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Articles published in February 2003

Intel Readies GigE PHY Chip


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February 28, 2003 : The long-awaited device would free Intel from having to buy Marvell's chips -- but not right away

Terapulse Aims to Pummel PMD


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February 28, 2003 : Two-year old subsystems startup has raised $20 million; will be touting its PMD gadget at OFC

Tenor Goes Silent


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February 28, 2003 : MPLS switchmaker Tenor Networks is the latest startup to shut its doors

France Telecom Jabbers on IM


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February 28, 2003 : French developers look to break the AOL and MSN instant messaging ‘duopoly’ with a multi-standard IM server

Cogent Munches Midwestern ISP


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February 28, 2003 : How does a Midwest private-line supplier fit Cogent's plan?

Pssst! Want a Used Base Station?


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February 28, 2003 : Trade in second-hand mobile network kit grows as operators cash in on redundant stock

Report: Internet Traffic Boom Redux


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February 28, 2003 : An IDC report forecasts that Internet traffic growth will double annually for the next five years

KSaria Changes Faces


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February 27, 2003 : Behind kSaria's revamping is the story of an automation market that never got a chance

Credit Union Erects Wireless SAN


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February 27, 2003 : Canadian firm's offbeat solution allows it to replicate between two sites wirelessly, saving up to $70K in monthly telco fees

Traffic Tracker Helps Trilogy


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February 27, 2003 : Light Reading's Internet traffic monitoring project is shedding light on user performance problems

Lehman: Worst Over for LU and NT


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February 27, 2003 : Lehman's Steve Levy sees light at the end of the tunnel for both suffering vendors, Nortel emerging first

Jedai Close to $10M


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February 27, 2003 : Angry official demands that 'accurate and proprietary' details should be removed from LR's message board

Qualcomm Courts Chinese 3G


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February 27, 2003 : In a 3G market rife with uncertainty, the CDMA behemoth just wants to be everyone's best friend

Redback's Arnold Included in SEC Suit


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February 27, 2003 : Top Redback executive is at the center of the SEC's civil suit against Qwest executives

Lucent to Settle With SEC


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February 27, 2003 : An agreement is pending that will close the books on the SEC's investigation of Lucent

Ciena Looks to Mine With Osmine


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February 26, 2003 : Now that they've got the blessing of Telcordia, Ciena's CoreDirector switch can be considered by RBOCs

Will RBOCs Spend More on Broadband?


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February 26, 2003 : The FCC may have ruled to give the Bells radical regulatory relief on broadband, but when will it pay off?

Ericsson Pushes IM Interop


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February 26, 2003 : Ericsson leads its own charge towards interoperability of instant messaging and presence 'solutions'

IPv6 Routers Get a Run-Through


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February 26, 2003 : A new report outlines results of IPv6 interoperability and performance test in China

IPv6 Routers Get Tested


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February 26, 2003 : A new report outlines results of IPv6 interoperability and performance test in China

Optical Gear Rising, Report Says


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February 26, 2003 : Infonetics says optical gear sales are on a muted upswing. Can this really be 'the turn'?

Prosecutors' Party at Qwest


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February 25, 2003 : With new federal indictments and civil suits for fraud at Qwest... observers say this is just the beginning

Wireless Nets Suck, Says Expert


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February 25, 2003 : And the folk who pay for poor data services need therapy, according to a network monitoring expert called Rice

Phiar Claims Detector Breakthrough


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February 25, 2003 : Startup says it can make detectors in silicon: a promising development for opto-electronic integration

Corvis & Broadwing: Together At Last


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February 25, 2003 : A proposed acquisition sets a stew of questions bubbling. Dr. Huber's shadow looms

Cisco VP Gets Cool Reception


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February 25, 2003 : One of Cisco's top financial specialists spoke to investors today, dampening hopes for dividends and profit growth

FlexLight Bags $3M More


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February 25, 2003 : PON equipment startup pulled in $3M while still working on its Series B financing

Wireless Funding Weakening


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February 25, 2003 : The latest Unstrung funding report shows investment slowing down, but recent deals give some reason to smile

Covad CEO Sticks to His Guns


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February 25, 2003 : FCC's ruling last week could be devastating to DSL providers like Covad, but CEO Hoffman says the battle isn't over

Photuris Gets New CEO and $40M


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February 24, 2003 : Metro equipment startup says it is making inroads with ILECs and will book revenues late this year

Equant Does DSL


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February 24, 2003 : Equant is hoping to woo multinational corporations with a new DSL-and-VPN offering

The Asian Invasion


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February 24, 2003 : Asia seems an irresistible manufacturing arena for Western component makers. Is the strategy working?

Marvell Joins 802.11g Throng


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February 24, 2003 : Chipset vendor announces availability of 802.11g silicon that can be adapted as emerging standard evolves

Headcount: Good News, Bad News


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February 24, 2003 : Photuris gets a new CEO, ECI reveals its headcount, AirFiber shuts down, Agilent to axe 4,000

Cisco Bolsters Its WLAN Hand


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February 24, 2003 : Clinches deals with chipmakers that could make its proprietary add-ons de facto standards for 802.11 equipment

CyOptics Snaps Up Cenix Shards


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February 24, 2003 : Khosla's optical component manufacturing startup gets sold to Cyoptics for scrap, probably at bargain prices

Fiber Players Giddy Over FCC Ruling


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February 21, 2003 : FTTHers cheering yesterday's ruling to deregulate last-mile fiber, but will it really boost spending?

Force10 Rakes In $41M


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February 21, 2003 : Force10 gets some more cash to build its 10-Gig Ethernet equipment business and ramp up manufacturing

Corvis Deletes Message Poster


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February 21, 2003 : 'Optical_guy' ran afoul of his bosses at Corvis with his posts on Light Reading, and it cost him his job

ECI Goes Back to the Future


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February 21, 2003 : Don't adjust your television sets. The new new ECI Telecom looks more like the old ECI Telecom

LittleFeet Kicks at Integration


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February 21, 2003 : Comes up with a second reason for not integrating wireless LAN hotspots in cellular base stations

Startup Workers Bemoan AMT


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February 21, 2003 : It's not just at public companies: Employees of startups have also been hit with the AMT and other tax woes

Public Access BlackSpots?


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February 21, 2003 : Integrating WLAN hotspots with GSM/GPRS networks creates a scary security loophole, says Schlumberger

Alcatel Bucks the Trend


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February 21, 2003 : Deals with Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Nigeria's Globacom indicate that Alcatel's business will continue to grow

Is IMP an Instant Money Plan?


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February 20, 2003 : More than 30 platform vendors are targeting a multi-billion dollar market, according to the latest Wireless Oracle

Motorola Blows Hard on Euro 3G


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February 20, 2003 : It's certainly talking the [trash] talk, but analysts aren't impressed

Powell Loses FCC Vote


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February 20, 2003 : The RBOCs sink after FCC vote to hand most of the decision making on how to scale back UNE-P to the states UPDATED 3PM

Xelerated Is First to 40-Gig


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February 20, 2003 : Network processor startup becomes first to demonstrate 40-Gbit/s silicon

Siemens Prepares for China Deal


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February 20, 2003 : German vendor is bullish on prospects for contract awards from its joint venture developments in China

Ciena: 'Flat to Up'


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February 20, 2003 : Small sequential growth and 'flat to up' projections for the next quarter... but still bleeding cash
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