Fixed vendor strategies - 16/03/06

Juniper Networks will transfer some of its manufacturing to China after business in the country increased 50% in 2005.

Netcentrex is partnering with BEA Systems for FMC and IMS applications.

NEC will introduce new optical infrastructure solutions at TelecomNEXT 2006.

Tekelec introduced several enhancements to its 6000 VoIP Application Server and launched SIP-based Tekelec Video SoftPhone.

Westell announces its new Broadband MediaStations, a line of interactive home gateway devices.

OKI has achieved ultrafast optical telecom system at a bit rate of 160 Gigabit/s over a single optical fiber channel.

At last week's OFC/NFOEC 2006, Avanex, Mitsubishi Electric, and Opnext announced formation of a multi-source agreement (MSA) to establish compatible sources of 10-Gbit/sec XFP-E (extended size) transceivers.