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Swedish renegade quick to play down PTT fears at London event

Ethernet service provider takes on more bankrupt assets, this time in Germany, and is on the lookout for more

France Telecom reorganizes to focus on creating new services in collaboration with suppliers

The former Softswitch Consortium is reclaiming the job of ensuring interoperability among VOIP networks

Currently trails Nokia, Proxim, and others in wireless MAN race – but analysts mumble something about tortoises, hares UPDATED 03/31 6:41 PM

Heavy Reading report identifies new channel partnerships being pursued by next-gen OSS vendors

At this week's VON Conference & Expo, VOIP's bubble keeps expanding

Failure of UK Tetra carrier casts shadow over region’s PTT aspirations

Sees further opportunities for submarine deals as it wins the lion's share of SEA-ME-WE 4 project

Metro optical startup runs out of cash, sends staff home, invites bids for assets

Regulators are keeping VOIP separate from regular ol' telecom for now, but how long will that arrangement stick?

Let no data be left behind... New SSL VPN products aim to make life easier for IT managers

Terry Matthews' Newport Networks aims for market credibility with a listing on alternative London market

Deutsche Telekom awards metro network deal to optical vendor and Siemens

Is Tellabs interested again? After a stock market swoon, the buyers may be coming back to the table, say sources

Verizon feels a bit affronted when Standard & Poor's puts them on CreditWatch negative

Azea steps out of stealth mode with way to upgrade subsea cables and Cable & Wireless as a customer

Chairwoman says there's no timetable for finding a second partner or staging an IPO

Former Unisource execs have taken over the old Pangea network to cash in on growing East European data traffic

UK incumbent praises Chinese vendor (a lot) for its innovation and responsiveness

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British startup touts e-market for second-hand kit (from a little old lady who only flamed on Sunday...?)

Data center woes are prodding companies to use a newly christened standard, but a better one may be en route

Startup to replace incumbent supplier in Swedish broadband network

Analysts report an RFP for optical switching by SBC. Who's the vendor to beat?

ASIC vendor grabs a switch fabric, SerDes technology, and SAN stuff – as well as a possible extra tie to Cisco

India's buzzing with vendor opportunities, but there's a price to pay for a piece of the action, say the analysts

Faster networks could equal $$$ say carriers at CTIA

As the telecom industry finds its footing, Light Reading Insider assesses the survivors

Infonetics capex report says carrier spending-to-revenue ratios are finally back to normal

The DSL chipmaker unveils its FTTP play, involving system-on-a-chip integration and a former Alloptic CEO

Galazar Networks has a framer chip that maps SAN protocols to Sonet/SDH networks

Cisco nabs Riverhead for $39M, continuing its strategy of buying up specialist security vendors

Chinese vendor bought OptiMight, Cognigine, and may be hungry for more

Cisco main man says partnerships are key for company's mobile ambitions

Chinese vendor bullish on future deals following initial CDMA450 success

It sticks with Lucent and Nortel for a high-speed data upgrade of its CDMA network

Sacré Bleu! Canadian vendor sweeps up softswitch deals in France, according to startup

Aggressive competition appears to be hampering the 3Com/Huawei joint venture – and 3Com's revenues

Its first three customers are fairly obscure, but they say the router port concentrator gets the job done

The technology could enable carriers to sell central office buildings in prime city sites, says Veraz

Their lips say no, but their eyes... Germans laugh off suggestion they're ogling their French neighbors

Delays in multiple orders will cut Avici's revenues to as little as $6 million this quarter

Picking startups that are destined for success is a daunting task... but one analyst is equal to it

Metro Ethernet startup wants a piece of the residential FTTP market – but margin pressure makes it dangerous

Another 'Cisco killer' pipes up, ECI dishes some M&A dirt, Nortel and Siemens square off, and much more

All the fun of the fair! Cisco and Nortel play the enterprise card, Marconi scores in Belgium, and more

And you thought the deal was done? Lucent reaches another settlement with the SEC

Tepid 3G rollouts from Hutchison are leading, eventually, to a $50M revenue shortfall at Agere

Announces up to €250 million in contract awards at the European tradeshow. Bratwurst and beer all 'round!

Finnish vendor abandons rivals with its own PTT technology

An open standard for building telecom gear is proving popular with carriers, but not with Cisco

There's little opportunity for competitive voice-over-broadband service providers in Europe, says Analysys

B-RAS vendor gets a boost from OEM deal with Ericsson

Suppliers renew interest in the 10-Gbit/s Ethernet interface, while an alternative starts down the standards road

Unstrung survey set to delve into 3G network market undergrowth

Traffic management and security specialist bags a $20 million boost for further expansion

Scandal looms at Nortel, Ciena cuts 40, FutureWei shuffles sales force, and Headcount initiates 'Average Joe' contest

Price wars rage on as Foundry announces new switches and Extreme prepares its latest 10-Gig add-ons

New backers invest in P2P VOIP provider as it heads towards offering billed premium services

AFC says product gaffe cost it $2M, but analysts say the news is nothing to worry about

Cisco's Twingo purchase may increase price competition in the SSL VPN market

Competitive carriers push back after Powell's comments

Ixia produces what appears to be the first Power-Over-Ethernet test module, checking both power and data flow

ADVA's still growing, and the company says it may be getting into the M&A game soon

UK incumbent offers voice over broadband, but it's available only to those with a POTS account

M&A and executive departure rumors pile on as AFC's tech troubles at Verizon get more play on Wall Street

The Chinese vendor is behind one of several broadband services to be announced by the UK incumbent tomorrow

Plans SIP interface for service control point, bringing it up to speed with the competition

Chinese vendors will be among the world's biggest by the end of the decade, says LR poll

New report outlines private market opportunities, including which companies are likely to go public

One analyst says AFC is having technical trouble at Verizon, which could give Alcatel another shot

AirMagnet adds security capabilities to software, looks to network management future

Ethernet vendor adds two new investors and another $8.7M to its third funding round, which now totals $24M

A new router allegedly called 'Pepsi' will go head-to-head with Cisco's 2600 series, according to an analyst report

But analysts claim demise of next-gen CDMA network won't damage future market growth

Golden Telecom's share price is heading for the skies as Russia's economic health continues to improve

Will LU make a move on the core packet-switch startup? Tongues are wagging that a deal may be near

In the battle of VPN security testing, Ixia claims it's gotten the upper hand with a gigabit-speed security tester

Lucent is prepping its multiservice answer to WaveSmith, but it won't see the light of day until summer

Utilities continue fiber buildouts, giving Meriton its first announced customer and ECI a foothold in Portugal

WaveSmith looks to be paying off, as Ciena signs the contract that the startup had sewn up last year

RBOC shares give back some of yesterday's gains as doubts set in about yesterday's big court victory on UNE-P

A significant commercial opportunity for switch fabric vendors is on the horizon, says a new LR report

Analyst Steve Levy sees modest capital spending increases driving revenue, margin growth for equipment providers

Eight months after a $30M Series D, the security appliance company grabs $50M more

Readers say that a lack of interoperability between services could hold back the adoption of push-to-talk

Ciena restructuring rumors persist, Wolters quits Sentito, Pagani leaves Nortel, and Hyperchip cuts some staff

Moscow carrier isn't stallin' on its new broadband infrastructure buildout, with Nokia & Redback the beneficiaries

Survivors have gotten hold of the startup's technology, hope to revive its big-ticket switching ideas

Launches a super dense, modular combination of a crossconnect, add/drop mux, and Layer 2 switch

Security service router vendor closes its fourth round of funding