Could prove to be the last straw for the scandal-plagued carrier
Could prove to be the last straw for the scandal-plagued carrier
After years on the bulletin board, IP video firm joins bigger-league Amex today. Here's how it went
Netgear follows iPass to market with $98M offering, but don't hold your breath for a rush of 802.11-related IPOs
After 4 years, the IP service startup lands a big customer
A new 10-Gigabit Ethernet chip is the lastest attempt to bring prices down and demand up
Network vendor slashes workforce as financial community looks on in dismay
Nearly 16,000 respond to an online petition to halt legislation that would affect foreign engineers in the US
Will it or won't it acquire a session controller startup this year?
Metro DWDM equipment vendor benefits from rising demand for Ethernet and storage services
TI says the startup's technology will help it build multimode 802.11 chipsets
Wrangling over FCC rules threatens to drag the IEEE ultrawideband standard process into a regulatory quagmire
Piddly Irish deal triggers doubts over hotspot ambitions
Corvis says it's a finalist in the US Government's GIG-BE RFP, but no one else is speaking up
The ASOC is no more, as Bookham turns its attention to optical components and begins looking beyond telecom
Équipe takes on IP core routing vendors as it adds native IP support to its multiservice switching platform
Is KaZaA founder Niklas Zennstrom cooking up a dynamic, distributed global VOIP directory based on P2P?
Startup claims it can upgrade system backplanes to 10-Gbit/s with a low-power transceiver
AT&T is claiming fraud ran rife through the engineering organization at MCI, but analysts doubt it
Signs another deal with Mickey's Steak House, touts super value of its bargain basement hotspot services pricing model
Telecom Italia is buying HanseNet, a Hamburg broadband operator, for €250 million in cash
UK carrier returns to wireless consumer market via T-Mobile but will also continue to play network footsie with mm02
With few exceptions, carrier revenues are down, even as cost cutting continues and quarterly profits roll in
Tellium says its new metro product was the real reason behind the Zhone merger
An extra $2M and some test-and-measurement business could help the startup survive if ROADMs don't take off
As it wades neck-deep in fraud allegations, will anyone trust MCI enough to hand over the keys to their data?
Terawave cuts, Broadcom scans for a CEO, Zhone and Tellium get together, and Stratos eyes its branches for cuts
Networking daddyman finds a nice warm seat on the board of WLAN startup Strix
Zhone may be buying optical switch maker Tellium for its green instead of its gear
It's won three protentially big European contracts and is close to getting some more money
Security-chip startup says it's the first to support Advanced Encryption Standard in 802.11i
Carrier has a mountain to climb if data revenue targets are to be achieved
As Catena enters trials with SBC, Ciena has taken a liking to the access network, sources say
Broadband provider hopes a $30M funding round will convince the Nasdaq to keep it on board
The access player is ringing up customers and looks well-positioned for an upgrade wave in hybrid DLC/broadband gear
BreconRidge's acquisition of Nortel's modules biz shows contract manufacturers are gearing up for photonics
Ignores warnings and takes a whole month to fix a security hole in its text messaging service
Can push-to-talk reprise the surprise success of text messaging in Europe?
F5 Networks is getting into the SSL market, but what's the big deal about SSL anyway?
The communications business has leveled out, but a dip in display business will cause revenues to slide again
In the race with Lucent to get back to the black, Nortel appears to be winning
AFC turns a profit and keeps cutting costs as its customers waffle on access buildouts
In the race with Lucent to get back to the black, Nortel appears to be winning
Unstrung Insider predicts a billion dollar market for wireless LAN chipsets
Cisco's SAN push and other factors are shaking up the status quo, says latest B&S Insider report
Additional revenue from AT&T helps boost Avici's revenues almost 30%, but the company is still losing money
A startup with similarities to WaveSmith, TiMetra, and Vivace has emerged from stealth mode
Likely to spend around $144M with Ericsson and Nortel on UMTS network rollout in four cities
Series C venture funding will help the company ramp manufacturing of lasers for 10-Gbit/s transceivers
Marc Litvinoff resigns and John Soden, who leads RHK's consulting practice, takes the top job, sources say
BT and T-Mobile help kickstart global wireless LAN roaming initiative
Lucent reports an 18% decline in revenue for Q3, but its losses decline as well
Lucent reports an 18% decline in revenue for Q3, but its losses decline as well
The company nearly tripled its revenue and is cutting its cash burn rate, but potential shareholder battle looms
Spirent's the latest to enhance its MPLS and IPv6 gear to handle increased demand in live networks
Is a David vs Goliath battle shaping up in the coarse wavelength-division multiplexing market?
Next-generation video and voice upgrade is a big part of the $1B deal between Sprint and Lucent
Calix and Occam announce progress in selling gear for video, data, and voice services to independent operators
Former state-owned dinosaur to offer converged fixed and wireless services in the UK with a little help from Fritz
Market points finger at Reliance Infocomm for revenue shortfall
Market points finger at Reliance Infocomm for revenue shortfall
Tellabs reports modest revenue growth, hefty loss. 'Maybe we have reached the bottom,' CEO says
Riverstone releases its preliminary restated earnings for 2002 and 2003 and resumes trading on Nasdaq... for now
Agere's net processor and switch fabric are finding their way into LG Electronics boxes destined for DSL networks
As design-win momentum builds for network processors, the LR Insider takes a look at the chips being offered
Chairman Powell won't be resigning anytime soon, says the FCC. Meanwhile, the press (but not us!) cries 'wolf'
Satellite/carrier alliances aren't new, but SBC says its deal with EchoStar is the real MSO-killer
Hotspot that is, promises combined billing for 802.11 and cellular customers by 2004
Riverstone admits to accounting irregularities and prepares to restate seven quarters of earnings
The upstart is doing what Nortel can't (yet) at New York's FiberNet. Is that target on its back getting bigger?
A major acquisition establishes Andrew Corp. as the outright market leader in the decidedly unsexy RF subsystems market
Analysts like the restructuring progress, but profitability is more than a year away
Metro Ethernet's clearly rising, but Infonetics says some forms of it will be more popular than others
Hackers continue to look for vulnerabilities, but Cisco and several service providers say they haven't succeeded
Wireless switch startup says it raised more than it originally planned
The price of WLAN chipsets keeps a'tumblin' and they could be less than $8 each by the end of this year
Cisco gives Chambers 2 million more options, but no pay raise (yet)
Democrats propose law that could turn millions of file swappers into criminals
Despite continued losses, CEO Gordon Stitt says growth is returning. At least one analyst scratches his head
U. of Kansas researchers think they're close to multiwavelength all-optical clock recovery
Swedish vendor gung ho on 2003 profitability goals
Revenues look to climb sequentially, but the company's still got red ink
SARS be damned. Telecom and wireless vendor says its profits grew 75 percent from last year
Service providers have been scrambling to fix a bug in Cisco's IOS that makes DOS attacks more likely
Net.com's beat the Street... What's lifting it?
Previously announced restructuring plans take their toll on profits as network misery continues
JDSU likes the subsystem market, paying up to $7M cash for Ditech subsidiary; Ditech will concentrate on voice products
Vendors are being invited to submit routers for Light Reading's IP version 6 performance test
Vendors are being invited to submit routers for Unstrung's IP version 6 performance test
Video-over-IP equipment vendor is hoping a secondary share offering will get it into a big-time stock market
Are we seeing one last gasp of the bubble days? Or are there finally some good deals around?
Intersil finally jettisons its WLAN chip business for about $385M, which could spark more consolidation
Salira's got a passive optical deal, and FlexLight's won $17M in new funding, highlighting fast-PON progress
Picks up a piece of Cicada Semiconductor's technology for an undisclosed sum, while announcing an upbeat Q1
New deployments, new products, and more funding for startups has brought free-space optics back into the spotlight
New deployments, new products, and more funding for startups has brought free-space optics back into the spotlight
Niklas Zennstrom spills the beans on a fourth P2P company he is planning
Motorola and Lucent report fall in sales, but market keeps the faith for turnaround
A warning blows away Pat Russo's promise of profits this year. Lucent retracts magazine statement UPDATED 7/16 11AM
Legra, Trapeze, and Aruba are on board... but there could be plenty of 'thrashing about' before draft becomes standard
Is it kicking its Riverstone, AFC, and Alcatel gear to the curb in the process?
European Commission to give green light to mmO2/T-Mobile deal
VPN service specialist shows what can happen when you are small, private, and profitable
As it forges into worldwide IP, Sprint may have to adjust its stance on multiprotocol label switching
A pair of deals around $12M apiece caps a busy week for venture announcements
Google may have to get in higher gear now that Yahoo is buying Overture -- possibly through merger or IPO
Leading ultrawideband vendors create a new alliance ahead of next week’s crucial IEEE standards meeting
Agility cuts, Jim Fultz joins RBN, Sycamore VP leaves, and Chiaro moves house
Labor issues loom and there's more competition from AT&T. What's the outlook?
Hutchison Hong Kong confirms Nokia base-station problems
A recent LR poll shows hopes for an optical recovery, with some reservations
US authorities won't rule out use of CDMA standard in Iraq's network reconstruction
AFC nudges a Cisco reseller and sells some broadband gear to a Colombian CLEC
Now we just need one that scares off marketing types...
If the carrier's bid to merge with ST Telemedia falls apart, what's the future hold?
Atrica has raises $17 million in funding and adds Intel Capital to its investor list
Sources say it's about to award contracts for an IP Centrex service it plans to launch this fall. Who's in?
It may be too early to throw in the towel for the original wireless LAN warrior
Institutional investor Kern Capital has unloaded about half its Riverstone shares, SEC filings indicate
A significant number of European workers rack up cell-phone bills of more than $2,000 a month
ElectroniCast says there's going to be a big increase in the use of fiber-based optical components
Startup wins an 'up' round, enabling it to continue work on a generic amplifier-control chip
Juniper leads off the Q2 earnings season on an upbeat note but remains 'prudent' about the future
Established long-haul system gets a few improvements to help carriers cut operations costs
Photuris may have customers, and Nortel is looking to jump into the action with new metro DWDM gear
Probe finds IP VPNs are growing, but Frame Relay and ATM services are still where the money is
Report claims Europe's wireless carriers are greedily cashing in on termination charges as fixed networks suffer
Massive hotspot venture uses unknown startup for quick billing and management fix while it waits for AT&T and IBM code
Flush off its Olympics run, the VDSL chip startup completes its $33M Series D
Analysts from UBS Investment Research say Alcatel could win big in coming RBOC PON RFP
European carrier searches for way out of self-made regulatory mess
Ixia and Spirent, among others, roll out Gigabit Ethernet testers for both fiber and copper UPDATED 7/10 9 AM
Dutch newspaper proves the pen is mightier than the sword after it misquotes John Chambers, sending Cisco stock up
Chip giant to deliver 802.16a chips, Alvarian signs on for silicon
With more funding, ZettaCom hangs on. Other switch fabric vendors won't be so lucky
Bankruptcy Boondoggle – R. Scott Raynovich
...to sort out who makes what in the OSS market, and who has the best brand recognition among the carriers
After concentrating on OC192 framers, Intel takes a step back to acquire OC48 technology
Its session controller helps VOIP operator Convergia deal with problems managing Cisco gear
Wayport greases hotspot market with McDonalds and MCI deals
Investors dump shares after equipment vendor says it hopes to eliminate $467M in debt to avoid Chapter 11
The carrier's busy week continues with new guidance and another court settlement proposal
Alternative wireless broadband supplier won't confirm likely T-Mobile trial following VC backing
Hal Covert's exiting in the midst of underperforming financials and a plummeting share price UPDATED 3:20 PM
A new CEO from Chartered Semiconductor could help Xanoptix expand into chip integration work
Its homegrown softswitch has been morphed into an upgrade of its legacy telephone switch
Demonstrates disaster recovery application using FC-over-IP over a distance of 3,600 miles
Report highlights concern that WLAN hotspot rollout could adversely affect metropolitan 3G network investment
Massive public WLAN venture is falling far, far behind its 25,000 hotspot rollout target UPDATED 7/8 1 PM
MCI's agreement with the SEC is approved, but doesn't please everyone UPDATED 7/7 4:45 PM
The company's framer chips are being redirected to slower-speed markets
The worldwide carrier is expanding its suite of managed security services. Who'll glom on?
Fleshes out its passives portfolio by acquiring Cierra Photonics at a knockdown price
Waits until the last moment before the July 4 holiday to announce a big reduction in projected Q2 revenues
Spam's inventor has launched a meaty legal suit against a company with a spam-killing product
Tie declared after 505 take Unstrung's Wireless Personality Test
Another switch fabric startup shuts down, saying the near-term prospects are just too bleak
HP is waiting for the completion of interoperability tests before it brings out products based on new WLAN standard
Airespace-backed 'skinny' access point spec under discussion at the next IETF meeting in Vienna (Ohhhhhhhhhh Vienna!)
Unstrung Insider finds rollout of W-CDMA networks will be inevitable from 2005
Lehman's equity team cites a few notable developments in the DISA horse race
Feisty equipment vendor acquires more companies
J.P. Morgan predicts antivirus and firewall security spending to be be flat, as companies spend more on access security
The core routing startup is looking for a new CEO, but who would want the job?
Its switch chip reaches new heights for 10-Gig Ethernet, but will it drop prices as quickly as Fujitsu claims?
Bob Schack joins Ellacoya as its top sales and business development boss
Unveils real-life example of the technology being used in high performance project UPDATED 7/3 8AM
AT&T Wireless is keeping schtum over rumored job cuts... and wants you to zip it as well
It was up 26% in the first half of 2003 -- but was it just a dead-cat bounce or a sign that things are improving?
The DLC market is dominated by incumbents, so where does that leave the newer, data-focused players?
Could Nextel use WorldCom wireless spectrum to implement a wide-area, high-speed data service?
Security player NetScreen wants SSL technology -- will it acquire it or develop it in-house?
ST Telemedia is still the sole bidder for the majority of Global Crossing's assets, per court ruling today
This European wireless carrier isn't about to wager much on wireless LAN
Chief exec rules out any short-term recovery for infrastructure market - will outsourcing save the day?
Public wireless LAN market hit again with 'misguided approach' accusations
Metro gear from several suppliers pushes forward in the Ethernet-over-anything market UPDATED 7/2 12:30PM
VPLS is great, but a survey says getting existing networks to work together is more important
Santel Networks brings in a new CEO, adds a board member, and hightails it out of telecom
A $6M defense contract will help pay for the company's next-generation indium phosphide research
