Fixed vendor strategies - 11/04/07

ALU announced the clearance decision by the EU Commission of the transfer of its space activities (Alcatel Alenia Space (67%) and Telespazio (33%), to Thales. In return, ALU interest in Thales has increased to 21%.

Entropic and RF Magic will merge to create a powerhouse in connected home components.

Tellabs and Adtran could be the winners of Qwest' s fiber access (FTTC and FTTP) request for proposal (RFP).

Bay Microsystems and Enigma Semiconductor have completed interoperability tests between their respective network processor line cards and switch fabric line cards at 40Gbit/s.