Global vendor strategies - 28 May 2005

JDSU is buying Acterna, a major test-and-measurement company, for $760m.

Alcatel and Intel will collaborate on improving time to market of Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (or AdvancedTCA) platforms for mobile service providers.

The French government is considering defense alliance between Alcatel, Thales and Finmeccanica.

Motorola has made an equity investment in wireless directory assistance provider 422, and has sold its stake in Honduran wireless carrier Celtel to Millicom.

Telindus (Belgium) will buy Arche Communications from Kingston for €48m.

Juniper Networks is rumored to be interested by Extreme.

UTStarcom has bought Pedestal Networks, a DSLAM vendor,

Tropic, a ROADM maker, is tapping investors again with some $48m.

Caspian, an aggregator router and traffic management vendor, raised $55m more.

Cisco bought FineGround Networks, a provider of network appliances, for $70m.

ECI Telecom plans to acquire the fiber-communications division of EASTCOM Fiber-Communication Technologies (China).