2005 In The News
December 5, 2005
World Wide Packets expands CPE to business
Telephony Online – World Wide Packets will announce next week that it is expanding its LightningEdge product family with a new Ethernet demarcation point geared specifically to serve business customers.
The LE-310 is designed to let carriers implementing active Ethernet-based fiber-to-the-premises architectures pick up business customers that they tend to pass along the way. Previously, the company would have given carriers its LE-46 devices. However, that system didn’t have many of the features carriers wanted for business users, said Mathieu Tallegas, Director of Product Management for WWP.
December 5, 2005
Dow Jones VentureWire Alert – World Wide Packets Inc., one of the fortunate networking companies to survive the telecom-industry downturn, landed $25.5 million in a fourth round of financing as investors rally around a resurgence in spending by carriers.
November, 2005
Broadband Properties – Kevin Daines, Chief Technical Officer at FTTH pioneer World Wide Packets, looks ahead to 2006 with optimism. But in an interview in early November, he admitted that WWP’s revenue from business services will outpace revenue from FTTH deployments. Here’s why, and here’s why he’s wildly optimistic overall.
December 5, 2005
World Wide Packets Gets $25.5: Carrier Ethernet Focus Attracts New Group of Investors
Telecommunications Online – Watching its traditional municipal wireline Ethernet first-mile broadband network business attacked by both political opposition and new wireless technologies, World Wide Packets is adopting a more carrier-centric approach to attract investment. Eagle River Holdings and Rally Capital, favoring that approach, have both invested $25.5 million in the four- year-old company.
December 3, 2005
Red Herring – World Wide Packets collected $25.5 million from venture capitalists to expand sales of its fiber-optic equipment and software to municipalities and telecommunications carriers, the company said Saturday.
December 3, 2005
The Seattle Times – Spokane Valley-based technology firm World Wide Packets received its holiday bonus in the form of $25.5 million in venture funding, the company announced Friday.
Two Seattle-area venture capital firms led this latest infusion of cash, one of the largest publicly announced investments in a Spokane firm made in recent years. The money will help privately held World Wide Packets expand sales of its network management technology to telecommunications companies.
December 2, 2005
World Wide Packets raises $25.5 million
SeattlePI – World Wide Packets plans to announce a $25.5 million venture capital round on Monday. The Spokane company, which makes networking equipment for the delivery of broadband Internet to businesses and residences, has raised a total of $140 million since it was founded in June 2000. It employs 135 people, with plans to grow to 150 in the next four months.
December 2, 2005
$25.5 booster shot: McCaw-led VCs inject World Wide Packets with cash
Puget Sound Business Journal – World Wide Packets Inc., a Spokane Valley-based communications networking company, just got a major boost from wireless magnate Craig McCaw.
Eagle River Investments, Rally Capital of Kirkland and a consortium of other investors have pumped $25.5 million into World Wide Packets. The deal closed in mid-November. Eagle River is an investment firm that manages the McCaw telecom fortune.
The cash infusion is slated to fuel 135-employee World Wide Packets' expanding focus on telecom and cable carriers. Company President and CEO David Curry said much of the money will be used to ensure its gear meets the stringent quality assurance standards demanded by telephone and cable carriers.
October 24, 2005
World Wide Packets Signs Agreement With Sprint
New Telephony – World Wide Packets (Booth 514), a provider of carrier Ethernet access networking solutions, has signed an agreement with Sprint North Supply, a division of Sprint Nextel.
The deal allows World Wide Packets to meet its growing customer needs for active Ethernet solutions delivering up to 10gbps connectivity.
October 18, 2005
World Wide Packets adds new office
The Spokesman-Review – World Wide Packets (Booth 514), a provider of carrier Ethernet access networking solutions, has signed an agreement with Sprint North Supply, a division of Sprint Nextel.
The deal allows World Wide Packets to meet its growing customer needs for active Ethernet solutions delivering up to 10gbps connectivity.
October 12, 2005
Ethernet Forum Extends Certification Directly to Carriers
EE Times – The Metro Ethernet Forum has extended its Carrier Ethernet certification program directly to service providers.
September 13, 2005
MEF presents Carrier Ethernet certifications
Lightwave – Today at the 2005 Carrier Ethernet World Congress, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) held an awards ceremony in recognition of the first group of systems to comply with its global Carrier Ethernet service definitions.
August 19, 2005
Light Reading – Ethernet access vendor World Wide Packets Inc. is set to announce on Monday that it has secured a partnership of sorts with Marconi Corp. plc (Nasdaq: MRCIY - message board; London: MONI) -- one that has already resulted in some carrier gear purchases.
August 12, 2005
Venture Capital: On a roll, Cascadia eyes overseas opportunities
Seattlepi.com – Seattle investment bank Cascadia Capital has been on a growth tear in the past two years, structuring more than a dozen acquisitions and helping privately held companies such as Speakeasy, World Wide Packets and Integrated Healthcare Systems attract large rounds of venture capital financing.
July, 2005
THE BROADBAND PROPERTIES 100
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Broadband Properties – The waiting is over. There’s a race to bring more bandwidth to homes and small businesses. The headlong rush knows no national boundaries, and no technical boundaries, either. The “gold standard” is fiber to the home. In new construction, that’s what we get. In overbuild situations, there is a mix, depending on geography and existing infrastructure. But without exception, the existing infrastructure is being tweaked for more bandwidth by replacingit with fiber that creeps ever closer to its final destination – your living room. The BP 100 companies make it happen. Without them, there would be no broadband revolution.
February 16, 2005
Session Addresses How to Protect Your Brand through QOS
xchange – Nothing can sully a brand as quickly as a bad customer experience. So CompTel/ASCENT today is presenting a session entitled “QoS: Protecting Your Brand.”
February 14, 2005
World Wide Packets extols virtues of active Ethernet for FTTx
the 451 group – Verizon Communications' buildout of fiber to the premises (FTTP) has been a boon for vendors seeking validation for various flavors of passive optical network (PON) technology. But among the companies that have been left swimming against the tide with an active optical Ethernet approach, World Wide Packets (WWP) is counting on service providers to eventually turn en masse to Ethernet. Both the need for strict bandwidth management and interest in Ethernet services are most evident in the commercial market, the result being that WWP is increasing its efforts in the direction of cable operators.
February 1, 2005
Provo project turns triple-play plans into a marketable reality
America's Network – Six years after an ultra high-speed fiber network was first conceived by the city fathers of Provo, Utah's second largest city is rolling out triple-play (voice, video and data) broadband services to residents and businesses. The backbone infrastructure to connect Provo's 115,000 people is about onequarter complete, the testing of technology has proven successful, and the project's financing is secured by a $40 million bond.
January 2005
Broadband Properties – Five years after it was first announced, Provo's municipal network has started service. The Utah university town was aiming for the conventional triple play and applications like the monitoring of one's home through Webcams. But envisioned services now include connection of people with each other through the school system - for example, parents meeting a teacher online, making a virtual visit to the classroom, attending a school play from the living room, or viewing a 6th-grade Maypose event (already available as video on demand). Provo-based Brigham Young University plans to use iProvo to ovver classes on demand.
January 25, 2005
News Feature, David vs. Goliath: World Wide Packets Takes On BT
Broadband Business Forecast – U.K. broadband house Telewest Business has turned to World Wide Packets for its LightningEdge active FTTx hardware for a nationwide rollout of fiber to the business user to be marketed as "National Ethernet." With World Wide Packets already supplying the U.K.'s NTL [NTLI], the deal gives the Spokane, Wash.-based company "vendor of choice" status with British Telecom's [BTY] two biggest threats in the broadband industry. Telewest and NTL have complementary footprints that blanket the country.
January 23, 2005
Tech on an upswing; Region's technology companies see; an influx of venture capital
The Spokesman-Review.com – The area's tech sector, collectively, turned up the juice in 2004. Doing even half as well in 2005 would be a solid step forward, area business observers say.
January 21, 2005
Telewest Utilizes World Wide Packets Gear for Ethernet Services
Wireless News – World Wide Packets, a provider of Ethernet access networking solutions, announced that its LightningEdge suite is in deployment by Telewest Business, a supplier of broadband communications to the public and private sector markets.
January 20, 2005
Eurobites: Pump Up the Broadband
Light Reading – Speculation abounds that British cable operators NTL Group Ltd. (Nasdaq Europe: NTLI - message board) and Telewest Communications Networks plc (Nasdaq: TWSTY - message board) will put us all out of our misery and tie the knot this year, but it's by no means a certainty.
January 19, 2005
CED Daily Direct – An industry consortium that includes Alcatel, Corning Inc. and Optical Solutions have formed the Fiber-to-the-Home Council, it was announced today. The aim is to educate, and promote and accelerate deployment of the technology in North America, the council says.
January 19, 2005
Telewest launches nationwide ethernet and plans multimedia over IP
Computer Business Review Online – National represents the third stage of development Ethernet services from Telewest Business, which represents about 25% of overall group revenue, according to its commercial director Meyrick Vevers. The division started out offering unmanaged point-to-point Ethernet connections that it calls LAN extension.
January 19, 2005
Telewest launches nationwide ethernet and plans multimedia over IP
Datamonitor News and Comment – The business division of UK cable operator Telewest Communications Plc has extended Ethernet services from the metropolitan to the national level and is preparing a multimedia-over-IP offering which, with VoIP, will enable it to compete with incumbent carrier BT Group Plc.
January 18, 2005
Telewest Brings National Ethernet Network to U.K.
Broadband Daily – Telewest today will launch a national Ethernet network across the United Kingdom that links established public and commercial customers served by Ethernet LANs onto a larger dedicated Ethernet network and across different sites, the company said.
January 18, 2005
Telewest Deploys World Wide Packets for Ethernet Services
Converge! Network Digest – Telewest Business will use World Wide Packets equipment for its National Ethernet service across the UK. Telewest Business is already [providing advanced Ethernet services in metropolitan areas. Telewest Business' National Ethernet service will rely on dedicated VLANs for each customer. World Wide Packets' LightningEdge Network Supervisor (LE-NS) also provides end-to-end management and provisioning, while working with the existing MPLS backbone. Financial terms were not disclosed.
January 18, 2005
Telewest launches national ethernet services
Telecom Flash – With an opportunity to take a slice of the ILEC's pie, it's no wonder that cable MSOs are getting gung ho about the business market again. In the US, Cox and Time Warner Cable, in particular, have been very aggressive by launching various business service initiatives. However, this is not just an American phenomenon. Proof of that could be found in the UK, where Telewest Business is finding a growing niche for Ethernet services.
January 18, 2005
News Feature, World Wide Packets lands UK deal
TelephonyOnline – World Wide Packets said Telewest Business, the commercial arm of UK cable operator Telewest will use its LightningEdge platform to deploy a nationwide Ethernet service. Telewest Business already provides advanced Ethernet services to organizations in metropolitan areas. With the World Wide Packets platform, though, the company will expand that into a national offering. Like many carriers in the U.S. launching Ethernet, Telewest Business is targeting enterprises that either want to consolidate infrastructure or replace ATM/frame networks.
January 18, 2005
News Item/Telewest Release: Telewest Business Takes Business Ethernet Services UK-Wide
Yahoo! Finance UK-Ireland – Telewest Business, the supplier of broadband communications to the public and private sector markets, today announced the availability of new National Ethernet services for organisations across the UK.
January 1, 2005
Feature, Face-Off Is PON the cure for last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks?
Network World – Optical technology is the clear cure for last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks, but Active Ethernet, not passive optical networking, will be the technology of choice. Deploying PON today might provide more bandwidth than DSL or cable modems, but it also introduces limitations that severely restrict the potential of an optical infrastructure.
