Fixed vendor strategies - 01/04/06

Ericsson could be interested by Juniper. Ericsson is already a Juniper router reseller.

Meanwhile Juniper could be interested in H3C, the JV between Huawei and 3Com, for $1.7bn, to boost its sales in the enterprise LAN market. Simultaneously, Juniper is releasing its home-built Ethernet products.

TT&T (Thailand) is looking at foreign partners to help it to invest up to $1.3bn to provide 3G services in the future.

SR Telecom (Canada) has completed a multi-year agreement to outsource its manufacturing operations.

ECI Telecom introduced its new family of Hi-FOCuS solutions, creating the first Virtual Central Office solution by bringing to any remote location advanced broadband capabilities previously available only in the central office.

Alcatel and Cramer will work together to launch a joint Next Generation Network (NGN) integrated end-to-end fulfillment solution for Triple Play services.

Boingo signed roaming agreements with Telenet (Belgium) to expand in Europe; added hotspots in Indonesia and Thailand, including four key airports in the two countries; and added seven new North American airports to its networks of partners.

Alcatel has been named (by Gartner) leader in multiservice edge router in EMEA.

Adtran has bought Luminous Networks, a carrier Ethernet expert.