications and Comcast will leave its citizenry on the wrong side of the digital divide, has deployed its own municipal fiber-optic services network to deliver voice, video, high-speed data and other advanced services in direct competition with those providers.
July 23, 2004
INVESTORS SET TO PLACE BETS ON A TELECOM(!)
SeattlePI.com – It has been a long time since venture capitalists got excited about anything in the telecommunications sector.
July 23, 2004
SWITCHCORE, SUPPLIER OF INTEGRATED NETWORK MODULES FOR GBE SWITCH/ROUTER MARKETS, REPORTS 1H
Optical Keyhole – 80-employee SwitchCore of Lund, Sweden, a fabless semiconductor supplier of integrated network devices for data and Internet communication, which supplies its products to companies such as Allied Telesyn, Alloptic, Corecess, Dasan, Huawei/3Com, Intel, Radisys and World Wide Packets, issued an interim unaudited financial report for the six month period January 1st-June 30th 2004:
July 12, 2004
ACTIVE FIBER VENDORS GET DEFENSIVE
Telephony Online – Despite pronouncements from SBC chairman Ed Whitacre that the company will move forward with passive optical network technology in its fiber-to-the-neighborhood deployments, some vendors on the Supercomm 2004 show floor said the RBOC’s decision is just the opening volley in a long battle. Moreover, those promoting the use of active elements in the network believe the biggest carriers are starting to realize that they’ve made a mistake.
July 8, 2004
VIB AWAITS APPROVAL FOR DIBS ON PROVO MUNI FIBER
Telephony Online – As early as next week, Video Internet Broadcasting expects to be named the first service provider to offer triple-play services (voice, video and high-speed data) over Provo, Utah’s planned 33,000-home municipal fiber network.
July 6, 2004
THE FTTP BATTLEFIELD: ACTIVE ETHERNET VS. PON
Lightwave – The broadband access market is heating up. Recent months have witnessed several new companies introducing active Ethernet products while passive optical networking (PON) vendors continue to make noise about their solution to the last mile bottleneck. Providers - from the largest national carriers to the smallest local telcos - are actively evaluating these two broadband access solutions to determine the benefits of each technology. But beyond all the hype, what are the real technical differences between the various PON flavors and active Ethernet?
July 1, 2004
Lightwave – For years, we’ve heard that consolidation would be a necessary and inevitable step on the optical communications industry’s journey to recovery. As this century began, the common wisdom was that there were too many companies trying to make a buck (or a pound or a yen or whatever) in every market segment one could name. Long-haul systems, metro equipment, components, you name it, the space suffered from overpopulation. And while from a vendor’s perspective there is no such thing as too many customers, the calls for consolidation even carried to the carrier segment as pundits wailed about "the bandwidth glut."
June 29, 2004
FORUMS UNITE TO PROVE MPLS INTEROPERABILITY
TelephonyOnline – Eleven members of the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance conducted a Superdemo last week at Supercomm that proved the multi-vendor interoperability of multiprotocol label switching technology. The alliance also worked with the Multiservice Switching Forum to provide a proof-of- concept for VoIP over MPLS.
June 28, 2004
COMM SUPPLIERS LIVING ON THE EDGE
TechWeb – Debate over how to bring broadband data services from the metropolitan network out to the "edge"-or all the way home to the consumer-was the topic on most minds at last week’s Supercomm trade show. Engineers gathering in Chicago for the annual conference discussed new prospects for unifying the packet-oriented worlds of Ethernet and Internet Protocol with the time-division multiplexed worlds of Sonet and T1/T3 private lines. Vendors are attacking the problem with Ethernet, Internet and Sonet technologies.
June 28, 2004
COMM SUPPLIERS LIVING ON THE EDGE
EE Times – Debate over how to bring broadband data services from the metropolitan network out to the "edge"-or all the way home to the consumer-was the topic on most minds at last week’s Supercomm trade show. Engineers gathering in Chicago for the annual conference discussed new prospects for unifying the packet-oriented worlds of Ethernet and Internet Protocol with the time-division multiplexed worlds of Sonet and T1/T3 private lines. Vendors are attacking the problem with Ethernet, Internet and Sonet technologies.
June 23, 2004
Fiber Optics Forecast – The battle lines have been drawn in the fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) food fight Fiber Optics Forecast promised you in our last issue. What we really have here is a serious argument over whether it’s already too late for new entrants to rush into the market. The conclusion is critical to any company pondering an investment in order to get into the FTTP market and, of course, to venture capitalists who might be asked to put up the cash for the parade of startups targeting FTTP.
June 22, 2004
EXCLUSIVE! VIDEO NEWS FROM SUPERCOMM 2004
Telecom Flash – The benefits of adopting MPLS in the core network are well known, but how can carriers extend the benefits of that network out to the subscriber? One emerging trend is the development of enhanced intelligent demarc devices that reside at the customer premises, but are managed, provisioned and controlled by the service provider. Leveraging its well-known reputation in the FTTP market, World Wide Packets has introduced its LE54v Access Portal and LE-311v Access Concentrator to extend various new services to the subscriber. Senior Editor Sean Buckley spoke with Dave Curry, President and CEO of World Wide Packets, to discuss new products and promising industry trends.
June 21, 2004
SUPERCOMM ABUNDANT WITH ETHERNET GEAR
TelephonyOnline – Any doubts that carriers won’t have choices with local Ethernet equipment should be quickly dispelled this week when a host of access gear vendors, including Turin Networks, Nayna Networks and Wave7 Optics, debut Ethernet-based gear at Supercomm.
June 21, 2004
TelephonyOnline – A year ago, Supercomm was abuzz with the news that the three biggest Baby Bells would use their combined might to lower the price of fiber-to-the-premises technology through massive deployments. A year later, BellSouth, Verizon Communications and SBC seem starkly divided in their approaches to FTTP.
June 21, 2004
Light Reading – It’s Day 1 here at Supercomm, and the show already has its theme: Ethernet and MPLS.
June 21, 2004
SUPERCOMM PREVIEW: ALLIANCE TEAMS WITH MPLS AND FRAME RELAY ALLIANCE
America’s Network – The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance have joined forces with the Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) to participate in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at Supercomm 2004.
June 17, 2004
Yahoo! Finance – The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance announced today the 10 companies participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 22-24 in booth # 21439 - Hall A. The participating vendors will be showcasing MPLS technology, while Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) members provide a proof of concept Voice over IP application running over an MPLS backbone. Joining forces to test interoperability of MPLS are Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, CIENA Corp., Cisco Systems, MRV, Native Networks, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs, and World Wide Packets.
June 17, 2004
NewsOK.com – The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance announced today the 10 companies participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 22-24 in booth # 21439 - Hall A. The participating vendors will be showcasing MPLS technology, while Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) members provide a proof of concept Voice over IP application running over an MPLS backbone. Joining forces to test interoperability of MPLS are Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, CIENA Corp., Cisco Systems, MRV, Native Networks, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs, and World Wide Packets.
June 17, 2004
FinanceCanada.com – The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance announced today the 10 companies participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 22-24 in booth # 21439 - Hall A. The participating vendors will be showcasing MPLS technology, while Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) members provide a proof of concept Voice over IP application running over an MPLS backbone. Joining forces to test interoperability of MPLS are Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, CIENA Corp., Cisco Systems, MRV, Native Networks, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs, and World Wide Packets.
June 17, 2004
TMCnet.com – The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance announced today the 10 companies participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 22-24 in booth # 21439 - Hall A. The participating vendors will be showcasing MPLS technology, while Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) members provide a proof of concept Voice over IP application running over an MPLS backbone. Joining forces to test interoperability of MPLS are Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, CIENA Corp., Cisco Systems, MRV, Native Networks, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs, and World Wide Packets.
June 17, 2004
Morningstar.com – The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance announced today the 10 companies participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 22-24 in booth # 21439 - Hall A. The participating vendors will be showcasing MPLS technology, while Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) members provide a proof of concept Voice over IP application running over an MPLS backbone. Joining forces to test interoperability of MPLS are Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, CIENA Corp., Cisco Systems, MRV, Native Networks, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs, and World Wide Packets.
June 17, 2004
Hiploid Inc. – The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance announced today the 10 companies participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 22-24 in booth # 21439 - Hall A. The participating vendors will be showcasing MPLS technology, while Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) members provide a proof of concept Voice over IP application running over an MPLS backbone. Joining forces to test interoperability of MPLS are Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, CIENA Corp., Cisco Systems, MRV, Native Networks, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs, and World Wide Packets.
June 17, 2004
10 COMPANIES IN MPLS, FRAME RELAY DEMO
Light Reading – The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance announced today the 10 companies participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 22-24 in booth # 21439 - Hall A. The participating vendors will be showcasing MPLS technology, while Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) members provide a proof of concept Voice over IP application running over an MPLS backbone. Joining forces to test interoperability of MPLS are Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, CIENA Corp., Cisco Systems, MRV, Native Networks, Nortel Networks, Spirent Communications, Tellabs, and World Wide Packets.
June 17, 2004
TMCnet.com – The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) and European network testing leader the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) will jointly provide a test bed at SUPERCOMM 2004 that will showcase network convergence and publicly demonstrate, for the first time in the U.S., the viability of passing VoIP over an MPLS core.
June 17, 2004
Lightwave – World Wide Packets (WWP) and Mangrove Systems earlier this week announced product lines that purport to extend MPLS capabilities from the network core into the metro/access space. While carriers are just beginning to implement MPLS in the core, both companies are betting that the metro/access space won’t be far behind.
June 17, 2004
SUPERDEMO TO SHOWCASE MPLS INTEROPERABILITY
Converge! Network Digest – Ten companies will be participating in a multi-vendor interoperability demo at SUPERCOMM 2004 designed to showcase the interoperability of MPLS solutions. Participating members demonstrated interoperability of several different MPLS related features and protocols during the Hot Stage test that took place last week at University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) and was further supported by The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). These capabilities include:
June 16, 2004
Computerworld – World Wide Packets is introducing gear to support virtual Ethernet LAN services to homes and businesses over copper wiring or fibre optics.
June 16, 2004
ARNnet – World Wide Packets is introducing gear to support virtual Ethernet LAN services to homes and businesses over copper wiring or fiber optics.
June 15, 2004
Light Reading – One of the trends that’s likely to be evident at next week’s Supercomm tradeshow is the arrival of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) in access networks.
June 15, 2004
Optical Networks Daily – June 14th World Wide Packets of Spokane Valley, Washington, supplier of the Lightning Edge service delivery access network solution, enabling delivery of simultaneous telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data, and Internet access services, to any combination of business and residential subscribers, using Ethernet over fibre and copper, announced availability during the third quarter 2004 of the new:
June 15, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS BULKS UP ETHERNET LINE WITH VPS
TelephonyOnline – World Wide Packets, striking at a time when interest in Ethernet service is dramatically increasing, announced two new additions to the LightningEdge products that let carriers offer what the company is calling Virtual Private Services over Ethernet and/or MPLS infrastructures.
June 15, 2004
Network World Fusion – World Wide Packets is introducing gear to support virtual Ethernet LAN services to homes and businesses over copper wiring or fiber optics.
June 14, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS DELIVERS NEW ETHERNET/MPLS PRODUCTS
XCHANGE Magazine – World Wide Packets announced today two new additions to the LightningEdge product family that allow service providers to offer Virtual Private Services (VPS) delivered over Ethernet and/or MPLS.
June 14, 2004
CHOICES EXPAND IN VIRTUAL LAN SECTOR
EE Times – World Wide Packets Inc. is giving carriers two paths to adding virtual LAN services to Ethernet-based public networks. Additions to the LightningEdge product line support both virtual private LAN services, based on multiprotocol label switching, and transparent LAN services based on Ethernet without MPLS.
June 9, 2004
$47 MILLION SHOT OF NEW CASH PUTS COBALT IN DRIVER’S SEAT FOR GROWTH
The Seattle Times – Like many tech-bust survivors, Cobalt Group has lived on its own resources for the past 2-?ÿý÷ years, earning income from providing Web sites and software to auto dealers.
June 9, 2004
LUCENT PROXY READIES NEW FIVE-NINES FTTP SCHEME
Fiber Optics Forecast – What’s sure to be denigrated by at least some competitors as the "odd couple" of the fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) market has begun to emerge from hiding - and it’s the unlikely combination of Lucent [LU] technology and a tiny, virtually unknown outfit that lost a fortune trying to bring a CD copy- protection scheme to market. What’s about to emerge is a product line based on technology developed by the fabled Bell Labs that promises 100 Mb/s switched Ethernet FTTP with five-nines reliability. The stuff looks to be first headed straight to Japan, for use in that country’s massive FTTP build-out, although details of that deployment won’t be disclosed publicly for some weeks yet.
June 1, 2004
Lightwave – Great Wall Broadband Network Service (GWBN--Beijing), a broadband service provider,deployed the LightningEdge Ethernet access product suite from World Wide Packets (Spokane Valley, WA). GWBN will use the equipment to deliver simultaneous telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data, and Internet access services to any combination of business and residential subscribers via Ethernet over fiber.
May 22, 2004
CISCO LOOKING TO MUSCLE UP WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Reuters – Twenty years ago, Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O got in on the ground floor of computer networking.
May 20, 2004
Telephony ’s Optical Insight – Someone once told me that when historians want to research a given event, they don’t read the newspapers published the next day or even the day after that. They start by reading the newspapers published about three or four days later. Same-day news usually contains inaccuracies (a convenient segue for me to apologize for last week’s newsletter, in which I mistakenly called British Telecom, instead of ntl, a new World Wide Packets customer) and doesn’t include the full view and perspective that comes later.
May 20, 2004
PACIFIC NW VENTURE CAPITAL MARKET SEEN THAWING AT LAST
Wall Street Journal Online – The deep freeze is over for venture capital investing in the United States, with the thaw extending into the Pacific Northwest as more companies find their treasuries warmed by venture dollars.
May 14, 2004
LIBERTY LAKE, WASH., TELECOM SUPPLIER GETS $16.6 MILLION VENTURE FUNDING
The Spokesman-Review – Purcell Systems, of Liberty Lake, which makes enclosures to protect batteries and equipment for cell phone towers, has raised $16.6 million in venture-capital funding.
May 12, 2004
NTL UPS ANTE WITH WORLD WIDE PACKETS
TelecomFlash – With few exceptions (Cox and Time Warner) North American cable operators have struggled to get business services successfully off the ground. However, UK-based ntl, which boasts an all-optical network that is majority owned by ntl, passes 8.4 million homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, continues to expand its business operations.
May 12, 2004
Telephony ’s Optical Insight – World Wide Packets’ recent contract win with British Telecom for active Ethernet fiber-to-the-premises gear (see story below) invites renewed examination of RBOC FTTP strategies. Although RBOCs have so far embraced BPON, an ATM-based passive optical networking technology, for their initial attempts at the FTTx market, some vendors are hopeful that RBOCs will eventually broaden their scope to include E-PON technology (as Hitachi Telecom USA CTO David Foote told me in this interview ).
May 12, 2004
FIBER FIGHT! - DUKING IT OUT IN THE U.K.
Fiber Optics Forecast n A battle between the U.K. ’s two largest carriers, British Telecom [BTY] and NTL [NTLI], to sell excess fiber capacity (dark fiber, if you will or -- perhaps better -- underutilized fiber) to government entities has been quietly brewing for a year now, despite the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue are at stake.
May 12, 2004
Light Reading – Ethernet systems hopeful World Wide Packets Inc. has formally announced U.K. cable operator NTL Inc. (Nasdaq Europe: NTLI - message board) as a customer (see NTL Uses World Wide Packets ).
May 12, 2004
NTL BRINGS VOIP-OVER ETHERNET TO U.K.
Broadband Daily – British cable operator ntl has launched broadband voice, video and high-speed data services to business and public sector clients on a national, regional and local basis using its metro and national Ethernet backbones that cover more than 1 mil. business premises and 11 mil. homes in the U.K.
May 11, 2004
Optical Networks Daily – World Wide Packets of Spokane Valley, Washington, supplier of the LightningEdge service delivery access network solution, enabling delivery of simultaneous telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data, and Internet access services, announced that ntl of Hampshire, the UK is deploying the LightningEdge suite of Ethernet access products to deliver broadband services to business clients.
May 11, 2004
BROADCOM TARGETS METRO ETHERNET
Light Reading – Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq: BRCM - message board) is getting ambitious with its Gigabit Ethernet switch chips, hoping to expand the devices’ reach from the enterprise into service providers’ metro networks.
May 11, 2004
NTL DEPLOYS WORLD WIDE PACKETS FOR ETHERNET ACCESS
Converge! Network Digest – ntl is deploying World Wide Packets’ "LightningEdge" suite of Ethernet access products to deliver broadband services to business clients in the UK. The services will be delivered over ntl’s fiber infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed.
May 10, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS LANDS BRITISH CARRIER DEAL
Telephony – World Wide Packets today unveiled its largest carrier contract to date, announcing the British cable operator ntl will deploy its LightningEdge suite of Ethernet access products.
May 10, 2004
UK SERVICE PROVIDER DEPLOYS WORLD WIDE PACKET’S ACTIVE ETHERNET EQUIPMENT
Lightwave – World Wide Packets, provider of Ethernet Access Networking Solutions, announced today that ntl is deploying its LightningEdge suite of Ethernet access products to deliver broadband services to business clients. Both public and private networks are being deployed by ntl’s business division, a provider of communications services to businesses and public sector organizations in the UK.
May 8, 2004
The Spokesman-Review – World Wide Packets, based in Spokane Valley, announced Friday it has signed a large contract with ntl Inc., the second-largest broadband carrier in the United Kingdom.
May 5, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS TO PRESENT AT 3RD ANNUAL JP MORGAN TECH AND TELECOM CONFERENCE
VantageLink – World Wide Packets, the leading provider of Ethernet Access networking solutions, today announced that CEO Dave Curry will present to the technology and investment community at JP Morgan’s 3rd Annual Tech and Telecom Conference. Mr. Curry will discuss both World Wide Packets’ Active Ethernet technology as well as recent corporate and customer highlights. World Wide Packets recently completed a $24.5 million round of funding and signed its first customer in the Asia-Pacific region, Great Wall Broadband of China, one of that country’s largest broadband providers.
May 5, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS TO PRESENT AT 3RD ANNUAL JP MORGAN TECH AND TELECOM CONFERENCE
Yahoo! Finance – World Wide Packets, the leading provider of Ethernet Access networking solutions, today announced that CEO Dave Curry will present to the technology and investment community at JP Morgan’s 3rd Annual Tech and Telecom Conference. Mr. Curry will discuss both World Wide Packets’ Active Ethernet technology as well as recent corporate and customer highlights. World Wide Packets recently completed a $24.5 million round of funding and signed its first customer in the Asia-Pacific region, Great Wall Broadband of China, one of that country’s largest broadband providers.
May 5, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS TO PRESENT AT 3RD ANNUAL JP MORGAN TECH AND TELECOM CONFERENCE
Hoovers – World Wide Packets, the leading provider of Ethernet Access networking solutions, today announced that CEO Dave Curry will present to the technology and investment community at JP Morgan’s 3rd Annual Tech and Telecom Conference. Mr. Curry will discuss both World Wide Packets’ Active Ethernet technology as well as recent corporate and customer highlights. World Wide Packets recently completed a $24.5 million round of funding and signed its first customer in the Asia-Pacific region, Great Wall Broadband of China, one of that country’s largest broadband providers.
May 5, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS TO PRESENT AT 3RD ANNUAL JP MORGAN TECH AND TELECOM CONFERENCE
Finance Canada.com – World Wide Packets, the leading provider of Ethernet Access networking solutions, today announced that CEO Dave Curry will present to the technology and investment community at JP Morgan’s 3rd Annual Tech and Telecom Conference. Mr. Curry will discuss both World Wide Packets’ Active Ethernet technology as well as recent corporate and customer highlights. World Wide Packets recently completed a $24.5 million round of funding and signed its first customer in the Asia-Pacific region, Great Wall Broadband of China, one of that country’s largest broadband providers.
May 5, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS TO PRESENT AT 3RD ANNUAL JP MORGAN TECH AND TELECOM CONFERENCE
CBS MarketWatch – World Wide Packets, the leading provider of Ethernet Access networking solutions, today announced that CEO Dave Curry will present to the technology and investment community at JP Morgan’s 3rd Annual Tech and Telecom Conference. Mr. Curry will discuss both World Wide Packets’ Active Ethernet technology as well as recent corporate and customer highlights. World Wide Packets recently completed a $24.5 million round of funding and signed its first customer in the Asia-Pacific region, Great Wall Broadband of China, one of that country’s largest broadband providers.
May 3, 2004
GREATWALL BROADBAND TO INVEST UP TO USD 14.49 MLN TO EXPAND BROADBAND NETWORKS IN 13 CITIES.
Interfax – Greatwall Broadband Network Service Co., Ltd plans to invest RMB 80-120 mln (USD 9.66 -14.49 mln) to expand its broadband services in 13 major Chinese cities. As part of these efforts, Greatwall Broadband has signed a new agreement to cooperate in last mile Ethernet connection technology with World Wide Packets Co., Ltd (WWP). Greatwall Broadband currently has enough capacity to support between 4-6 mln broadband customers. This new agreement with WWP and the company’s latest expansion plans are expected to greatly increase capacity, but an exact number has yet to be determined, Greatwall Broadband PR official Zheng Jing told Interfax in an interview. "The agreement with WWP has already been signed," Zheng said.
May 3, 2004
Barron ’s – EVERYBODY LOVES TO HATE the cable company, but maybe it’s time for a change of heart.
April 27, 2004
COMING DOWN THE PIPE SPRING 2004
Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc – The publication of Volume 1 of our freshly minted i`FTTH Prismi^ marks the beginning of our more focused attention on the activities in the fiber-to-the-home market and the issues getting the attention of the major players in the field and in the R&D centers.
April 27, 2004
STARTUP DOLLARS LASTING LONGER
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Startup companies are doing more with less.
April 26, 2004
INVESTORS RESPOND TO A CAPITAL CRUSADE
MENAFN – Attorney Laura Puckett is spending weekends at the office. Venture capitalist John Carleton is juggling multiple startup projects. And Craig Sherman, a corporate securities lawyer in Kirkland, recently scaled back a family vacation to the Methow Valley because of pressing deadlines.
April 26, 2004
INVESTORS RESPOND TO A CAPITAL CRUSADE
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Attorney Laura Puckett is spending weekends at the office. Venture capitalist John Carleton is juggling multiple startup projects. And Craig Sherman, a corporate securities lawyer in Kirkland, recently scaled back a family vacation to the Methow Valley because of pressing deadlines.
April 23, 2004
VENTURE CAPITAL: INVESTING NEARS HIGH NOT SEEN IN 2 YEARS
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Two research reports will be issued early next week providing a detailed analysis of venture capital investing in the first quarter.
April 20, 2004
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – In a deal of undisclosed size, Great Wall Broadband Network Service Co., one of China’s largest Internet service providers, will use Ethernet networking equipment from Spokane-based World Wide Packets to deliver voice, video and Internet data services to residential and business customers.
April 20, 2004
BROADBAND COMES TO THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
Broadband Business Report – China’s third-largest ISP, Great Wall Broadband Network Service, during the next few weeks will be cutting a pile of purchase orders for the equipment to begin building a massive broadband network that will pass an estimated 250 million people living in 30 of China’s largest cities. The buildout, whose total cost Great Wall has not disclosed but which looks to be in the mid- to high hundreds of millions of dollars, is somewhat akin to trying to wire half or more of the United States.
April 19, 2004
PhotonicsFiber.com – … World Wide Packets, a provider of Ethernet Access networking solutions, announced that its LightningEdge suite has been selected by Great Wall Broadband Network Service Co. Ltd. (GWBN), one of China’s largest broadband service providers, to enable it to deliver telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data and Internet access services, using Ethernet over fiber, to business and residential subscribers. World Wide Packets has been deployed across GWBN’s broadband network in partnership with Alliance Digital Inc., a Beijing-based provider of outsourced China business development and technical services to telecommunications vendors.
April 19, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS SIGNS DEAL WITH GREAT WALL BROADBAND WORTH $1M IN 2004 AND MORE IN 2005
Optical Networks Daily – April 16th Spokesman-Review.com, a web-based news service centred in Spokane, Washington State, reported* that World Wide Packets (WWP), also of Spokane, a supplier of a service delivery access network solution (Lightning Edge) designed to enable delivery of simultaneous telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data, and Internet access services, to any combination of business and residential subscribers, using Ethernet over fibre and copper, has signed an "open-ended" agreement with Great Wall Broadband Networks (GWBN) of Beijing.
April 16, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS SIGNS CHINA CONTRACT
The Spokesman-Review – World Wide Packets, based in Spokane Valley, announced Friday it has signed a deal to sell network-management equipment to the third-largest Internet provider in the People’s Republic of China. The deal is an open-ended contract with Great Wall Broadband Network Service Ltd., a Beijing-based network provider that has 4 million subscribers and expects steady growth for the next several years, said David Curry, CEO of World Wide Packets. World Wide Packets designs and makes bandwidth-management devices and software. The company has sold its products to companies in Dubai, the United Kingdom and across the United States. Curry said the size of the contract will be determined by Great Wall Broadband’s expansion in coming years. But he expects the company to buy roughly $1 million in World Wide Packet products this year, and much more the following year. Eventually, the sale could be the company’s largest, Curry said.
April 16, 2004
CHINA’S GREAT WALL BROADBAND DEPLOYS WWP
Converge! Network Digest – China’s Great Wall Broadband Network Service Co. Ltd. (GWBN) is deploying World Wide Packets’ active Ethernet access solution to deliver fully symmetrical 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps dedicated bandwidth to its subscribers. World Wide Packets is working with Alliance Digital, a China-focused telecommunications business development services company, on the project. Financial terms were not disclosed.
April 12, 2004
PROVO AWARDS CONTRACT TO ’LIGHT UP’ FIBER OPTIC NETWORK
Salt Lake Enterprise – Provo officials recently awarded a $2.8 million contract to Veradale, Wa.-based World Wide Packets to provide the equipment and technical support to "light up" the city’s fiber optic network.
April 9, 2004
CHINA’S GREAT WALL BROADBAND TO INVEST 80-120 MLN YUAN FOR NETWORK UPGRADES
Xinghua Financial Network – Great Wall Broadband Network Service Co Ltd, a major domestic broadband solutions provider, plans to invest 80-120 mln yuan to upgrade the broadband networks of 13 large cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou in the first half of the year, the company’s general manager Sun Ziqiang said. The company said in a statement it signed a cooperation agreement with US broadband infrastructure provider, World Wide Packets under which it will provide its technology for the upgrade. The financial terms of the agreement were not released. Sun said the cooperation will significantly increase Great Wall’s broadband network capacity from the current 4-6 mln users, but he could not give detailed figures at the present stage. Statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry show China had 12.59 mln broadband users as of the end of February, up 6.2 pct over the previous month. (1 usd = 8.3 yuan)
April 9, 2004
VENTURE CAPITAL: VC GROUPS ON THE PROWL ONCE MORE
Spokane Post-Intelligencer – WHEN KAREL DOERNER started looking for venture financing 12 months ago, he didn’t know what to expect. But the 30-year-old chief executive of Bellevue-based Aventeon soon realized that momentum was in his favor. By the time Doerner completed the financing round, the entrepreneur had entertained four separate offers from venture capital groups who eagerly wanted a piece of the deal.
April 8, 2004
Spokane Journal of Business – World Wide Packets, the Spokane Valley-based maker of devices for fiber-optic communications, is pumping the $24.5 million in venture funding it landed recently into networking—in the social sense of the word.
April 7, 2004
N. IDAHO FIRM LANDS $25 MILLION
The Spokesman-Review – A prominent venture capital firm has invested $25 million to help a North Idaho company expand its global network of radiologists who evaluate X-ray and CAT scan images for health care providers in this country.
April 7, 2004
COEUR D’ALENE, IDAHO, FIRM WILL USE INVESTMENT TO EXPAND RADIOLOGIST NETWORK
The Miami Herald – A prominent venture capital firm has invested $25 million to help a North Idaho company expand its global network of radiologists who evaluate X-ray and CAT scan images for health care providers in this country.
April 7, 2004
VIRGINIA: LENOWISCO SELECTS WORLD WIDE PACKETS FOR FIBER NETWORK
Community Broadband Networks – "World Wide Packets, the leading provider of Ethernet Access networking solutions, today announced that its LightningEdge™ suite has been selected for deployment by LENOWISCO Planning District Commission, a central planning agency for the Lee, Wise and Scott Counties and the City of Norton, Virginia. World Wide Packets’ LightningEdge solution will provide residential and business customers access to an impressive fiber optic loop - more than 220 miles in total. ’With this step, Southwest Virginia becomes one of the most connected areas in the country,’ said Ron Flanary, Executive Director of LENOWISCO. ’LENOWISCO exists to leverage the best shared services for our member areas."
April 6, 2004
STATE SEES QUARTERLY JUMP IN VENTURE-CAPITAL INVESTING
The Seattle Times – Venture-capital investing in Washington state more than doubled in the first quarter to $139 million, compared with $61.6 million in the last three months of 2003, according to preliminary statistics released yesterday by VentureWire, a newsletter published by Dow Jones.
April 1, 2004
Telecommunications – As the telecom markets begin to recover, many network operators are focusing on broadband access technologies. For those that are evaluating optical access technologies, the selection will likely come down to PON (passive optical networks) or active Ethernet. Although PON has garnered a lot of attention, there are several tradeoffs that potential buyers should fully understand.
April 1, 2004
ACTIVE ETHERNET: GOING THE DISTANCE
Telecommunications – While PON (passive optical network) has been heraleded as the chosen FTTP path for the RBOCs, that’s not stopping a group of pioneering vendors and service providers from offering an alternative that leverages the best of Ethernet and IP. Its name is active Ethernet.
March 29, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS SIGNS SERVICES DEAL
The Spokesman-Review – World Wide Packets, a Greenacres company that makes network data-management products, announced Friday it has signed a deal to provide services to a county planning district in southwest Virginia.
March 29, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS SELECTED IN VIRGINIA
Converge! Network Digest – World Wide Packets has been selected to supply its LightningEdge Ethernet access solution by the Lenowisco Planning District Commission, a central planning agency for three counties in southwestern Virginia. The municipal broadband initiative will provide business and residential services. Financial terms were not disclosed.
March 10, 2004
GigaOM – Rural/Muni Broadband equipment maker World Wide Packets is one of the big winners as more and more muni’s roll out their own fiber to the home services. And that explains why the company had no problems raising $24.5 million in third round of funding. New investors Argo Global Capital and Entrepia Ventures participated in this over-subscribed second close of over $8.7 million.
March 9, 2004
10-GIGABIT ETHERNET: COMING OF AGE IN 2004
Broadband Business Report – Some time late this year, the per-port cost of 10-Gigabit Ethernet for use in communications networks is expected to match, on a per-byte basis, the price of 1-gigabit Ethernet. The price for 10-Gig hardware for use in data centers already has fallen to less than the cost of 1 gigabit. We’re at the start of a market explosion that’s expected to add up to a $2 billion-a-year industry by the end of 2006, with revenues roughly equally split between networks and data centers.
March 8, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS TOPS UP TANK
Light Reading – Ethernet access vendor World Wide Packets Inc. (WWP) says it’s closed the second and final portion of a third funding round of $24.5 million (see World Wide Packets Closes $24.5M Round ) . A new infusion of $8.7 million comes on top of the first close of $15.7 million and brings the company’s total funding to date to about $114.4 million (see World Wide Packets Closes $15.7M Round ).
March 8, 2004
World Wide Packets, a Spokane, Wash.-based provider of Ethernet access networking solutions, has held an $8.7 million second close on its third-round of VC funding. The company had previously announced a first close of $15.7 million, for a round total of $24.5 million. Argo Global Capital and Entrepia Ventures participated on the second close, while first tranche investors included Madrona Venture Group, Northwest Venture Associates and Azure Capital Partners.
March 8, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS POCKETS $8.7M MORE TO CAP THIRD ROUND AT $24.4M
VentureWire Alert – World Wide Packets, provider of Ethernet access networking products, is expected to announce it has raised $8.7 million more to close its oversubscribed third round with $24.4 million.
March 8, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS RAISES $8,700,000 IN THIRD ROUND ADD-ON
VentureReporter.net – World Wide Packets is a solutions provider for Ethernet broadband connectivity. INVESTORS: Argo Global Capital, Entrepia Ventures
March 8, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS TACKS ON $8.7M
TheDeal.com – The company, which makes Ethernet access networking technology, closes its third round with $24.5 million.
March 8, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS HAULS IN ANOTHER $8.7 MILLION
TelephonyOnline – World Wide Packets said today that it has closed a round of funding, bringing in an additional $8.7 million.
March 8, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS GETS $24.5 MILLION
The Wall Street Journal Online – World Wide Packets, Spokane, Wash., gained $24.5 million in third-round funding. The round included new investors Argo Global Capital and Entrepia Ventures and will be used to expand the company’s market. World Wide Packets (www.wwp.com) is a broadband hardware company.
March 5, 2004
WALL STREET REPORTER PRESENTS – INTERVIEW WITH: DAVE CURRY, PRESIDENT AND CEO
March 2, 2004
NETWORKING FIRM WORLD WIDE PACKETS GETS $8.7 MILLION CAPITAL
The Miami Herald – Two East Coast venture capital firms have invested $8.7 million in Spokane-based World Wide Packets, the company announced.
March 2, 2004
$24 MILLION IN VENTURE FUNDS BOOSTS WORLD WIDE PACKETS
The Seattle Times – Spokane-based World Wide Packets said yesterday that it closed the second half of its third round of funding, now ringing in at $24.5 million. In January, it announced it had raised $15.7 million in cash. In total, the company has raised about $123 million.
February 28, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS GETS $8.7 MILLION
The Spokesman-Review – Two East Coast venture capital firms have invested $8.7 million in Spokane-based World Wide Packets, the company announced.
February 28, 2004
EAST COAST BOOST FOR WORLD WIDE PACKETS
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Less than two months after raising $15.7 million in venture capital, World Wide Packets has scored additional funding from two East Coast venture capital firms.
February 27, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS DRAWS $8M IN ADDITIONAL BACKING
Puget Sound Business Journal – Within a month of landing a large round of venture capital, World Wide Packets Inc. has done it again.
February 27, 2004
MAYORS, OTHERS LOBBY GOVERNOR TO SUPPORT UTOPIA NETWORK
The Salt Lake Tribune – Utah cities need UTOPIA.
February 24, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS NAMES MATTHEW FREY, TED VOLBERDING TO TEAM
Venture Wire People – World Wide Packets, provider of Ethernet access networking products, said it has named Matthew Frey as CFO and Ted Volberding as vice president of operations.
February 21, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS NAMES EXECUTIVES
The Spokesman-Review – Matthew Frey and Ted Volberding have been named the new chief financial officer and vice president of operations, respectively, at World Wide Packets.
February 16, 2004
GigE TURNS FIVE AND JUST KEEPS GROWING
Telecomweb – By conventional wisdom, the current economic slump should have been a disaster for an infant technology like GigE (GigE). A recession isn’t the time most companies are willing to go to the expense and risk of adopting new technology. Instead, GigE equipment vendors are racing from Moscow to Tel Aviv to places like rural Ephrata, Wash., to hawk their wares. Metropolitan Ethernet Networks (MEN), leveraging off of GigE, are sprouting up like weeds, some in the most unlikely places. Venture capitalists, who have been pretty much in hiding since the Internet bloodbath, smell profit, and they have loosened the purse strings.
February 11, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS SUPPLIES ACTIVE ETHERNET ACCESS NET FOR DANVILLE, VIRGINIA
Converge! Network Digest – The City of Danville, Virginia is using World Wide Packets’ "LightningEdge" platform to provide fiber access to some 100 local government, public school and utility locations throughout the city. The network architecture employs World Wide Packets’ Active Ethernet technology. The current deployment is capable of growing into a network to ultimately serve over 50,000 residents and 8,000 businesses. Financial terms were not disclosed.
February 11, 2004
VIRGINIA -- WORLD WIDE PACKETS PRODUCT SELECTED BY DANVILLE
TR’s State NewsWire – World Wide Packets said yesterday its LightningEdge product has been chosen by the Danville officials to provide access to a fiber-optic network serving 100 local government, public school, and utility locations throughout the city.
February 10, 2004
Optical Network Daily – Privately held World Wide Packets of Spokane, Washington, a supplier of an Ethernet service delivery access network solution under the brand name LightningEdge, designed to enable delivery of simultaneous telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data, and Internet access services, to any combination of business and residential subscribers, using Ethernet over fibre and copper, announced that the LightningEdge suite has been selected for deployment by the City of Danville, Virginia, to provide access to a fibre optic network serving 100 local government, public school and utility locations throughout the city.
January 14, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS GETS ACTIVE ON PASSIVE NETS
TelephonyOnline - While nailing down a $15.7 million third round of investing this week, World Wide Packets informally also started a public campaign designed to get carriers to either consider true passive elements in their access networks or at the very least change the PON moniker.
January 14, 2004
NEW YEAR BRINGS NEW FUNDING FOR VENDORS
TelephonyOnline – A spate of optical equipment vendors announced new funding this week.
January 14, 2004
COMPANIES ANNOUNCE NEW FUNDING ROUNDS
Telecom Flash – Several equipment vendors announced new funding rounds this week, with the investments cutting across all segments of telecom, including access, wireless and optical.
January 13, 2004
ETHERNET ACCESS BOX MAKER BREAKS SILENCE, SCORES FUNDING
NetworkWorldFusion – To say that World Wide Packets has been quiet of late would be a huge understatement, but the Ethernet access equipment maker is ready to make some noise, starting with news that it has received a third round of venture funding.
January 12, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS CLOSES $15.7 MILLION IN THIRD ROUND OF FUNDING
Lightwave – World Wide Packets, a provider of Ethernet access networking solutions, today announced that it has successfully completed a $15.7 million third round of venture funding, led by new investors Madrona Venture Group and Northwest Venture Associates. Several existing investors also participated in the latest round, including Azure Capital Partners. This financing will allow World Wide Packets to accelerate strong revenue and customer growth in their core markets, as well as expand into untapped sectors for Ethernet access solutions.
January 12, 2004
CALIENT, WORLD WIDE PACKETS CLOSE FUNDING ROUNDS
CommsDesign – Two innovative companies in the optical communications sector, Calient Networks and World Wide Packets, have completed venture funding rounds that allow them to continue product development.
January 12, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS RAISES $15.7 MILLION FOR ACCESS SOLUTIONS
Converge Network Digest - World Wide Packets, a start-up based in Spokane, Washington raised $15.7 million in the first closing of its third round of funding for its Ethernet-based last mile access solutions. The company’s "LightningEdge" access equipment is currently deployed in some 34 networks, including various municipalities, MSOs, CLECs and ILECs. The funding was led by new investors Madrona Venture Group and Northwest Venture Associates. Several existing investors also participated in the latest round, including Azure Capital Partners.
January 12, 2004
ETHERNET ACCESS FIRM WORLD WIDE PACKETS GETS $15.7M IN THIRD ROUND SO FAR
VentureWire Alert - World Wide Packets, provider of Ethernet access networking products, is expected to announce raising an ongoing $15.7-million third round.
January 12, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS GETS $15.7 MILLION BOOST
The Spokesman-Review - Spokane Valley’s World Wide Packets is $15.7 million richer this week. The tech company, founded in 1999 by tech honcho Bernard Daines, announced Thursday it has landed that much in venture funding.
January 9, 2004
VENTURE CAPITAL: WORLD WIDE PACKETS SURGES BACK FROM BRINK
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - World Wide Packets has emerged from the telecommunications meltdown with a fresh round of capital, a growing customer list and -- most important -- a new lease on life.
January 9, 2004
VC FUNDING HINTS AT WORLD WIDE PACKETS’ PROGRESS
The Seattle Times - World Wide Packets near Spokane plans to announce a round of venture capital today that will push its total fund-raising efforts past $100 million.
January 9, 2004
BROADBAND FIRM WORLD WIDE PACKETS ATTRACTS $15.7M
Puget Sound Business Journal - The telecommunications sector is depressed, but it’s not dead. Showing enthusiasm for the fast-growing broadband market, a consortium of venture capitalists has poured $15.7 million into World Wide Packets Inc.
January 9, 2004
WORLD WIDE PACKETS BAGS $15.7M
Light Reading - Spokane-based World Wide Packets Inc. (WWP) will announce Monday that it has raised $15.7 million in a third funding round. The Ethernet access gear maker has raised $105.7 million to date since its inception in January 2000.
January 9, 2004
VENTURE FIRMS BOOST WASHINGTON’S WORLD WIDE PACKETS
Lightwave - World Wide Packets near Spokane plans to announce a round of venture capital today that will push its total fund-raising efforts past $100 million.
