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Articles published in August 2003

Broadcom: One-Chip Wonder?


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August 29, 2003 : Broadcom's 'single-chip' 802.11 efforts could be the subject of a big Sept. 9 announcement

DLCs: The Downside


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August 29, 2003 : The North American market may not be the hotbed of activity that DLC vendors had hoped for

Bells Challenge FCC Ruling


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August 29, 2003 : BellSouth, Qwest, and SBC get the Triennial Review legal bandwagon rolling by filing the first appeal

Memscap to Acquire GalayOr


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August 29, 2003 : MEMS manufacturer hopes to bolster its optical efforts by scooping up the Israel-based startup

Veraz Has the Hot VOIP Hand


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August 29, 2003 : Cisco finds its VOIP kit replaced by softswitch and gateways from Veraz... again

AMCC Moves Into Storage


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August 28, 2003 : A $190M bid for host bus adapter vendor JNI would expand AMCC's horizons beyond long-haul

Zhone's Strange Saga


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August 28, 2003 : As Zhone looks to swallows its ninth company, Tellium, it will have churned through $500M with little to show

Corvis Looks to Sell More Stock


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August 28, 2003 : Though already sitting on $300M cash, company plans to raise more than $70M after privately placing 67.3M shares

SOMA Untethers the Last Mile


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August 28, 2003 : With a proprietary W-CDMA spin, the startup hopes to revive fixed wireless as an alterative to DSL or cable

SOMA Untethers the Last Mile


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August 28, 2003 : With a proprietary W-CDMA spin, the startup hopes to revive fixed wireless as an alterative to DSL or cable

Mobility Roams No More


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August 27, 2003 : Wireless roaming software startup Mobility Networks shuffles off to the boneyard for lack of venture capital

Merrill Boosts AFC


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August 27, 2003 : Merrill Lynch ups its AFC estimates thanks to future FTTP deployments and Verizon DSL upgrades

VCs Pump $1.1B Into Storage Startups


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August 27, 2003 : Storage networking funding topped a billion over recent 12-month period, says B&S Insider

Hotspots Hit the Spin Cyle


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August 27, 2003 : Now you can wash your underwear while reading email with Serynade's laundromat hotspot

Bells Embrace the Dishes


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August 27, 2003 : BellSouth latest to join the satellite gang as the battle against the cable guy heats up

Riverstone Oops! Level Rises


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August 27, 2003 : Company multiplies the amount of revenue overstated in 2002 and 2003

Agilent: Ipswich Lives!


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August 27, 2003 : Officials say R&D continues at the UK site, after manufacturing is spirited away to Asia

Strix Picks Elcoteq


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August 26, 2003 : Try saying that 3 times fast... The wireless LAN access point maker and Swedish contract manufacturer link up

Ciena's Stock Spikes


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August 26, 2003 : Ciena's in line to win $200M over two years in a long-haul contract with MCI, UBS Warburg says

Sprint Smacks Phone Books


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August 26, 2003 : Well, will ya look at those pretty flowers...

Tropic Shuffles Upstairs


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August 26, 2003 : Tropic Networks moves key advisor Robert Annunziata, ex-CEO of Velocita and GlobalX, into chairman's seat

Netgear's Indoor Speeding


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August 26, 2003 : SOHO kitmaker cuts a rug with faster WLAN cards

Verizon Deal: Too Soon to Hope?


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August 26, 2003 : Yes, there's a Verizon long-haul RFP in the works. No, it's not certain when or how much

Fortinet Score $30M Funding Round


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August 26, 2003 : Fortinet, a security appliance startup, says it will use the new cash to add more application-aware features

Kevin Kennedy Gets His Dream Job


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August 26, 2003 : The former Cisco and Openwave Exec is getting his shot at CEO with the high-risk, high-visibility JDS Uniphase post

Headcount: Labor Daze


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August 25, 2003 : Verizon talks continue, Cindana Turkatte resurfaces, Ceterus ramps up, and GSI saves the etalons

Lucent's Saudi Deal Prompts Probe


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August 25, 2003 : A Saudi telecommunication company's lawsuit against Lucent has prompted the DOJ and SEC to investigate

UWB Startup Alereon Uncloaks


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August 25, 2003 : Alereon: Not the homeworld of beautiful, green alien-women, but a chip startup. Set phasers on ultra-wideband!

Agere Goes Gaga Over Gig-E


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August 25, 2003 : Agere spends $26M on Ireland's Massana; says it will help it tap the growing market for copper Gigabit Ethernet PHYs

WorldCom Lashes Back


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August 25, 2003 : Following a string of discouraging events, WorldCom's creditors are demanding detractors put up or shut up

Report: Carriers Get Hip to IP


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August 25, 2003 : Infonetics says demand for IP routers outpaces demand for multiservice switches as carriers migrate their networks

WLAN Security Blues


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August 22, 2003 : As 802.11 proliferates, many corporate and consumer users are still clueless about security

Nortel's Korean Deployment: How Big?


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August 22, 2003 : Nortel claims another deal with Korea Telecom, but lots of folks are fighting for pieces of the pie

Avanex Adds to Arsenal


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August 22, 2003 : Fresh off its Corning and Alcatel buys, the components maker offers $6M for Vitesse's optical-modules assets

Nokia Preps for W-CDMA War


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August 22, 2003 : Finnish vendor admits to previous W-CDMA problems as it guns for #1 spot

Fiber Surprise in FCC Rules?


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August 22, 2003 : New FCC rules have a big impact on the Fiber-to-the-whatever market, but results aren't as positive as was hoped

FCC Rumbles on the Rules


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August 22, 2003 : FCC Commissioners Powell and Copps slam the Triennial Review. What's going on here?

Nexagent Promises VPN Nirvana


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August 22, 2003 : UK startup says it's cracked the problem of how to provide global VPNs with achievable quality of service

FCC Rules Out!


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August 21, 2003 : Triennial Review finally results in some dead trees ... only six months late and 576 pages. Read up

Storage Services for Sale


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August 21, 2003 : As companies increase investment in storage area networking, service providers look to provide new services

W-CDMA: China's No. 1 Son?


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August 21, 2003 : Chinese 3G makes waves again as W-CDMA tipped to dominate

JDSU Launches Regime Change


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August 21, 2003 : CEO Jozef Straus and COO Syrus Madavi are leaving, while ex-Cisco exec Kevin Kennedy takes the reins

Boardwatch Insider Kicks Off


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August 21, 2003 : Subscription service from Boardwatch debuts with a report that finds some gems in the billing market

Hutch Bullish on Targets


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August 21, 2003 : 3G startup sticks to subscriber goals but remains way off track

Ciena Loses More, Spends More


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August 21, 2003 : Ciena plans $45M SAN acquisition... after announcing net losses larger than its quarterly revenues

XPAK Setback?


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August 21, 2003 : Component vendors report Cisco is favoring the X2 multiservice agreement for 10-Gig transceivers

Motia: Smart 'n' Stealthy?


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August 20, 2003 : Another silicon startup is working on a 802.11 'smart antenna' chipset on the QT

Hutch UK Clings to Network


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August 20, 2003 : Subscriber figures may be disappointing, but this network ain't for sale

Corona Networks Disappears


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August 20, 2003 : Looks as if the IP edge startup's bitten the dust. What's to become of its deal with Alcatel?

Riverstone's Got a New Chief


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August 20, 2003 : Former Nortel exec Oscar Rodriguez has taken over as top dog at Riverstone, and he's got some work to do
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