Fixed vendor strategies - 03/02/07

Wavesat has announced the availability of a 3.3-3.5GHz Mini-PCI design to help equipment manufacturers to bring WiMAX equipment sooner to market.

Silver Peak Systems, a startup WAN accelerator marker, picked up $17m in third funding round, bringing total received to $42m.

Hitachi' s Optical subsidiary Opnext plans to raise $150m via an IPO.

Tellabs said it has delivered its one millionth optical network terminal (ONT).

Alcatel-Lucent has created a new business unit that's focused on aggregating content that can be packaged and delivered to service providers. It also reiterates that it is sticking with Microsoft' s IPTV middleware for its solutions.

Aperto Networks has raised $19m in series E financing to bring received funds to $139m.