In The News
July 19, 2006
Point to Point and World Wide Packets Connect
CNS – World Wide Packets, a provider of carrier Ethernet products and services, today announced that Point to Point Broadband has selected its LightningEdge technology to expand current service offerings to customers in Barrie, Ont.
July 19, 2006
Point to Point Broadband Taps World Wide Packets for VLAN Deployment
Lightwave – Canadian ISP Point to Point Broadband has selected World Wide Packets' LightningEdge technology to expand current service offerings to customers in Simcoe County, Ontario. The new equipment enables Point to Point to offer customers Ethernet Private Line services, which form the basis for accommodating the communities' increasing demand for higher speed, business-class Internet, intranet, and VoIP business services.
July 19, 2006
Optical Keyhole – World Wide Packets of Spokane, Washington, a supplier of Carrier Ethernet solutions, announced that Point to Point Broadband of Barrie, Ontario, a wireless high-speed broadband ISP, has selected LightningEdge technology, specifically the LE-17 and LE-46, to expand current service offerings to customers in Simcoe County, Ontario.
July 18, 2006
Point to Point Uses VLANSs for Multi-Office Wireless Links
Telecommunications Online – Point to Point Broadband – a Canadian WISP – is using World Wide Packets' carrier Ethernet gear to expand its current service offering to customers in Simcoe County, Ontario. The WWP equipment lets Point to Point serve multiple office locations, including accommodating an increasing demand for high-speed, business-class Internet, Intranet and VoIP business services.
May 26, 2006
InFocus: Choosing the Right Access Architecture
TelophonyOnline – After many years of false starts fiber to the home (FTTH) is finally taking off worldwide. The combination of voice, data and video, known as the triple play, is often mentioned as the driver behind FTTH adoption but, in reality, FTTH is being driven by much more. While triple play can certainly be offered on these networks, the primary motivator for FTTH is to create a super broadband infrastructure on which new services and applications can be created and delivered for the rest of this century. It is obvious that although service and application innovations on the internet, such as, e-commerce, distance learning and video-on-demand (VOD), have already changed the way we live today, these innovations are only the beginning of much more to come. We can only guess as to what new innovations will come, but we can be certain they will come and the key to supporting these new services and applications will be the ability of broadband access networks to scale.
May 23, 2006
Don't Bet Against Carrier Ethernet
Lightwave – Standardized more than 25 years ago, Ethernet has enjoyed unprecedented growth and dominance within corporate networks worldwide. Over the last decade, speeds have increased exponentially from 10 Mbits/sec to 10 Gbits/sec.
Ethernet has recently reached beyond the enterprise with successful and profitable deployments in domestic and international access and metro networks. Two primary factors have contributed to this trend. First, interoperable, cost-effective optical transceivers, at speeds of 100 Mbits/sec and higher, are available from multiple vendors. These transceivers have evolved from bulky, fixed pin-in-hole components to small-form-factor, pluggable modules that support transmission distances useful in today’s metro networks.
May 2, 2006
FTTX Pas De Deux in the Eye of the Storm
Broadband Business Forecast – Metro Ethernet watchers last week were treated to the final chapter in the life of Riverstone Networks as an independent entity, watching the company get gobbled up by Lucent for $207 million. But the real drama was in a complex pas de deux as Lucent also unveiled a pact with carrier Ethernet and active fiber technology house World Wide Packets - one of Riverstone's direct competitors - and announced a joint contract win to wire up an entire, albeit relatively small, nation: the Netherlands.
April 21, 2006
Dutch KPN Selects U.S. Lucent for Ethernet Services Roll-Out
EuroBench – U.S. telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies has been selected by Dutch telecoms group Royal KPN to provide network equipment, software and services, supporting the roll-out of Ethernet-based services to KPN's Dutch enterprise customers, Lucent said on April 20, 2006.
The Ethernet equipment will be delivered by World Wide Packets, a leading provider of Carrier Ethernet solutions.
April 21, 2006
Optical Keyhole – Lucent Technologies announced that KPN of Hilversum in the Netherlands, a European operator and the incumbent Dutch telco.
April 20, 2006
Lucent to Support KPN's Next-Gen Rollout in Netherlands
WirelessIQ – Lucent Technologies today announced that it has been selected by KPN to supply network equipment, software and services to support the rollout of Ethernet-based services to KPN's enterprise customers in The Netherlands. The Ethernet equipment for the deployment is being supplied by World Wide Packets under a newly established global reseller agreement with Lucent for business and residential fibre to the premise (FTTP) customer premises equipment (CPE) solutions. Lucent Worldwide Services will deploy and maintain the network.
April 20, 2006
Lucent wins KPN Ethernet service deal
United Press International – Lucent Technologies will be supplying the Netherlands' KPN with equipment and software for its Ethernet-based services.
The equipment will be provided by World Wide Packets under a newly established global reseller agreement with Lucent, while Lucent Worldwide Services will deploy and maintain the network.
April 20, 2006
Lucent signs reseller agreement with WWP
Telephony Online – Lucent Technologies and World Wide Packets have signed a global reseller agreement and announced their first major customer today as well.
KPN has signed Lucent to supply network equipment, software and services for its fiberto- the-premises rollout of Ethernet services to businesses throughout The Netherlands. As part of the KPN contract, Lucent will supply WWP Ethernet point-to-point CPE.
April 20, 2006
Lucent Selected by KPN for Rollout of Next-Gen Ethernet Services
Midnight Trader – Lucent Technologies today announced that it was selected by KPN to supply network equipment, software and services to support the rollout of Ethernet-based services to KPN's enterprise customers in The Netherlands. The Ethernet equipment for the deployment is being supplied by World Wide Packets under a newly established global reseller agreement with Lucent for business and residential fibre to the premise (FTTP) customer premises equipment (CPE) solutions. Lucent Worldwide Services will deploy and maintain the network. Under the agreement, Lucent and World Wide Packets will provide KPN with CPE that will support broadband connections between enterprise locations and KPN's state-of-the-art Ethernet-based transmission network, enabling KPN's customers to access a broad range of value-added business applications.
April 20, 2006
Breakthrough for World Wide Packets: Partnership with Lucent pays off with major sale
Spokesman Review – 21--In what its top executive called the company's biggest and most important sale ever, Spokane Valley-based World Wide Packets announced Thursday it will sell technology to KPN, a Dutch telecommunications company that's investing millions of dollars to upgrade its network.
April 20, 2006
KPN Selects World Wide Packets / Lucent for Ethernet Rollout
Converge! Network Digest – KPN has selected World Wide Packets' Ethernet customer premise equipment (CPE) to support the rollout of Ethernet-based services to KPN’s enterprise customers in The Netherlands.
April 20, 2006
Lucent, World Wide Packets in reseller pact
EE Times – Lucent Technologies Inc. has signed a global reseller pact with World Wide Packets Inc., the Spokane-based developer of edge products for metro Ethernet services.
KPN of the Netherlands will be the first customer of the integrated Lucent/WWP suite of products for fiber-to-the-premises Ethernet customer premises equipment.
April 20, 2006
KPN Continues To Feed Its Need For Speed
Telecomweb – KPN in the Netherlands today tapped Lucent Technologies to supply network equipment, software and services that will support the rollout of Ethernet-based services to KPN's Dutch enterprise customers.
April 7, 2006
World Wide Packets' $25M leads recent VC deals
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) – World Wide Packets, the Spokane Valley company, which helps phone and cable companies upgrade their telecommunications networks, nailed down $25.5 million in venture capital from the likes of wireless pioneer Craig McCaw and others.
March 31, 2006
Metro Battle: MPLS vs. Ethernet
Converge! – Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) was invented to solve the problem of bridging multiple disparate protocols such as Frame Relay, ATM and Ethernet. Over the last few years, MPLS has won the battle within core networks and has become the dominant internetworking technology. Carriers have deployed IP/MPLS core routers in order to support existing legacy networks more cost effectively. Fundamentally, MPLS employs an encapsulation technique providing internetworking between different technologies, coupled with signaling protocols necessary to discover, configure and manage connectivity. In addition to signaling protocols, MPLS uses resiliency protocols, such as Fast Re-route and Bidirectional Fault Detection, to determine failures and in turn switching to standby links. The strength of these protocols combined with the popularity of MPLS core networks have made MPLS a logical choice for extending into metro networks. Vendors have responded by creating MPLS-enabled multi-service platforms with a mixture of legacy port options.
March 1, 2006
New Products - Carrier Ethernet
CED – World Wide Packets has added the LE-135 to its LightningEdge product family, which brings delivery of simultaneous telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data and Internet access services to the multi-tenant unit (MTU), multi-dwelling unit (MDU) and mixed use markets.
February 24, 2006
World Wide Packets Wins Ultra-Fast Broadband Contract
Teleclick – The city of North Kansas City, MO has awarded an ultra-fast broadband internet contract to World Wide Packets, a provider of Carrier Ethernet platforms.
February 23, 2006
Light Reading – Sometimes the smallest towns can build the biggest bandwidth.
This week, one of the more unique municipal networks in the U.S. is getting some attention as it talks up its ability to, within a few months, provide in excess of 100 Mbit/s to its customers.
On Tuesday, World Wide Packets Inc. revealed it was the vendor that will be deploying gear to connect North Kansas City's estimated 1,400 residences and its estimated 950 businesses to a fiber optic network that runs right down the middle of the Missouri town.
February 22, 2006
North KC to offer Gig-to-the-prem
CED – North Kansas City has designs on a "Gigabit-to-the-premises" network that will serve the area's residential and business customers.
February 22, 2006
North Kansas City chooses World Wide Packets for gigabit fiber deployment
Lightwave – World Wide Packets, a provider of Carrier Ethernet platforms, announced that its LightningEdge suite has been selected for widespread deployment in North Kansas City, Missouri to enable "Gigabit-to-the-premise" broadband access services.
February 21, 2006
Everything's Up to Gig in North Kansas City
Telecommunications Online – North Kansas City, Mo. will use World Wide Packets’ technology to launch gigabit-to-the-premises access over a municipally built, owned and operated fiber-to-the-premises network next month.
February 21, 2006
Gigabit to the Home Comes to Missouri
Telecomweb – The city of North Kansas City (Mo.)is about to become the first place in America to install fiber all the way to the user (FTTx) with gigabit-per-second Carrier Ethernet capacity from Day One.
February 21, 2006
Telephony Online – North Kansas City, Mo., will use World Wide Packets technology to build a fiber-to-the-premises network, the company announced today. The city will use WWP's LightningEdge product suite to deliver Gigabit Ethernet services to both businesses and residential customers over a fiber-to-the-premises network.
