A report from China says Siemens is acquiring Harbour Networks's telecom router lines

The annual look at the top winners and losers among telecom-related stocks

The year 2005 produced some memorable photojournalism. Not here, but somewhere, we're sure

Four people and an, uh, object that have helped to shape 2005

Entrepreneurs, visionaries and at least one executive who ought to put a sock in it

Google is being sued by Jews for Jesus

The top ten quotes from the Light Reading message boards

We still see positive signs aplenty as the telecom biz goes from survival mode to, well, something else

Marc Weisberg joins the ranks of former Qwest executives who have struck up plea bargains

Some of the more memorable lines from the news pages of Unstrung in 2005

IMS, IPTV, and even some non-acronym topics (hint: Ethernet) topped the Heavy Reading hot 'n' heavy list this year

Five undersung technologies and applications that may get their due in 2006

Pays $100M for security-focused company that sells routers that compete primarily with Cisco's low end

EarthLink looks to be the early leader in a five-horse race

What Unstrung's editors -- and readers -- got right in 2005, and where we jumped the shark

'Reverse outsourcing' poised to make big news in '06.

Believes it still may have a shot at the IPTV business of the US RBOCs, should the Microsoft/Alcatel solution falter

LR poll suggests Juniper lawsuit will backfire

The AOL/Google deal includes a peering arrangement that will connect large pools of VOIP-enabled IM users

A bubble-era lawsuit comes back to haunt Lucent – to the tune of $244M

WiMax providers might hurt for business, but IP lawyers won't – plus more from our crystal ball

Micromuse stock jumps 36% on news of its sale to IBM, as the tech giant moves to put telecom tools into management products

Year-End Review
We recap 2005 and look ahead to the new year

Four of BT's eight 21CN preferred vendors sign contracts, but what's the holdup on the lagging quartet?

UMA has a time limit for fixed/mobile convergence success, according to Unstrung Insider

Cisco has rehired Ajaib Bhadare, part of Cerent's founding team, to help the division that now houses optical networking

Telecom subs in India are growing by more than 3 million every month

Networking company sues anonymous Light Reading message board posters for libel and defamation

AT&T plans to tie big-name software applications and per-minute CPU charges in the next year

Thirty companies in the VOIP peering business have answered an RFI from CableLabs to link up the VOIP networks of the cable guys

As Nortel's head marketing honcho leaves the fold, we ask: Latest victim of top table purge, or curse of the CMO ticket?

Joseph Nacchio faces 42 counts of insider trading in an indictment brought down this morning

Pat Russo speaks!

LRTV's exclusive coverage of The Light Reading Telecom Investment Conference features commentary from Redback's Kevin DeNuccio, Verizon's Stu Elby, and telx Group's Hunter Newby

Airvana moves airliner broadband slightly closer to reality

The startup is shutting down, yet another casualty of the core-router races

Improvements are coming for voice-over-WLAN, but vendors aren't all singing the same tune

Visto versus Microsoft means good times for attorneys

Software from NextHop could be an early step towards eliminating standalone WLAN switches

Rumors this week say Microsoft might try to outbid Cisco, but at least one analyst doesn't see it happening

Chip giant is making a bid in the $100M+ range to get a piece of the Juniper Ethernet business, sources say

A recent Heavy Reading report says the broadband remote access server may take on new tasks in triple-play networks

The 11 winners of the second annual Leading Lights Awards claim their prizes at a gala NYC dinner

MTV's new online music service appropriates a cultural reference from hippie days.

Lucent nabbed two awards – and more tales of terror from our second annual Leading Lights dinner

The instant messaging software group adds VOIP to its list of tricks, thanks to a little help from Google

Work is underway on the Google WiFi network in Mountain View, stage one for the firm's public access plans

IPTV is the future, but the future isn't here yet, says Verizon's VP of network architecture

The 11 winners of the second annual Leading Lights Awards claim their prizes at a gala NYC dinner

India's telecom market is entering a new stage of investment, and for the first time home-grown vendors are emerging

Mobile email provider is the third company to license IP from NTP

With this year's Leading Lights Awards set to be handed out in New York City tonight, we look back at the fate of 2004's winners

Major ISP to buy VPN provider New Edge for $144 million in cash and stock as it ramps up activity in the SMB market

Trip Hawkins thinks mobiles will be the gateways to social connection – and great kissing

Comcast casts Cisco and Nortel for starring roles in its new optical backbone

Network operators can now get a view of the global Internet infrastructure, including a look at how their rivals are faring

Fujitsu Senior VP Bill Erickson talks about the opportunities for carrier Ethernet equipment and services

Bluesocket pushes voice, but users only have eyes for the security features

Another chip startup has emerged in the 10-Gbit/s copper arena as the IEEE wraps up a key standard

Major FTTH project opts for active Ethernet, with wholesale capacity provider bbned and Cisco pulling the strings

Ciena looks ahead to more revenue growth as it continues to focus on optical transport and Ethernet services

Yahoo will soon announce a PSTN-connected version of its VOIP client, a clear statement that it intends to compete with Skype

Have you seen the new AT&T logo?

Insider report says carriers will need both to sell new IP apps

Have you ever really tested search engines?

The switch-fabric startup launches this week, taking its shot at new technology for the backplane

Handy help for terrorists everwhere!

A bid to make the network – and Cisco's devices and software – the home for key enterprise apps like security

BT talks up successful VOIP trials using technology from 21CN key vendors, including softswitch capabilities from Ericsson

'I can't hear you. But you look fabulous.'

Infinera comes clean as the buyer for the rest of the transponder company's assets

Vendor will purchase and license patented WiFi technology

Cable operator NTL offers £817M (US$1.41B) for mobile operator Virgin in a bid to offer quad-play

Find flaws and fixes for 802.11, Bluetooth, 3G, WiMax, and RFID

$14B? What good are phone books anyway?

The networking giant is slowly moving its gateways and softwitches to IP Multimedia Subsystem interoperability

Two Craig McCaw-influenced firms lead the Ethernet equipment vendor's latest financing

Adding IP-over-DWDM and a new type of GMPLS, Cisco hopes to bring the CRS-1 closer to the optical core

As expected, Cisco has put a session border controller into a router, but the company didn't do it by acquisition

As RIM moves toward a settlement in its patent dispute with NTP, alternative mobile email services start to look more attractive

Light Reading names the Leading Lights finalists for M&A Strategy, Public Company

Funk could be Juniper's backdoor into Cisco accounts

Latest round in patent dispute with NTP only hastens move to open systems for wireless email

Europe's incumbent operators continue to lose market share in their domestic fixed line voice sectors, according to research from InfoCom