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Articles published in December 2004

Reader Poll Predictions 2005


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December 31, 2004 : Readers look ahead to the next year in wireless

China Telecom Launches IPTV


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December 31, 2004 : National carrier looks to boost Chinese IPTV market in 2005

2004 Top Ten: Photos


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December 31, 2004 : Point. Shoot. And wince. It's Light Reading's review of the year's most memorable photos

2004 Top Ten: Monkey Business


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December 31, 2004 : They rant, they rave... God love'em, they're ours!

Sputnik Orbits IPO


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December 30, 2004 : In space no one can hear you file

Top Ten 2004 Network Deals


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December 30, 2004 : The wins that really shaped the market in 2004

Telcos Deliver Tsunami Relief


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December 30, 2004 : Telecom companies rally to offer technical and financial aid following disaster

Tellabs Vacuums Up Vinci


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December 30, 2004 : Tellabs pays up to $52.5M for a 'cost-effective' optical networking terminal manufacturer

2004 Top Ten: Turnarounds


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December 30, 2004 : Pigtails, paisley prints, and platform shoes aren't the only things that made comebacks in 2004

Adelphia Offers $300M to Settle With SEC


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December 30, 2004 : America's most scandal-ridden cable company struggles to start 2005 with a clean slate

2005 Top Ten: Most Popular Stories


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December 30, 2004 : Light Reading was firstest with the mostest on many of the biggest telecom stories of 2005; these are the ones you liked best

Tsunami Telecom Recovery Continues


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December 29, 2004 : Undersea cables largely survive tsunami in South Asia, but service around the epicenter remains patchy

Tsunami Telecom Recovering


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December 29, 2004 : Undersea cables largely survive tsunami in South Asia, but service around the epicenter remains patchy

T-Mobile Favors Flarion


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December 29, 2004 : Operator takes first step; gets German license for 450MHz network

Proxim Plummets on Q4 Cuts


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December 29, 2004 : Share price heads south following a $10 million cut in revenue forecasts

Carriers, Step Up Your Game


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December 29, 2004 : White paper from Sandvine notes that online killing requires improved QOS and low packet loss

2004 Top Ten: Mergers & Acquisitions


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December 29, 2004 : When the question was 'build or buy?' many incumbent equipment vendors chose the latter in 2004

2004 Top Ten: Signs of Recovery


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December 29, 2004 : Happy happy happy happy talk... Oh cheer up! It's not all bad news you know!

ArrayComm's Japanese Burst


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December 28, 2004 : Smart antenna fellas get a test in Japan

Survey: Services Spending Stays Steady


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December 28, 2004 : Consumers aren't planning on spending more on communication services, according to a Heavy Reading survey

2004 Top Ten: Services Stories


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December 28, 2004 : Broadband services such as VOIP, triple play, and managed security got serious attention in 2004

Session Controllers Are Going Places


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December 28, 2004 : The session border controller vendors are ending 2004 on a noisy note

Top Trends 2004


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December 27, 2004 : The world in wireless, concisely put

2004 Top Ten: Notable Quotes


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December 27, 2004 : They really said it... the most quotable of our Quotes of the Week from the past year

Sonus Sets for a Critical Q1


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December 27, 2004 : Softswitch vendor could land some key deals early in 2005 – and it needs them, say analysts

Ethernet Service Revenues Set to Soar


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December 27, 2004 : Analysts forecast 30 to 60 percent compound annual growth, with Asia/Pacific leading the charge

Unstrung Scoops 2004


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December 24, 2004 : You read it here first

Flextronics Preps Software Fleet


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December 24, 2004 : Having completed some big acquisitions, the manufacturer turns its eye towards doing systems design

EMC 'Paying Too Much' for Smarts


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December 24, 2004 : Analyst says $260 million in cash is almost twice what EMC should have paid for the OSS firm

2004 Top Ten: Security Stories


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December 24, 2004 : Key developments in the fast evolving market, courtesy of Next Generation Data Center Forum

Huawei Wins CANTV Deal


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December 24, 2004 : Chinese vendor to supply DWDM gear for national network upgrade

Airgo Hits Million Mark


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December 23, 2004 : Launching a pre-standard high speed WLAN chip has paid off, says CEO

Carriers Stress Test Their Fiber


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December 23, 2004 : Euro operators put installed fiber through its paces to see if it can handle 160-Gbit/s wavelengths

Lucent's Fat Cats Get Fatter


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December 23, 2004 : It's bumper bonus time for Lucent's top executives again, to the ire of the retirees

2004 Top Ten: Stock Gains & Pains


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December 23, 2004 : The biggest stock gains and losses among telecom stocks reflect a mediocre year all around

Analyst Sees Shift in Capex Trends


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December 22, 2004 : Major FTTx projects sucking capex away from traditional equipment, and Q4 capex ramp is missing, says analyst

Apertio Takes Soft Approach


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December 22, 2004 : UK startup touts carrier wins in core network market

German Giant May Wield Axe


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December 22, 2004 : Media reports claim Deutsche Telekom is set to cut up to 20,000 jobs over the next three years

Axiowave Stung by Rent


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December 22, 2004 : As if things weren't bad enough, the core router startup gets called out for missing rent payments

Rethinking B-RAS in an IPTV World?


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December 22, 2004 : High-bandwidth IPTV services are raising questions over the optimal role and placement of the B-RAS

LR Publishes Telco Video Taxonomy


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December 22, 2004 : Aims to help service providers get more familiar with products and suppliers in emerging market

Enterprise Spending to Rise in ’05


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December 22, 2004 : Heavy Reading survey hints at a telecom recovery

Enterprise Spending to Rise


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December 22, 2004 : Heavy Reading survey hints at a telecom recovery in 2005

Unstrung Quotables 2004


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December 21, 2004 : Being a collection of some of the funnier stuff wireless folks said in 2004

Service Providers See Growth in 2005


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December 21, 2004 : Heavy Reading survey shows 60% of carriers expect more than 10% revenue growth in 2005

EMC Gets Smarts


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December 21, 2004 : Will pay $260 million cash for network/systems management software player to augment its ILM program

Sprint Relies on Wireless


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December 21, 2004 : Operator sees revenue growth in 2005, but that's down to its wireless business

Convedia Bets on IP-Only Servers


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December 21, 2004 : It leads the IP media server space, but its fate may rest on how quickly service providers move toward VOIP

Sprint Relies on Wireless


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December 21, 2004 : Operator sees revenue growth in 2005, but that's down to its wireless business

Lights, Camera, Monkey!


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December 20, 2004 : Larry the Light Reading Attack monkey launches his screen career; Light Reading editors keep their day jobs
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