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Global vendor strategies - 7/12/05
World Wide Packets has got $25m in another round of funding, bringing the total raised to $140m. Cisco is buying a stake in India's Bharti Telesoft, a unit of Bharti Enterprises. IBM has announced a series of 'self-healing' software products that can...
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Global vendor strategies - 4/12/05
Cisco will invest $800m in a new R&D campus in Bangalore (India). JDSU has completed its acquisition of Agility Communications, a tunable laser maker. Alcatel has acquired a 25% stake in 2Wire, a pioneer in home broadband network solutions. Their partnership...
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Global vendor strategies - 26/11/05
Huawei expects its 2005 Russian sales would grow to $310m, up 18%. Alcatel targets to go back outside telecoms. Its CEO said it is interested to agree with Thales, a defense contractor. The past 10-year strategy was focused on streamlining the conglomerate...
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Global vendor strategies - 9/11/05
European ObjectWeb and Chinese Orientware will jointly develop an open-source-based middleware platform. ObjectWeb is an European consortium, created by INRIA, while Orientware is an affiliate of the Chinese High-Tech Research and Development Program,...
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Global vendor strategies - 3/11/05
Apple announced that more than 1m videos were downloaded in less than 3 weeks with its iTunes. IBM and Dell are separately introducing new Xeon-based dual core servers, IBM and Google are teaming to integrate Google Desktop for Enterprise into IBM' s...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 23/02/06
Alcatel has consolidated its second position on the IP aggregation router with more than 25% market share, according to Synergy Research. Alcatel has more than 100 customers in 50 countries. Alcatel said it has formed a partnership with IBM allowing the...
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Global vendor strategies - 27/10/05
Alcatel and Sun Microsystems sign major cooperation agreement on IT-based mobile core network solutions. Ericsson is to buy most assets of Marconi (UK) for €1.7bn. In a separate announcement,it said it will locate R&D facilities in India (Chennai, and...
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Global vendor strategies - 23/10/05
Siemens once again has signed a strategic alliance with 3Com. Few years ago, Siemens already made a broad strategic deal with 3Com to bring enterprise solutions to businesses. It is not clear what the new agreement brings. The deal announcement highlights...
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Global operator strategies - 15/10/5
T-Mobile and T-Com (Germany) introduce combined fixed/mobile flat rate for € 9.95 a month until end of January 2006. Telecom New Zealand could abandon the Australian market. Its Australian unit (AAPT) should be therefore for sale. Optus, Macquarie Bank,...
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Global vendor strategies - 13/10/05
Ericsson is poised to take control of Marconi. Huawei had also expressed interest but has apparently lost out to Ericsson. Ericsson seems ready to spend €1.9bn. Intel has announced plans to launch a trial phase of broadband Internet over power lines in...
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Global vendor strategies - 9/10/05
CheckPoint is to buy Sourcefire, a world-class solution maker for internal security through their Intrusion Sensor, Real-time Network Awareness (RNA), and Defense Center product lines. The deal is valued at $225m. Comverse is buying the GSS division,...
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Global vendor strategies - 6/10/5
IBM is introducing 4 Gbit/s HBA connectors on its BladeCenter servers to handle Fibre Channel 4 Gbit/s connections. Google and Sun Microsystems announced a broad alliance to develop and distribute each other's technology in a bid to expand their markets...
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Global vendor strategies - 1/10/05
French Government would rather sell part of its 31% stake in defense electronics group Thales to Alcatel than to European Aeronautics Defense & Space (EADS). Ericsson could be interested in Marconi, while Huawei could offer $1.2bn to takeover Marconi....
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Global vendor strategies - 25/06/05
The BlackBerry e-mail service suffered a nationwide USA outage. RIM did not provide a lot of information. Nokia is looking on convergent VoIP solutions for businesses. In addition to alliance with Avaya and Cisco, Nokia unveiled Wi-Fi/cellular solutions...
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Global vendor strategies - 21/06/2005
Axalto and Gemplus are rumored to talk potential merger or alliance. Professionals questioned the interest of the deal between market leaders 1 and 2 that could only benefit to followers. Nokia is cutting R&D expenses to between 9% and 10% of revenue...
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Global vendor strategies - 18/06/05
Motorola Ventures invest in Anam Mobile, a messaging infrastructure provider. Cisco has bought M.I. Secure, security expert. ZTE and Huawei are offering prices up to 50% lower than their competitors in Brazil by importing equipment manufactured in China....
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Global vendor strategies - 11 June 2005
GlobeTel has acquired the assets of HotZone Wireless, a WiMAX developer. JDS Uniphase bought privately held Photonic Power Systems, a pioneer provider of photonic power. Ericsson said it has acquired the Spanish software company NetSpira Networks, a wireless...
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Global vendor strategies - 5 June 2005
Citrix has acquired web traffic management specialist NetScaler for $300m. SUN Microsystems is buying Storage Technology in a $4.1bn deal. Ericsson has sold its stake in Anoto Group (a digital pen company) to Norden Technology. Huawei targets to expand...
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Global vendor strategies - 28 May 2005
JDSU is buying Acterna, a major test-and-measurement company, for $760m. Alcatel and Intel will collaborate on improving time to market of Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (or AdvancedTCA) platforms for mobile service providers. The French government...
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Global vendor strategies - 21st May 2005
Huawei announced it expects to report $5bn in overseas sales this year, and expects 2005 sales to reach $8.5bn (with this result, Huawei will be entering the TOP 10 vendors). In addition, Huawei said it would expand further its business in the ASEAN region....
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Global vendor strategies 05-18-05
ECI Telecom bought Laurel for $88m. HP announced a new software liaison, or adapter, for seamles integration of fault management and inventory management for better service to fixed and mobile customers. HP worked with Cramer on this subject. Cisco completes...
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Global vendor strategies
Oracle is still hungry. Siebel could be the next pray. After PeopleSoft and Retek (bought in past few months), Oracle seems now interested in CRM-expert loss-making Siebel. Ciena announced its strategy to address the mobile market in Europe, and specially...
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Global vendor strategies
Telcordia announced a new strategy for internationalization. It expects between 20% and 25% of its group revenue to come from outside of North America in the next two to three years. Mobile should also be another area for growth. Italtel is considering...
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Global vendor strategy
Thomson announced a strategic alliance with SingTel ( Singapore ) to provide an Asian digital distribution network for Media & Entertainment clients. The move is in line with Thomson s strategy to grow in Asia and in electronic content distribution (digital...
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Vendor global strategies
IBM will follow RFID standard. It participates in the EPC (Electronic ProductCodification) project. Huawei is now distancing itself from announcements it was talking with NAvendors (an information pre-announced in Telcoflash N57). The company, however,does...