Fixed vendor strategies - 05/04/07

Avanex France (ex- Alcatel Optronics) will become 3S Photonics and go separate.

ALU has taken over Tropic Networks, an optical networking company, for an undisclosed sum.

Fujitsu is expected to join the PBT (provider backbone transport ) alliance, and work with Nortel, Siemens and Huawei.

Motorola has shipped 1m IP set-top boxes.