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Articles published in December 2003

DISA Deal Is Done


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December 31, 2003 : The government finally announces some GIG-BE winners: Sycamore and Juniper are the biggest

Finisar Furlough Queried


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December 31, 2003 : The company appears to have shut for the holidays, fueling some New Year's Eve financial musings

Symbol CEO Falls on Sword


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December 31, 2003 : Ex-Ciscoid Bill Nuti takes helm as Symbol tries to move past accounting scandal

Tim Berners-Lee Gets Knighted


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December 31, 2003 : Move over Sir Mick. Sir Tim dons the ermine

2003 Top Ten: Heavy Findings


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December 31, 2003 : Heavy Reading lists its most notable research findings

2003 Top Ten: Heavy Findings


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December 31, 2003 :

Is AT&T Top Heavy?


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December 30, 2003 : It's frozen pay raises for 36,000 'managers.' That's a helluva lot of chiefs, notes one of our readers

Could Aeroflex Shake Up Testing?


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December 30, 2003 : Small-fry might be tasty to Aeroflex, which is looking to raise money and may be up for a consolidation play

Top Ten 2003 Vendor Bloviations


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December 30, 2003 : You say Jorma, I say Jukka... What happens when vendors talk the talk

Top Ten 2003 Wireless Bloviations


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December 30, 2003 : You say Jorma, I say Jukka... What happens when vendors talk the talk

Report Points to P2P Problems


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December 30, 2003 : Light Reading article reviews ways service providers can come to grips with peer-to-peer traffic

2003 Top Ten: Explosions & Implosions


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December 30, 2003 : We have some good news, and some bad news...

Headcount: Less Is More


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December 29, 2003 : Dacom gets a new chief, Cicada to shrink after acquisition, and Emperative employees write some wrongs

Vitesse Buys GigE Ammo


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December 29, 2003 : Chipmaker pays $66M for 'independent arms dealer' of Gigabit Ethernet copper interfaces

Euro 3G's License Lunacies


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December 29, 2003 : 2003 ends on a bum note (pfarrrp!) for Europe's 3G industry

2003 Top Ten: Startup Flameouts


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December 29, 2003 : Here's our list of the most spectacular and prominent venture-capital money-burning machines of 2003

Top Ten Quotes of 2003


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December 26, 2003 : You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll stroke your chin and go 'hmmmm' with Unstrung's best quotes from 2003

Packets Key to Capex Comeback


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December 26, 2003 : Capital spending has actually crept up in the last few quarters, as packets and multiservice Sonet come in vogue

AT&T Freezes Pay


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December 26, 2003 : Roughly half of AT&T's workforce will not receive a pay increase until April 2005

2003 Top Ten: Technology Trends


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December 26, 2003 : Technology is hot again. Is the future upon us?

Unstrung's Animal Crackers


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December 25, 2003 : Sometimes a pet is just for Christmas...

2003 Top Ten: Photos


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December 25, 2003 : Our favorite snapshots of 2003: some you've seen before and some you wish you hadn't

Top Ten Scoops of 2003


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December 24, 2003 : These little nuggets were the best and the brightest in news for Unstrung in 2003

Skype Rings Jingle Bells


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December 24, 2003 : Releases latest version of Skype; and its customer base is still exploding

2003 Top Ten: Holiday Songs


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December 24, 2003 : What tunes are on the playlists at telecom Xmas parties this year? We listened in, and, er, made up some stuff

IMMI Switches Strategy


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December 24, 2003 : It teetered on the brink of success with Cisco, but now the startup has stopped making all-optical switches

2003 Top Ten: Monkey Business


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December 24, 2003 : They grunt! They growl! The rattle the bars on their cages!

PCTEL and Intel Agree to Agree


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December 23, 2003 : 'Soft AP' vendor signs $14.5M patent deal with silicon sumo Intel to avoid future unpleasantness

Carriers Fail to Bill 'Billions'


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December 23, 2003 : Report blames poor back-office systems for revenue 'leakage' of as much as $137 billion

Iraq Preps for GSM Launch


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December 23, 2003 : Ministry hails contract signings this week as proof of fair play in license awards

2003 Top Ten: Services Stories


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December 23, 2003 : The world may be cuckoo for VOIP, but there's more to the services sector than a dodgy voice line

40 Gig Finds Friends


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December 23, 2003 : Subsystem startups CoreOptics and StrataLight have won more funding, suggesting 40 Gig lives

Chinese Security Snafu Looms


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December 22, 2003 : 'Don't worry, get WAPI' say the Mandarins. 'How so?' respond 802.11 vendors, users

Verizon Doubles FTTP Supply List


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December 22, 2003 : A nice bonus for winning vendors, but analysts say the list will undoubtedly change during the buildout

NetScaler Helps Solucient Save Servers


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December 22, 2003 : Solucient ditches F5 after inherited NetScaler switches help it speed data-center traffic, cut costs

Amdocs Buys Xacct (At Last)


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December 22, 2003 : Pays nearly $30 million for the mediation specialist, after a protracted courtship

Christmas Capex Cheer?


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December 22, 2003 : Unstrung Insider sees signs of capex stabilization, as revenues and profits rise

Report Outlines DSL Chip Advances


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December 22, 2003 : Light Reading product survey shows how new developments will boost bandwidths, cut carrier costs

2003 Top Ten: Words of Wisdom


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December 22, 2003 : Amusing, annoying, uplifting... Light Reading's top picks from our Quote of the Week feature

Moto: Buy or Rent?


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December 19, 2003 : Analysts see acquisition or licensing as potential ways for Motorola's semicon spinoff to enter the 802.11 market

Verizon 1, Recording Biz 0


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December 19, 2003 : Service providers, for now, don't have to reveal customer information to record companies

Court Lets KaZaa off the Hook


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December 19, 2003 : Dutch court rules that software maker cannot be held liable for music copyright infringement

BT Gets Tough With Suppliers


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December 19, 2003 : Sets challenging resiliency target for converged backbone, lays down the law on ethics

Calient Bags $20M More


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December 19, 2003 : As the switch and subsystems maker lives another day, its strategic investors step back

Tunables Dig 10-Gig


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December 19, 2003 : Tunable lasers might finally have their day, as transponder vendors prep tunable 300-pin MSA modules

Aruba's New Air Style


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December 18, 2003 : Aruba updates switch software with more security and RF features and a simpler user interface

Qwest Scrapes Up Allegiance


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December 18, 2003 : Buys bankrupt facilities-based telco to expand into new markets

STM Buys Synad for $55M


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December 18, 2003 : French giant makes long awaited entry into the 802.11 market with the acquisition of a startup

Chip Startup Claims NTT Coup


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December 18, 2003 : Passave says it'll supply chips to the mystery winners of NTT's Ethernet PON RFP

Carrier Capex Set for 2004 Rebound


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December 18, 2003 : Whoopee! Carrier spending in Asia/Pac, Europe, and N. America set to rise after a few dismal years
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