Global vendor strategies - 23/12/06

Scientific Atlanta/Cisco, Conexant and Sunrise Telecom have joined the HomePNA Alliance board.

Ericsson did not exclude more acquisitions. It could be interested by small, but well paced firms in the PON/ GPON domains, such as Entrisphere, even if Tellabs could be a pray also.

Motorola has bought video head-end vendor Tut Systems for $39m,

Telcordia could be mulling some asset sale. Rumors of talks with SAP could make sense.