News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : As Japanese incumbent plans mega-fat optical pipe to cope with the demands of growing FTTH customer base, analyst reckons Cisco and Juniper could have a piece of router expansion
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : Portugal's Competition Authority has given a preliminary thumbs up for Sonae's takeover of Portugal Telecom, but there are conditions, shareholders, and potential rival bids for Sonae to overcome
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) September 28, 2006 : As approval for the Alcate/Lucent merger heads towards the office of George W. Bush, Wall Street analyst likes the look of the 'end-to-end equipment supermarket' the vendors will create
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 28, 2006 : Former Comverse CEO Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander, a fugitive who featured on the FBI's Most Wanted list, has been arrested in Africa, and now faces securities fraud charges that could send him down for 25 years
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 27, 2006 : Management issues have burdened carrier Ethernet in the past few years, but now vendors, and an independent test lab, say major progress has been made on operations, administration, and maintenance
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (137) September 26, 2006 : Carrier's NGN core was set to be pure IP/MPLS, but now BT is considering adding a new approach to Ethernet called PBT. And BT isn't the only operator eyeing up PBT
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 25, 2006 : Industry sources say Cisco, Nokia, and Siemens have formed a consortium pitching for a massive IMS deal at France Telecom, but there's strong competition from Ericsson, Alcatel/Lucent, and others UPDATED: 9/25, 3:20 PM
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : Telco Systems is building its capabilities with small acquisitions – this time it's a remote IP DSLAM startup. The strategy appears to be paying off as the vendor reports a first-half profit
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) September 21, 2006 : After Riverbed's customer base doubled during the first half of this year, the WAN optimization firm's stock leaps nearly 50 percent on its Nasdaq debut
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 21, 2006 : Bandwidth management technology specialist bags a $15 million third round to fund international expansion as carriers ramp up their requests for QOS capabilities
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 20, 2006 : VOIP and IPTV are the hot topics in the test-and-measurement sector, where new products and services are emerging, including two new IPTV test beds run by HP and Intel
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 20, 2006 : Mixed fortunes for session border controller vendors: Acme Packet continues to report enviable profit margins, while Newport Networks cuts back again after a dismal half year
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 19, 2006 : Reports from Israel suggest that the video processing and VOIP vendor is heading for an IPO in early 2007 that could value the cable equipment company at $500 million
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 18, 2006 : As carriers prepare for a significant leap in video traffic volumes, the market for ROADM-based optical equipment is set to boom in the coming five years, according to a new Heavy Reading report
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 18, 2006 : What a weekend for the Italian incumbent. First, its chairman quits over a strategy-induced political row, then it buys AOL's German unit for $855 million
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) September 15, 2006 : BT is expanding its international network, has set aggressive revenue growth targets, claims it is winning share from the likes of AT&T and Verizon, and even has plans to make further acquisitions
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (8) September 15, 2006 : Seven of the world's biggest operators have formed a new 4G wireless technology group to let vendors know what they need to deliver. Analyst says the carriers will need to be consistent to be effective
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 15, 2006 : Swedish giant is reorganizing itself into three new divisions, including one to concentrate on multimedia applications development; company will hire 500 new R&D staff
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 14, 2006 : Carrier has created consultancy to cash in on its 21CN experience and claims it has already signed up one carrier customer. Average consultancy deals will be up to $25 million, says executive
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 13, 2006 : French operator will deploy Active Ethernet technology in its €1 billion FTTH network. That's a major boost for a technology battling against PON for the hearts and minds of carriers, says analyst
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 12, 2006 : French broadband player plans to invest $1.27 billion over six years reaching 10 million people with fiber-to-the-home connections. Analyst questions the economics but loves the proposition
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 12, 2006 : Performs a strategy U-turn by creating separate subsidiaries for its mobile business and Italian access network, but denies it plans to sell its wireless assets
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 11, 2006 : Carrier's stock is suspended as its board meets to discuss reorganization of its fixed and mobile businesses. Reports suggest TI will offload its mobile business, but analysts are cautious
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 11, 2006 : French competitive carrier aims for Euronext listing that could raise $1.27 billion as soon as October, as it prepares to acquire AOL's French broadband business
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) September 8, 2006 : The 'merger of equals' may be closer following shareholder approval from both sides of the Atlantic, but there's still one more major regulatory hurdle to leap before the marriage can be consummated
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (16) September 8, 2006 : Revenues and contract sales are still ramping up at a fearsome pace, but margins are on the slide, the company confirms at a business summit in China
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 7, 2006 : Pipex splashes £36 million on two acquisitions and awards monster broadband wholesale deal to C&W as it extends its broadband customer base and gets into mobile
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 6, 2006 : On the eve of its merger shareholder vote, Lucent says it's facing action by the SEC over its operations in China
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 5, 2006 : After much ruminating, Riverbed has revealed the offer details of its IPO, which could raise $82 million. Its filing also uncovers its massive leap in revenues
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (11) September 5, 2006 : Honey, I Shrunk The Router! Cisco unveils a quarter-sized CRS-1 core router in response to carrier demand for a cheaper model to be deployed in distributed architectures
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 4, 2006 : 9:00 AM -- Deutsche Telekom's CEO has been working over the weekend to come up with a new überplan
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 4, 2006 : 7:00 AM -- Just what we all needed - another blog! But this one has a distinctive flavor from the Old Continent
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 4, 2006 : Lucent brandishes its checkbook and agrees a settlement with combative shareholders, avoiding a court hearing that could have postponed this week's Alcatel merger shareholder vote
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 1, 2006 : Nortel's CEO explains how Nortel will learn the lessons from its UMTS access history to ensure it has a fighting chance in the 4G arena, following the sale of its 3G unit to Alcatel
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) September 1, 2006 : Industry analysts thought Nortel would get more than $320 million for its UMTS access business, and that Alcatel's various consolidating deals could give it as much as 20 percent of the UMTS access market
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (38) September 1, 2006 : Alcatel agrees to pay $320 million for Nortel's UMTS access business, making it the clear number three in the market. But the move could cause confusion, reckons analyst
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : As Japanese incumbent plans mega-fat optical pipe to cope with the demands of growing FTTH customer base, analyst reckons Cisco and Juniper could have a piece of router expansion
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 29, 2006 : Portugal's Competition Authority has given a preliminary thumbs up for Sonae's takeover of Portugal Telecom, but there are conditions, shareholders, and potential rival bids for Sonae to overcome
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) September 28, 2006 : As approval for the Alcate/Lucent merger heads towards the office of George W. Bush, Wall Street analyst likes the look of the 'end-to-end equipment supermarket' the vendors will create
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 28, 2006 : Former Comverse CEO Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander, a fugitive who featured on the FBI's Most Wanted list, has been arrested in Africa, and now faces securities fraud charges that could send him down for 25 years
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 27, 2006 : Management issues have burdened carrier Ethernet in the past few years, but now vendors, and an independent test lab, say major progress has been made on operations, administration, and maintenance
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (137) September 26, 2006 : Carrier's NGN core was set to be pure IP/MPLS, but now BT is considering adding a new approach to Ethernet called PBT. And BT isn't the only operator eyeing up PBT
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 25, 2006 : Industry sources say Cisco, Nokia, and Siemens have formed a consortium pitching for a massive IMS deal at France Telecom, but there's strong competition from Ericsson, Alcatel/Lucent, and others UPDATED: 9/25, 3:20 PM
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 22, 2006 : Telco Systems is building its capabilities with small acquisitions – this time it's a remote IP DSLAM startup. The strategy appears to be paying off as the vendor reports a first-half profit
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) September 21, 2006 : After Riverbed's customer base doubled during the first half of this year, the WAN optimization firm's stock leaps nearly 50 percent on its Nasdaq debut
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 21, 2006 : Bandwidth management technology specialist bags a $15 million third round to fund international expansion as carriers ramp up their requests for QOS capabilities
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 20, 2006 : VOIP and IPTV are the hot topics in the test-and-measurement sector, where new products and services are emerging, including two new IPTV test beds run by HP and Intel
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 20, 2006 : Mixed fortunes for session border controller vendors: Acme Packet continues to report enviable profit margins, while Newport Networks cuts back again after a dismal half year
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 19, 2006 : Reports from Israel suggest that the video processing and VOIP vendor is heading for an IPO in early 2007 that could value the cable equipment company at $500 million
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 18, 2006 : As carriers prepare for a significant leap in video traffic volumes, the market for ROADM-based optical equipment is set to boom in the coming five years, according to a new Heavy Reading report
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 18, 2006 : What a weekend for the Italian incumbent. First, its chairman quits over a strategy-induced political row, then it buys AOL's German unit for $855 million
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) September 15, 2006 : BT is expanding its international network, has set aggressive revenue growth targets, claims it is winning share from the likes of AT&T and Verizon, and even has plans to make further acquisitions
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (8) September 15, 2006 : Seven of the world's biggest operators have formed a new 4G wireless technology group to let vendors know what they need to deliver. Analyst says the carriers will need to be consistent to be effective
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 15, 2006 : Swedish giant is reorganizing itself into three new divisions, including one to concentrate on multimedia applications development; company will hire 500 new R&D staff
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 14, 2006 : Carrier has created consultancy to cash in on its 21CN experience and claims it has already signed up one carrier customer. Average consultancy deals will be up to $25 million, says executive
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 13, 2006 : French operator will deploy Active Ethernet technology in its €1 billion FTTH network. That's a major boost for a technology battling against PON for the hearts and minds of carriers, says analyst
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 12, 2006 : French broadband player plans to invest $1.27 billion over six years reaching 10 million people with fiber-to-the-home connections. Analyst questions the economics but loves the proposition
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 12, 2006 : Performs a strategy U-turn by creating separate subsidiaries for its mobile business and Italian access network, but denies it plans to sell its wireless assets
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 11, 2006 : Carrier's stock is suspended as its board meets to discuss reorganization of its fixed and mobile businesses. Reports suggest TI will offload its mobile business, but analysts are cautious
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 11, 2006 : French competitive carrier aims for Euronext listing that could raise $1.27 billion as soon as October, as it prepares to acquire AOL's French broadband business
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) September 8, 2006 : The 'merger of equals' may be closer following shareholder approval from both sides of the Atlantic, but there's still one more major regulatory hurdle to leap before the marriage can be consummated
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (16) September 8, 2006 : Revenues and contract sales are still ramping up at a fearsome pace, but margins are on the slide, the company confirms at a business summit in China
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 7, 2006 : Pipex splashes £36 million on two acquisitions and awards monster broadband wholesale deal to C&W as it extends its broadband customer base and gets into mobile
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 6, 2006 : On the eve of its merger shareholder vote, Lucent says it's facing action by the SEC over its operations in China
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 5, 2006 : After much ruminating, Riverbed has revealed the offer details of its IPO, which could raise $82 million. Its filing also uncovers its massive leap in revenues
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (11) September 5, 2006 : Honey, I Shrunk The Router! Cisco unveils a quarter-sized CRS-1 core router in response to carrier demand for a cheaper model to be deployed in distributed architectures
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 4, 2006 : 9:00 AM -- Deutsche Telekom's CEO has been working over the weekend to come up with a new überplan
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 4, 2006 : 7:00 AM -- Just what we all needed - another blog! But this one has a distinctive flavor from the Old Continent
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) September 4, 2006 : Lucent brandishes its checkbook and agrees a settlement with combative shareholders, avoiding a court hearing that could have postponed this week's Alcatel merger shareholder vote
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment September 1, 2006 : Nortel's CEO explains how Nortel will learn the lessons from its UMTS access history to ensure it has a fighting chance in the 4G arena, following the sale of its 3G unit to Alcatel
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) September 1, 2006 : Industry analysts thought Nortel would get more than $320 million for its UMTS access business, and that Alcatel's various consolidating deals could give it as much as 20 percent of the UMTS access market
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (38) September 1, 2006 : Alcatel agrees to pay $320 million for Nortel's UMTS access business, making it the clear number three in the market. But the move could cause confusion, reckons analyst
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