Whoopee! Carrier spending in Asia/Pac, Europe, and N. America set to rise after a few dismal years

Coriolis and Salira announce reseller business in Asia this week as smart technology follows brisk carrier spending

China's Huawei is gearing up to become a bigger player in Europe and North America

Company closes in on funding, gets ready to exit Chapter 11, and could be in talks to combine with ECI Telecom

U.S. companies using cheap, overseas labor will only see short term benefits, according to a Light Reading poll

Check Point and VeriSign splash out, while SSL vendors make hay and ramp up their offerings

Intel sticks to announced 802.16a launch schedule but says it will be first with standard 'WiMax' wireless MAN chips

Technology is available to enable VOIP peering but carriers are unclear of the business opportunities

Can telecom startups learn anything from the 3D chip market?

All the hotspot news you can eat in a tasty wrap

OSS firm raises cash for acquisitions and is shopping in the IP network fault management sector

Switch Startup will offer native support of SpectraLink's 802.11 QOS in its software for voice-hungry customers

Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun, has resigned from Cisco, possibly to go to a storage startup

In the big incumbent beauty contest, Alcatel gets the prize for 'Miss Congeniality'

The remains of the edge router startup could make it less reliant on its OEM deal with Laurel

Stock tanks as Ethernet player anticipates slack revenues for Q2, but sees New Year uptick UPDATED 10AM

NASA finds a use for Tropos's 802.11 mesh technology... on Mars

Sprint sticks to guidance as it outlines several million dollars in charges against its Q4 earnings

Sprint sticks to guidance as it outlines several million dollars in charges against its Q4 earnings

Ciena has a smart vision, but bumpy margins and bad visibility have tested Wall Street's patience

Announces border control features for its softswitch

Cymbal - er... Symbol will debut a brand new wireless switch in Q1 2004

There’s no reason to run an insecure wireless LAN, say experts on Unstrung’s 802.11 security and management Webinar

Utilities and municipal players are the ones that will extend fiber to European homes, says a Yankee report

If John Chambers were a hobbit, what would he be called?

Big carriers cut back, Valo vets get jobs, Photuris trolls for partners, and much more

Level 3's in and Ciena is out as the Nasdaq 100 shakes it all about. Bad news for ADC and Ericsson too

Startup will continue building its own chips, but its I/O technology will be in Rambus's hands

Interoperability issues set to hamper hotspot plans

Global Crossing isn't going to start a price war as it emerges from Chapter 11, says European director

Broadband is growing as a share of telecom revenues in Korea. Is this a vision of the future?

Internet backbone expert and former WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore, 52, dies suddenly of kidney failure

Protocol is being enhanced with security and presence features to make life easier for IM users

Wireless LAN switch startup tweaks access points for branch office applications

Hopes fade for improved guidance from big contract wins, as Ciena announces reduced losses

Vendor targets near full dualmode functionality across competing 3G kit

CEO Dorman to flesh out 2004 VOIP strategy at CSFB Media and Telecom Conference

Semiconductor design finding its way into China, but the transition won't wipe out US jobs... yet

Will target consumer broadband customers of its cable rivals with a VOIP offering, but the move could backfire

Launches a jitter analysis tester to help prolong the life of old network gear

US carrier reveals details of high-profile Flash-OFDM project while Flarion is mum

CEO John Chambers describes the potential of six key technology markets - and has a word or two for Juniper

Telegeography report says it's still growing but has tailed off dramatically from last year

Cisco adds the 7600 edge router, while the 12000 series gets stretched at the high and low ends

Light Reading's monster test of eight SSL-based VPN gateways finds (gasp!) that they all work!

Groundbreaking survey from Heavy Reading finds corporate users bullish on WLAN but fearful on security issues

Riverstone's new CEO completes sweep of the management and the board of directors

Dodging the FCC hammer, Merrimac is taking the plunge and becoming a CLEC, a trend analysts expect to grow

$10M infusion will go towards developing something beyond plain traffic manager chips, execs say

ADVA's got some new features -- and a new customer -- for its FSP 3000 Metro DWDM platform

Industry event sparks speculation over a move into the voice-over-wireless-LAN handset market

Cable company teams with MCI and Sprint to roll out nationwide VOIP

Its 2004 models will sport columns of prefab circuits, possibly making life easier for chip designers

Enterprise vendor takes a leaf from the cellular book with WLAN 'repeater' software

Apax leads £15M round for Nexagent, which promises the industry seamless VPNs across multiple networks

C&W's US domestic business goes into Chapter 11 as it finds a buyer for its decimated hosting empire

Service definitions and Ethernet access technologies outlined at Light Reading's Asia/Pacific Roadshow

Unstrung poll reveals mixed opinion on chances of EDGE success

New OEM deal with UTStarcom has given the startup several new customers

German carrier seems the latest to include metro Ethernet in its next-gen plans; trialing Atrica gear

Startups are pouring into this space, saying increased range is just what 802.11 needs

New names in roaming alliance set to boost hotspot interoperability among carriers

Sources say Cisco and Extreme are nixing mix-and-match optical modules. The result? Customers pay more

STT gives a further financial fillip, and a former Global Crossing employee faces jail time for threats

Dutch telco at heart of two key Euro trends – interest in Eastern Europe, and reduced mobile termination fees

Telecom staff are the most productive in the world, putting the food and beverage sector to shame

Corning closes plants, Alcatel chops US jobs, and Gluon CFO says, 'See ya!'

Shares of VOIP company have momentum and interest, but plenty of folks are skeptical

Incumbent Ethernet vendor readies assault on wireless LAN switch market

Wireless LAN vendor ships core network gateway and strikes double partnership deals

Plano and Ottawa bear the brunt of losses, as 870 more jobs are cut this week

CEO Pat Russo pulls in a $3M bonus as four other senior execs pick up $1M-plus

Multiservice Sonet is the key battleground for telecom equipment players such as Alcatel, Nortel, and Cisco UPDATED 12/12/03

Launches IxChariot to monitor and prioritize application traffic across networks UPDATED 12/8 12:30PM

Europe's showing worrying signs of repeating the tariff mistakes made in the US, says WiFi evangelist

Looks like it's won high-profile Vodafone UK deal, beating out the Euro vendors

Bluetooth startup denies reports of public offering before year's end

A reformatted MCI looks to capture the 'slippery eel' (ewww) of Europe's small and medium business market

Hype is Back – R. Scott Raynovich

Sources say Sycamore is beating Ciena and Nortel in consideration for Sprint's core switching RFP

Application switching company plunges into security appliance market with an intrusion detection system

The startup says tunable lasers are on the verge of acceptance, and they really mean it this time

Forget the Riviera: The parties are on the VOIP network, says ITXC executive

Analysts flag smaller CDMA network players as possible acquisition targets for the Finnish behemoth

After 18 years, prez Betsy Bernard resigns amid continued shrinking consumer and long-distance revenues

Wireless LAN switch startup to boost sales and marketing efforts with $12M cash injection

With so much riding on DSL, does this mean incumbents aren't likely to get as excited about FTTP?

First VOIP meeting in DC turns into industry soapbox, and so far the regulators are looking for a 'light touch'

The chip startup introduces a binary backplane product for those that can't deal with weird PAM4 signaling

Norway's incumbent operator takes a slice of Russia's Golden Telecom, but won't say if it's hungry for more

US vendor beefs up market control by acquiring LGP Allgon, a European basestation company

Convergence ahoy! Appliance maker proffers new take on WLAN switching