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Articles published in September 2007

3Com Tastes the Bain


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6)
September 28, 2007 : Bain Capital and Huawei are forking over the cash for troubled 3Com, possibly banking on the potential of the H3C joint venture

DT Goes Double Dutch for $1.9B


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
September 28, 2007 : German giant completes its expected acquisition of France Telecom's Dutch assets for €1.3B ($1.9B), a move that pitches it head-to-head with incumbent KPN

BigBand Looks to Resolve BigProblems


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (7)
September 28, 2007 : Analysts and investors punish company after it cuts revenue guidance by as much as 40%. Execs assess the damage on conference call, but remain cryptic about fate of BigBand's CMTS business

Tellabs Still Looking at Carrier Access


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (2)
September 28, 2007 : Sources say Tellabs is performing due diligence in its bid to acquire Carrier Access for $7 per share. Still no word on how soon a deal might surface

Tough Month Ahead for AlcaLu's Russo


TelcoTV News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (13)
September 28, 2007 : Following an extraordinary meeting of the Alcatel-Lucent board, pressure is mounting on CEO Pat Russo. Speculation of fresh changes at the vendor, though, has given the vendor's stock a lift

Huawei Faces $670M CAT Fight


News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Comments (8)
September 28, 2007 : Thai state-run operator CAT Telecom wants to fine Huawei $2.8 million per day in a dispute over a CDMA deployment that's eight months late

Russia's Sistema Buys Into India


News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
September 28, 2007 : Russian giant Sistema, which has long had designs on the Indian market, acquires 10% stake in regional operator Shyam Telelink with an option to scale up to 51%

Optical Expo: A Look Ahead


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment
September 28, 2007 : Packet optical transport systems, 100-Gigabit transport, and fiber-to-the-home are hot topics at this year's Optical Expo

BigBand Falls out of Tune


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
September 27, 2007 : Shares fall more than 24 percent as BigBand predicts a Q3 shortfall caused partly by a 'slowdown' in the telco TV sector

Cisco Wooing WiMax Vendors?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (2)
September 27, 2007 : Sources say Cisco is well on its way to buying a WiMax base-station company, and this may just be the start of a wireless broadband M&A spree

Metasploit Adds iPhone Hacking Tools


LR Mobile News Analysis - Kelly Jackson Higgins - Post a comment
September 27, 2007 : Popular pen-test tool now comes with Apple iPhone payloads

Czech Out Ethernet's New Euro Hotspots


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
September 27, 2007 : Central and Eastern Europe is a growth hotspot for carrier Ethernet as service providers build out new networks and services, according to hardware and software vendors

BT Goes Live With PBT


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
September 27, 2007 : BT still has some hoops to jump through before it can deploy PBT in the UK, but its Global Services unit has turned on the Ethernet technology in mainland Europe, says BT exec

CableLabs Certifies Secret Slingbox Gear


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5)
September 26, 2007 : CableLabs has certified a new Slingbox with an on-board Docsis 2.0 cable modem from Texas Instruments, clearing the device for retail distribution, Cable Digital News has learned

Vonage Loses Verizon Appeal


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Post a comment
September 26, 2007 : Vonage is confirmed to be guilty of violating two of three Verizon technology patents. But how much money will it end up owing to Verizon?

'Business as Usual' for Sling Media


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
September 26, 2007 : Sling Media CEO says place-shifting pioneer will maintain brand, retail strategy, and stand-alone product development in wake of EchoStar deal. New Slingbox products expected as early as this week

Verizon Biz Nears 'God Box' Choice


News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (4)
September 26, 2007 : Verizon Business is ready to announce its vendor choice for a multiservice edge device for its enterprise customers

Sprint Promises WiMax 'Momentum'


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
September 26, 2007 : Get ready for WiMax and the first compliant devices, they're coming soon, claims Sprint 4G chief at Chicago show

Verizon Gears Up for 100 Gig


News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (23)
September 26, 2007 : Verizon sets aggressive timeline for 100 Gbit/s optical transport, aiming for a trial by the end of this year

Juniper Gains Ethernet Mojo


TelcoTV News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (8)
September 26, 2007 : The company's stock has rebounded after analysts voiced their doubts last year, but Juniper's Ethernet offensive might still have a ways to go

Arris Takes a Dive


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3)
September 26, 2007 : This week's decline in Arris shares could have less to do with the C-COR deal and more to do with a diminished EPS forecast

Vonage Guilty Again


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (4)
September 25, 2007 : For the second time this year, Vonage is guilty of violating another carrier's patents

Centillium Soars on PON Deal


TelcoTV News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
September 25, 2007 : A 'multimillion dollar' order has come in, probably signifying Centillium has at last landed its EPON chips with NTT

BigBand Edge QAM Goes 'Universal'


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
September 25, 2007 : Arris and C-COR stole its thunder on Monday, but BigBand is trying to drum up some noise with a third-gen 'universal' edge QAM capable of supporting VOD, switched digital, and Docsis Internet services

WiMax: The Chips Are Up


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
September 25, 2007 : Motorola, IBM, and others get deeper into WiMax Silicon as networks start to arrive

Lightstorm Charges Into Ethernet


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
September 25, 2007 : Ethernet chips abound, but Lightstorm thinks it's got something special with a carrier-focused device that supports technologies including PBT and T-MPLS

Sycamore Intros Metro Switch


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment
September 25, 2007 : Sycamore's new switch sits between its current edge and core offerings. But the product gap filler is seen by one analyst as being too little, too late

Google's Building Unity Underseas


News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Comments (11)
September 25, 2007 : Google is reportedly in talks with at least half a dozen carriers to commission a new transpacific submarine cable called Unity

PacketFront Lands Vienna Deal


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (8)
September 24, 2007 : Swedish vendor PacketFront is supplying the fiber access and home gateway technology for the first phase of a municipal FTTH project in the Austrian capital

Spending Slowdown at AT&T?


TelcoTV News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (4)
September 24, 2007 : Capex at the carrier could slow due to excess Project Lightspeed inventory and a budget crunch at AT&T Local UPDATED 9/25 NOON

Calix Goes for 1-Gig ONTs


TelcoTV News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (3)
September 24, 2007 : Calix improves its 700-Series ONT to provide 1 Gbit/s to individual homes – but one competitor says it's late to the party

Arris Takes 'Giant Leap Forward'


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
September 24, 2007 : Proposal for C-COR gives Arris the portfolio and scale necessary to compete against bigger dogs like Cisco and Motorola, as well as smaller rivals such as Harmonic, SeaChange, and Concurrent

Blyk's Ad-Funded Service Hits UK


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comment (1)
September 24, 2007 : MVNO service launches advertising-funded mobile service for young people, with plans to launch in other European markets next year

Auctions to Open Up Emerging Markets


News Analysis - Nicole Willing - Post a comment
September 24, 2007 : Governments in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America are engaged in a round of telecom license auctions, opening the mobile and fixed sectors to increased competition

At Age 2, Verizon FiOS Evolves


TelcoTV News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comments (3)
September 24, 2007 : Verizon's gradually changing FiOS to an IPTV service. But that alone won't make it remarkably different from cable TV

WiFi Alliance Promises N-Harmony


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
September 24, 2007 : The 802.11n standard is still in 'tweak' mode, but 90 products using the 2.0 draft are now certified compatible

Widevine Talks Up CableCard Strategy


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
September 24, 2007 : Encryption firm's entry bolsters its cable security strategy and makes it a candidate for Verizon's 'next-gen' conditional access system. New card already in use with 'a few' US cable MSOs

Arris Bids $730M for C-COR


LR Cable News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (11)
September 24, 2007 : Still looking for a way into the video market after getting outbid for Tandberg TV, Arris sets its eyes on a $730M deal for C-COR

Peermeta Grabs $6M


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Post a comment
September 21, 2007 : Serial entreprenuer Cheng Wu gets his claws into the mobile content market with a software platform to mobilize and share content

AlcaLu 'Ads' to Its TV Program


TelcoTV News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
September 21, 2007 : Alcatel-Lucent's purchase of Tamblin gives it credibility in the interactive advertising sector for broadcasters as well as telcos, claims exec

Bell Canada Shareholders OK Privatization


News Analysis - Raymond McConville - Comment (1)
September 21, 2007 : BCE shareholders approve bid by Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan. CEO Michael Sabia announces plans to step down once privatization is complete

Cable, Satcos Face à la Carte Lawsuit


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4)
September 21, 2007 : A class action suit sure to warm the cockles of the FCC chairman seeks an end to prepackaged programming tiers from cable and DBS operators, as well as network 'tying' deals

More CDN Pressures Ahead


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Comments (6)
September 21, 2007 : An analyst lowers his price target and says it's time to sell Akamai and Limelight, due to greater competition and further price pressures in the content delivery network services sector

AlcaLu Buys IPTV Apps Specialist


TelcoTV News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3)
September 21, 2007 : Alcatel-Lucent is acquiring interactive TV applications specialist Tamblin to cap a busy week of announcements. This is a good time to be building a position in interactive TV apps, says analyst

Cedar Point Plugs In WiMax


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5)
September 20, 2007 : A cable MSO in Ecuador is first to deploy a voice-over-WiMax implementation of Cedar Point's PacketCable-based VOIP architecture

Verizon, Vodafone Head for LTE


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
September 20, 2007 : Vodafone and Verizon Wireless are working towards adopting the same 4G platform, with Long-Term Evolution the front runner for deployment

Deutsche Telekom Flirts With PBT


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
September 20, 2007 : German incumbent is checking out PBT's capabilities in a trial with Nokia Siemens Networks. PBT's main sponsor, Nortel, suggests it's working with DT on PBT, too

ISPs Battle Botnets


TelcoTV News Analysis - Kelly Jackson Higgins - Comment (1)
September 19, 2007 : Anti-botnet security services are on the rise, but ISPs still aren't coming over to clean up your machine

Nortel Works Some Optical Wins


News Analysis - Ryan Lawler - Post a comment
September 19, 2007 : The company's OME 6500 is beginning to get traction, as the market for converged optical + Ethernet equipment heats up

Cable's 'Canoe' RFI Paddles Toward Deadline


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
September 19, 2007 : Dozens of vendors have until Thursday to respond to a secretive CableLabs RFI that will result in a uniform system for advanced advertising, and a cable-wide project carrying the code-named 'Canoe'
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