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Articles published in June 2005

Sprint Picks Moto for WiMax


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June 30, 2005 : Sprint adds Motorola to its WiMax 'ecosystem'

Airspan Scores Ericsson OEM


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June 30, 2005 : Broadband wireless vendor confirms high-profile 802.16 reseller deal

Force10 Revs Revenues


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June 30, 2005 : Having collected its first revenues in 2002, the 10-Gig Ethernet startup is suddenly a $60 million-a-year player and has a credible chance of an eventual IPO, veteran investor Dick Kramlich says in a Light Reading interview

VP Jumps From Juniper


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June 30, 2005 : Marketing VP and former TeleChoice president Christine Heckart leaves Juniper to become general manager of marketing at Microsoft TV

NTT Takes Ethernet Global


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June 30, 2005 : Japanese carrier's Global Super Link starts with shared bandwidth links between Japan and the US

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Flarion


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June 30, 2005 : Flash-OFDM vendor announces small commercial deal at rural Virginia service provider

Ethernet Faces OA&M Challenge


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June 30, 2005 : As Ethernet goes carrier class, demarcation devices emerge and industry groups converge on the topic of how Ethernet will be managed

NeuStar Twinkles on Wall Street


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June 29, 2005 : Washington-based phone number clearinghouse raises more than $600M in the telecom industry's first remarkable IPO in a long time; NeuStar stock closes up $4 from offering price

Reliance Relies on Veraz


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June 29, 2005 : The small media gateway and softswitch company believes its compression prowess will land it in new and bigger VOIP networks

Symbol Cuts 700 Heads


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June 29, 2005 : Blames downturn in global retail market and warns of Q2 shortfall

Nextel Trials IPWireless


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June 29, 2005 : Carrier targets 300 to 400 users in Washington deployment

Spirent Cuts Back OSS Group


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June 29, 2005 : Test-and-measurement vendor cuts a third of the staff at its service assurance division to improve its performance and shift its focus away from traditional DSL and leased-line products

IDT Dials Up Net2Phone


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June 29, 2005 : Net2Phone stock spikes as IDT, which acquired a majority voting stake earlier this year, announces a plan to buy out the rest of the company's shares

Microsoft Wins at BT


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June 29, 2005 : BT says it has been in Microsoft's Early Adopter beta site program for the last eight months, and now plans to launch commercial IPTV by the end of 2006

Copper Mountain Man Goes FMC


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June 28, 2005 : UMA startup Kineto taps Rick Gilbert as its permanent CEO

BT's Bross: Ethernet Will Deliver


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June 28, 2005 : BT's CTO says he's putting his faith in Ethernet technology, but that it has some way to go before it's truly carrier class

Infranet Becomes IPsphere


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June 28, 2005 : The body replacing the Infranet Initiative Council is granted a new name and officially brings Cisco and Alcatel into the group and onto the board

Zarlink Swears by Swirhun


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June 28, 2005 : The former Picolight CEO will be running Zarlink's optoelectronics business as the chip company, which dropped its CEO in January, tries to right itself after some disappointing quarters

Energis Deal Energizes Xtera


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June 28, 2005 : Sources say UK operator Energis is deploying long-haul gear from Xtera Communications to build an optical network for the BBC

Globalcomm Wins 'Show Wars' Poll


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June 28, 2005 : The TIA's Globalcomm show comes from behind to win by more than 100 votes in a week-long Light Reading poll

Siemens Maxes in Italy


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June 28, 2005 : Incumbent preps countrywide launch of fixed-wireless 802.16 trials

Supremes Sing Cable's Praises


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June 27, 2005 : Is RBOC deregulation coming soon? That's what the big phone companies are saying about the Supreme Court's decision in The NCTA v Brand X

Extreme's Second Wind


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June 27, 2005 : Extreme's second wave of enterprise wireless LAN switching gear is coming

Cisco Nets NetSift for $30M


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June 27, 2005 : Just one week after purchase of M. I. Secure, Cisco plunks down $2 million per employee in cash and stock with its purchase of security startup NetSift

Eurobites: Merger Mania


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June 27, 2005 : Europe's carriers look at home and abroad for acquisition opportunities, plus other continental tidbits

Meriton Raises $54M, Finds Good Company


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June 27, 2005 : Sources say Ericsson is fronting a Meriton bid for Verizon's metro optical buildout. It's a longshot, but with a $54M funding round announced today, Meriton expects to be in the running for many more big deals

Extreme Opens R&D in India


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June 24, 2005 : The company is putting its India contractors under an Extreme roof by opening an office in Chennai with 35 employees and, reportedly, a plan to grow to 100

Globalcomm Rallies in Show Poll


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June 24, 2005 : Globalcomm makes a poll comeback while vendors are forced to play favorites with their marketing budgets

Wireless Wumors


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June 24, 2005 : Analysts mull Asian partnership for Nortel, Flarion linked to Indian trial, and TD-SCDMA takes another knock

Carriers Question BT's Sanity


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June 24, 2005 : Other incumbents are telling BT that it shouldn't have caved in on access competition – it could set a precedent that will bite them in the backside

HDTV Pushes Telcos Toward MPEG-4


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June 24, 2005 : Consumers have come to expect their TV provider to offer at least two channels of high-definition programming; many telcos will use the MPEG-4 codec to deliver it over xDSL

Smaller Carriers Go Big With VPLS


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June 24, 2005 : The emergence of VPLS technologies gives the advantage to operators that are at the point of expanding or upgrading their networks in some way

Persona Turns Control Freak


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June 23, 2005 : FMC startup Persona says convergence should be about user control

AT&T Goes Global (Again)


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June 23, 2005 : Analyst says AT&T is leading the global pack as it expands its network and marketing presence in multiple countries, particularly China, as it looks to reap rewards from a $10 billion investment

ATCA Starts to Rumble


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June 23, 2005 : After making a big splash at Supercomm, the AdvancedTCA standard for telecom equipment should look for momentum as dozens of products emerge this year, according to a Heavy Reading report

Tektronix Gets a Little TDA


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June 23, 2005 : Buys software-based test system company TDA Systems, a move that headlines several recent test and measurement news items

BT Let Off the Hook


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June 23, 2005 : Legally binding deal saves BT from breakup process, and keeps 21CN plans intact, as UK carrier strikes next-generation regulatory deal with telecom watchdog

LR Poll: USTA Takes Show Lead


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June 23, 2005 : The industry's dominant telecom tradeshow organizations are duking it out to see who will be dominant in 2005, and a poll of Light Readers shows them leaning toward USTA’s TelecomNEXT

Flarion Wins in Finland


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June 23, 2005 : Startup scores its first publicly announced 450MHz network deal

Thursday Is D-Day for BT


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June 22, 2005 : UK regulator Ofcom to announce results of its Strategic Review of Telecommunications, a report that could force BT to split in two and shatter its 21CN plans

Spain Preps $500M Broadband Net


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June 22, 2005 : Keynoters at LR conference to describe monster state-funded project aimed at encouraging competition among Catalonian service providers by giving them equal access to low-cost broadband infrastructure

Huawei Plans to Triple Euro Business


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June 22, 2005 : Chinese vendor reckons 2005 will see it triple its European sales and for the first time generate the majority of its contract values outside China. It also comments on acquisitions and IPO

PicoChip Scores $20.5M


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June 22, 2005 : Chipset startup has now raised $41.5 million in VC funding

Huawei Plans Euro Push


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June 22, 2005 : Vendor makes European sales projections, plays down acquisition talk, reiterates IPO position

Myrio's Quiet Quandary


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June 22, 2005 : Myrio touts its strategy of starting with smaller carrier IPTV deployments, but Microsoft is publicly linked to more Tier 1 carriers

Cisco Speaks Applications


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June 21, 2005 : Application Oriented Networking could represent the next phase of Cisco's life, as the company moves beyond routers into the services world, but its success relies on a delicate web of partnerships

Siemens Unveils VOIP Package


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June 21, 2005 : New solution pairs Siemens softswitch with any number of media gateways

AT&T: We've Got FMC Too


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June 21, 2005 : AT&T says that BT and BellSouth aren't the only major carriers working on fixed/mobile convergence and that a commercial offering is 12 to 18 months away

AT&T: We've Got FMC Too


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June 21, 2005 : AT&T says that BT and BellSouth aren't the only major carriers working on a fixed/mobile convergence offering and that a commercial offering is 12 to 18 months away

Huawei Unveils God Box


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June 21, 2005 : Chinese vendor launches the telecom equivalent of the Swiss Army Knife – a new multiservice product that combines a B-RAS, session controller, firewall, and deep packet inspection
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