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Articles published in September 2005

SF Muni WiFi in Low Gear


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September 30, 2005 : San Francisco's planned municipal wireless network should serve up 'cheap and ubiquitous' broadband service over the city's 49 square miles, but the city is hoping vendors will fill in the blanks from there

Needham Sees Green in Zhone


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September 30, 2005 : Here's a shocker: Needham analysts see growth – and profits – coming to Zhone through the Paradyne acquisition. Can the stock hit $3?

Liberty Intercepts Cablecom IPO


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September 30, 2005 : Swiss cable operator's IPO plans dashed as Liberty Global steps in with a $2.2 billion deal to buy Swisscom rival and extend its grip on the European cable market

WiMax USA: Spectrum Crunch


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September 30, 2005 : A lack of licensed spectrum could become a big issue for ISPs looking to implement WiMax in the US, but it helps Sprint Nextel

Cisco Finds Nemo


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September 30, 2005 : Cisco will pay $12.5 million for Nemo, a memory technology startup founded by Stanford University professor Nick McKeown; technology will be used to optimize performance of Cisco products

SafeNet Soars, Hifn Sags


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September 30, 2005 : Security-chip stocks could see significant action this morning, as SafeNet picked up a surprisingly large order while Hifn reports continued slowness in sales

THUS on the Prowl


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September 30, 2005 : Alternative UK operator THUS points to improved financial results in a pre-close trading update and remains on the prowl for an acquisition target

ZTE Talking to Tellabs, Ciena


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September 29, 2005 : ZTE is eager to expand its reach into North America and industry sources say the company is talking to Ciena and Tellabs as a way to make that happen

Cingular's Got Big FMC Plans


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September 29, 2005 : Carrier has a two-stage plan for fixed/mobile convergence services, and it's moving forward quickly, sources say

Cingular's Got Big FMC Plans


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September 29, 2005 : Carrier has a two-stage plan for fixed mobile convergence services, and it's moving forward quickly, sources say

Clark Boards BeamExpress


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September 29, 2005 : The BeamExpress makeover is underway, as the Swiss company hires Peter Clark as CEO, shifts into the LX4 module market, and tries to mold itself into a U.S. firm

Alcatel, Others Prep for Spanish Splash


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September 29, 2005 : Alcatel and others are planning news splashes at next week's Broadband World Forum in Madrid, but they could all be usurped by a celestial body

Ciena's Thrills and Spills


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September 29, 2005 : Ciena stock jolted upwards yesterday on rumors of a possible Google deal or even a Corning acquisition. One analyst says its interest from Chinese equipment vendor ZTE

Dutch, Swedes Rule Muni BB


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September 28, 2005 : A delegation of Dutch and Scandinavian municipal broadband players spoke at the Broadband Cities event in Salt Lake City last week; they believe America lacks competition and innovation

VOIP: Continental Drift?


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September 28, 2005 : Now on LRTV: NetCentrex CTO Olivier Hersent says the US VOIP market is hard to peg because the consumer broadband market is still comparatively small – Europe is better

The WLAN Departure Lounge


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September 28, 2005 : The enterprise WLAN job market is as fluid as ever

ECI, Keymile Debut IP DSLAMs


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September 28, 2005 : ECI and Keymile have unveiled new IP DSLAMs ahead of next week's Broadband World Forum Europe event in Spain – but are they up to snuff?

Moto Eyes AirWalk


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September 28, 2005 : Scuttlebutt suggests incumbent is mulling a bid for CDMA base-station startup

Vonage Selects IPO Bankers


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September 27, 2005 : Following a six-month IPO bakeoff, Vonage has picked bankers to take it public in the wake of Skype's $2.6B windfall, but some believe an acquisition looms instead

Sources: Ericsson Mulling Marconi


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September 27, 2005 : Sources inside Marconi's corridors believe that Ericsson is planning a bid for the British vendor, possibly competing with Huawei, but not everyone's convinced

RIM Picks Intel for Blackberry


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September 27, 2005 : RIM inks chip deal to add features as 3G wireless email access market hots up

Ericsson Mulling Marconi?


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September 27, 2005 : Sources inside Marconi believe Ericsson is planning a bid for the British vendor, but not everyone's convinced

Modulus Broadcasts $10M Round


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September 27, 2005 : MPEG-4 video encoding startup Modulus Video scores $10M in Series B funding as telcos and traditional TV providers look at a move to HDTV

Tellabs May 'Edge' Towards Redback


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September 26, 2005 : Tellabs has $1.25 billion in the bank and wants to play in edge gear markets; Redback needs a fatter balance sheet to sell to RBOCs – time to make a deal?

HP, Telcordia Hop SDP Bandwagon


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September 26, 2005 : As HP sets up service delivery platform collaboration scheme, OSS giant Telcordia is due to announce a new souped-up version of its ISCP service database product

Late Reprieve for VocalTec?


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September 26, 2005 : Struggling softswitch vendor is on life support but may have found a savior in the form of privately held media gateway vendor Tdsoft

Marconi/Huawei Talk Reheated


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September 26, 2005 : Talk of Huawei's bid for Marconi resurfaces, sending share price of the British incumbent equipment provider on a roller coaster ride as public awaits an announcement

3Com Pushes Enterprise WLAN


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September 26, 2005 : Introduces new products, talks up integration possibilities

Is Iolon Becoming Coherent?


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September 26, 2005 : The latest scuttlebutt has Coherent Inc. acquiring the tunable laser vendor, a move that could take Iolon out of the telecom market

RBOCs Gearing up for Gigabit PONs


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September 23, 2005 : The incumbents are revving up their GPON plans and a long-awaited RFP could arrive in November; they are looking for speeds of 2.488 Gbit/s downstream and 1.2 Gbit/s upstream

Meru Veep Goes Cisco-Side


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September 23, 2005 : Meru marketing VP jumps to Cisco

Autocell Grabs Another Round


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September 23, 2005 : WLAN software startup expected to announce more funding next week

VOIP Testing Goes Live


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September 23, 2005 : Call quality monitoring and SLAs come to the VOIP world. VON brings a raft of product releases for VOIP testing and monitoring as carriers focus on live environments

BellSouth: The IMS SuperBowl?


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September 23, 2005 : Lucent now appears to be the favorite to win a landmark BellSouth RFP for IMS technology, potentially valued as high as $400M, but Sonus still has hopes

ADVA Plans 40G Metro Gear


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September 23, 2005 : Optical vendor is souping up its high-end metro platform with multiple capacity-boosting features, including 40-Gbit/s channels, ROADM, and Raman amplification

ROADM Show: Funding & Feuding


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September 22, 2005 : With ROADMs gaining popularity, components startup Capella raises its fourth round. Meanwhile, fellow startup Metconnex is fending off JDSU in court

Utah's Broadband War


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September 22, 2005 : UTOPIA Network in Utah is facing pricing pressure from incumbent broadband providers, which may result in a price war that has an impact on muni nets everywhere

Xtera Xhibits Energis Deal


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September 22, 2005 : Xtera looks to be on the rebound, as Energis has picked the optical networking provider to be its supplier of long-haul DWDM equipment

BT Opens Up Access


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September 22, 2005 : Deal with UK regulator creates a new access network division, avoiding potential barrier to progress in 21CN converged network plans

Mobile TV Faces Tech Battle


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September 22, 2005 : Unstrung Insider cites three competing ways to deliver TV to mobile users

Your CMO Is Who?


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September 22, 2005 : You'd have thought chief marketing officers would be good at marketing themselves. Think again...

Storage Vet Dances the Xambala


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September 21, 2005 : Storage networking exec Mike Knudsen from QLogic joins XML processing startup Xambala as CEO

Earthlink Joins VOIP Parade


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September 21, 2005 : The 5 million-member ISP says 'better late than never' to bring on the VOIP, it will roll out a 'Vonage-like' replacement service in two weeks

Colt Plans Ethernet Splurge


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September 21, 2005 : Colt plans to wow Europe's business users with Ethernet service ideas drummed up by its internal 'think-tank'

Voodoo Cranks Up 3G


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September 21, 2005 : Carrier plans HSDPA network launch in 2006 and talks down potential of mobile WiMax

Force10 Takes $40M, Talks IPO


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September 21, 2005 : The 10-Gbit/s Ethernet startup raises another chunk of change, and lead investor Dick Kramlich says this will take it to IPO

Sprint Leaves Behind the Legacy


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September 21, 2005 : Global carrier has plans to shut down its legacy networks in four years as it hustles to move thousands of its customers to a converged IP backbone

Muni Networks: The Public's Not Buying


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September 21, 2005 : In Utah, the search is on for a 'killer app' that only municipally owned fiber networks can deliver

Tony Li Leaves Cisco Again


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September 21, 2005 : Less than a year after rejoining Cisco, Li is leaving the hardware realm to look at changing the way content is delivered to the home

Google's Free-Time Secure WiFi


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September 20, 2005 : Search Sumo gets in the secure WiFi ring
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