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Fixed vendor strategies - 05/10/06
BelAir Networks raised $21m in Serie D funding. It plans to expand its sales and marketing efforts. Cisco will use Cignio' s Spectrum Expert, a WiFi spectrum analysis and monitoring tool, alongside its Wireless Control System (WCS). Alvarion' s WiMAX...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 01/10/06
Huawei will use the new Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly (ITLA) modules developed by Pirelli Broadband Solutions and Arasor International. Microsoft denied any problem with its IPTV middleware. Delays in deploying IPTV for telcos is mainly due to the...
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Global vendor strategies - 23/01/07
Actelis , a start-up in the carrier Ethernet market, raised $22m in its five round of funding. Founded in 1998, Actelis, which now employs 100, has amassed $119m of funding. Stoke , a start-up in access gateway, has raised $20m in new funding, bringing...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 29/12/05
Connexion by Boeing plans to provide in-flight entertainment, as an additional move to its “call in a plane”. Programs will be delivered to screens in the back of airplane seats, using its on-board WiFi network. Luminous is switching lights off, after...
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Global vendor strategies - 28/12/06
Alcatel-Lucent plans t invest some $200m in India annually over the next three years. HP will purchase Bitfone to grow its mobile enterprise business. Bitfone develops mobile device management software, allowing to remotely update the software on users’...
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Global vendor strategies - 23/12/06
Scientific Atlanta/Cisco, Conexant and Sunrise Telecom have joined the HomePNA Alliance board. Ericsson did not exclude more acquisitions. It could be interested by small, but well paced firms in the PON/ GPON domains, such as Entrisphere, even if Tellabs...
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Global vendor strategies - 21/12/06
Microsoft and HP will jointly invest $300m to develop applications for SMEs over the next three years. Joint efforts will focus on business intelligence, messaging, unified communications, content and collaboration management, as well as enterprise processes...
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Global vendor strategies - 16/12/06
Former management board member at Siemens , Thomas Ganswindt, has been arrested in connection with ongoing corruption scandal, €200m mis-usage and bribery. Ganswindt, who left Siemens in Sept., was the head of the telecom unit. A dozen of ex- or current...
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Global vendor strategies - 06/12/06
LSI Logic has acquired Agere Systems for $4bn. Agere develops chips for mobile. Alcatel-Lucent has finalized the acquisition of Nortel' s money-losing UMTS access business (UTRAN) for $320m in cash. It has signed a final agreement with Thales (France)...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 02/03/2006
Siemens is seeking partners for different parts of its fixed-line networks business, according to union sources. Thomson and WiNetworks will jointly develop triple play (video, voice and high-speed internet) and mobile services over WiMAX networks. Cisco...
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Global vendor strategies - 02/12/06
Anticipating IEEE drafting (scheduled in 1H2008) on Wi-Fi 802.11n standard, Intel will embed Wi-Fi 802.11n into its Centrino chips in 2007. This will give Centrino-based PCs enhanced connection performance, but could either force IEEE and other vendors...
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Global vendor strategies - 29/11/06
Siemens and the German Workers Union will jointly secure funding of job placement companies for ex-Siemens employees affected by BenQ Mobile bankruptcy. IBM reinforces its telecom business with the purchase of Vallent, an OSS company. With the acquisition,...
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Global vendor strategies - 25/11/06
Alvarion is selling its Cellular Mobile unit for $15m to LG Wireless, and targets to focus on WiMAX. Alvarion reports that it has more than 120 active WiMAX trials up and running. ZTE will distribute its products in India through privately-owned MCorpGlobal,...
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Global vendor strategies - 22/11/06
NEC and Juniper are partnering on FMC systems for carriers. They target developing IMS/FMC systems for service providers that are "intelligent, secure, and open." Alcatel has sued Microsoft for patent infringement, after notifying Microsoft of what it...
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Global vendor strategies - 18/11/06
Siemens is embarassed with news that half a dozen Siemens employees, in its fixed line networks business, should have divert funds in order to bribe potential customers. Several were arrested. Motorola is opening a R&D center in S. Korea to develop technologies...
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Global vendor strategies - 15/11/06
Motorola has succeeded a coup in buying Good Technology, whose products offer email synchronization between handhelds and enterprise email systems (mainly Lotus of IBM or Exchange of Microsoft), and challenging dominant Blackberry from RIM or Treo from...
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Global vendor strategies - 11/11/06
Nvidia is to buy its rival PortalPlayer for $357m. Alcatel is teaming with key test and measurement (T&M) vendors (Agilent Technologies, IneoQuest, JDSU andSpirent) to deliver an end-to-end solution for IP-based video deployments. Oracle will buy SPL...
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Global vendor strategies - 13/10/06
Siemens has signed a LOI to sell its assets in and intellectual property for its Optical Network Terminal (ONT) technology, supporting both BPON and GPON standards, to TXP, provider of pre-manufacturing services. TXP has also hired Siemens' former ONT...
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Global vendor strategies - 07/10/06
Finmeccanica is approving the planned merger between Alcatel' s and Thales' satellite operations. Siemens has stopped an €117m payment to BenQ. OpenWave Systems is buying SoloMio, a provider of integrated subscriber call management services. Siemens sold...
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Global vendor strategies - 05/10/06
Siemens will help employees of its former cell phone business, sold to BenQ, offering a €35m fund. Apple will launch its mobile iPhone in 2007. The device will be marketed first exclusively for Cingular. Sony continues to be in turmoil, having to recall...
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Global vendor strategies
Motorola swallows Wireless Valley Communications, a privately held company that creates software for designing and managing wireless networks including cellular, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and mesh. Nortel plans to purchase networking company Tasman Networks, a security-conscious...
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Global vendor strategies - 24/12/05
IBM is to buy Micromuse for $865m in cash. Micromuse focuses on video and voice traffic management on computer networks. Oracle is joining the IBM AIX Collaboration Center (IACC) as a founder member. Lucent was surprised by a court decision of breach...
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Global vendor strategies - 22/12/05
Chiaro, the core router company , may disappear in coming weeks. HP has completed its acquisition of Peregrine Systems, an IT asset and service management software company. Nokia is to locate its new Global Networks Solutions Center at Chennai, India....
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Global vendor strategies - 14/12/05
Italtel plans an initial public offering of shares by the end of the first half of 2006. Thomson (France) proposes to buy Thales Broadcast & Multimedia (a unit of Thales group) for €130m. The deal will give Thomson what it lacks: IPTV middleware; video-on-demand...
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Global vendor strategies - 10/12/05
Gemplus and Axalto, the two world leaders of smart cards, would merge their businesses into a new company, called Gemalto. Gemplus would have 55,4% of Gemalto, and Axalto would hold remaining 44,6%. Gemalto would be a $1,8bn company, of which 61% in telecom....