UBS cuts estimates for Cisco, citing increased competition and a decline in enterprise spending

Components maker nabs FTTH and cable widget manufacturer in an effort to improve its manufacturing

Light Reading's Ethernet directory reflects increasing demand for connectivity across the puddle

Finnish vendor looks set to expand deal with further European launches

Switchmaker aims to get more for its R&D dollars; offers US employees 'curry in a hurry' relo package

UBS cuts estimates for Cisco, citing increased competition and a decline in enterprise spending

The government will remain an IT cash cow regardless of next week's election result

Unstrung Insider uncovers glut of startups attempting to salvage public hotspots

As UTStarcom meets more competition in China, its days of sky-high financial forecasts may be coming to an end

As UTStarcom meets more competition in China, its days of sky-high financial forecasts may be coming to an end

Like others, the company found integration of optical components into ATCA linecards was tougher than expected

Latest report from Heavy Reading finds WiMax may not be a good fit for urban broadband services

Comcast Corp., America's largest cable operator, added 549,100 broadband Internet subscribers during the third quarter of 2004, the company's highest total ever. Cox also set a record in Q3 with 184,446 additions.

Latest report from Heavy Reading finds WiMax may not be a good fit for urban broadband services

Now, as it wades through its financial mess, it's aiming to file restatements in mid-November. Honest!

Veteran VC is off to Petaluma to hunt for brand-name carrier deals and potential partner

German vendor isn’t ruling out possible OEM partnership

LAN Dressed as MAN
Extending 802.11 into hot-zone, metro areas is like making a double-down bet on WiFi hotspots – great if you win, a disaster if you don't

OSS vendor postpones results over revenue recognition issues. Can it avoid a Sonus situation?

Rumors abound that Alcatel is designing a new core router

Verizon has selected Motorola Inc.'s Broadband Communications Sector to provide video network infrastructure and customer premises equipment to support Verizon's expanded fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network launch next year.

The Wall Street Journal reported today that America's largest cable company, Comcast Corp., will tap Level 3 Communications and Sprint as its primary suppliers of long-distance network services to support its IP telephone service rollout.

Logs its first $100M quarter in its retrofitting as it bulks up its signaling and softswitch product portfolio

Scott McGregor, formerly of Philips Semiconductors, takes top post January 3

Motorola picked as the video network provider/integrator in Verizon's FTTP rollout

Scott McGregor, formerly of Philips Semiconductors, takes top post January 3

Chipset startup announces its first customer win in WiMax market

Massages the market as it sells a wider set of solutions, but opts not to be an end-to-end systems integrator

Manufacturing hitch means it misses analysts' estimates; says AFC acquisition on course to close in Q4

Startup has new offering for the fashionably petit office

Chris Rust departs and sources say new CEO Bill Cadogan has been enlisted to seal some big deals UPDATED 6PM

ADC completes its OSS purge by offloading its performance management software unit to WatchMark-Comnitel

Switchmaker beats analyst estimates with Q3 results; 19 cent EPS is almost double last year's figure

Despite disappointing earnings, Harmonic and C-COR both see great things from video-on-demand later this year

Carrier will decide on either Flash-OFDM or CDMA 1x EV-DO early next year

As TriQuint frets over the former Agere components group, a sale of the manufacturing plant falls through

Number of Ethernet services in North America continues to grow, but geographic coverage remains patchy

Set to buy wireless network security firm for $74M in cash

To hire up to 5,000 staff as it expands its plans to six more states

Set to buy yet another network security technology firm, this time Perfigo for $74M in cash

Posts strong Q3 profit but points to slower market growth in 2005

Qwest pays a nominal fee, doesn't admit guilt, and promises to hire a 'chief compliance officer'

CEO Bobby Johnson says that at least Q3 was not as 'lumpy' as previous quarters

Semiconductor firms are having a tough earnings season, but they say inventory problems are just temporary

Alcatel may have the monster infrastructure contract, but the deal doesn't include its video middleware

Spirent employees pay their respects to VP of marketing Dave Gellerman, killed in a car accident on Saturday

Australian customer leaks news of Oxford trial

Core router vendor still bullish about partnership prospects as Q3 revenue slumps to $3.7M

Extreme Networks beats analyst expectations with Q1 revenues of $95.1 million

Will be the main supplier and integrator for the carrier's access network upgrade UPDATED 7:00 PM

Countering rival Cavium, Hifn plans to use the IBM network processor to create an all-in-one security chip

Corporate services carrier to deploy WiMax technology in effort to cut costs

Mobility drives growth, as Lucent reports its first profitable fiscal year since 2000

Mobility drives growth, as Lucent reports its first profitable fiscal year since 2000

Our services site is updating its 'Who Makes What' taxonomy of the OSS sector. Is your company in it?

Session controller vendors spew news, net.com gets in on the act, hosted VOIP gets a boost, and much more

Intel's latest network processor closes the book on its IXP1200, while Xelerated redoes its X11 chip

Launches service to help resource-challenged carriers roll out VOIP, targets triple-play testing

Prior investors, joined by UTStarcom and CTC, pony up another round for the WDM systems maverick

Wireless router startup appears to have secured win with MVNO

The FCC loves nascent broadband powerline (BPL) deployments, but the technology's future is far from certain

Only a month after a CEO change, General Bandwidth is greeted by some familiar sales and marketing execs

The FCC loves nascent broadband powerline (BPL) deployments, but the technology's future is far from certain

New report says Cisco will ante up in the softswitch game within 12 months

Security vendor beats its numbers, boosts its guidance, and talks some trash about Juniper

Softswitch player encroaches on session border controller territory with product upgrade

The little deals matter

Flash-OFDM startup breaks into wireless LAN market with Netgear partnership

The price tag of its planned acquisition of InterWave is slashed by more than $15M following bitter war of words

Layoffs, but 'no major whacking' at WLAN switch startup

Submersible DSLAMs, IP video phones, and random pirates aplenty -- welcome to Las Vegas

Wireless LAN chief is leaving Extreme, according to sources

An author of the IETF's 'Dry Martini' spec joins the company, as does a new VP of sales

Flash-OFDM startup says Arizona is likely location for latest market trial

Wireless LAN chief is leaving Extreme, according to sources

British carrier encouraged by results of multi-vendor SIP interoperability testing for its next-generation network

More long-distance layoffs: Sprint cuts 700 from its Business Solutions division and will take a Q3 charge

Amid talk that its new core router isn't being used, Cisco touts its two installations and 14 trials

Profits of 13 cents per share beat analyst expectations again, while revs grow to $375M, but stock takes a hit [UPDATED 10/15 11AM]

It's ready to launch its Hammer brand out of the labs with a VOIP test solution aimed at large carriers

Larry Roberts' latest venture raises cash to pack flow-based routing into a 1U customer-premises device

Infrastructure division helps keep Finnish vendor's Q3 net sales afloat

Carriers looking to provide Ethernet services might get ambushed by low price expectations

A recent California PUC decision led Verizon to shut down a VOIP network. Why are folks still talking about it?

Pulls plug on PC market, focusing instead on VOWLAN [UPDATED 10/13 9:53 PM]

A slew of 802.11 players have their eye on WiMax

Net.com reports Q2 profit and Microsoft win, but trims R&D staff due to slow carrier spending UPDATED 10/14

The Supreme Court has passed on three line-sharing cases, allowing earlier pro-RBOC decisions to stand

If ADC sells its Metrica OSS division to WatchMark-Comnitel, will it become WatchMark-Comnitel-Metrica?

Touting concern over 802.11a's market potential, WLAN chipmaker poo-poos single-chip multimode products

Swisscom's trial of IPTV services has had early integration problems, according to system supplier Microsoft

Recent earnings from Adtran, AFC, and Ciena cite weak DSL sales, but others say it'll boom. What's going on?

Cable-related stocks C-Cor and Harmonic announce revenue shortfalls, but analysts say it's no big deal

Cable operator NTL Ireland withdraws Tellabs boxes from homes, claiming a fire risk; Tellabs denies the danger

Swedish vendor is tipped to control 15 percent of CDMA market by year's end

Adtran's Q3 suffered from a decline in late September sales and DSL continues to be 'lumpy,' says CEO

As test vendors pump their latest VOIP gear, BT deploys Radcom's VOIP quality tester in its next-gen network trial

The newfangled carrier, which created global VPN services, hopes to do the same for MPLS

Cable and RBOC CEOs holster their weapons here in pursuit of clearer, less intrusive regulations

The industry's most rockin' awards program has just been launched -- go in big or go home

The industry's most rockin' awards program has just been launched -- go in big or go home

Win a Lightie!

Security specialist Caymas Systems emerges from stealth with a range of identity-management gateways

RBOC is set to award major access kit deals in the coming months, reckons analyst George Notter

Vendors and service providers arrive in Vegas for the USTA meeting, and Calix, MRV, Nuvio, and UTStarcom ante up

Telecom jobs still tumbling; Ciena moves on marketing; Fultz falls at RBN; Allied Telesyn shakes things up

What will WiFi file servers be when they grow up?

JV launches an entire line of switches and routers, trying for a Japanese alternative to Cisco and Juniper

Alcatel has set up an internal affairs team to investigate allegations of corruption in Costa Rica

Unstrung poll suggests departure of Ericsson won’t send technology to an early grave

Flash-OFDM startup unveils first announced OEM deal

US Chamber of Commerce report finds the country would be more competitive with fewer telecom regulations

Psuedo-Canadian startup plots fun stuff with WiMax

BT has awarded Cramer one of the biggest OSS deals seen for years, but why is it so meaty?

HP's putting its faith in an emerging ATCA standard for the launch of its first telecom blade server next year

IXCs love their Ethernet access

Continent’s major carriers appear reluctant to commit to push-to-talk technology

A slow telecom recovery leads Corning to take a $2.9B correction [UPDATED 4:00 pm]

As shakeout grows, Airespace is climbing up the enterprise WLAN ranks

The RPR company wants to challenge micro-MSPPs with its customer-premises pizza box

OSS firm says it's working towards a London listing in 2005, but how would it use the cash?

British vendor takes cautious approach to 802.16 technology

Calls on vendors of telecom equipment to comment on the latest "Who Makes What" taxonomy

Stock slumps as remote DSLAM vendor says it'll miss third-quarter targets, but analysts see an upside

Scott Marshall, a former Cisco cohort of Kevin DeNuccio, takes the engineering helm at the edge router company

The IEEE 802.3ap standards effort is making progress, piggybacking on other 10-Gig Ethernet work

Supercomm will change shape in 2006 as its co-owner USTA focuses on its own conference

Firm to use Legra leftovers for wireless routing software

Firm to use Legra leftovers for wireless routing software

Finnish vendor rumored to be supplying German carrier's infrastructure kit

Chipset startup targets first mover advantage in battle with incumbent rivals

As the industry focuses on TV over fixed broadband, Dutch incumbent KPN will resell an over-the-air service

Agere's stock got a boost on rumors of an acquisition by Broadcom, but analysts say it's a longshot

Strikes OEM deal with middleware vendor Myrio as it chases carrier triple-play deals

Chip maker reveals softer earnings and revenues, while some executives of note head for the door

With a wireless JV already in place, the vendors team up to target enterprise users. What next?

Alvarion moves the goalposts over $56M million acquisition of InterWave UPDATED 10:15 AM

Trapeze claims it has the answer for branch office wireless LAN deployments

A Seller's Market
Wireless LAN has clear benefits for enterprises, but it's the job of integrators and VARs to go out and sell it.

Could a low-end PC bring down an entire enterprise VOIP network? Experts think it's possible

Blowing the Doors off 802.11
Unstrung Live! event to address the art and science of enterprise wireless LANs
by the Staff