Fixed vendor strategies - 24/10/06

Motorola has shipped its 50 millionth digital cable set-top box in ten years of business.

American Fiber Systems has bought IDACOMM, a metro network gear maker.

Sonus has launched Interoperability Certification Program to expand network access to IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-ready applications. Soleo is the first partner to join the program.

JDSU has taken over optical amplifier startup Optovia and Metconnex for respectively $3.5m and $2.5m.

Cisco should be launching a development work on a successor to its workhorse 7600 series routers. In the meantime, Cisco has introduced a virtual conferencing tool, Cisco TelePresence.