Today's Top Stories Juniper is facing a patent infringement suit from Spherix, an intellectual property development company, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware over claims that it infringes five router patents. The patents cited in the suit were developed by Nortel Networks and acquired by Spherix in December 2013. The patents cover router and switching technology that Juniper sells. Spherix said that the scope of Juniper's infringement of the asserted patents has been and continues to be "substantial." Juniper did not respond to a request for comment on the suit. In the suit, Spherix alleges that for Juniper's fiscal year ending Dec. 31, Juniper had revenues of over $2.24 billion from routers, $638 million from switches and more than $790 million from services. The IP development company added that the majority of Juniper's revenue from at least January 2011 until the present is and has been generated by products and services implementing technology that infringes the asserted patents. Juniper isn't Spherix's only target. These five patents are the same it previously asserted against Juniper's main rival Cisco. Patent disputes between vendors, service providers and technology patent holders have become a common occurrence in the telecom and networking industries. Three of the largest U.S.-based telcos, AT&T (NYSE: T), CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), are being sued by Intellectual Ventures, a patent holding company, over violating various DSL patents. For more:
- see the release Related articles:
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Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Juniper maintain carrier router/switch lead, but SDN causes carrier pause Read more about: US District Court For The District Of Delaware
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Frontier is giving small to medium businesses (SMB) a new weapon to target the growing cyber threats being created as more employees use their own devices to access key applications and information from their networks. Leveraging F-Secure technology, Frontier Secure's Computer Security Pro for PCs/Macs and Mobile Security Pro for Android OS-based mobile devices offer what it says is a low-cost solution designed to protect SMBs from potential cyber threats that may come into a network via an employee's device. SMBs can get access to real-time protection for desktop and laptop computers and protection for file and email servers from viruses, malware, spyware and hackers. Likewise, Mobile Security Pro includes anti-virus, anti-malware, remote wipe and anti-theft features for mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. The bring your own device (BYOD) trend may be gaining momentum, but Kelly Morgan, senior vice president and general manager of Frontier Secure, said that small and medium businesses are losing revenue to security-related downtimes that average 2-3.5 hours, two to four times a year. Morgan added that "87 percent of SMBs have no written Internet security policy for employees and 69 percent allow employees to `Bring Your Own Device' to work." Selling value-added security services like these will help Frontier further its bond with SMBs, a segment of the business market that typically lacks the resources to deploy and manage network security software for their on premise computing equipment. The other benefit is it could help it increase average monthly business revenue per customer. While it won't report first-quarter 2014 earnings until Tuesday, the service provider reported that in the fourth quarter of 2013, average monthly business revenue per customer was $662.15, up 1 percent sequentially from the third quarter of 2013. For more:
- see the release Related articles:
Frontier says FCC's CAF II 10 Mbps proposal isn't realistic
West Va. forced to give $2.5M in leftover broadband stimulus funds to the NTIA
Frontier CEO sees AT&T acquisition as 'easy compared to others'
AT&T, Frontier, other telcos' rural broadband boosted by $255M in CAF-I grants
Frontier hit hard as copper thieves get bold, desperate in Washington Read more about: BYOD
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Shentel reported that its first-quarter 2014 fiber lease revenue was $8.1 million, up year-over-year from $6.5 million in the same period a year ago. Out of that mix, the telco reported $4.2 million in affiliate and $3.9 million in non-affiliate fiber lease revenue. Wireline segment operating revenue was $4.4 million, up from $3.8 million in the first quarter of 2013. Per the industry-wide trend, Shentel's access lines dropped 1.5 percent from 22,279 in the quarter ended March 31, 2013, to 21,955 as of March 31, 2014. Broadband penetration in the LEC area was 57.9 percent, with 12,700 DSL customers. It had a total of 34,700 customer connections. First-quarter 2014 adjusted OIBDA for the wireline segment increased 8.5 percent to $7.2 million, up from $6.7 million in the first quarter of 2013. Overall company revenues were $80.5 million, up 5.8 percent from $76 million in the first quarter of 2013. Shentel said the revenue increase was mainly due to growth in subscribers and revenue per subscriber. Total operating expenses were $64.8 million in the first quarter of 2014 compared with $60.8 million in the prior year period. For the quarter ended March 31, 2014, net income was $8.6 million compared with $8.4 million in the first quarter of 2013. Shares of Shentel closed on Friday at $28.45, up 71 cents or 2.56 percent, on the Nasdaq stock exchange. For more:
- see the earnings release Special report: Wireline telecom earnings in the first quarter of 2014 Related articles:
Shentel's Q4 2013 wireline fiber sales rise to $21.8M
Shentel's wireline revenue remains flat at $3.3M, but fiber leasing grows 13 percent
Shentel realigns management team around key operational segments
Shentel gets into the 100G network game
Shentel's wireline fiber sales rise 7.4 percent to $5.6 million Read more about: first quarter earnings 2014
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Wireline broadband may offer the highest speeds and reliability for consumers, but according to new figures released by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), growth in developing countries is slowing. At the end of this year, wireline broadband penetration will have reached almost 10 percent globally. Asia and the Pacific markets account for 44 percent of all wireline broadband subscriptions, while Europe makes up 25 percent. Meanwhile, Africa makes up for less than 0.5 percent of global wireline subscriptions, and despite double-digit growth over the last four years, penetration in Africa remains very low. The Americas, however, saw the lowest growth in wireline broadband penetration at an estimated 2.5 percent and is reaching a penetration rate of around 17 percent by the end of this year. Interestingly, the ITU said that Europe's fixed-broadband penetration is much higher compared with other regions and almost three times as high as the global average. Perhaps not surprisingly, mobile subscriptions are forecast to reach 7 billion by the end of 2013, with 3.6 billion of them being in the Asia Pacific region. The ITU says the increase is "mostly due to growth in the developing world where mobile-cellular subscriptions will account for 78 percent of the world's total." For more:
- see the release Related articles:
G.fast home network standard gets ITU first-stage approval
Fiber-based broadband to make up 19% of global wireline broadband by end of 2013, says ABI Read more about: Broadband Penetration, Itu
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tw telecom has expanded its existing fiber network in Nashville, Tenn., a move that extends its network from the city's central business district to the west side of the Nashville International Airport. The service provider will leverage this market expansion as a platform to deliver its portfolio of data and Internet services to more enterprise customers, including Business Ethernet and Intelligent Network capabilities. In Nashville, the service provider serves a number of high profile customers such as BMI and Healthcare Realty Trust. Bryan Huddleston, president and CEO, Nashville Technology Council, hailed the company's move as an attractive asset for new and existing businesses. "It is important that our local communication providers, like tw telecom, continue their investments into Middle Tennessee," Huddleston said. "Companies benefit by having access to faster, better connected services to drive innovation and growth." This buildout is part of a broader multi-market effort to expand its metro fiber footprint throughout the United States. It plans to enter into five new high-demand markets–including Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Richmond and the Salt Lake Valley area--and accelerate the density of its metro-fiber footprint in more than a third of its existing markets. It has also expanded existing network capabilities in areas like Memphis and Orange County and in Houston by extending the company's network from the central business district down to South Shore Harbor in League City, and east to Deer Park. For more:
- see the release Related articles:
tw telecom, DuPont Fabros provide direct connection to Amazon Web Services
tw telecom lights up service in Salt Lake Valley area
tw telecom expands fiber networks in Memphis, Orange County
tw telecom turns attention to Colorado Springs, doubles southern Colorado network reach
VSG: tw telecom, XO, Level 3 take dominant competitive Ethernet position Read more about: Carrier Ethernet, tw telecom
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