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Posted in April 2008

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RadiSys Soars After Q1


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April 30, 2008 : The ATCA vendor is starting to reap some benefits from acquiring Intel's business, as the Q2 outlook is enough to raise the stock 20%

Challenging Cisco's ISR


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April 29, 2008 : 1:40 PM -- A possible market for near-miss ATCA
Comment: Re: He's a genius! - Craig Matsumoto April 29, 2008
Comment: Re: ?? - Craig Matsumoto April 29, 2008

Extreme for Sale?


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April 28, 2008 : 5:50 PM -- Time to unlock value, apparently

Web 2.0 Debrief


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April 28, 2008 : 5:15 PM -- It's a bubble, but some ideas are likable
Comment: Tunables rule - Craig Matsumoto April 28, 2008
Comment: Nokia N810 - Craig Matsumoto April 28, 2008

Foundry vs Nexus


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April 28, 2008 : 9:30 AM -- 10GigE envy

Nokia's New Toy


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April 25, 2008 : 5:35 PM -- A WiMax demo in a WiFi world
Comment: Re: EX Series - Craig Matsumoto April 25, 2008
Comment: Re: Iannucci's talk - Craig Matsumoto April 25, 2008

Juniper Sails Through Q1


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April 24, 2008 : Even with some enterprise spending fading, Juniper says business was good last quarter, with new products starting to ship
Comment: Re: EX Series - Craig Matsumoto April 24, 2008
Comment: CTHRA - Craig Matsumoto April 24, 2008

Web 2.0 Notes


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April 24, 2008 : 9:30 AM -- From the Expo: Cisco's army, Nokia's ideas

TV & Storage Play Web 2.0


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April 24, 2008 : It's not all Twitter and Facebook at the Web 2.0 Expo – video service providers and their TV-watching customers can find startups targeting them, too

Foundry Cranks Up FastIron


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April 24, 2008 : New enterprise boxes pack a level of route density that service providers could find useful, Foundry says

Nokia Calls for Openness


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April 22, 2008 : An open mobile industry is a must, according to Nokia's CTO, but it's not clear how to get there
Comment: cPacket - Craig Matsumoto April 22, 2008

CPacket Networks Inc.


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April 22, 2008 : A DPI alternative

CPacket Tests 10G Monitoring Market


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April 22, 2008 : While it's still chasing the packet inspection market, the startup has found a side business in selling 10 Gbit/s monitoring appliances
Comment: Games and bandwidth - Craig Matsumoto April 21, 2008

Patent Troll Talk


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April 21, 2008 : 2:00 PM -- What's wrong with royalties
Comment: PMC-Sierra - Craig Matsumoto April 18, 2008

Finisar Patent Ruling Goes Back


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April 18, 2008 : A $79 million patent victory against DirecTV is getting a re-do, but whether that affects other suits involving the same patent remains to be seen
Comment: Actual story - Craig Matsumoto April 18, 2008
Comment: Re: Comcast cont'd - Craig Matsumoto April 18, 2008

AT&T to Axe 4,650


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April 18, 2008 : That's 1.5 percent of its workforce at a cost of $374M; post-merger belt tightening, rather than sagging consumer demand, is cited as the reason

Net Neutrality Gets Its Hearing


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April 18, 2008 : A non-neutral crowd cheered for Net neutrality as the FCC held its en banc hearing in the absence of any major carriers
Comment: Comcast cont'd - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2008
Comment: Lessig - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2008
Comment: Boos - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2008
Comment: 700 MHz's failure - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2008
Comment: Lessig - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2008
Comment: Throttling - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2008

FCC En Banc


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April 17, 2008 : 3:05 PM -- My day with the FCC

Cisco Field 2012


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April 17, 2008 : NOON -- First pitch is pushed back by a year
Comment: Bought by Cisco - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2008

Carrier Ethernet Continues Climbing


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April 17, 2008 : Some past numbers had to get lowered, but that doesn't change the rosy outlook in Heavy Reading's latest look at the carrier Ethernet switch/router market

Kinder, Gentler Cisco


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April 17, 2008 : 8:50 AM -- It's less scary to get bought now, apparently

eBay Reports Q1


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April 16, 2008 : A couple of Skype bullets make the list in eBay's Q1 earnings report

FT to Buy TeliaSonera?


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April 16, 2008 : News outlets say FT is considering the deal, with a reported price tag of $32B to $54B

Quartics Inc.


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April 16, 2008 : Putting PC content on the TV
Comment: CEO Swaps - Craig Matsumoto April 15, 2008
Comment: Microsoft comment - Craig Matsumoto April 15, 2008
Comment: Sigma Designs - Craig Matsumoto April 15, 2008

CEO Watch


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April 15, 2008 : 5:30 PM -- Conexant loses one; Juniper rewards one

Sigma Sinks on Broadcom Scare


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April 15, 2008 : Investors push the panic button on Sigma, after an analyst note says Broadcom is in the IPTV game with a Motorola win

Sigma Enters IPTV Round 2


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April 14, 2008 : An upgraded set-top chip could keep Sigma Designs's 80 percent market share intact, but competition from Broadcom and ST is still on the way
Comment: Re: Intuit - Craig Matsumoto April 14, 2008

Google Doubling Down?


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April 14, 2008 : 2:45 PM -- Wouldn't Salesforce.com make a nice morsel?

Spirent Gets PBT Thumbs-Up


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April 14, 2008 : Nortel's first product certification for Provider Backbone Transport goes to the test and measurement vendor
Comment: Cisco = dumber? - Craig Matsumoto April 11, 2008

Q1 Thrill Ride


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April 11, 2008 : 12:50 PM -- Foundry's down, and more could follow

Cisco Opens the ISR


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April 10, 2008 : By giving developers access to the software on branch-office routers, Cisco hopes to increase its influence in enterprise applications

Cisco Adds More 802.11n


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April 10, 2008 : New ISR models can double as WLAN access points; more models are getting 3G, too
Comment: Re: The one OS... - Craig Matsumoto April 10, 2008
Comment: Yahoo plot thickens - Craig Matsumoto April 10, 2008
Comment: PBT Naysayers - Craig Matsumoto April 9, 2008
Comment: Re: A role for PBT - Craig Matsumoto April 9, 2008
Comment: Clearleap - Craig Matsumoto April 9, 2008

Adlink Aims at ATCA Verticals


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April 9, 2008 : The embedded-computing veteran is hoping that markets like security can be a rich vein of ATCA business

Cisco's OS War


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April 8, 2008 : 6:15 PM -- The 'comical' quest for One True OS
Comment: Movie times - Craig Matsumoto April 8, 2008

Cisco Wraps Up Nuova


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April 8, 2008 : Cisco calls in its option to acquire the startup, part of its crusade to add virtualization and a new OS to the data center
Comment: Cisco Buys Nuova - Craig Matsumoto April 8, 2008

Cisco's Nuova News


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April 8, 2008 : 3:15 PM -- Nuova takes the stage
Comment: $28K? - Craig Matsumoto April 8, 2008
Comment: DECT phones - Craig Matsumoto April 8, 2008

Sizing Up Emcore


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April 8, 2008 : 9:40 AM -- Where the optical half lives

Cisco Field Update


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April 7, 2008 : 5:30 PM --Trying hard for a place in history

Meriton Lands in Xtera's Hands


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April 7, 2008 : After surviving the telecom crash and arranging a couple of acquisitions, Meriton sells itself off to Xtera

Emcore Preps Solar Separation


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April 4, 2008 : The solar power division will get to fly on its own, as Emcore's board approves a split from the optical components division

Moto Cuts 2,600 More Jobs


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April 4, 2008 : The groundwork is laid for another set of cuts at Motorola, bringing its layoff total to more than 10,000 since January 2007
Comment: Prepaid wireless - Craig Matsumoto April 3, 2008

AT&T Likes Android


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April 3, 2008 : 9:00 AM -- Because the world can't live on just iPhones

WiMax Goes Prepaid


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April 2, 2008 : Startup operator Xanadoo thinks WiMax can reach more nooks and crannies of the market with short-term access plans that come prepaid, like a phone card

CTIA: Sprint's Samsung Touch


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April 1, 2008 : In Vegas, Sprint has an iPhone rival and a slew of WiMax news, but there's no word on a Clearwire deal... yet