Tellabs prepares to cut, Mahi hires sales muscle, Nortel vet founds a startup, and Jedai is not dead yet

Startup says that running power over Ethernet cable can remove hidden costs of WLAN rollout

Cisco's new 10 GigE announcement matches competitors on performance and beats them on pricing

Boasting Cablevision as customer, Internet Photonics unveils new gear for MSO video-on-demand

Cisco's orders are light going into the third month of the quarter, according to several sources

Texas carrier confirms it swapped its SanteraOne Class 5 switch for a Taqua box

Enterprise product to ship in June will take on the wireless LAN startups

Lucent closes the books on shareholder lawsuits with a $568 million settlement

WaveSmith's got the break most startups dream of. What's next?

One of Korea's big industrial conglomerates is aiming to become a big player in components and modules

Its halting of trials of VT1.5 grooming switches could be very bad news for startup Polaris

Carriers say they're encouraged by next-generation optical switching demo conducted by 24 vendors

A cheaper PON technology from Hitachi could be heading toward North America

Infonetics predicts N.American carriers will continue to slash capital spending in 2003. When will they stop?

Says a small amount of its router software was copied, but continues to fight lawsuit brought by Cisco

Incumbent equipment vendor delves into VLANs, GFP to help carriers blend Ethernet services with Sonet transport

The hot new trend in telecom optics is to get out of telecom optics, according to OFC's keynoters

Alarm bells raised over carrier billing strategies for new data services

Ernst & Young believes VCs and private equity investors will be attracted to the European wireless market in 2003

Vendor joins aging IPv6 supporters club, but doubts linger over future rollout

And AT&T Wireless says any UWB interference issues will be resolved by the time it launches its 3G services

New remote access server features give Telliant a few more jobs in the carrier central office

Vendors at OFC say the next-gen transceiver standard is advancing more quickly than expected

Announces a new customer and some equipment improvements but has yet to score big with an incumbent carrier

Targeting the metro core with broadband crossconnect, Sonet ADM, and optical switching functions

F5 Networks is suing Radware and two other companies for infringing on its cookie persistence technology

O2 Ireland is considering enhanced GSM technology, saying it may fit some niches for which 3G is unsuitable

Cheap-and-dirty WDM products hit the streets for the spring tradeshow season, but unresolved issues surface UPDATED 3/24 10:30 AM

Some companies are restricting international travel, but OFC officials say they still expect a good turnout

This month's Optical Oracle spotlights the protocol that could help drive the next wave of telecom spending

Enterprise networking giant moves in on fellow wireless LAN system vendor Linksys UPDATED 3:00 PM

Enterprise networking giant moves in on fellow 802.11 kit vendor Linksys UPDATED 3:00 PM

Microcomputing motes are just one of the out-there ideas being pursued by Intel's newish research division

Diving straight at Cisco, 3Com has entered a joint venture with Huawei to boost its IP switching and routing portfolio UPDATED 2/20 12:15PM

After two years of little action in the Web switching market, Extreme looks to be throwing in the towel

WLAN player sets its sights on more lucrative markets

Cisco's paying roughly $13.5M in stock for a small, cagey maker of voice processing software. Here's why...

World's largest mobile operator reports rising profits as it cuts back on spending over next three years

Former BellSouth exec Gary Forsee becomes new Sprint chief, but deal makes him 'CEO-who-can't-do-lots-of-stuff'

EV-DOes it for Verizon Wireless as it catches folk off guard with its next-gen data service offer

German metro DWDM equipment vendor scores a fourth-quarter profit and shows market-share gains

Two established carrier equipment vendors seek merger for greater strength. Is it a good plan?

Long session setup delays exposed in tests of Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless, and Verizon services at the CTIA show UPDATED 3/19 2:30PM

Motorola product launches leave observers skeptical over its chances

Acquisition of lackluster Commworks wireless router bemuses some, but CEO says there's method to his apparent lunacy

After a three-year RFP process, AT&T looks to be no closer to choosing a vendor for ultra-long-haul DWDM

Will follow AT&T Wireless in offering customers 802.11 access via Wayport's hotspot network

Showgoers who want to use CeBIT's 802.11 hotspots must fork over major wads of cash

AT&T’s New Gods – Scott Clavenna

One more network-processor startup, Cognigine Corp., appears to be closing up shop

In a surprising development 3Com is said to be getting set to re-enter the enterprise market via major acquisitions

Cisco will probably need outside help with 802.11 hardware for service provider hotspots, says top exec

Will companies with optical core solutions use coming tradeshows to seek the perfect match? UPDATED 3/14 11 AM

Says it's now serious about selling SDH multiservice provisioning platforms to European carriers

ECI repackages its metro transport and WDM technology for customer premises and access use

Wi-Fi Alliance says true access point security is almost with us. Well it would say that, wouldn't it?

German bully poised to pound the hell out of pasty-faced northerners -- it just doesn't know when

Their funding cut, a group of Korean switch engineers bolt St. Louis for the startup life in Orange County

The small Israeli company focusing on Layer 4-7 Web switches is expected to have another solid quarter

The OPTera Long Haul DT has new long-haul equipment; the pitch is longer reach for additional channels

The company leaps into IPv6 and beefs up its enterprise and wireless offerings

The company leaps into IPv6 and beefs up its enterprise and wireless offerings

Launches product at CeBIT that could give the low-cost access and metro technology a big boost

A startup service provider? Yes. It's taking advantage of cheap core bandwidth to offer low-cost VPN services

Competition and broadband growth are healthy, but capex and several markets are shrinking, says Lehman report

A pending Supreme Court review could unleash a flood of antitrust complaints against the RBOCs

Networks division responsible for declining revenues; further cuts foreseen

CEO Russo says it's too early to quit the UMTS infrastructure market, despite Lucent's dearth of contract wins

CEO Patricia Russo offers cautious optimism at CeBIT, talks up DT contract, and says 'Ha ha ha' to Ericsson

Deal should bolster WCDMA's prospects in the Chinese market

Changes at Tellabs, Tropic trims, Quarry looks for quarry, Herring deader than a mackerel, 'decruitment' proceeds

Foundry Networks seems to be bucking the industry's recessionary trend: What's its secret?

Enterprises with frame relay networks aren't rushing to IP VPNs, according to Vertical Systems Group

Heading into OFC, new startup bags $7M as it strives to make a video-on-demand dream come true

Will Fortinet's launch of a new 4-Gbit/s antivirus firewall next week allow it to compete with the big boys?

A survey of 350 IT managers in Western Europe shows that wireless spending is up this year, particularly on WLANs

A report from a Cisco reseller confirms that enterprise sales in the first quarter of 2003 will be down

Verizon has put its weight behind the Metro Ethernet Forum, which should accelerate Ethernet service rollouts

Telecom recession. War. Doesn't sound like a fun combination, does it?

Meet Kireeti and Vach Kompella, two amiable brothers on opposite sides of the battle over VPLS standards

France Telecom says it lost a whopping €20.7 billion last year but insists that better times are around the corner

ADVA intros a smaller version of its FSP 3000 platform and talks up a deal with a German carrier

While Europe and Latin America offer some hope, North America looks grim for network suppliers, says Ericsson

Canada's Telus is a new investor in this circuit-to-packet migration startup with an access twist UPDATED 3/6 8AM

NVP Brightstar looks to recycle startups from BT's incubator. It's just the start, says a managing partner

SBC has been awarded the right to compete for government contracts worth $35 billion. Will it land them?

UTStarcom buys most of 3Com's CommWorks division for $100M in cash to gain access to North American carriers

UTStarcom buys most of 3Com's CommWorks division for $100M in cash to gain access to North American carriers

The pros and cons of ATM and Ethernet in access networks will be discussed by leading players on March 13

Whether MPLS has got what it takes to deliver on carriers' quality-of-service goals will be discussed on March 12

The issues surrounding one of the hottest technologies in the mobile market will be discussed on March 15

A symbol of the end of an era? The maker of all-optical switches is preparing to shut down on Friday

Infonetics forecasts strong growth for security product revenues, predicts IDS/IPS products to hit mainstream

It could be on the cards if you consider how Cisco has cultivated the security and network management startup

Mahi gets new blood, Lucent makes cuts, Aralight says Buh-Bye, and execs find new ways to say 'You're fired'

Says its extra cool RF power amplifier chips will cut base station costs and eat into Motorola's market dominance

Rumors say Cisco may discontinue some of its long-haul DWDM products

As tunable laser demos are scheduled for OFC, last week's OIF-based mulitsource agreement is disparaged by Agility

Part of the startup's ongoing effort to survive by adding breadth; set to show its VOA mux at OFC

3G newcomer misses cheesy marketing opportunity, but it's now only days away from European milestone