BigBand Networks announced a new customer win yesterday -- Chinese operator Shekou Cable -- as it works to build momentum for a possible initial public offering (IPO).

Yet another round garners more than $10M, but this time Luminous claims big contracts are in the works

See Spot swim. See Spot flail. See Spot attract nature's perfect killing machine.

Question of the day: What could Qwest buy now to make itself look better?

German incumbent is latest Euro Tier 1 carrier to unveil fixed/mobile convergence strategy UPDATED 09/01

Tellabs CEO Krish Prabhu talks about the impact of fixed/mobile convergence, Tellabs' future, and the rise of the echo boomer

Software giant follows Yahoo and Google VOIP moves by acquiring Teleo, a startup with Skypish qualities

Global Crossing is leading the SDP pack with its 'unique' Fast Track initiative

Contrary to rumors, Intel says it still likes the prospects for network processors

The Crawford ranch has a lot of brush, but few bovines.

At noon today, a great harmonic convergence of the telecom world took place.

"Crapstone, driver, on the double!"

Like BT, Norway's Telenor is migrating to an all-IP network by 2010. But it's doing things differently, says strategy exec

Readers peg Skype as the most threatened – and the most likely to get bought – by Google

Wish our sports teams did this...

Vonage is talking to investment bankers about going public, but analysts say the company might also consider being acquired

Like BT, Norway's Telenor is migrating to an all-IP network by 2010. But it's doing things differently, says strategy exec

Networking firm bumps up WiFi capabilities through partnership with startup

First, Passave files for an IPO. Now Teknovus closes its third round, nearly doubling its funding total

Gives VOIP companies more time to check that their customers understand what kind of 911 service they're getting

Don't worry, folks. We are in a shipwreck museum...

Samsung pushes ahead with WiBro in a bid to lead the market

Unleash the furniture fury!

Larry is speechless.

Heavy Reading finds some network operators primed to replace Sonet/SDH with Ethernet

India enforces the Law of the Jungle.

What's in the W.A.G., man?

Sonus CEO has more than doubled his salary and grabbed some private jet expenses during two turbulent years

Wireless switch startup grabs ex-Peribit CFO, primping itself for an IPO and perhaps priming the acquisition rumor mill UPDATED 5PM

Could you be the next Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl?

Leave the girl alone.

CDMA stalwart hopes to standardize its newly acquired Flash-OFDM technology but keeps schtum on specifics

The former Neoteris CEO unexpectedly leaves Juniper but doesn't leave behind a $677K bonus

We make stuff up. You decide.

Stephen Levy, one of telecom's top sell-side stock analysts is leaving his post. But was it really his call?

The first of the PON chips startups to try an IPO, Passave is hoping to raise $90M

What will Clearwire spend its $260 million of extra funding on?

Juvenile fun with Instant Messenger

Forget Google Talk! Tough VOIP wiretapping regulations might become Skype's biggest headache in the US

Startup confirms high-profile network partnership and talks up carrier interest in UMA technology

Cisco employee nabbed for shipping porn to Singapore.

Multiservice edge systems may yet succeed in converging disparate core networks... but not the way anyone expected

They may smell bad, but they're eager to share.

National operator Cesky Telecom joins Europe's IPTV hopefuls as it gains a broadcast license

Scientists daydreaming again.

Skype's in trouble if Google Talk catches on, according to Light Reading poll takers

Skype and Vonage don't believe Google Talk will threaten their VOIP subscriber numbers

I must, I must, improve my word power

The company's largest shareholder is having issues and the chairman has departed, but Wall Street says: No worries!

The worst column. Ever.

Six months after launching PacketCable-based VoIP service in Quebec, Canadian MSO Videotron counted 62,500 customers as of August 12. With a head start over Rogers and Shaw, Videotron is now Canada's top cable VoIP provider.

NT and LU... can they make it to $4?

Startup receives early boost in double patent-infringement lawsuit

Startup receives early boost in double patent-infringement lawsuit

With Ethernet over Sonet under its belt, the chip company releases parts made for micro-MSPPs

...or forever hold your PCMCIA card

A lexicon of the late

Deutsche Telekom, Norway's Telenor, and Portugal Telecom are looking to expand their international portfolios

Teknovus claims it's helping to sketch the next generation of EPONs, while Passavé announces its GPON ambitions

Ayatollah Robertson issues a fatwa

Virtualization startup and security startup has shuttered and sold its assets, sources say

Big boys collaboration could be the first step on the road to smarter standard WiFi clients

Shocking press release du jour...

A year-end CEO change at the country's third-largest cable MSO may already be having its effect on management headcount

I get up at 5am, spank the cat, and down a quart of gin

For all the noise and hype there's no clear, cohesive strategy for vendors in the mesh space yet

Sprint Nextel and Verizon prep future launch of EV-DO Revision A networks

What is the sound of 10,000 cats in heat?

Synthesizer joins the choir invisible

Ohio educators need to brush up on their sex ed.

Higher costs led to lower profits for the Chinese vendor, but its international sales more than doubled

EPON gear maker finds more funds as carriers of all sorts fiddle with fiber access

Layers 4-7 processing startup Seaway gets acquired, becoming part of Freescale's security plans

Erstwhile WaveSmithies feel blue

Pigs get slaughtered.

Startup aims to help service provider and enterprise CIOs secure and manage SIP applications

Univa clinches its first round of VC funding and plans to launch its first open-source products

Equipment maker expects to report a gain of roughly $780M from its interest in Nextel prior to the merger

Finally, I'm reading about a football (soccer) game I would have liked to see...

Another reason to not watch TV

Vendor ups the WiMax publicity ante with claims of UK trial first

We do love them anal probes.

Equipment maker expects to report a gain of roughly $780M from its interest in Nextel prior to the merger

Enterprise 802.11 market picks up after a couple of humdrum quarters

World Wide Packets says Marconi's referral business will drive triple-play deployments for carriers

Unstrung Insider finds a bevy of innovative newcomers attempting to wrest market share from 802.11 titan

Remember Teem Photonics? It's still around, buying an industrial laser line from JDSU

What will Light Reading's acquisition mean for us minions?

Cutting-edge film criticism from the Herald-Dispatch.com

More laffs from the Ivory Phallus

Enterprise Storage: One Ugly Market

Unstrung Insider finds a bevy of innovative newcomers attempting to wrest market share from 802.11 titan

Once we were worshipped, dammit!

Australia's Parliament is matey again.

Brooktrout gives Excel a strong position in enterprise markets, as well as a leading IP-based media server

Security rivals Secure Computing and CyberGuard patch things up in $295M deal

Here are the top five things I'm looking forward to now that Light Reading is owned by CMP...

The new Comm Chip Insider discusses how semiconductor integration has affected MSPPs

Fear and loathing in 34 mortar tubes

Official 802.16 lab activity won’t start until October, raising doubts over year-end commercial availability

Putting the "Aaaaaaargh, it's a deadly killer lion! Run for your lives!" back into North America

Priceless hair is just a click away.

Official 802.16 lab activity won’t start until October, raising doubts over year-end commercial availability

Press 2 if you want to be ridiculed.

The chip giant acquires Sarvega for an undisclosed amount, bringing some XML switching expertise inhouse

The need for bandwidth is driving next-generation access, reports say

Government project tests pre-WiMax technology for wireless broadband safety network

Sociologists agree! Money CAN buy you happiness!

Every so often we're hit with glaring examples of the cable industry's growing pains in the marketing department. This is the industry after all, that for years marketed movies on demand to consumers as 'pay per view.'

There's nothing worse than getting wailed on... by a chimp.

Danger, Will Robinson! Sanswire plots wireless broadband from above

Where a picture paints 500 words, if yer lucky.

Acquisition-savvy incumbent pays $57 million for UK service delivery software startup

The Cultural Revolution, Phase II

Acquisition-savvy incumbent forks over $57 million for UK service delivery software startup

In an increasingly IP world, the multiservice switch needs to adapt, according to a new Heavy Reading report

CEO and CFO quit after revealing ballooning Q2 losses; the CLEC could be heading back into Chapter 11

Security giant ends months of speculation about the startup's long-term future

ADVA says it's itching to get hitching... and sources say it is contemplating deals with Meriton or Movaz

For nearly 90 percent of Light Readers, paying $3B for Skype is tripe

A Brief History of Heywood

Dick Clark is back and Frank Valli's hair is still jet black...

Ron Longo, SVP of worldwide sales, or rock god? You be the judge.

Demand for 802.11 switches has put enterprise WLAN equipment market back on track, according to research firm

InP optical components specialist gets some money to ramp up shipments

28 years ago today, Elvis died for our cholesterol.

Keep on truckin!

Hair of the dog, anyone?

Service activation company buys inventory management startup in a bid to expand its carrier OSS business

Cable & Wireless acquires Energis for up to $1.2 billion in cash

Could the Hollywood hard-man be Commander-In-Chief?

The hills are alive...

Long time ago in the faraway galaxy...

Unstrung Insider claims high-profile partnerships will boost wireless VOIP market and drive enterprise FMC

Does humor belong in tech journalism?

Agilent sells its chip business and makes other moves to trim down to its core test-and-measurement business

THUS's bid to woo Energis away from C&W is rejected by Energis's parent company, Chelys

Launches new hardware to slot in and boost the firewall/VPN performance of its NetScreen devices

Will work for spam.

Test-and-measurement mergers continue as the Japanese giant extends its reach into VOIP monitoring

Are the phone companies really so powerful that they are slowing broadband growth to match their business plans?

A sale of the Agilent chip and optical transceiver unit could come with Monday's earnings

A new report indicates that VOIP could take up to $96 billion in service revenues by 2010

Cogent's revenues jumped 65 percent, but a forecasting folly has taken the stock price down a notch

Keeping the Right Honourable Member for Underpants under lock and key.

New report looks at equipment providers and carriers working on WiMax

Hmmm, let's see... body cavity or auto part? I can't quite tell...

Denmark and Ireland are next on the map for wireless broadband service provider startup UPDATED 08/17

Orange Alert. Hold the anchovies.

This is your brain on PowerPoint...

New report looks at equipment providers and carriers working on WiMax

I have some breaking news... a statement from the office of 'adult' film 'actress' Jenna Jameson...

The chip startup dials up another $15M in its pursuit of the Advanced Switching Interconnect market

Juniper's security products chief could qualify for more than $600K in bonus bucks

It's a win/win.

Sure, that's someone's face on that pierogi... but is it really Our Lord?

Former CFO gets five years in prison and three years probation for his role in the WorldCom collapse UPDATED 4:15PM

CDMA stalwart pays a whopping $600M for Flash-OFDM vendor UPDATED 08/12

CDMA stalwart pays a whopping minimum $600M for Flash-OFDM vendor UPDATED 08/12

Kansas 'educators' confirm that evolution has not taken place in Topeka.

While Skype has turned the communications world on its head, few agree that it's worth that much

Nokia theatre to open in Times Square; there goes the neighborhood.

Peculiar pooches plummet from particular perilous plunge... mais pourquoi?

A good headline is worth a thousand pictures...

Pursuing RPR, Ethernet, and multiservice framers, Cortina has done well enough to raise another $30M in funding

Texas legislation will make it easier for phone companies and other competitors to offer TV services

Behold! The International Man of IP Networking Mystery!

Grid startup adds $3M to its Series B round, bringing total funding to $8.5 million

You too can enjoy the fruits of the Great Hundred Billion Dollar Boondoggle!

Flarion faces Finnish delay, WiMAX Forum rumored to be seeing red, and France preps for 802.16

Game enthusiast takes early retirement.

So, about that merger rumor... what does John Chambers really think?

So, about that merger rumor... what does John Chambers really think?

Cisco meets expectations for its Q4 earnings, but investors are sending the stock southward

Cisco meets expectations for its Q4 earnings, but investors are sending the stock southward

In search of... a Star Trek communicator.

Enough already with this shuttle cock.

Broadband wireless service provider startup quietly arrives in Belgium

The carrier Ethernet market is so hot, you can fry a TDM private line on it.

Are the spectacular Q2 Sonus results the begnning of a new era or just a one-hit wonder? UPDATED 5:45

Security startup is barred from importing and selling its anti-virus software in the US

VOIP tester emerges from obscurity and gets some trial pickup from Time Warner Cable

Guv'nor closes off yet another avenue of attack.

Someone has waaaaaaay too much time on their hands.

Startup mobile operator tunes up with $67M of venture funding

New devices aim to bulk up router vendor's nascent (and much hyped) Enterprise Infranet

Municipal networks are good for the industry, according to Light Reading poll

Deal that would pair it with Huawei looks more likely given Marconi's move to ditch its wireless division

Deal that would pair it with Huawei looks more likely given Marconi's move to ditch its wireless division

Analysts dismiss prospect of a Cisco acquisition of Nokia. Gotta love August!

Analysts dismiss prospect of a Cisco acquisition of Nokia. Gotta love August!

Thank God, someone is thinking of the children.

Company surprises the street with 10 percent revenue growth, meets profit expectations with a penny per share

Company surprises the street with 10 percent revenue growth, meets profit expectations with a penny per share

Small wonder the place is going so cheap.

Cable VOIP vendor gets more funding and goes Dutch

"...a friend put the padlock on his testicles while he was drunk and passed out..."

Don't give up the day job.

Charter Communications Inc. was featured in an investment advice column on The Motley Fool yesterday titled 'Danger! Horror! Get Out!' as a case study 'example of what to avoid' in the U.S. stock market. The MSO's Q2 results support the thesis.

Fish in the Adriatic seem much more hyper lately for some reason.

A new FCC order will relieve telco broadband players from sharing their loops with unaffiliated ISPs

There's a bid on Baidu.com.

Talk spreads that the wireless unit is up for sale

Opposable thumbs up for Australian science...

Combined entity promises to hit 30M wireless broadband subs in the 2.5GHz band within six years

Talk spreads that the wireless unit is up for sale, but Marconi sees the softswitch market as a growth opportunity

Sometimes a headache isn't just a headache...

Roll On, Wireless VOIP Dualmode phones and A-list vendor support are driving adoption of mobile VOIP in the enterprise

Follows in NetCentrex's footsteps by acquiring a specialized VOIP systems player with IMS-compliant technology

They don't deliver.

No, don't worry. Lester Maddox is still dead.

Captain Callisch jumps ship, from Aruba to Video54

Vin Diesel lives in a pineapple under the sea.

Broadband gains are boosting the bottom lines of Europe's leading carriers

Former Atmel executive Francis Barton could make $1M during his first year as the new CFO at UTStarcom

Thousands of drunken students can't be wrong.

The VOIP services company is growing like wildfire, yet its stock has tanked on today's quarterly numbers

802.16 market stalwart is a surprise omission from initial list of vendors in Spanish lab

They can make you believe almost anything... about strawberry ice cream.

Employees must wash hands after typing.

Brothers Ashok Krishnamurthi and R.K. Anand are tackling server efficiency issues at their year-old startup, Xsigo

In its latest security-related mishap, Cisco resets user passwords after discovering a Website vulnerability

Tekelec buys a company, cleans up at Santera, and reports a profitable quarter in Q2

Koreans hedge against food shortage.

The only good panda is a deceased panda.

One-time Token Ring protagonist eyes enterprise 802.11 market share

Businesses need to beef up their wireless networks, according to those who attended this year's DefCon confab

The British are a funny race...

Revenge of the nerds...

Revenues stable, but there's concern about the impact of BT's rejection and low gross margins

The number portability company beat expectations, even though expansion cut into the profit margins

Businesses need to beef up their wireless networks, according to those who attended this year's DefCon confab

I've found the headline of the century...

Soy sauce: It's what's for dinner. Or else.

In a world before WiMax: Vonage and TowerStream explore broadband wireless VOIP

The troubled infrastructure company saw increased revenues but continues to suffer from a decline in handset demand

In a world before WiMax: Vonage and TowerStream explore broadband wireless VOIP

A bad day out...

Former Avici, Convergent, and Polaris exec takes a spot in Cisco's service provider voice department

French ISP Free is still recording impressive customer and revenue growth in Europe's most competitive broadband market

UK power amp minnow scores $7.75M and talks up major base-station cost savings

Mocked? Check. Brain damaged? Check...

Credulous idiots disappointed again...

On August 2, 1923, our 29th president returned to normalcy.

Losses are still there but shrinking, and the company's gross margins are benefiting from a revised Nortel agreement

Light Reading Top 10 Privates poll shows the jury is still out on companies selling policy management solutions to carriers

Insight Communications eked out smaller quarterly gains in cable modem and digital cable customers but a higher increase in telephony subscribers in the second quarter. It also made strides towards going private.

Symbol CEO resigns and the firm posts a $30.5M loss for the second quarter

SEC filing says Bradley Miller has left Sonus for a job elsewhere

More than 20 million Verso shares changed hands today on news that the company's leader Lewis Jaffe has left after eight months

The optical-switch companies could target ROADMs and might take a look at FTTH testing

Unstrung readers turn off concept of big-time revenues from mobile TV

OSS firm has healthier financials and a new partnership with Lucent

Comcast lines up Level 3, AT&T, and Sprint to help it deliver its voice service in 35 states by end of 2006

UTStarcom's CTO Bill Huang discusses fixed/mobile convergence and more