Verizon: Make Way for ViOS -  First there was FiOS. Now, there's ViOS. In an exclusive LRTV interview taping at Light Reading's Ethernet Expo on Monday, Verizon Business 's VP of Advanced Data and IP Services, Tom Roche, let slip that his company is cooking up a new brand of fiber-based services for business called ViOS -- Verizon Integrated Optical Services.

"What ViOS will provide is a single infrastructure that allows connectivity to our converged packet access switch," Roche says. That access will allow Verizon to provide a number of business services over a managed fiber connection. And, for Verizon, it will build on the success and experience the company has gained since launching its residential fiber access service, FiOS, more than two years ago.

Roche didn't disclose any other details, at the insistence of his PR handlers. And he flubbed a word or two when talking of the timeframe, so we'll have to guess what he really meant. But we'll work to ferret out the details as they become available.

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BT Total Broadband has been voted the internet service provider (ISP) of the year in the annual MacUser Awards.

 

It saw off competition from the other shortlisted companies - Demon, NTL:Telewest, Pipex and Zen Internet - to win the title, presented by MacUser and voted for by readers of the magazine.

 

It is the first award for BT Total Broadband since its launch in July. BT will highlight the recognition in a national press advertising campaign for the product this weekend, under the banner: We have always believed we were the number one internet service provider. Now it appears we are not the only ones.

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