Global vendor strategies - 7/12/05

World Wide Packets has got $25m in another round of funding, bringing the total raised to $140m.

Cisco is buying a stake in India's Bharti Telesoft, a unit of Bharti Enterprises.

IBM has announced a series of 'self-healing' software products that can automatically find and fix problems before they cause an IT systems freeze.

Finisar has acquired all of the optical 10G and 40G transponder assets of Big Bear.

Huawei will inaugurate new regional technical assistance and training centers in Cairo (Egypt).