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Articles published in December 2005

Will Siemens Sail with Harbour?


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
December 30, 2005 : Siemens was once rumored to be buying Harbour Networks, but a report today says the companies have struck a smaller deal, putting some router lines in Siemens's hands

2005 Top Ten: Stock Gains and Pains


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
December 30, 2005 : The annual look at the top winners and losers among telecom-related stocks

2005 Top Ten: Photos


Slide Shows - Phil Harvey - Comment (1)
December 30, 2005 : The year 2005 produced some of the most spectacular and memorable photojournalism seen by the telecom industry in more than a decade. But here's what we did while all that was going on

2005 Top Ten: Blog Posts


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
December 30, 2005 : Offensive, defensive, hilarious, and pensive -- it's the best posts from Light Reading's blogs

People of the Year 2005


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 29, 2005 : Four people and an, uh, object that have helped to shape 2005

People to Watch in 2006


LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Comments (2)
December 29, 2005 : Entrepreneurs, visionaries and at least one executive who ought to put a sock in it

2005 Top Ten: Monkey Business


News Analysis - Comments (3)
December 29, 2005 : Alleged libel, global warming, and blog mascot love; welcome to the top ten quotes from the Light Reading message boards

Poll: Juniper Lawsuit Still a Bad Move


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (17)
December 29, 2005 : As poll's respondents go over 1,000, the vast majority still say Juniper Networks is making a mistake by suing Light Reading's message board users

2005 Top Ten: Signs of Recovery


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (11)
December 29, 2005 : Trade shows, lawsuits, dancing girls, and some very long words. Yes, we're still seeing positive signs aplenty as the telecom biz goes from survival mode to, well, something else

Bluetooth, We Hardly Knew Ye


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (3)
December 28, 2005 : Technologies we expect to see take a long walk off a short cliff in '06

Former Qwest SVP Pleads Guilty


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
December 28, 2005 : Marc Weisberg, whose bubble-era story intersects the collapses of both Qwest and CoSine, pleads guilty to one count of wire fraud

Covad & Verizon Drop Suits


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
December 28, 2005 : New agreements with Verizon and MCI put Covad's 1999 antitrust suit to rest, but Covad's legal adventures are far from over

2005: The Year in Quotes


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 28, 2005 : Some of the more memorable lines from the news pages of Unstrung in 2005

2005 Top Ten: M&A


News Analysis - R. Scott Raynovich - Light Reading - Comment (1)
December 28, 2005 : AT&T caps off a year of dozens of sizable deals with the largest of them all, but Verizon and Cisco weren't far behind

2005 Top Ten: Heavy Findings


News Analysis - Dennis Mendyk - Comments (11)
December 28, 2005 : In a big year for big ideas, Heavy Reading counts down the best of the best, including IMS, IPTV, Ethernet, and even Huawei

Luminous Loses Its Luster


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (33)
December 27, 2005 : After raising more than $180M in its seven-plus years, Ethernet equipment vendor Luminous Networks gives pink slips for Christmas

ATCA Initiates Launch Sequence


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
December 27, 2005 : The latest Comm Chip Insider report surveys OEMs to find widespread support for ATCA, with many systems expected to ship during the next year

Proxim's WEP Gap


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 27, 2005 : Euro security firm pipes up about a Proxim problem

Technologies to Watch in 2006


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 27, 2005 : Five undersung technologies and applications that may get their due in 2006

Nortel Takes Tasman for $100M


News Analysis - R. Scott Raynovich - Light Reading - Comments (11)
December 27, 2005 : Pays $100M for 8-year-old company that burned through more than $90M in funding. Technology focuses on security and routers that compete primarily with Cisco's low end

Muni Mesh: SF Leads The Way


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
December 26, 2005 : EarthLink looks to be the early leader in a five-horse race

2005 Top Ten: Notable Quotes


News Analysis - Kevin Cramer - Post a comment
December 26, 2005 : The top 10 (or 11) items from the past year's Quotes of the Week – in dramatic form

2005 Hits & Misses


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 23, 2005 : What Unstrung's editors -- and readers -- got right in 2005, and where we jumped the shark

Last Call for Sonet/SDH?


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
December 23, 2005 : The long-awaited shift away from Sonet/SDH is underway as carriers flock to Ethernet, according to Heavy Reading. But performance remains an issue

Siemens: IPTV Game Not Over


News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (4)
December 23, 2005 : Siemens, with its Myrio middleware, has emerged as the leading challenger to Microsoft/Alcatel for large IPTV contracts; and the challenger believes even Microsoft's RBOC wins aren't sealed up

Poll to Juniper: Bad Move


News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Comments (2)
December 23, 2005 : Light Reading Poll shows Juniper lawsuit only draws more attention to allegedly libelous posts on LR's message board

TI Heats Up Zigbee


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
December 22, 2005 : Ultra-short-range wireless gets a fillip with TI's $200M buyout of Chipcon

AOL/Google: VOIP Buddies


News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Comments (2)
December 22, 2005 : Under the new deal, users of AOL's AIM and Google Talk IM clients will soon be able to place pure VOIP calls to each other, a development that may push IM VOIP calling toward the mainstream

Winstar Judgment Hits Lucent for $244M


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
December 22, 2005 : A bubble-era lawsuit related to the death spiral of fixed-wireless carrier Winstar has ended in a $244 million fine for Lucent

Fearless Predictions for 2006


LR Mobile News Analysis - Kevin Cramer - Comments (2)
December 22, 2005 : WiMax providers might hurt for business, but IP lawyers won't – plus more from our crystal ball

IBM Tiptoes to Telecom With Micromuse


News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
December 22, 2005 : OSS vendor Micromuse's stock jumps 36% following announcement of its sale to IBM, in a move that could herald the further integration of telecom and enterprise management systems

Vendors Sign BT 21CN Contracts


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4)
December 22, 2005 : Four of BT's eight 21CN preferred vendors – Ciena, Huawei, Lucent and Siemens – sign contracts, but what's the holdup on the lagging quartet? It's a complex matter, says BT...

Insider: UMA's Narrow Window


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 21, 2005 : UMA has a time limit for fixed/mobile convergence success, according to Unstrung Insider

LR Debuts 2005 Corporate Video


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (18)
December 21, 2005 : If you think 2005 was a memorable year, wait 'til you hear the musical number in Light Reading's 2005 corporate video

Cisco Taps Cerent Vet


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
December 21, 2005 : Cerent pioneer Ajaib Bhadare has come back to Cisco, joining the new access aggregation business unit, which includes optical networking

India's Telecom Market Accelerates


News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Comment (1)
December 21, 2005 : India's telecom market is buzzing as it adds more than 3 million subscribers every month and carriers race to keep up with demand

Juniper Sues LR Message Boarders


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (79)
December 21, 2005 : Cisco's biggest rival is suing several posters to Light Reading's message boards before the posts 'cause a material decline in' Juniper's profits

Wipro's Wireless Expansion


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 21, 2005 : Moving up the R&D food chain, Indian outsourcing firm takes over NewLogic

Siemens Breaks Into Chinese IPTV


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
December 21, 2005 : Siemens breaks into a market dominated by local vendors ZTE, Huawei, and UTStarcom with a 5,000-household IPTV trial deployment at Shanghai Telecom

AT&T Plans Utility Computing Overhaul


News Analysis - James Rogers - Post a comment
December 20, 2005 : AT&T plans to tie big-name software applications and per-minute CPU charges in the next year

Cable Crowd Seeks VOIP Peers


News Analysis - Mark Sullivan - Post a comment
December 20, 2005 : The cable companies want to peer up their VOIP networks, eliminating reliance on the PSTN to complete calls, and many of the 'usual suspects' in VOIP peering have expressed interest in participating

Nortel's Clent Came & Went


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
December 20, 2005 : As Nortel's high-profile head marketing honcho, Clent Richardson, leaves the fold, we ask: Latest victim of top table purge, or curse of the CMO ticket?

Prosecutors Pounce on Nacchio


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
December 20, 2005 : Federal prosecutors have indicted Joseph Nacchio, who left Qwest in 2002, on 42 counts of insider trading related to the sale of $100M in stock in 2001

In-Flight Wireless ETA Unknown


LR Mobile News Analysis - Richard Martin - Comments (3)
December 20, 2005 : Airvana moves airliner broadband slightly closer to reality

No Tomorrow for Chiaro


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (19)
December 20, 2005 : More than $200M and an ECI partnership couldn't put Chiaro into the router race, as the company is shutting its doors

Carphone Dials Up Rivals


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
December 19, 2005 : Carphone's dialing for dollars as it snaps up two rivals and more than doubles its fixed-line voice customer base. Investors cheer the move and the stock jumped nearly 7%

It's Official: Vivato Winds Down


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
December 19, 2005 : Company follows Legra and other wireless LAN startups in attempting to sell its intellectual property

Vonage Raises Another $250M


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (14)
December 19, 2005 : VOIP trailblazer's new $250M in debt funding may be the last before it finds an exit. New funds will go to network expansion and E911 expenses

Testing's Tasty Tidbits


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
December 19, 2005 : As we launch our NGN test-and-measurement taxonomy, there's no shortage of news in the market, as Spirent shrinks, Sunrise is delisted, and Brix targets the video brigade

India's VC Race Boosts Telsima


News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
December 19, 2005 : Ethernet and WiMax equipment vendor Telsima benefits from the stream of VC cash flowing into India's telecom upstarts, raising $20M in Series C financing
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