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Craig Matsumoto
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Posted in January 2006

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Comment: Re: Amazing - Craig Matsumoto January 31, 2006

Hammerhead Nails Another $30M


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (10)
January 31, 2006 : The edge router firm's Round C arrives as it claims to amass carrier wins for its MPLS and pseudowire wares

Paxera Packs Tunable Lasers


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (8)
January 30, 2006 : Almost no optical components companies got funded in 2002, but Paxera decided to try its hand anyway. Living on one $5M venture round, the company is nearly ready to ship tunable laser assemblies
Comment: Profitable - Craig Matsumoto January 26, 2006

Broadcom Blows 'Em Away


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January 26, 2006 : The company outpaces analyst expectations for Q4 and rescinds its own cautions on Q1, now saying revenues will grow. Investors send the stock up 17%

Redback Hits the Numbers, Profits


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
January 26, 2006 : Reback suffers SEC filing snafus but comes through with solid Q4 results that reflect continued success with the flagship SmartEdge product line

NetLogic Makes Its Move


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January 26, 2006 : After a stellar year on the stock market, newcomer NetLogic sets sights for the Layer 7 market, possibly endearing itself even more to Cisco
Comment: Juniper core - Craig Matsumoto January 25, 2006
Comment: Pause in Japan - Craig Matsumoto January 25, 2006

Juniper Disappoints in Q4


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (30)
January 25, 2006 : A pause in Japan might have contributed to Juniper missing analyst forecasts for revenues and talking down revenues for Q1 2006. Stock takes a 7 percent hit after hours

Extreme Miss


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
January 25, 2006 : Last summer it was Japan; now, it's the US. Delayed sales lead to a disappointing quarter for Extreme, and the stock takes the requisite hit

Broadcom Builds on Sandburst


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
January 24, 2006 : The $80M acquisition of Sandburst, reported by Light Reading last month, pulls Broadcom into the metro Ethernet race with a set of packet processing chips and a Taiwanese 'white box' program
Comment: OCP - Craig Matsumoto January 23, 2006

Foundry Reinforces Metro


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (30)
January 23, 2006 : Beefing up for competition against Cisco and Alcatel, Foundry launches some new hardware for the metro edge, creating a low-cost cousin to its XMR core routers

OCP Shutters VCSEL Works


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
January 23, 2006 : The Cielo acquisition of 2002 is no more, as OCP has shuttered its Colorado facility, claiming the long-wavelength VCSEL market isn't what it used to be
Comment: GPON in Asia? - Craig Matsumoto January 20, 2006

EPON Evangelists Talk 10-Gig


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
January 20, 2006 : With GPON grabbing all the headlines, EPON might be ready to make its move, as a host of supposedly 'big' companies are backing a potential 10-Gbit/s EPON standard
Comment: Sci-Atlanta - Craig Matsumoto January 19, 2006

Sci-Atlanta Dips on a Blue Q2


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
January 19, 2006 : The company's stock has floated above the $43-per-share mark set by the planned Cisco acquisition, but second-quarter earnings have nudged the price earthward for now
Comment: Metro Ethernet - Craig Matsumoto January 19, 2006

Neptune Changes Orbit


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January 18, 2006 : Nortel's edge router is being redirected away from carrier routing and into the wireless and voice-gateway markets

Neptune Changes Orbit


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (19)
January 18, 2006 : Nortel's long-delayed MPE 9000 multiservice edge router project, known as Neptune, is shipping but is being repositioned for the wireless backhaul and media gateway markets

Atrica Finds Its Lightpath


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
January 18, 2006 : A win with US provider Lightpath highlights Atrica's momentum with carrier Ethernet, but that success might soon bring heightened competition to the market
Comment: Bookham long term - Craig Matsumoto January 13, 2006

Bookham's Gain Causes Pain


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
January 13, 2006 : Stock sinks as the company issues more shares in a series of debt-retiring moves. On the plus side, key customer Nortel has extended its contract through 2006

Ikanos Goes for the Gateway


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
January 13, 2006 : Eager to broaden beyond VDSL, recently public Ikanos announces a plan to buy some Analog Devices products and join the contentious battle for the digital living room

Fujitsu Preps GPON Plans


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
January 12, 2006 : Add one more company to the list of those chasing the RBOCs' next-gen fiber builds. Fujitsu not only wants to do GPON but has designs on WDM-PON as well
Comment: VPLS/Layer 2 - Craig Matsumoto January 12, 2006

Broadwing Broadens VPLS


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
January 11, 2006 : In what could be a significant milestone for VPLS, Broadwing and Hutchison Global are teaming up to create intercontinental VPLS offerings

Ethernet Groups Form an Alliance


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6)
January 10, 2006 : A new Ethernet marketing group aims to provide one voice to the various IEEE 802 efforts. Whether the Metro Ethernet Forum is one of them is yet to be determined

Analyst: Juniper Faces Tougher Times


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6)
January 9, 2006 : The No. 2 router company isn't in danger of losing its standing, but an analyst note this morning finds several reasons to question whether Juniper can be a high flier in 2006

Avanex Gets Slapped


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
January 6, 2006 : Stung by troubles in a transfer of manufacturing, Avanex forecasts a disappointing Q2 and sees its stock fall 14 percent
Comment: Ow - Craig Matsumoto January 6, 2006
Comment: MOCA/HomePNA/etc. - Craig Matsumoto January 6, 2006

Entropic, Verizon Serve Up MOCA


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
January 5, 2006 : MOCA, the emerging standard for in-house broadband over coax, gets a boost as founding member Entropic raises $25M and Verizon gets set to deploy the technology

C-COR Gets Gored


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (12)
January 4, 2006 : A five-company acquisition spree didn't sprout into the kinds of revenues C-COR wanted, so the company is adjusting by cutting jobs and closing its Silicon Valley office