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Articles published in December 2008

2008 Top Ten: Wireless Stories


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 31, 2008 : There will be WiMax, LTE, maybe even ice cream – no wait, scratch the ice cream – just the year in stories, Unstrung-style

2008 Top Ten: Quotes


News Analysis - Kevin Cramer - Post a comment
December 31, 2008 : Light Reading's quirky comments of the year, culled from our news stories

2008 Top Eleven: Photos


LR Cable News Analysis - Comments (2)
December 30, 2008 : Sometimes we meticulously structure the visual impact of our photojournalism. Other times we just snap

RIM Sues Motorola Over Hires


LR Mobile News Analysis - Post a comment
December 30, 2008 : Motorola is trying to keep the BlackBerry maker from hiring fired or soon-to-be fired employees, RIM said in a lawsuit.

2008 Top Ten: AlcaLu Drama


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4)
December 29, 2008 : Where would we be without the two-headed monster that is Alcatel-Lucent? In a far duller world, that's where!

2008 Top Five: LRTV Videos


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
December 29, 2008 : Our top five most-watched LRTV countdown shows that AlcaLu likes to watch

2008 Top Ten: Comcastic Moments


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
December 29, 2008 : A gander at the good, bad, and ugly for the largest cable MSO in the land

NEW REPORT! The Move to 4G Mobility


News Analysis - Post a comment
December 29, 2008 : Light Reading presents a helpful, handy guide to one of the major wireless developments of the coming decade – the transition to 4G

MSOs Unite Against Telcos at the Headend


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
December 29, 2008 : A new CableLabs spec aims to unify the architectures of Time Warner Cable and Comcast, lay the groundwork for truly 'universal' edge QAMs, and possibly quicken the adoption of switched digital video

2008 Top Ten: Clearwire Craziness


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 24, 2008 : 2008 will be a year to remember for the young pretender to the mobile broadband throne; Unstrung runs down the highs and the lows

2008 Top Ten: Huawei Headlines


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3)
December 24, 2008 : Check out the year's biggest Huawei stories, and find out how the Chinese vendor seems inextricably linked to Canadian rival Nortel

Cablevision Counters CEA CableCARD Claims


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
December 23, 2008 : CEA charged that the MSO's proposed downloadable conditional access system is proprietary and would end reliance on CableCARDs

Harmonic Scoops Up Scopus for $51M


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
December 23, 2008 : Despite some product overlaps, Harmonic believes the deal is largely complementary and will give it a big leg up internationally and a range of 'emerging markets' UPDATED 1:20 PM

2008 Top Ten: Tellabs Headlines


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
December 23, 2008 : Tellabs still faces some tough times, but its perseverence in a tough 2008 gives reason for hope

IndiaWatch: Telenor Still Committed


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
December 23, 2008 : Telenor says its investment in Unitech Wireless will still happen, plus other news and happenings from India

NEW REPORT! 40- & 100-Gbit/s Technology & Components


News Analysis - Post a comment
December 23, 2008 : We review the industry’s move toward 40- and 100-Gbit/s networking and the challenges involved

Cable Vets Launch VC Firm


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
December 22, 2008 : A trio with recent ties to Comcast and Broadbus has launched Genovation Capital, a firm that aims to invest in a wide range of startups focused on media, communications, and the Internet

Clearwire CEO Claims 'No Doubts' About WiMax


LR Mobile News Analysis - Comment (1)
December 22, 2008 : So why did he comment on the option of using LTE just a few days earlier?

Backhaul Chip Firm Raises $10M


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
December 22, 2008 : System-on-a-chip firm Provigent bags $10M as it gears up to take advantage of the growing microwave backhaul sector

2008 Top Ten: Nortel News


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
December 22, 2008 : It's been a year of a few ups and a lot of downs for one of Light Reading's most-featured vendors

Moto Trims Video Division


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (6)
December 19, 2008 : Employees at VoD and switched digital division units get the axe as part of a broader layoff that will affect 3,000 employees through the Q1 2009

Apple Buys Share of Chipmaker


LR Mobile News Analysis - Antone Gonsalves - Post a comment
December 19, 2008 : Apple is a licensee of Imagination's technology, which could play a bigger role in Apple products in the future as a result of the $4.8 million investment

Subsea Cable Cuts Hit Euro/Asia Route


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4)
December 19, 2008 : Three subsea cables linking Europe with the Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific have been cut, according to France Telecom, which is sending a repair ship to the scene

Huawei, ZTE Predict 2009 Growth


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5)
December 19, 2008 : While Western vendors prepare for a slimmer 2009, Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE still expect their businesses to grow next year thanks to business from carriers in domestic and emerging markets

RIM Meets Lowered Q3 Expectations


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 18, 2008 : But holiday cheer buoys shares in after-hours trading as company predicts another revenue rise in Q4

Nortel Shows Single-Slice 100GE


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (23)
December 18, 2008 : The state of 100-Gig Ethernet demos continues to advance, as Nortel puts a single 100GE feed onto one 100-gig wavelength, and 'proves' it on video

Adaptix Launches IPR Salvo at Clearwire


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 18, 2008 : Base station vendor fires patent complaint against Clearwire and Sprint, claiming they are infringing its intellectual property rights by offering WiMax services based on the 802.16e standard

Analyst Chops Charter


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
December 18, 2008 : Pali's Richard Greenfield cuts MSO's stock to 'neutral' as concerns grow that bankruptcy may be in the future for the nation's fourth-largest cable operator

Broadbanders Shoot for $100B Stimulus


News Analysis - Comments (6)
December 18, 2008 : Lobbyist organizations hope as much as $100B of the proposed $850B government stimulus package goes toward investments in broadband

Convergence Specialist Banks $17.5M


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
December 18, 2008 : More money for startups that bring the legacy and NGN worlds together as converged services platform specialist Mavenir fills its boots with its third round of funding

Huawei Sniffing at Set-Top Strategy


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
December 18, 2008 : In addition to targeting the US cable market with optical and wireless gear, there's increasing evidence that Huawei's possible points of entry will involve lower-end digital set-top boxes

Sprint Lets WiMax Users Escape From Baltimore


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
December 17, 2008 : The operator is going to start selling a dualmode WiMax and CDMA modem next week, at $150 for the gear and $80 a month for the hybrid service

CableLabs Cheers Casa Chassis


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
December 17, 2008 : There’s a new carrier-class Docsis 3.0-qualified cable modem termination system in the house – so it’s only appropriate that it’s coming way of a company called Casa Systems

Is Huawei Moving Closer to Nortel?


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (6)
December 17, 2008 : Local reports from Canada suggest Huawei, which is on the hunt for some Canadian friends, is about to set up shop just down the road from Nortel's major Ottawa campus

CEA Chirps at Cablevision Set-Top Request


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
December 17, 2008 : MSO gets static over its request for a set-top waiver extention that, Cablevision claims, is required for the operator to develop and deploy a 'downloadable' conditional access system

Cable Proposes Digital Transition ‘Quiet Period’


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
December 16, 2008 : To help avoid confusion with the broadcast TV transition, a gob of US MSOs volunteer to stop migrating analog channels to the digital domain during a fixed 'quiet period'

Nokia Looks to Trim Handset Development Costs


LR Mobile News Analysis - Post a comment
December 16, 2008 : The company is investing in a modular approach to building handsets that it says could cut the cost of developing cellphones by up to 99%

BT Targets Advertising Breakthrough


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
December 16, 2008 : As carriers and vendors look for ways to build revenues from advertising services and platforms, BT prepares to deploy targeted advertising technology from controversial specialist Phorm

Comporium Tests Positive for DTAs


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
December 16, 2008 : MSO is using simple one-way device from Evolution Broadband to reclaim analog spectrum and pave the path to more hi-def fare, VoD, and possibly Docsis 3.0

Overture Snaps Up Ceterus


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2)
December 16, 2008 : Two of the Ethernet access equipment brigade are joining forces as their specialist market continues to grow

Ahmed Severs Ties With Sonus


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3)
December 16, 2008 : End of an era: Former CEO Hassan Ahmed quits as chairman at Sonus as new blood is brought in to help develop the VoIP equipment vendor's sales and marketing strategies

Funai Makes Tru2way Play


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
December 16, 2008 : The company behind brands such as Sylvania and Emerson is entering the market with a dual-tuner DVR, but will hold off on developing tru2way TVs until it's sure there's strong consumer appetite for them

Siverge Picks Up Chip Trail


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
December 16, 2008 : A chip startup says it's picked up the thread where PMC-Sierra and others left off, bringing new levels of integration to TDM linecards

Infinera Dips After Downgrade


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2)
December 15, 2008 : Jefferies analyst George Notter cuts back his 2009 projections for Infinera as tough market conditions bite, but he still sees a bright future for the optical vendor

Clearwire Sets Portland WiMax Launch


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1)
December 15, 2008 : Clearwire to put Portland in the 'Clear' on January 6. Which city will go live next?

Zodiac Dials Up EBIF Plans


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
December 15, 2008 : ITV specialist looks to gain ground as MSOs deploy enhanced television applications on older Cisco set-tops and systems that are wired up for the more advanced tru2way platform

Huawei Says Aye, Android in 2009


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (2)
December 15, 2008 : Chinese giant plots Google-based smartphone next year, joining a growing list of phone vendors that are getting on the Android bandwagon

Telstra Dumped From FTTx Project


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
December 15, 2008 : Telstra's CEO slams 'triviality' as its bid to build Australia's national broadband network is thrown out by the government for failing to meet RFP requirements

3GPP Pins Down LTE Specs


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comment (1)
December 15, 2008 : 4G mobile broadband technology LTE passes a major milestone as the specifications meet approval deadlines at the 3GPP standards body, paving the way for network product availability in 2009

Palm Nova OS Due Next Month


LR Mobile News Analysis - Post a comment
December 15, 2008 : With tanking stock and market share waning, Palm is hoping a new operating system will help it mount a comeback
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