DISA Deal Is Done
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December 31, 2003 : The government finally announces some GIG-BE winners: Sycamore and Juniper are the biggest
Finisar Furlough Queried
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December 31, 2003 : The company appears to have shut for the holidays, fueling some New Year's Eve financial musings
Symbol CEO Falls on Sword
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December 31, 2003 : Ex-Ciscoid Bill Nuti takes helm as Symbol tries to move past accounting scandal
Is AT&T Top Heavy?
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December 30, 2003 : It's frozen pay raises for 36,000 'managers.' That's a helluva lot of chiefs, notes one of our readers
Could Aeroflex Shake Up Testing?
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December 30, 2003 : Small-fry might be tasty to Aeroflex, which is looking to raise money and may be up for a consolidation play
Report Points to P2P Problems
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December 30, 2003 : Light Reading article reviews ways service providers can come to grips with peer-to-peer traffic
Headcount: Less Is More
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December 29, 2003 : Dacom gets a new chief, Cicada to shrink after acquisition, and Emperative employees write some wrongs
Vitesse Buys GigE Ammo
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December 29, 2003 : Chipmaker pays $66M for 'independent arms dealer' of Gigabit Ethernet copper interfaces
Euro 3G's License Lunacies
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December 29, 2003 : 2003 ends on a bum note (pfarrrp!) for Europe's 3G industry
2003 Top Ten: Startup Flameouts
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December 29, 2003 : Here's our list of the most spectacular and prominent venture-capital money-burning machines of 2003
Top Ten Quotes of 2003
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December 26, 2003 : You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll stroke your chin and go 'hmmmm' with Unstrung's best quotes from 2003
Packets Key to Capex Comeback
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December 26, 2003 : Capital spending has actually crept up in the last few quarters, as packets and multiservice Sonet come in vogue
AT&T Freezes Pay
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December 26, 2003 : Roughly half of AT&T's workforce will not receive a pay increase until April 2005
Top Ten Scoops of 2003
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December 24, 2003 : These little nuggets were the best and the brightest in news for Unstrung in 2003
Skype Rings Jingle Bells
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December 24, 2003 : Releases latest version of Skype; and its customer base is still exploding
2003 Top Ten: Holiday Songs
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December 24, 2003 : What tunes are on the playlists at telecom Xmas parties this year? We listened in, and, er, made up some stuff
IMMI Switches Strategy
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December 24, 2003 : It teetered on the brink of success with Cisco, but now the startup has stopped making all-optical switches
PCTEL and Intel Agree to Agree
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December 23, 2003 : 'Soft AP' vendor signs $14.5M patent deal with silicon sumo Intel to avoid future unpleasantness
Iraq Preps for GSM Launch
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December 23, 2003 : Ministry hails contract signings this week as proof of fair play in license awards
2003 Top Ten: Services Stories
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December 23, 2003 : The world may be cuckoo for VOIP, but there's more to the services sector than a dodgy voice line
40 Gig Finds Friends
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December 23, 2003 : Subsystem startups CoreOptics and StrataLight have won more funding, suggesting 40 Gig lives
Chinese Security Snafu Looms
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December 22, 2003 : 'Don't worry, get WAPI' say the Mandarins. 'How so?' respond 802.11 vendors, users
Verizon Doubles FTTP Supply List
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December 22, 2003 : A nice bonus for winning vendors, but analysts say the list will undoubtedly change during the buildout
Amdocs Buys Xacct (At Last)
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December 22, 2003 : Pays nearly $30 million for the mediation specialist, after a protracted courtship
Christmas Capex Cheer?
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December 22, 2003 : Unstrung Insider sees signs of capex stabilization, as revenues and profits rise
Report Outlines DSL Chip Advances
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December 22, 2003 : Light Reading product survey shows how new developments will boost bandwidths, cut carrier costs
2003 Top Ten: Words of Wisdom
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December 22, 2003 : Amusing, annoying, uplifting... Light Reading's top picks from our Quote of the Week feature
Moto: Buy or Rent?
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December 19, 2003 : Analysts see acquisition or licensing as potential ways for Motorola's semicon spinoff to enter the 802.11 market
Verizon 1, Recording Biz 0
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December 19, 2003 : Service providers, for now, don't have to reveal customer information to record companies
Court Lets KaZaa off the Hook
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December 19, 2003 : Dutch court rules that software maker cannot be held liable for music copyright infringement
BT Gets Tough With Suppliers
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December 19, 2003 : Sets challenging resiliency target for converged backbone, lays down the law on ethics
Calient Bags $20M More
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December 19, 2003 : As the switch and subsystems maker lives another day, its strategic investors step back
Tunables Dig 10-Gig
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December 19, 2003 : Tunable lasers might finally have their day, as transponder vendors prep tunable 300-pin MSA modules
Aruba's New Air Style
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December 18, 2003 : Aruba updates switch software with more security and RF features and a simpler user interface
STM Buys Synad for $55M
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December 18, 2003 : French giant makes long awaited entry into the 802.11 market with the acquisition of a startup
Chip Startup Claims NTT Coup
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December 18, 2003 : Passave says it'll supply chips to the mystery winners of NTT's Ethernet PON RFP
West Looks East ...
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December 18, 2003 : Coriolis and Salira announce reseller business in Asia this week as smart technology follows brisk carrier spending
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