News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (18) February 29, 2008 : European Commissioner Viviane Reding reminds the region’s incumbents that she has their FTTH plans in her sights – and she’s not going to let them recreate monopolies
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 29, 2008 : Of the 14 nations that boast an FTTH penetration rate of more than 1 percent, half are now European, but the Asia/Pacific’s main fiber access economies are still way ahead of the pack
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (9) February 28, 2008 : BT has been asking vendors to meet some exacting, future-proof next-gen access requirements in its FTTH RFP, and is about to announce its shortlist, say sources
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) February 28, 2008 : ECI is believed to be looking for a buyer for its DSLAM business, but it’s far from deserting the fixed access market as it ramps up its FTTx activity at the FTTH Council Europe event in Paris
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) February 28, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent, probably GPON's most vocal supporter, says it offers other FTTH options too, as debate heats up about the most suitable access technology for Europe's next-generation networks
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 27, 2008 : Microsoft is tinkering with its carrier applications development strategy to increase software vendor involvement and pushing ahead with its core aim of striking revenue-sharing deals with operators
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 25, 2008 : Europe’s been slow off the mark with fiber access developments, but there are signs of an upcoming boom in rollout, helped by incumbent operators getting in on the act, according to Heavy Reading
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (12) February 25, 2008 : Cisco unveils its QuantumFlow silicon, five years in the making and more than four times as dense as the processor developed for its CRS-1 core router platform
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (35) February 22, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent’s IP chief, Basil Alwan, believes PBT will lose its sparkle in the near term, while MPLS will continue to become more carrier-friendly
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) February 21, 2008 : Europe to get more FTTH action as Portuguese competitive carrier plans €240 million investment in fiber access network, though analyst questions the economics of the scheme
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 20, 2008 : 3Com’s acquisition by Bain and Huawei has been put on hold after security concerns were raised by a federal committee. 3Com’s stock dives 20%
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) February 20, 2008 : France Telecom’s has formed a joint venture with Thomson and Sagem to develop a home networking software platform that will go head-to-head with Microsoft’s Mediaroom
Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 19, 2008 : More photographic evidence from the Barcelona-based wireless love-fest that was Mobile World Congress
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 19, 2008 : European WDM vendor sees sales grow 21% in 2007 and is ready to go public if the board gives the green light, but its CEO is keeping quiet on M&A talk
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 19, 2008 : Further signs that the conferencing sector is heating up come as French specialist Genesys receives a near $270M takeover offer from West Corp., already a player with its InterCall business
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (10) February 18, 2008 : New Redback CEO has high hopes that the mobile sector can help him reach his aggressive market share target, and is forming special teams to target the needs of wireless operators
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) February 18, 2008 : Aastra to buy Ericsson's enterprise PBX business for $103M and take on 630 staff as Swedish giant focuses on its carrier and service provider business
LR Cable News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 18, 2008 : Cablevision Mexico takes a flash approach to its video-on-demand service delivery using SeaChange's latest server technology
Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 15, 2008 : Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wasn't just the place to be for wireless gadgets, though there were a few of those too...
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 15, 2008 : COO Rob Piconi has jumped ship at Spirent, where Bill Burns, formerly the head of its service assurance unit, has now been given the job of running the whole business
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 14, 2008 : Questions have been raised at Mobile World Congress about the potential interference problems that femtocell deployments could cause, but vendors say they’re prepared to deal with the issues
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) February 13, 2008 : Film stars Robert Redford and Isabella Rossellini check in to Mobile World Congress to highlight the growing importance of video content for mobile devices
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 13, 2008 : Vodafone's CEO has sent a message to the vendor and standards community – it's time to merge the LTE and WiMax standards to make life easier for carriers
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 12, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent and NEC are forming a joint venture to develop Long Term Evolution (LTE) products, but CEO Pat Russo says this isn’t the first step to a wireless spinoff
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 11, 2008 : Russian mobile operator is looking for acquisitions to build on its existing six markets and is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in its GSM and 3G networks
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 11, 2008 : France Telecom, Neuf Cegetel, and Iliad all bumped up their IPTV subscriber bases towards the end of 2007, and all are sure to retain a place at the top end of Light Reading's IPTV Top 10 ranking
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 8, 2008 : IP router sales broke the $1B revenue mark in 2007 for Alcatel-Lucent, with optical equipment sales also doing well
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) February 8, 2008 : AlcaLu CEO Pat Russo says her company isn’t experiencing the same slowdown in North America as Cisco – but the first quarter is going to be tough all the same
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 8, 2008 : Revenues are up, but one-time charges, including a massive write-down of the CDMA infrastructure business, take Alcalu way into the red for Q4, and the vendor’s outlook for the first quarter is downbeat
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (12) February 7, 2008 : BT is only months away from launching one of the linchpins of its 21CN strategy: the exposure of its next-generation service creation capabilities to third-party applications developers
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 5, 2008 : Dutch incumbent provides its full-year report and unveils its plans for the future, including more job cuts, a fiber access rollout, and better-than-expected earnings forecasts
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 5, 2008 : Spanish giant joins the growing list of Tier 1 operators checking out the potential of connection-oriented Ethernet services as it puts Nortel's gear through its paces in its lab
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 4, 2008 : The mobile packet core equipment vendor makes good in late 2007 and appears well placed for 2008, despite increasing competition from the likes of Huawei
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) February 1, 2008 : Revenues have hardly grown at Ericsson’s $2.1B acquisition Redback, so CEO Kevin DeNuccio has been moved upstairs and a new chief is in place
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 1, 2008 : Ericsson's Q4 met expectations, but tough market conditions have led to a cost-cutting program that will see 1,000 jobs go in Sweden and more globally
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (18) February 29, 2008 : European Commissioner Viviane Reding reminds the region’s incumbents that she has their FTTH plans in her sights – and she’s not going to let them recreate monopolies
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 29, 2008 : Of the 14 nations that boast an FTTH penetration rate of more than 1 percent, half are now European, but the Asia/Pacific’s main fiber access economies are still way ahead of the pack
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (9) February 28, 2008 : BT has been asking vendors to meet some exacting, future-proof next-gen access requirements in its FTTH RFP, and is about to announce its shortlist, say sources
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) February 28, 2008 : ECI is believed to be looking for a buyer for its DSLAM business, but it’s far from deserting the fixed access market as it ramps up its FTTx activity at the FTTH Council Europe event in Paris
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) February 28, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent, probably GPON's most vocal supporter, says it offers other FTTH options too, as debate heats up about the most suitable access technology for Europe's next-generation networks
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 27, 2008 : Microsoft is tinkering with its carrier applications development strategy to increase software vendor involvement and pushing ahead with its core aim of striking revenue-sharing deals with operators
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 25, 2008 : Europe’s been slow off the mark with fiber access developments, but there are signs of an upcoming boom in rollout, helped by incumbent operators getting in on the act, according to Heavy Reading
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (12) February 25, 2008 : Cisco unveils its QuantumFlow silicon, five years in the making and more than four times as dense as the processor developed for its CRS-1 core router platform
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (35) February 22, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent’s IP chief, Basil Alwan, believes PBT will lose its sparkle in the near term, while MPLS will continue to become more carrier-friendly
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) February 21, 2008 : Europe to get more FTTH action as Portuguese competitive carrier plans €240 million investment in fiber access network, though analyst questions the economics of the scheme
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 20, 2008 : 3Com’s acquisition by Bain and Huawei has been put on hold after security concerns were raised by a federal committee. 3Com’s stock dives 20%
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) February 20, 2008 : France Telecom’s has formed a joint venture with Thomson and Sagem to develop a home networking software platform that will go head-to-head with Microsoft’s Mediaroom
Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 19, 2008 : More photographic evidence from the Barcelona-based wireless love-fest that was Mobile World Congress
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 19, 2008 : European WDM vendor sees sales grow 21% in 2007 and is ready to go public if the board gives the green light, but its CEO is keeping quiet on M&A talk
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 19, 2008 : Further signs that the conferencing sector is heating up come as French specialist Genesys receives a near $270M takeover offer from West Corp., already a player with its InterCall business
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (10) February 18, 2008 : New Redback CEO has high hopes that the mobile sector can help him reach his aggressive market share target, and is forming special teams to target the needs of wireless operators
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) February 18, 2008 : Aastra to buy Ericsson's enterprise PBX business for $103M and take on 630 staff as Swedish giant focuses on its carrier and service provider business
LR Cable News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 18, 2008 : Cablevision Mexico takes a flash approach to its video-on-demand service delivery using SeaChange's latest server technology
Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 15, 2008 : Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wasn't just the place to be for wireless gadgets, though there were a few of those too...
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 15, 2008 : COO Rob Piconi has jumped ship at Spirent, where Bill Burns, formerly the head of its service assurance unit, has now been given the job of running the whole business
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 14, 2008 : Questions have been raised at Mobile World Congress about the potential interference problems that femtocell deployments could cause, but vendors say they’re prepared to deal with the issues
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) February 13, 2008 : Film stars Robert Redford and Isabella Rossellini check in to Mobile World Congress to highlight the growing importance of video content for mobile devices
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 13, 2008 : Vodafone's CEO has sent a message to the vendor and standards community – it's time to merge the LTE and WiMax standards to make life easier for carriers
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 12, 2008 : Alcatel-Lucent and NEC are forming a joint venture to develop Long Term Evolution (LTE) products, but CEO Pat Russo says this isn’t the first step to a wireless spinoff
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 11, 2008 : Russian mobile operator is looking for acquisitions to build on its existing six markets and is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in its GSM and 3G networks
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 11, 2008 : France Telecom, Neuf Cegetel, and Iliad all bumped up their IPTV subscriber bases towards the end of 2007, and all are sure to retain a place at the top end of Light Reading's IPTV Top 10 ranking
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 8, 2008 : IP router sales broke the $1B revenue mark in 2007 for Alcatel-Lucent, with optical equipment sales also doing well
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) February 8, 2008 : AlcaLu CEO Pat Russo says her company isn’t experiencing the same slowdown in North America as Cisco – but the first quarter is going to be tough all the same
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 8, 2008 : Revenues are up, but one-time charges, including a massive write-down of the CDMA infrastructure business, take Alcalu way into the red for Q4, and the vendor’s outlook for the first quarter is downbeat
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (12) February 7, 2008 : BT is only months away from launching one of the linchpins of its 21CN strategy: the exposure of its next-generation service creation capabilities to third-party applications developers
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 5, 2008 : Dutch incumbent provides its full-year report and unveils its plans for the future, including more job cuts, a fiber access rollout, and better-than-expected earnings forecasts
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 5, 2008 : Spanish giant joins the growing list of Tier 1 operators checking out the potential of connection-oriented Ethernet services as it puts Nortel's gear through its paces in its lab
GSMA News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment February 4, 2008 : The mobile packet core equipment vendor makes good in late 2007 and appears well placed for 2008, despite increasing competition from the likes of Huawei
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) February 1, 2008 : Revenues have hardly grown at Ericsson’s $2.1B acquisition Redback, so CEO Kevin DeNuccio has been moved upstairs and a new chief is in place
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) February 1, 2008 : Ericsson's Q4 met expectations, but tough market conditions have led to a cost-cutting program that will see 1,000 jobs go in Sweden and more globally
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