Fixed vendor strategies - 23/03/07

Tekelec has finally sold its switching business to Genband. Tekelec will hold a 20% equity stake in Genband after the deal.

NEC will integrate Kineto' s UMA network controller into its Home Gateway Solution.

ECI Telecom unveiled its new mini optical BroadGate-30 (BG-30) MSPP (multi service provisioning platform), for mobile backhaul and metro networks.

Transmode, a Swedish optical WDM equipment start-up, has raised another $12m, bringing the total to $93m.

Denying rumors that it will go out the optical business, Cisco has introduced some significant improvements to its ONS 15454 optical system, with a 40-ch ROADM, an Ethernet Xponder and a one-blade MSPP.

Nortel' s new network management platform will embed IBM' s Tivoli Netcool software as a building block.