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Articles published in February 2004

Nortel Passes DoD VOIP Test


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February 27, 2004 : Becomes the first vendor to pass the U.S. Department of Defense's VOIP interoperability testing

FTTH Council Lobbies Utah


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February 27, 2004 : Trade association claims a Utah State Senate bill will kill municipalities' FTTH projects

Grubman to Advise Telecom Firm


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February 27, 2004 : Distinctive Devices retains Jack B. Grubman as a strategic consultant. What else is there to say?

Sprint Extends Into Korea


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February 27, 2004 : Expands its SprintLink IP network to include Seoul; acquires value-added service provider license for the Korean market

Samsung Targets Euro Railways


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February 27, 2004 : British Network Rail has selected fiber optic cables from Samsung Electronics for its fixed telecom network

Arris Overtakes Cisco in CMTS Market


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February 27, 2004 : Infonetics reports worldwide CMTS revenue was $126M, up 13% from 3Q03; port shipments increased 31%

DSL Equipment Revenue Grows 59% in 2003


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February 27, 2004 : Worldwide DSL ports from DSLAMs, NGDLCs, and BLCs grew 141% to 53.3M; revenue increased 59% to $5M according to Infonetics

JDS Barrages OFC


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February 27, 2004 : Announces a ton of products including a tunable laser, a 4-Gbit/s transciever, a ROADM module, and more

JDS Barrages OFC


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February 27, 2004 : Announces a ton of products including a tunable laser, a 4-Gbit/s transciever, a ROADM module, and more

Vitesse Intros Smart-LINK Chips


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February 27, 2004 : Vitesse launches Smart-LINK family of physical layer (PHY) ICs, partners with T-Networks to provide transmitter solution for WDM systems

Cesky Outlines 2003 Results


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February 27, 2004 : Consolidated revenues for the Czech operator were down 3% year on year to CZK 51.5B for a consolidated net loss of CSK 1.8B

China Netcom Uses Cisco Platform


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February 27, 2004 : China Netcom selects Cisco's 10000 edge services router as part of its broadband expansion in Shandong, Liaoning, and Hangzhou provinces

Ethernet Switch Market Tops $11B


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February 27, 2004 : Infonetics reports worldwide Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switch revenue reached $11.6B last year and will hit $14.2B in 2007

AFC Elects Frank Ianna to Board


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February 27, 2004 : AFC appoints Frank Ianna, retired president of AT&T Network Services, to its board of directors

Verizon Calls for Auction


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February 26, 2004 : Verizon Wireless says government should not approve $7B giveaway of spectrum to Nextel; asks for auction instead

Marvell Reports Record Q4 Results


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February 26, 2004 : Revenues were a record $243.3M, up 61% year/year, for net income of $19.8M ($0.14/share), up from a loss of $24.2M ($0.20/share) last year

Gearbulk Chooses Infonet


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February 26, 2004 : International shipping company Gearbulk selects Infonet to manage its global network supporting 25 locations

Broadlight Receives PON Patent


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February 26, 2004 : BroadLight has been issued a patent for receiving burst mode traffic over Passive Optical Networks (PONs)

Telus Invests $2M in Apparent


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February 26, 2004 : Telus announces $2M equity investment in Apparent Networks' $10.6M first round of institutional financing

OpenMIND Wins in Austria


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February 26, 2004 : mobilkom austria hass selected the OpenMIND Message-OST platform to deliver its premium SMS service

Broadmargin Intros Financial Mgmt Suite


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February 26, 2004 : Broadmargin introduces suite of services for financial management of telecom costs; Iron Mountain and US Bank become customers

Hamamatsu Details OFC Products


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February 26, 2004 : Hamamatsu introduces ROSAs and TOSAs for Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel transceivers

Infineon Presents Chip Research


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February 26, 2004 : Infineon Technologies presents papers describing innovative CMOS-based circuits for wireless and wireline communications

Tiscali Picks NetCentrex for Euro VOIP


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February 26, 2004 : NetCentrex partners with Tiscali to launch residential broadband telephony services across Europe

StockerYale Places $6.6M


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February 26, 2004 : StockerYale completes private placement of $4M in Convertible Notes and $2.6M of common stock

KMI: Fiber Market Still Out of Balance


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February 26, 2004 : Overcapacity in the worldwide optical fiber market has resulted in aggressive price competition, according to KMI Research

Anritsu Touts MEMS, Monitoring


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February 26, 2004 : Introduces OTDR modules for fiber monitoring, and MEMS technology with performance, size, and price advantages for OSA modules

T-Systems Touts UK Wholesale Growth


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February 26, 2004 : T-Systems announces it has signed contracts with over 100 UK customers since 2001

e.Biscom Ups Revenues in 2003


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February 26, 2004 : Revenues of €529.1M were up 65% from last year; EBITDA was €110.7M

Bookham Launches InP MZ Modulator


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February 26, 2004 : Bookham intros integrated 10Gbit/s InP MZ (Mach-Zehnder) modulator packaged with a high power CW laser at OFC

3 Touts New Tariffs


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February 26, 2004 : 3 launches new VideoText price plans on Threepay and Pay monthly tariffs

Opera Details IPO Plans


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February 26, 2004 : Opera Software plans to issue 12.5M to 16.1M new shares in its IPO in the range of NOK 8 to NOK 10 per share

Apcon Intros Blade for T1, E1, J1 Testing


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February 26, 2004 : Announces blade for its modular IntellaPatch physical layer switch system for testing signal breaks and router stress

Mysticom Demos 10-GigE Over Copper


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February 26, 2004 : Mysticom Semiconductor will showcase 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions at the 9th Annual International IC Conference & Exhibition in China

Sonim Raises $28M


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February 26, 2004 : Sonim announces $28M Series C round of financing led by Accel Partners

Marconi Wins Brazilian Deal


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February 26, 2004 : Marconi receives contract to continue building an advanced, turnkey network for Brazilian mobile operator Vivo

Tekelec Announces Taqua Purchase


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February 25, 2004 : Tekelec is purchasing all of Taqua’s outstanding stock for around $85 million cash, and assuming Taqua’s outstanding options

LVL7 Helps Ethernet Switches


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February 25, 2004 : Distributed IP software architecture and integration with Broadcom's StrataXGS to speed availability of stackable Ethernet switches

Cisco Converges Bell Canada


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February 25, 2004 : Cisco 12000 Series multiservice edge capabilities will enable Bell Canada to deliver converged network services

Vivato WiFis Salida PD


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February 25, 2004 : The Salida, Colorado, Police Department has deployed a single Vivato 2.4GHz Outdoor WiFi Switch that covers the entire downtown area of the city

KoolSpan Raises $1.2M


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February 25, 2004 : KoolSpan closes $1.2M first-round financing; appoints Frank Baitman and Larry Levitan to its board of directors

Sigma-Links Intros 4G FC Transceivers


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February 25, 2004 : Sigma-Links releases its new 4-Gbit/s Fibre Channel SFP transceiver, based on a short-wavelength (850nm) VCSEL laser diode

Teknovus Names Chairman


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February 25, 2004 : Teknovus appoints semiconductor industry veteran Michael J. Callahan as chairman of the board

Bookham, Colibrys Make MEMS VOAs


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February 25, 2004 : Bookham Technology and Colibrys use new MEMS concepts to produce variable optical attenuator modules for telecommunications networks

Corning, Optical Solutions Team on Fiber


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February 25, 2004 : Corning NexCor fiber achieves twice the launch power of standard singlemode fiber using Optical Solutions' FiberPath 500 FTTP solution

NewSouth, NuVox to Merge


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February 25, 2004 : NewSouth Communications and NuVox will combine into a $300M company, which will operate under the name NuVox Communications

ZTE Selects Infineon for RPR


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February 25, 2004 : ZTE has selected Infineon Technologies for network equipment to enable Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) architectures in China

Encore Demos Satellite VPN Stuff


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February 25, 2004 : Encore Networks to showcase secure, converged VPN, and signaling solutions for broadband satellite networks

Telcordia Licenses Optical Patent


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February 25, 2004 : Telcordia licenses NEC optical products and permits Zhone to manufacture and sell its VISTA intelligent access multiplexer

AT&T Outlines Strategy to Investors


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February 25, 2004 : AT&T announces aggressive strategy to become 'The World's Networking Company'
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