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Fixed vendor strategies - 01/03/07
BigBand Networks plans to sell up to 12m shares through an IPO worth about $148m. Mindspeed Technologies and systems vendor Terawave announced a collaboration work on an all-in-one chip for GPON, available in 4Q07. Ciena announced the CN 5060 multiservice...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 24/02/07
Cisco has won pole position in the cable VOIP market from Nortel in 4Q06, according to Dell'Oro. Cisco controlled about 18% of the market, ahead of Nortel with 14.4% (down from over 20% in 3Q06). ADC has opened a new manufacturing facility in Lexington,...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 22/02/07
Siemens Networks has succeeded to transmit 10Gbit/s via a PON access network. Optnex shares rose 16% after successful IPO that raised $253m. Alcatel-Lucent has shipped 30m DSL ports in 2006, on a total of 100m ports (+20%) delivered during the year. Nortel...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 15/02/07
Ericsson is buying Entrisphere, a GPON specialist, to re-enforce its access solution portfolio. Entrisphere was already Ericsson' s partner. The deal comes as no surprise and could be worth $290m. Alcatel-Lucent claims n2 position in global IP/MPLS Edge...
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Global vendor strategies - 07/03/07
Motorola recommends shareholders not to sign any mandate asked by any Icahn Entities, and does not plan to welcome billionaire investor Carl Icahn in its board. IBM is on the buying spree. It plans to continue external growth after buying 13 companies...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 07/02/07
Cisco has introduced its new software strategy: all software modules (firewall, NAC security, VOIP, anti-virus, etc ) will be included in the firmware, but activated on demand with dedicated software keys. Cisco has also introduced new SONA-based (Service...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 27/01/07
Stratex Networks agreed to combine its operations with Harris ' Microwave Communications division. The new company will be named Harris Stratex Networks. ZTE is reselling Ciena' s CoreDirector optical switch in China for about a year, and is named ZTE...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 18/01/07
Orca Interactive (Israel), an IPTV middleware vendor, is mulling takeover talks with a number of potential buyers. A strong potential suitor could be Comverse. Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco are mulling taking over in total or partially Taiwan's ZyXEL Communications....
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Global vendor strategies - 22/02/07
Huawei will partner with independent record label distributor, The Orchard, on a digital music service. LogicaCMG will sell its telecom division to private equity firms for $518m. Acision, the new company, will have revenues of about $500m and 1,700 people....
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Global vendor strategies - 10/02/07
Motorola has reaffirmed its strategic relationship with Freescale Semiconductor as a preferred supplier of 2G and 3G chipset platforms through 2009. UTStarcom will spin off its subsidiary Infinite Technology, which will now be called Relativity. IBM and...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 16/03/06
Juniper Networks will transfer some of its manufacturing to China after business in the country increased 50% in 2005. Netcentrex is partnering with BEA Systems for FMC and IMS applications. NEC will introduce new optical infrastructure solutions at TelecomNEXT...
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Fixed orders - 16/03/06
Siemens announced a major broadband infrastructure order from DT for the new T-Com high speed broadband Internet network. ZTE won softswitch-based NGN network order in Hungary from Actel Limited . Transmode has deployed its TS-1100 C/DWDM optical transport...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 10/03/06
Tropos is partnering with Alvarion for municipal markets. Up to now, Tropos was partnering with Motorola. Nortel plans to focus on the high-growth domains of carriers and enterprises by introducing converged, enterprise security and mobility products....
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Fixed vendor strategies - 04/03/06
Cisco unveiled Release 7.0 of its ONS 15454 optical transport platform, including 40-Gbit/s transmission and enhanced aggregation capabilities. Siemens claims first rank in optical long-haul dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) transport solutions....
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Fixed vendor strategies - 21/12/06
Alcatel-Lucent announced a new enhancement to its multi-service WAN portfolio for cost-effective, high-capacity mobile aggregation of 3G voice, data and multimedia traffic. It also announced the OmniSwitch 9800, a 10-Gigabit Ethernet core switch, with...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 09/12/06
Intel has completed the design of its first mobile WiMAX chip. Combined with the multi-band WiMAX/Wi-Fi radio chip, they formed the Intel WiMAX Connection 2300. Direct on PC (DOPC) (Nigeria) would deploy pre-WiMAX 802.16e solution for launching wireless...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 06/12/06
Nortel will test WiMAX technology with Toshiba in Japan handling system integration and field tests, to support Japan’s National Broadband Connectivity by 2010 program. Huawei is partnering with BEA systems to accelerate telecom network operators' efforts...
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Global vendor strategies - 27/01/07
IBM may sell its printing business to Ricoh for $725m. IBM confirms its focus on software and services. In a separate announcement, IBM has extended its cross-partnership with Dassault Systems. IBM will sell various Dassault solutions. Siemens announced...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 25/11/06
Siemens has failed selling its loss-making Enterprise Networks unit and ended talks. It will sell its Public Communication Networks Pvt unit in India to Nokia Siemens Networks, the 50-50 JV between Siemens and Nokia. Tellabs intends offering full-range...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 11/11/06
Alcatel and Archos will jointly develop the worldwide-first DVB-H-S enabled handset to be available in 4Q07. Samsung is already working on the subject with Alcatel. DVB-H-S combines hybrid satellite- terrestrial broadcasting in the S band (2.2GHz). Cisco...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 04/11/06
Optical start-ups interest VCs. After Optium last week, Opnext is filing for an IPO. Other candidates could be Santur and NeoPhotonics. Tekelec could announce in coming days plans to sell its switching business to Ericsson. Tekelec tried to enter the...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 29/10/06
Colubris , a WiFi vendor, has received $14m in venture funding, to expand its sales and marketing efforts. Optibase and SeaChange Int extend their product interoperability in support of IPTV services. Telenor Satellite (Norway) will be sold to Apax Partners....
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Fixed vendor strategies - 24/10/06
Motorola has shipped its 50 millionth digital cable set-top box in ten years of business. American Fiber Systems has bought IDACOMM, a metro network gear maker. Sonus has launched Interoperability Certification Program to expand network access to IP Multimedia...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 19/10/06
Atheros Communications and start-up FON (Spain) are offering a tiny 802.11g router for public WiFi hotspot applications to those who agree to share their connection with other WiFi-seeking consumers in their area. FON said it has now about 100,000 users...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 13/10/05
Nortel unveiled its mobile WiMAX portfolio, including new MIMO base station transceivers, access service network gateways, mobile subscriber stations and network management systems. According to the company, its MIMO-powered WiMAX solution can deliver...