Fixed vendor strategies - 27/05/06

Fujitsu and Cisco announced the release of the co-branded "Fujitsu and Cisco XR12400" series of high-performance routers, designed for the Japanese market.

Zhone Technologies announced its EtherActive fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) products.

ECI Telecom and Civcom announced the world's first compact 10-Gbit/s widely tunable transponder.

Luminent (US) will acquire Chinese transceiver manufacturer HG Genuine Opto, a subsidiary of Huagong Tech.

Polatis (an optical switch supplier) to demo optical switching at GlobalComm 2006.

Motorola will launch at GlobalComm 2006 its new HH1620 multiservice gateway, combining an ADSL2+ modem, a four-port router, a wireless gateway, and a VOIP ATA (analog telephone adapter) in one compact device.