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Posted in June 2009

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Cisco's Cloud Story


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June 30, 2009 : 2:40 PM Not surprisingly, it's about the network

Who's Waving Their Wad at Nortel’s MEN?


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June 24, 2009 : Who are the nine buyers reportedly interested in the Metro Ethernet division? Here are a few guesses, good, bad, and ugly

GPON Gets It Together


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June 24, 2009 : 10:00 AM Time to see if the stuff actually works

Nortel's Delisting Date


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June 24, 2009 : 8:30 AM The road ends Friday, June 26

NSN Has a Bad Day


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June 23, 2009 : 8:55 AM Hate mail that has nothing to do with Nortel
Comment: Re: Liquid Nortel - Craig Matsumoto June 22, 2009

Infinera Bolsters COLT's Backbone


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June 22, 2009 : Pan-European operator deploys Infinera's long-distance optical gear in double-quick time, but Infinera's gain spells bad news for Nortel

Richard Lowe, President of Carrier Networks, Nortel


Interview - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
June 22, 2009 : "We're at the beginning of a process, not the end of a process"
Comment: Liquid Nortel - Craig Matsumoto June 20, 2009

Nortel: It's All Up for Sale


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June 19, 2009 : Nokia Siemens is ready to buy Nortel's wireless assets for $650M, and Nortel is pushing to sell the rest of its business units as well

Huawei's Big Router


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June 19, 2009 : 5:20 PM Making a splash at CommunicAsia, or at least on paper

Tellabs Heads South


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June 19, 2009 : 3:20 PM South African mobile operator Vodacom will be using the 7100 in its core network

Cisco Routers Start Watching Video


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June 19, 2009 : Linecard-based monitoring capabilities will be a part of Cisco's video vision, starting later this year

Cisco Banks on Video Growth


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June 17, 2009 : The company's consumer video ambitions have less to do with router sales and more to do with meeting that 12 to 17 percent growth target

Zhone Releases Son of MALC


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June 16, 2009 : The company expects the new MXK platform to handle video bandwidth needs for PON and active Ethernet

Ciena Nets PBT Man


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June 16, 2009 : 2:50 PM John Hawkins has moved. Pretend you didn't know that already

Soapstone Washes Out


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June 16, 2009 : An 11th-hour deal could still save the company, but Soapstone's board says it's ready to liquidate

IBM Gets Cloudy


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June 15, 2009 : 5:45 PM Clouds are slowly becoming less scattered
Comment: Counterpoint - Craig Matsumoto June 15, 2009

The Cloud, Defined


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June 15, 2009 : 2:30 PM The bad news: It comes from the government

Cisco Sends Video RSVP


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June 12, 2009 : A multicast capability championed by Juniper and AlcaLu will finally find its way into Cisco routers UPDATED 6/17 1:45 PM

Sprinting Toward Level 3


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June 11, 2009 : 2:30 PM The telecom matchmaking story du jour

Cisco & AlcaLu vs. 'Buy American'


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June 11, 2009 : 9:40 AM The flip side of the Zhone argument
Comment: Re: GM/Whitacre - Craig Matsumoto June 11, 2009
Comment: Re: GM/Whitacre - Craig Matsumoto June 10, 2009

Ericsson Thinks Green for Routers


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June 10, 2009 : There might be a better way to measure edge router greenness, especially if the SmartEdge is placed on top

Intel's ROI


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June 10, 2009 : 8:05 AM Tales not for the squeamish
Comment: Re: hmmmm - Craig Matsumoto June 10, 2009

Vyatta Finds Friends


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June 9, 2009 : 5:30 PM Forget the cloud. What happens to the blogs?

Ed Whitacre to Helm GM


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June 9, 2009 : The U-verse man becomes a car dealer

Juniper's Cloudy View


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June 9, 2009 : 8:45 AM There must be more to life than video

Juniper Claims 100-Gig First


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June 8, 2009 : The T1600 gets graced with what appears to be the first 100-Gbit/s interface on a router, and Verizon seems happy about it

Panel Session 2.0


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June 5, 2009 : 2:00 PM Potential for heckling abounds
Comment: Re: Anti-trust? - Craig Matsumoto June 5, 2009

Intel Tries the Comms Market, Again


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June 4, 2009 : The $884 buyout bid for Wind River is Intel's latest attempt at cracking the embedded processor market – particularly in communications
Comment: Video licenses - Craig Matsumoto June 4, 2009

Verizon Broadcasts Its TV Visions


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June 4, 2009 : Some keynote daydreaming shows the kind of TV industry Verizon wants FiOS to help create

Brocade Preps Foundry Assimilation


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June 3, 2009 : A single OS and common ASICs are part of the master plan, but it's going to take a while

Brocade vs. Unified Cisco


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June 2, 2009 : 7:00 PM Execs state their case for sticking to a multivendor data center universe

Brocade Converges


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June 2, 2009 : 3:15 PM Why the data center is a lot like Sonet

Cortina Builds off Acquisitions


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June 2, 2009 : The chipmaker claims it's still healthy after ingesting a chunk of Intel and a couple of smaller businesses

NetLogic Joins Processor Race


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June 1, 2009 : The $175M bid for RMI would move NetLogic from 'knowledge' processors to regular ones

RMI's Long Strange Trip


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June 1, 2009 : 3:00 PM You haven't heard the last of Atiq Raza

Cisco to Pay Up


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June 1, 2009 : 8:50 AM It's just a couple cents off GAAP earnings