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2007 Top Ten: Quotes
News Analysis - Kevin Cramer -
December 31, 2007 : The best of the best from the past year on Light Reading
SeaChange Sheds FilmFlex Stake
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 31, 2007 : VOD server and software specialist exits the VOD content aggregation biz in the UK and Ireland
EchoStar Ready to Split
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 31, 2007 : Pay-TV unit to be named 'Dish Network Corp.,' but moniker for tech spinoff may be short-lived
2007 Top Ten: Sprint Shockas
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 31, 2007 : Ten hard knocks for the struggling operator
Vonage Settles More Patent Disputes
News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
December 31, 2007 : Vonage announced today that it had settled its patent dispute with Nortel, bringing an end to its legal troubles for now
2007 Top Ten: Photos
News Analysis - Phil Harvey -
December 28, 2007 : We pointed and shot. Now all you need to do is click
CMTS Downstream Prices Plummet
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 28, 2007 : New downstream CMTS modules are reducing port prices by 50% or more, speeding development of 100-Mbit/s services based on Docsis 3.0
2007 Top Ten: Technologies to Watch
News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
December 28, 2007 : What technologies are going to make a big splash in the next 12 months? We've made our list and checked it twice
2007 Top Ten: Techs That Flopped
News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
December 28, 2007 : What's more fun than failure?
2007 Top Ten: Wireless Stories
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 27, 2007 : The top topics that got the wireless market jumping in 2007
2007 Top Ten: Services Stories
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 27, 2007 : From FMC to IPTV to (voice) SMS and all the way to UMA, we give you this year's top services stories from the Light Reading stable
2007 Top Ten: Stock Rockets
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto -
December 27, 2007 : Some next-gen communications stocks sizzled in 2007. Here's our list of the year's biggest gainers
Source Photonics Files for IPO
News Analysis - Phil Harvey -
December 26, 2007 : MRV subsidiary files to go public, putting the wraps on a plan it first talked about in January
2007 Top Ten: Big OSS Stories
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 26, 2007 : IT giants and India have been at the heart of the sector's M&A action
Changes Run Deep at Cisco
LR Cable News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto -
December 26, 2007 : With Charles Giancarlo stepping down, there's no clear successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers
2007 Top Ten: Cable Fables & Lessons Learned
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 24, 2007 : From a bandwidth crunch to a regulatory jihad and a hammer-toting granny with 'tude, cable had its hands full in '07
NXP to Buy Location Smarts for $85M
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 21, 2007 : Dutch chip maker to buy GloNav for GPS chipsets
AlcaLu Pays Up in Chinese Bribes Case
News Analysis - Phil Harvey -
December 21, 2007 : Lucent ran afoul of the law by spiffing Chinese carrier execs with 'training' junkets to Disneyland
Is AT&T Finished With Tellabs FTTC?
News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
December 21, 2007 : Is Ma Bell kicking Tellabs to the curb?
2007 Top Ten: Googly Moments
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December 21, 2007 : For a company in the business of shoving ads down our throats, Google sure covered a lot of odd terrain in 2007
ANDA Files for $86M IPO
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 21, 2007 : We told you so! Ethernet access equipment vendor plans to raise $86.25 million from an IPO on Nasdaq
2007 Top Ten: Optical Stories
News Analysis -
December 21, 2007 : 100-Gig is awfully big, Smellabs is smarting, and Infinera makes all the right moves in our list of top optical networking stories of 2007
Report: VimpelCom to Buy Golden
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto -
December 20, 2007 : Word of a $4.3B deal between the Russian carriers is making the rounds
Danger Plots IPO
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 20, 2007 : The 'Sidekick' designer has decided to float in 2008
Giancarlo Quits Cisco, Paddles to Silver Lake
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto -
December 20, 2007 : The No. 2 exec and chief development officer is off to the world of private equity
Pace Shoots for STB Stardom
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 20, 2007 : The $135M bid for Philips's set-top business would make Pace the No. 3 set-top box supplier, leapfrogging Scientific Atlanta
CDNetworks Racks Up $96.5M
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto -
December 20, 2007 : With competition mounting, the top Asian CDN provider gets extra cash, possibly to aid its US expansion
Ericsson Invests in IPTV Smarts
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 20, 2007 : Buys small IPTV integrator HyC Group for an undisclosed sum to add 110 specialist staff to its services division
SFR to Swallow Neuf in $6.4B Deal
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 20, 2007 : French consolidation continues as SFR plans €4.5B ($6.4B) acquisition of Neuf Cegetel to create a quad-play giant
Moto Bonds With Korea
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 20, 2007 : Once again proving that the high-speed, channel-bonding early adopters are mostly in Asia and Europe
Telecom Blooms in the Middle East
News Analysis - Phil Harvey -
December 19, 2007 : Our look at the 15-country region profiles the ownership and services of nearly 60 carriers
FCC Names 700 MHz Applicants
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 19, 2007 : The 226 applicants include some names even more far afield than Google
Brits Build Backbone With Infinera
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 19, 2007 : Optical upstart Infinera lands an optical backbone deal from growing UK broadband service provider Carphone Warehouse
Cisco, Arris & Casa Make the CableLabs Grade
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 19, 2007 : Christmas came early for three suppliers after CableLabs stamped their CMTS gear with prized Docsis 3.0 approvals
Emcore Beefs Up
News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto -
December 18, 2007 : Intel sells off its tunable lasers and transponders for $85M, and Emcore's the richer for it
Palm in a BlackBerry-Apple Jam
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 18, 2007 : Device maker reports Q2 loss on increased competition
FCC Caps Cable
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 18, 2007 : The agency approves a 30 percent ownership limit, and the cable industry is predictably unhappy about it
3 & T-Mobile Share 3G in the UK
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 18, 2007 : 3 & T-Mobile are the latest UK operators to strike up a 3G RAN sharing deal
Embarq CEO Resigns to Run Sprint
News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
December 18, 2007 : Embarq CEO Dan Hesse is leaving the company to become the CEO of Sprint Nextel
Turin Bulks Up With Backhaul Buy
News Analysis -
December 18, 2007 : The combination of Turin and Carrier Access will benefit from complementary technology and customer bases, say analysts
AlcaLu Sells Fiber Stake
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 18, 2007 : Alcatel-Lucent is selling its stake in fiber vendor Draka Comteq for $301M
NTT Joins PBT Roll Call
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 18, 2007 : Japanese giant is set to put PBT through its paces early next year as interest continues to grow in the controversial Ethernet technology
Atheros Buys Into GPS
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 17, 2007 : Atheros hopes to get a slice of a new multibillion-dollar market with $54M u-Nav acquisition
Arris Cuts, Divides Following Merger
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 17, 2007 : Arris makes staff cuts after closing the C-COR deal
CopperCom's Closing Soon
News Analysis -
December 17, 2007 : Softswitch vendor is hanging it up, citing lack of demand for its products UPDATED 3:15 PM
Vonage Sued Again
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 17, 2007 : Nortel becomes the latest company to sue for patent infringement
Turin to Buy Carrier Access
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre -
December 17, 2007 : After months of speculation, Turin Networks strikes a near $93M deal to buy Carrier Access
Arris Sews Up C-COR
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 17, 2007 : Arris closes deal to strengthen it against larger rivals such as Cisco and Motorola
Unstrung Insider: Decoding Open Access
LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones -
December 14, 2007 : The latest Unstrung Insider report highlights the role that mobile Internet gateways will play in helping to 'open' cellular networks
BigBand OKs 'Change of Control' Exec Packages
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
December 14, 2007 : 8-K filing could re-spark acquisition speculation, but analysts would be surprised if anything's afoot in the near-term
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