The core-router startup has a shot at some big RFPs, but its survival depends on finding an OEM partner

Be afraid! Be very afraid!

Nortel shares are off more than 30 percent this week following the company's financial brouhaha

Posts its first profitable quarter for three years and raises its forecast for 2004

Network giant steps away from WiMax Forum amid concerns over market potential

Test sector set for six years of double-digit growth, according to Frost & Sullivan

$232M stock transaction enables Finisar to rival Agilent and JDSU UPDATED 4/30 3:00AM

White paper details Nortel's late entry to the multiservice edge race

The 3G equipment value chain is in chaos, say industry insiders

Ratings agency says fiscal health of incumbents is improving, though VOIP could dampen the party

Vendor targets future WiMax rollout in London

The companies plan integrated product salvos aimed at the Class 5 replacement and B-RAS markets

Investors bail, as management vows 'financial accountability' in the wake of CEO firing

French vendor takes lone approach in developing PTT-type services

Set to invest in Ethernet and OSS to bring LAN services to the WAN in Europe, says EMEA chief

Verizon's earnings boost AFC and Adtran as the carrier reports big growth in DSL and enterprise data

Tier 1 directory will lay key foundation for VOIP services and could possibly make its administrator rich

OSS boss will work with Matt Bross as he takes the helm at R&D unit BTexact

Some old-time Cisco acquirees are trying their hands at a new breed of chips for metro Ethernet

Why did former AT&T and ADC man Rick Roscitt jump ship from MCI after only seven months?

Rumor has it that Mahi is among the possible acquirers of the defunct metro startup's assets

Sale of vendor's billing business is imminent and could raise $100 million, says analyst

General Bandwidth gets $15M from Alcatel to give its legacy Litespan gear a voice

AMCC keeps the lead in network processor revenues, while Vitesse gains ground after axing development

Startup says the software VP has departed after all

Test vendor also has Japan to thank for a bumper quarter, but it's late to the VOIP test scene

I2Telecom, the provider behind StreamCast's VOIP service, is in a legal fight with the founders of a firm it bought

Swedish vendor claims major inroad into CDMA market at Q1 results briefing

The security-chip specialist breaks out a China-based engineering team and could be profitable by the fall

Sources have confirmed that Sprint is testing Cisco's fabled HFR

P2P network tries to vex Vonage and scare Skype with a new VOIP business model

Indulges in fighting talk about Cisco's future monster router, predicts strong second half revenue growth

Carrier scuttles any hope of imminent decision on future Flash-OFDM rollout

Carrier keeps mum on rumored Nokia 3G deals down under

Carriers have crafted a set of OAM standards for MPLS, but equipment vendors aren't biting

The vendor's been touting its software business around the OSS market, but who might buy it?

Stock leaps as vendor posts its first profits in two years, but new product sales are still sluggish

The term and the technology used by Lightchip has resurfaced in a French startup, Yenista Optics

Volumes aren't skyrocketing, but competition is driving the modules' prices below that of Xenpak

MCI comes out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with $6B in cash and $5B in debt

More than 100 telecom executives converge on Prague to get the lowdown on metro Ethernet

Shares fell more than 8 percent this afternoon, even though the company reported a profitable Q2

Shares fell more than 8 percent this afternoon, even though the company reported a profitable Q2

Fueled by Cisco business, chip firm is trying its hand at going public – even though it's losing money

Cable-owned CLEC boasts a better network as it takes on Verizon in the New York metro area

WLAN startup says hardware & software engineering VPs are still onboard... but they're adding a new über-VP

EV-DO 3G technology set to hit Australia. Ripper!

Matches 2003 growth rate of rival Huawei but has yet to crack Western European incumbents

Matches 2003 growth rate of rival Huawei but has yet to crack Western European incumbents

Former CEO (and apparent serial entrepreneur) Pankaj Manglik is leaving to start another new company

IDT announces a $35M plan to get into switch fabrics and traffic managers by acquiring the startup

Time to pick up the pace

Sharp fall in Q1 handset sales takes shine off infrastructure recovery

Outsourcing and offshoring by vendors and carriers helps IT services firm record bumper profits

YDI, a 100-person company with a market cap under $100M, is buying Terabeam for a few million shares

Carrier vows 90 percent DSL coverage in Salt Lake City after the city council knifes Utopia

Redback says it's engaged in a large bidding process for next-gen edge gear at the RBOC

Watch out for the 'Internet Pac Man' that's consuming everything, says AT&T honcho

mmO2 shuts down Europe’s first 3G network on sleepy island backwater

ATM vendor morphs multiservice box into a full-blown B-RAS

VOIP competition could cost RBOCs $5B a year in lost revenues – regulatory decisions are key

Pair team up to bag a router deal with China Telecom; Lehman analysts believe the deal may grow

AT&T CTO reveals his wireless leanings at Light Reading Live investor conference

Cable companies are talking about ways to keep calls on IP and bypass the PSTN

Scott Kriens sees his salary, frozen for 3 years, rocket to $425,000

Startup pulls out of the 802.11 switch market, plans to license underlying silicon technology instead

The new version of TiMetra's box fills a gap in Alcatel's mid-sized offering, but it still doesn't have B-RAS

Intellectual property court case is put on ice until at least July, possibly October

Makes major additions to its Layers 4-7 strategy with a particular focus on security

Investor Atiq Raza created a chip company after all, while Raza Foundries undergoes some changes

Sources say Nortel's component prices with Bookham are locked in, even as prices drop on the open market

Wintegra could be the first net processor firm to go public, showing the sector isn't all doom and gloom

Reveals a flaw in some versions of its 802.11 management systems

Says G.975 isn't a standard – it's a collection of pre-existing proprietary algorithms

German voice player 3U moves into the data world with purchase of bankrupt Ethernet services player

Contractor says Huawei is the sole supplier for an unnamed carrier's Central European network

As softswitch vendor extends its revenues review, the CFO gets shunted into 'business operations'

Lucent dismisses four employees after finding 'deficiencies' in compliance with anti-bribery laws

Immigrant entrepreneurs are using their connections at home to build new businesses

French amplifier manufacturer shrinks to 50 staff, from close to 1,000

Wireless router startup adds $25M cash injection to its carrier customer income

Hyped Standard Devoid of Public Acceptance? Not so, say readers

Testing vendors are developing preventive monitoring for VOIP, aiming to outdo testing tools for POTS

Voodoo UK has 3G on the cards, 802.11 and WiMax coming

Jobs from its telecom divisions are among the 5,000+ that could be affected by cuts and relocation

Heavy Reading survey of 200-plus components points to big reductions in power consumption and price

Unstrung Insider finds IT staff satisfied with early deployments but in need of ongoing support

Dow Jones Industrial Average gives Ma Bell the Boot, adds Verizon, as the index restructures

EANTC reports mixed results from multivendor TV-over-DSL tests – they gave good Zap though

Detection of worms and viruses would be much easier if programmers would only respect an established IPv4 flag