News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4) February 29, 2008 : Counterfeiting Cisco components has apparently become a good business, as various US agencies say they've seized $76M worth of fakes over the years
News Analysis - Post a comment February 29, 2008 : Jury finds that Limelight infringed on a content delivery network patent held by rival Akamai. The company's shares are down more than 30 percent on the news
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment February 29, 2008 : At OFC/NFOEC, Avago, Finisar show they'll be ready for the 16-Gig FC standard
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (18) February 29, 2008 : European Commissioner Viviane Reding reminds the region’s incumbents that she has their FTTH plans in her sights – and she’s not going to let them recreate monopolies
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 29, 2008 : Of the 14 nations that boast an FTTH penetration rate of more than 1 percent, half are now European, but the Asia/Pacific’s main fiber access economies are still way ahead of the pack
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) February 29, 2008 : Analyst says MSO readying a 'major unveiling' of business-class offerings; but, on the wireless front, it's favoring a network-agnostic application play over an infrastructure buildout
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (7) February 29, 2008 : A monster of a 'hero' experiment combines 164 channels of 100-Gbit/s transmissions and sends the whole 16.4 Tbit/s down 2,550 km of fiber
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment February 28, 2008 : Stock rises as MSO manages to grow across the board and keep basic subs in check despite mounting competition from Verizon’s completely fiber-fed platform
Slide Shows - Post a comment February 28, 2008 : The optical components confab closes today. Here's a look back at the week in pictures
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment February 28, 2008 : John Malone's Liberty Media polishes off a $12.5B stock deal that transfers over News Corp.'s stake in the nation's largest satellite TV service operator
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment February 28, 2008 : Customs officials have conducted raids to crack down on counterfeit optical modules, including phonies being passed off as Cisco products
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (9) February 28, 2008 : BT has been asking vendors to meet some exacting, future-proof next-gen access requirements in its FTTH RFP, and is about to announce its shortlist, say sources
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) February 28, 2008 : ECI is believed to be looking for a buyer for its DSLAM business, but it’s far from deserting the fixed access market as it ramps up its FTTx activity at the FTTH Council Europe event in Paris
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) February 28, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent, probably GPON's most vocal supporter, says it offers other FTTH options too, as debate heats up about the most suitable access technology for Europe's next-generation networks
News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (5) February 27, 2008 : Nortel's reaching for profitability in its Metro Ethernet business unit and a possible 20% carrier Ethernet market share in three to four years
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) February 27, 2008 : The MSO says it's ready to test Docsis 3.0; meanwhile, Q4 results show a record number of phone subscribers added
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (3) February 27, 2008 : AT&T's John Stankey talks up U-verse's growth and downplays thoughts of a wireless price war against Verizon
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment February 27, 2008 : Content delivery network announces a round of financing led by Index Ventures, taking total funding for the startup to approximately $22 million
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment February 27, 2008 : Peer-to-peer content delivery network says it's moving in a new direction after parting ways with its CEO and several members of its board of directors
Slide Shows - Post a comment February 27, 2008 : The weather is here. Wish you were beautiful. Enjoy our snapshots from the annual optical components confab in San Diego
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment February 27, 2008 : Pullen says that just because he's an insider doesn't mean he's 'averse to change,' but there's lots of work to be done
LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment February 27, 2008 : UK regulator Ofcom threatens O2 with a penalty equivalent to $80M if it does not meet its 3G coverage requirements by June of this year
News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (5) February 27, 2008 : In a move that will save about $300M, Nortel said it will cut 2,100 jobs this year and move another 1,000 positions to less expensive regions, as it reported full-year financial results
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 27, 2008 : Microsoft is tinkering with its carrier applications development strategy to increase software vendor involvement and pushing ahead with its core aim of striking revenue-sharing deals with operators
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment February 26, 2008 : Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg defended his company's aggressive new wireless pricing plans at the Merrill Lynch Communication Services Forum
News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (6) February 26, 2008 : Google's quest for world domination knows no bounds as it confirms plans to build a $300 million undersea cable system linking the US and Japan through a six-member consortium of operators
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment February 26, 2008 : MSO ups '08 capex for some system upgrades, all-digital migrations, SDV, and other moves aimed at freeing up bandwidth for more hi-def fare and preparing for the February 2009 DTV transition
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment February 26, 2008 : With FCC approval, Dr. John Malone is on US cable’s doorstep, poised to make a competitive house call on an industry that he helped lead into its modern era
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3) February 26, 2008 : The components industry's fundamentals have improved since last year, but companies are still chased by the same questions about consolidation and margins
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (10) February 26, 2008 : All-optical rules, Infinera is wrong, and dollar deflation caused the telecom crash: Welcome to George Gilder's world
News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comment (1) February 26, 2008 : Tellabs announced it has appointed company veteran Robert Pullen as its new CEO and president who will take up his new position on March 1
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment February 26, 2008 : Qwest CEO Ed Mueller told analysts Monday that his company's partnership with Sprint is inadequate and that he's looking for a more expansive relationship
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) February 25, 2008 : In a square-off at Harvard, the FCC looked ready to consider rules that would prevent service operators from discriminating against third-party apps running on their high-speed networks
LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment February 25, 2008 : UK operators are ready to battle regulator Ofcom over its plans for spectrum refarming, which would open the 900 MHz frequency to 3G services
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment February 25, 2008 : A small investment in ROADM startup Nistica could be the first of several telecom-related moves for Finisar this year
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 25, 2008 : Europe’s been slow off the mark with fiber access developments, but there are signs of an upcoming boom in rollout, helped by incumbent operators getting in on the act, according to Heavy Reading
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (12) February 25, 2008 : Cisco unveils its QuantumFlow silicon, five years in the making and more than four times as dense as the processor developed for its CRS-1 core router platform
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (5) February 25, 2008 : By separating the control plane from the forwarding plane, Juniper says carriers can speed the deployment of new services and simplify the network, all while providing unprecedented scale
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3) February 25, 2008 : Optical transceiver startup says it's got a twist on the next-gen optical transport protocol
News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (3) February 25, 2008 : The optical vendor announced a plan for its photonic integrated circuit technology, with 40-Gbit/s waves in 2009 and 100-Gbit/s waves in 2012 UPDATED 4:00 PM
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (9) February 22, 2008 : Joining Intel, Kotura, and Luxtera in the silicon photonics race, Lightwire is ending its long run in stealth mode to reveal what it claims is a better type of chip
News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comment (1) February 22, 2008 : A Yahoo/Microsoft marriage could have huge collaborative effects on carriers in the triple-play market
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (10) February 22, 2008 : As envisioned, this relatively bare-bones digital-to-analog converter would play a starring role in the MSO’s ‘all-digital’ strategy, starting toward the back half of 2008
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1) February 22, 2008 : Google might have an interesting take on cellphone apps development, but developers and analysts think its mobile OS could be years away from the handset mainstream
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1) February 22, 2008 : Bookham, JDSU, NeoPhotonics, and Gennum are among the companies getting the OFC/NFOEC news rolling
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment February 22, 2008 : Citing an economic drain and a waning deployment scope, OpenTV confirms previous deal to support MSO's legacy Motorola set-top footprint is on 'indefinite hold'
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (35) February 22, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent’s IP chief, Basil Alwan, believes PBT will lose its sparkle in the near term, while MPLS will continue to become more carrier-friendly
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comment (1) February 21, 2008 : The Apple iPhone SDK, due 'in February,' is considered crucial to the development of Apple's mobile stature, so where's the code already?
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (12) February 21, 2008 : The Father of Ethernet tells LRTV that established optical standards might go out the window in the march towards 1 Tbit/s speeds, and he's quite happy about that
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment February 21, 2008 : Comcast, already facing an FCC probe over its network management practices, is now the target of a class action lawsuit over allegations of false advertising
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