Fixed vendor strategies - 11/02/06

Cisco intends to decrease its investment in TDM-based optical technology.

Lucent could purchase Riverstone for $170m in cash. Riverstone has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and its assets were up for sale. Lucent, which has been reselling Riverstone equipment, would pick up a line of Ethernet boxes.

Motorola is rumored to have problems with its AXS2200 PON platforms it has deployed in the Verizon' s network.

Alcatel plans to open an IPTV competency center in Singapore dedicated to IPTV and triple play in the APAC region.

Samsung and Alcatel have started to team up for the interoperability between Samsung' s mobile WiMAX terminals and Alcatel' s Mobile WiMAX infrastructure.

IBM and Lucent signed an agreement to develop joint IMS-based solutions .