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Articles published in July 2003

Government Bans MCI


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July 31, 2003 : Could prove to be the last straw for the scandal-plagued carrier

Government Bans MCI


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July 31, 2003 : Could prove to be the last straw for the scandal-plagued carrier

Path 1 Takes the Plunge


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July 31, 2003 : After years on the bulletin board, IP video firm joins bigger-league Amex today. Here's how it went

Netgear Shares Soar After IPO


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July 31, 2003 : Netgear follows iPass to market with $98M offering, but don't hold your breath for a rush of 802.11-related IPOs

Quarry Wins First Customer


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July 31, 2003 : After 4 years, the IP service startup lands a big customer

Broadcom Tackles 10-Gig Copper


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July 31, 2003 : A new 10-Gigabit Ethernet chip is the lastest attempt to bring prices down and demand up

Siemens Slashes Staff


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July 31, 2003 : Network vendor slashes workforce as financial community looks on in dismay

Workers Oppose H-1B Bill


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July 31, 2003 : Nearly 16,000 respond to an online petition to halt legislation that would affect foreign engineers in the US

Cisco Looking for Control?


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July 31, 2003 : Will it or won't it acquire a session controller startup this year?

ADVA Profits in Q2


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July 31, 2003 : Metro DWDM equipment vendor benefits from rising demand for Ethernet and storage services

TI Snaps Up Radia


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July 30, 2003 : TI says the startup's technology will help it build multimode 802.11 chipsets

UWB Caught on the Hop


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July 30, 2003 : Wrangling over FCC rules threatens to drag the IEEE ultrawideband standard process into a regulatory quagmire

Corvis Solo in Bake-Off Boast


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July 30, 2003 : Corvis says it's a finalist in the US Government's GIG-BE RFP, but no one else is speaking up

Vodafone: Cooling Off on Hotspots?


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July 30, 2003 : Piddly Irish deal triggers doubts over hotspot ambitions

Bookham Transformation Complete


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July 30, 2003 : The ASOC is no more, as Bookham turns its attention to optical components and begins looking beyond telecom

Équipe Switches Paths


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July 30, 2003 : Équipe takes on IP core routing vendors as it adds native IP support to its multiservice switching platform

P2P & VOIP: Coming Together?


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July 30, 2003 : Is KaZaA founder Niklas Zennstrom cooking up a dynamic, distributed global VOIP directory based on P2P?

Accelerant Pulls Power Play


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July 29, 2003 : Startup claims it can upgrade system backplanes to 10-Gbit/s with a low-power transceiver

Cometa's Hotspot Happy Meal


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July 29, 2003 : Signs another deal with Mickey's Steak House, touts super value of its bargain basement hotspot services pricing model

Were MCI Engineers In On It Too?


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July 29, 2003 : AT&T is claiming fraud ran rife through the engineering organization at MCI, but analysts doubt it

Italians Invade Germany


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July 29, 2003 : Telecom Italia is buying HanseNet, a Hamburg broadband operator, for €250 million in cash

BT's Mobile Ménage à Trois


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July 29, 2003 : UK carrier returns to wireless consumer market via T-Mobile but will also continue to play network footsie with mm02

Carrier Revenues Keep Sliding


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July 29, 2003 : With few exceptions, carrier revenues are down, even as cost cutting continues and quarterly profits roll in

Zhone Cashes In on Tellium, Part II


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July 29, 2003 : Tellium says its new metro product was the real reason behind the Zhone merger

Ondax Hedges ROADM Bet


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July 29, 2003 : An extra $2M and some test-and-measurement business could help the startup survive if ROADMs don't take off

MCI's 'Creative Routing'


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July 28, 2003 : As it wades neck-deep in fraud allegations, will anyone trust MCI enough to hand over the keys to their data?

Headcount: Nice Job


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July 28, 2003 : Terawave cuts, Broadcom scans for a CEO, Zhone and Tellium get together, and Stratos eyes its branches for cuts

Strix Signs Ralph Ungermann


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July 28, 2003 : Networking daddyman finds a nice warm seat on the board of WLAN startup Strix

Zhone Cashes In on Tellium


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July 28, 2003 : Zhone may be buying optical switch maker Tellium for its green instead of its gear

World Wide Packets out of the Woods


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July 28, 2003 : It's won three protentially big European contracts and is close to getting some more money

Cavium Claims Security First


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July 28, 2003 : Security-chip startup says it's the first to support Advanced Encryption Standard in 802.11i

Vodafone's Data Use Drags


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July 28, 2003 : Carrier has a mountain to climb if data revenue targets are to be achieved

Ciena May Be Eyeing Catena


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July 28, 2003 : As Catena enters trials with SBC, Ciena has taken a liking to the access network, sources say

Can DSL.net Dodge Delisting?


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July 28, 2003 : Broadband provider hopes a $30M funding round will convince the Nasdaq to keep it on board

Catena Earns Top Ten Spot


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July 25, 2003 : The access player is ringing up customers and looks well-positioned for an upgrade wave in hybrid DLC/broadband gear

Contract Manufacturer Eyes Optics


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July 25, 2003 : BreconRidge's acquisition of Nortel's modules biz shows contract manufacturers are gearing up for photonics

Verizon Swats Bug (Finally)


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July 25, 2003 : Ignores warnings and takes a whole month to fix a security hole in its text messaging service

PTT: The New SMS?


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July 25, 2003 : Can push-to-talk reprise the surprise success of text messaging in Europe?

F5 Buys Into SSL VPNs


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July 25, 2003 : F5 Networks is getting into the SSL market, but what's the big deal about SSL anyway?

JDSU Revenues Still Declining


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July 25, 2003 : The communications business has leveled out, but a dip in display business will cause revenues to slide again

Nortel Still Profitable in 2003


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July 24, 2003 : In the race with Lucent to get back to the black, Nortel appears to be winning

AFC Profits in Odd Times


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July 24, 2003 : AFC turns a profit and keeps cutting costs as its customers waffle on access buildouts

Nortel Still Profitable in 2003


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July 24, 2003 : In the race with Lucent to get back to the black, Nortel appears to be winning

IPass May Start IPO Trend


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July 24, 2003 : Can one successful public offering get things bubbling?

WLAN Chipset Market Sizzles


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July 24, 2003 : Unstrung Insider predicts a billion dollar market for wireless LAN chipsets

Fibre Channel Market Gets Rattled


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July 24, 2003 : Cisco's SAN push and other factors are shaking up the status quo, says latest B&S Insider report

AT&T Makes Avici's Quarter


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July 24, 2003 : Additional revenue from AT&T helps boost Avici's revenues almost 30%, but the company is still losing money

Hammerhead Heads for the Edge


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July 24, 2003 : A startup with similarities to WaveSmith, TiMetra, and Vivace has emerged from stealth mode

AT&T Firms Up 3G Plans


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July 23, 2003 : Likely to spend around $144M with Ericsson and Nortel on UMTS network rollout in four cities

ASIP Gets $16M Boost


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July 23, 2003 : Series C venture funding will help the company ramp manufacturing of lasers for 10-Gbit/s transceivers
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