The government finally announces some GIG-BE winners: Sycamore and Juniper are the biggest

Ex-Ciscoid Bill Nuti takes helm as Symbol tries to move past accounting scandal

Heavy Reading lists its most notable research findings

Heavy Reading lists its most notable research findings

It's frozen pay raises for 36,000 'managers.' That's a helluva lot of chiefs, notes one of our readers

Small-fry might be tasty to Aeroflex, which is looking to raise money and may be up for a consolidation play

You say Jorma, I say Jukka... What happens when vendors talk the talk

We have some good news, and some bad news...

Capex is King - R. Scott Raynovich

Chipmaker pays $66M for 'independent arms dealer' of Gigabit Ethernet copper interfaces

Here's our list of the most spectacular and prominent venture-capital money-burning machines of 2003

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll stroke your chin and go 'hmmmm' with Unstrung's best quotes from 2003

Capital spending has actually crept up in the last few quarters, as packets and multiservice Sonet come in vogue

Roughly half of AT&T's workforce will not receive a pay increase until April 2005

Technology is hot again. Is the future upon us?

Our favorite snapshots of 2003: some you've seen before and some you wish you hadn't

Releases latest version of Skype; and its customer base is still exploding

These little nuggets were the best and the brightest in news for Unstrung in 2003

What tunes are on the playlists at telecom Xmas parties this year? We listened in, and, er, made up some stuff

They grunt! They growl! The rattle the bars on their cages!

It teetered on the brink of success with Cisco, but now the startup has stopped making all-optical switches

Report blames poor back-office systems for revenue 'leakage' of as much as $137 billion

The world may be cuckoo for VOIP, but there's more to the services sector than a dodgy voice line

A nice bonus for winning vendors, but analysts say the list will undoubtedly change during the buildout

Solucient ditches F5 after inherited NetScaler switches help it speed data-center traffic, cut costs

Pays nearly $30 million for the mediation specialist, after a protracted courtship

Unstrung Insider sees signs of capex stabilization, as revenues and profits rise

Service providers, for now, don't have to reveal customer information to record companies

Dutch court rules that software maker cannot be held liable for music copyright infringement

Sets challenging resiliency target for converged backbone, lays down the law on ethics

Tunable lasers might finally have their day, as transponder vendors prep tunable 300-pin MSA modules

Whoopee! Carrier spending in Asia/Pac, Europe, and N. America set to rise after a few dismal years

Coriolis and Salira announce reseller business in Asia this week as smart technology follows brisk carrier spending

China's Huawei is gearing up to become a bigger player in Europe and North America

Check Point and VeriSign splash out, while SSL vendors make hay and ramp up their offerings

Technology is available to enable VOIP peering but carriers are unclear of the business opportunities

Can telecom startups learn anything from the 3D chip market?

OSS firm raises cash for acquisitions and is shopping in the IP network fault management sector

Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun, has resigned from Cisco, possibly to go to a storage startup

The remains of the edge router startup could make it less reliant on its OEM deal with Laurel

Stock tanks as Ethernet player anticipates slack revenues for Q2, but sees New Year uptick UPDATED 10AM

Ciena has a smart vision, but bumpy margins and bad visibility have tested Wall Street's patience

Announces border control features for its softswitch

Cymbal - er... Symbol will debut a brand new wireless switch in Q1 2004

Utilities and municipal players are the ones that will extend fiber to European homes, says a Yankee report

If John Chambers were a hobbit, what would he be called?

Big carriers cut back, Valo vets get jobs, Photuris trolls for partners, and much more

Global Crossing isn't going to start a price war as it emerges from Chapter 11, says European director

Broadband is growing as a share of telecom revenues in Korea. Is this a vision of the future?

Protocol is being enhanced with security and presence features to make life easier for IM users

Hopes fade for improved guidance from big contract wins, as Ciena announces reduced losses

CEO Dorman to flesh out 2004 VOIP strategy at CSFB Media and Telecom Conference

Will target consumer broadband customers of its cable rivals with a VOIP offering, but the move could backfire

Launches a jitter analysis tester to help prolong the life of old network gear

CEO John Chambers describes the potential of six key technology markets - and has a word or two for Juniper

Telegeography report says it's still growing but has tailed off dramatically from last year

Cisco adds the 7600 edge router, while the 12000 series gets stretched at the high and low ends

Light Reading's monster test of eight SSL-based VPN gateways finds (gasp!) that they all work!

Riverstone's new CEO completes sweep of the management and the board of directors

Dodging the FCC hammer, Merrimac is taking the plunge and becoming a CLEC, a trend analysts expect to grow

ADVA's got some new features -- and a new customer -- for its FSP 3000 Metro DWDM platform

Industry event sparks speculation over a move into the voice-over-wireless-LAN handset market

Cable company teams with MCI and Sprint to roll out nationwide VOIP

Enterprise vendor takes a leaf from the cellular book with WLAN 'repeater' software

Apax leads £15M round for Nexagent, which promises the industry seamless VPNs across multiple networks

Service definitions and Ethernet access technologies outlined at Light Reading's Asia/Pacific Roadshow

Unstrung poll reveals mixed opinion on chances of EDGE success

New OEM deal with UTStarcom has given the startup several new customers

German carrier seems the latest to include metro Ethernet in its next-gen plans; trialing Atrica gear

Sources say Cisco and Extreme are nixing mix-and-match optical modules. The result? Customers pay more

Corning closes plants, Alcatel chops US jobs, and Gluon CFO says, 'See ya!'

Shares of VOIP company have momentum and interest, but plenty of folks are skeptical

Wireless LAN vendor ships core network gateway and strikes double partnership deals

Plano and Ottawa bear the brunt of losses, as 870 more jobs are cut this week

CEO Pat Russo pulls in a $3M bonus as four other senior execs pick up $1M-plus

Multiservice Sonet is the key battleground for telecom equipment players such as Alcatel, Nortel, and Cisco UPDATED 12/12/03

Launches IxChariot to monitor and prioritize application traffic across networks UPDATED 12/8 12:30PM

Looks like it's won high-profile Vodafone UK deal, beating out the Euro vendors

Bluetooth startup denies reports of public offering before year's end

Hype is Back – R. Scott Raynovich

Sources say Sycamore is beating Ciena and Nortel in consideration for Sprint's core switching RFP

Application switching company plunges into security appliance market with an intrusion detection system

Forget the Riviera: The parties are on the VOIP network, says ITXC executive

Analysts flag smaller CDMA network players as possible acquisition targets for the Finnish behemoth

After 18 years, prez Betsy Bernard resigns amid continued shrinking consumer and long-distance revenues

With so much riding on DSL, does this mean incumbents aren't likely to get as excited about FTTP?

First VOIP meeting in DC turns into industry soapbox, and so far the regulators are looking for a 'light touch'

Convergence ahoy! Appliance maker proffers new take on WLAN switching