Networking giant says it could spin off its device business and is mulling alternatives

Auctions break the $15B dollar barrier today

The GAAP numbers still show a loss, but in invoiced shipments Infinera beat EPS predictions by 750%

Shares jump more than 30% after appeals court upholds ruling that EchoStar infringed on the DVR pioneer's 'Time Warp' patent

Chinese vendor expects to report a big profit jump on the back of international growth in markets such as India

The latest installment of our telepresence tour

Damage to two of the three main submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea highlights the need for more buildouts

Whether it is bidding or not, Google has just achieved its aim of a national block of 'open access' wireless broadband spectrum

Another quarter, another giant leap in data revenues for Vodafone

According to Thomson, there is no alternative to IMS

IP-Com is claiming patent infringement

Indian state-run operator launches new triple-play bundles as it sees its profit fall 56% in the last three months of 2007

Have a senator's warnings last summer of a coming digital TV transition 'train wreck' already left the station?

VOIP firm will keep its options open as 'interim' CEO Curt Hockemeier steps in to steer the company until it finds a permanent replacement

A precursor to a renewed WiMax relationship?

News and updates from Contentinople

Is bidding for the big C block stalling?

Harmonic chief declined to pinpoint company's acquisition plans, but said more video tech would offer the best strategic fit

India's largest mobile operator reports 42% rise in revenues and profits as subscriber growth offsets falling ARPU

Live, from New York, it's photos of the Juniper enterprise launch

Sprint close to choosing backhaul vendors?

Deutsche Telekom CEO says German iPhone users consume up to 30 times more data than its other subscribers

Bids approaching $10B overall for the wireless broadband spectrum

A new VOD-centric site puts Time Warner Cable on a path similar to that of Comcast's Fancast.com effort

A new bandwidth-saving technology designed to boost DSL line capacity by as much as 30%

TeliaSonera makes the case to deploy picocells, thanks to IP backhaul

Obermann tells regulators to back off

Femto Forum announces 17 new members and launches a program to streamline femtocell standards

'Build' won over 'buy'

Now up to $8.7 billion

Seeking monetary damages for alleged infringement of four patents linked to optical transport technology

Juniper comes roaring into the Ethernet switching market with high-speed gear and partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle

Company to pursue 'selective acquisitions' after solid Q4 and a successful stock offer that brought in about $142M

Total bids approaching $8 billion

Well some spectrum anyway, but the mystery remains about the bidders for the 700 MHz auctions

Aims to sign up another 350,000 IPTV subscribers this year after ending 2007 with 150,000 orders for its Entertain service

The EX is out. Quick, find quotes!

T-Mobile reports 2007 subscribers

The auctions hot up

For KLA-Tencor, not quite a record

Slow and steady on Day 4 of the FCC auctions

From the files of cable's unexpected revenue streams...

T-Mobile reports strong subscriber growth in 2007 and T-Mobile USA is the international operator's biggest contributor

Research consortium deploys Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks for hybrid IP/circuit network

Vendor gets win at Equinix due to its density and quick provisioning

T-Mobile reports strong subscriber growth in 2007 and T-Mobile USA is the international operator's biggest contributor

Day three of the FCC's auction closes, but the C band hasn't met its reserve yet

Cisco's biggest product since the CRS-1 combines Ethernet and storage switching to target a new era in data center technology

PWBs hit $6B at the end of the day

Cisco's monumental Nexus platform won't incorporate storage for months yet

Verizon quietly lays off thousands

Packet Design adds VPN traffic analysis capabilies to its popular Route Explorer product

Concurrent claims to be among those on the short-list for cable's secretive, high-level 'Canoe' advanced ad initiative

Bids up 20.77% as FCC crams in the rounds

Net income dives 93.3% in the international data services provider's fiscal Q3

A switch has got to know its limitations

YouTube's entire catalogue now available on mobile

With more than 23,000 dedicated streams, Concurrent lays claim to what's being billed as the largest deployment of 'Start Over'

Bids are slowly creeping up today

For a limited time only

This is the year, says Google

Nokia acquires Norwegian software firm Trolltech

Auction breaks $4B in fifth round

Nokia to acquire Norwegian firm Trolltech to speed cross-platform software development

Mobile and video services were again a strength for Verizon in the fourth quarter of 2007

3Com shareholders to vote on Bain/Huawei takeover

P2P-based content delivery network 'caches in' with $25 million funding round

The FCC raises $3.7B in the early stages of the 700 MHz auction

World Wide Packets acquisition wouldn't be happening if it wasn't for carrier Ethernet technology PBB-TE, says Ciena's chief technologist

Former VP of marketing Kevin Walsh has found a new home at startup Zeugma Systems

BT has enlisted Digital Fuel, a telecom software startup, to manage SLAs for its entire customer base

$3.7B in provisional bids this time

It's Burns Night! It's Burns Night!

Calling attention to a handful of other cable things that happened this week...

Provisional bids are now up to $3.2B

When it comes to basic sub growth, Insight continues to zig while the rest of the industry is zagging

Company-wide revenues rise 3% year-over-year, but are offset by a small decline in Concurrent's on-demand product line

Details on when the Redline box is going away

Prosecutors point the finger at the two Henrys

Verizon Business's new HD video conferencing is no telepresence, but the price of $0 could be attractive

The company's new TOSA brings full-band tunability to the small form factor transceiver market

Two bidders remain in the race to invest in Telekom Slovenije

$2.8B in provisionally winning bids

Earnings top estimates by 3 cents per share as Juniper closes out 2007

Nokia Siemens Networks reached operating breakeven and boosted its revenues in the fourth quarter of 2007

Gemstar takes action after it's unable to score a licensing deal, while Virgin calls the suit 'flagrant opportunism'

Indian mobile value-added services provider launches book building process of its IPO

A 'down' story on an 'up' day

FCC Makes $2.4B in first round of wireless broadband auction

CFO, CMO, and others leave a month after new CEO takes the helm

Q4 profit up 44% as Finnish titan cements its top-dog handset status

Wireless subscriber growth helped AT&T report strong fourth quarter 2007 results

The applications-delivery company turns its eye toward making SIP behave more reliably

Saudi-based Oger Telecom makes offer for South African incumbent Telkom SA

What's been going on at Contentinople

Wireless broadband and cellular is a minor fillip for Motorola

Wireless backhaul is a hot market, and AlcaLu wants the 7750 router to get its share

Pressure group makes good on a threat to seek legal action against the FCC in wake of new rules that would scotch existing MDU contracts

When will a real increase happen?

CEO says company could try to stop piracy

Is that the scent of a fire sale of the future I'm smelling?

Get out the trophy case again

Regulator paves easy way for FTTH

Picks new back-office system from Concurrent that promises to work with third-party servers and support network-based DVR apps

AT&T is upping is U-verse downstream speeds from 6 Mbit/s to 10 Mbit/s, bit it won't be increasing overall bandwidth to the home

Equipment vendor sheds non-core assets to focus on its access portfolio

BT introduces new accounting practice designed to improve clarity on the performance of its business divisions

Motorola reports 84% profit drop for Q4 2007 and foresees worse for the first quarter of 2008

Motorola reports Q4 results and forecasts a loss for the first quarter of this year

The DX line of data center products from the former Redline Networks is getting the ax

CEO Gary Smith gets a grilling over the $290M in cash and stock being paid for World Wide Packets

Cisco becomes a strategic investor in picocell and femtocell vendor ip.access

Still waiting for corporate email

World Wide Packets agrees to get bought by Ciena for a package worth about $305M

Company is taking back the GigaMux product line and starting anew UPDATED 1/23 10:10 AM

Has anyone seen this movie before?

AT&T is launching its first-ever residential VOIP service for U-verse

Company adds VOIP and WAN optimization to open-source routing platform

Says all-digital system will provide headroom for VOD title expansion and a lineup of at least 100 linear HD channels

Indian operator Tata Teleservices reports its Mumbai unit cut fiscal Q3 net loss in half

Aethera vanishes to the aether

Will a wobbly stock market affect the 700MHz auctions this week?

Italy gets 29 bids in WiMax auction

Next-gen broadband wireless technology Long-Term Evolution specifications are on track to be completed with 3GPP Release 8

Load it up and smell the irony

Company announces plan to reduce costs by $100 million, including cutting 225 employees

New SDV system touts scaleability and redundancy, but will it be enough to drive new deployments and greater revenue?

Using Nortel servers, Clearwire is now offering VOIP services over its own network infrastructure

Photos from the second AT&T VRAD cabinet explosion

German operator has no plans for another dual-mode service

Software? Consulting? An energy drink?

Swedish operator plans to launch femtocell trials in two markets this spring with two unnamed vendors

IDEA Cellular touts 108% increase in its fiscal Q3 net income

Saudi Arabian operator reports a 55.8% jump in Q4 profit and nearly doubles full-year net income

Saudi Telecom acquires 35% stake in Oger Telecom, which has operations in Turkey and South Africa, for $2.56B

T-Mobile tests femotcells in three markets

Japan's Willcom plans to deploy next-gen PHS

XO is putting its new Infinera optical gear to work by extending its '10 Gigs in 10 Days' wholesale service guarantee

Another look at possible health issues with mobile

Sources say Tellabs is a buyer, not a seller

A look at five carriers who could crack the Top Ten IPTV Carriers list before year's end

In a sequel to its Vonage suit, Verizon is going after Cox for allegedly infringing eight VOIP patents

Probes for monitoring video quality, in IPTV or MPEG forms, give Symmetricom something to talk about besides Docsis timing

Company becomes lead supplier for network upgrade of former Verizon access lines

Ask and ye shall receive

No, it's not about the iPhone

India's top outsourcing firms report quarterly earnings growth and emphasize shift to emerging markets

Broadband gets taken to task

Global shipments of cable data and voice modems climbed above the 8 million-unit mark again in 3Q07, as MSO demand remained robust

Spanish giant increases its investment in China Netcom

Large institutional shareholder wants Comcast to oust its chairman and CEO and do away with its 'dual-class' voting structure

No reason to live

UK operator hits 2.6M DSL subs, cementing its position as the country's third broadband player

Sprint's stock tanks as it plans to cut 4,000 jobs and close 125 shops to help it cope with its 2008 blues

Cisco breaks into market dominated by Huawei and ZTE to become the first vendor to have ROADM equipment deployed in mainland China

A femtocell reference design for China's homegrown 3G technology, TD-SCDMA, could shape the way the country's operators deploy 3G

The day's news over at Contentinople

MSFT scores an IPTV win

A sad day

Simian robot walks

Time Warner Cable is gearing up a usage-based billing model that could replace 'all-you-can-eat' offerings

Verizon is getting closer to offering FiOS to the biggest US city, but an agreement still appears to be months away

Cable puts advanced advertising on the front burner to turn the tide of dollars that are flowing toward the Internet

Driving the lost superhighway

The deep packet inspection space gets another security infusion as the two vendors pair up in a 'merger of equals'

Ericsson and Nokia get left behind again as AlcaLu snares an exclusive deal reportedly worth $1.1B

Marvell execs try the grand gesture

AlcaLu's head of services, John Meyer, is leaving, and will be replaced by Andy Williams, an internal promotion

Broadband is all the rage in Moscow

The wireless Web continues to grow, according to new mobile ad research

Analyst says 2008 could be the year Tellabs is acquired

Greg Reyes must also pay $15 million fine for stock-options backdating

Say hello to the 'HectoQAM,' the latest in edge QAM design

There's action aplenty in India as incumbent and new service providers react to fixed and mobile license awards

The beefed-up VOIP wholesaler nabs TDC's non-Nordic voice business in a deal that will add $80M a year to revenues

Ethernet and IP RAN capability will emerge as critical to mobile base station purchasing decisions in 2008.

Having failed with a takeover offer last year, Oracle has returned with a successful $8.5 billion bid to buy BEA Systems

UK operators up in arms over refarming

Redback's got a worldly new gig

DPI vendor announces strong results, wireless wins, and a partnership with Huawei

They're just plain creepy

Navini founder does BWA in China

This year's CES focused on widescale wireless technology, rather than hip new gadgets

Just days after big CE confab, DVR firm reverses retail course, shelving high-end hi-def box and laying off half of staff

Apple's annual frenzy

TeliaSonera adds 84,000 IPTV subs in Q4

Crunch year for home mobile base stations

After four fires in its broadband equipment cabinets, AT&T says it will replace some 17,000 U-verse cabinet batteries across its network

Vendor receives financing from existing investors as P2P caching market heats up

Even without switched digital video, the MSO believes it's got the bandwidth to offer 50 HD channels this year

The day's news over at Contentinople

Steve Jobs was pretty good, not insanely great

Clips and snips from around the Web

We gots Reality!

KDDI is close to choosing the network equipment vendors for a $1.3B mobile WiMax network in Japan

Apple makes its next stab at the video market, offering movie rentals and a new look for Apple TV

Looking to expand its VDSL customer base, Ikanos will purchase the DSL assets of Centillium

Promised investigation set to begin

T-Mobile rolls out an Ethernet-over-DSL backhaul solution to support its European HSDPA networks

UK carrier isn't being rude – it's adding to its video service

Samsung's Seoul offices raided

Will edge QAMs soon go the way of the dinosaur?

How much capacity will cable need in 2016? Arris CTO is brave enough to take a stab at it

Digital news and opinion gets a new look

Operator reported to be looking for ways to turn ship around

A developer says it's got apps up and running for the Linux-based OS

The 'buy low' theory kicks in

Where have we heard this before? Maybe some operator, the biggest in the world, perhaps...

India's state-owned operator BSNL is looking into raising as much as $10B from an IPO

Softswitch vendor gets capital infusion to accelerate its growth plans

The startup says it can cram 50% more channels into the same slice of 6 MHz cable spectrum. Is Comcast among its first takers?

In case you've forgotten where you are

But where's the meat pattie?

Femtocells face a critical year in 2008 as operators scrutinize their business cases and plan for commercial launches later this year

Slovakia's highest salaries are in the telecom sector

Read all about 'devotees' and 'flocking'

There are three French operators in our 'Top Ten: IPTV Carriers' report, with one taking the top spot

Consortium edges toward a downloadable conditional access system by completing the code needed for commercial chips

The knives are out for former NTL chief Stephen Carter

Ex-Videotron exec leads startup LiquidxStream into a crowded 'universal' edge QAM sector

Is Telecom Italia looking east for growth?

Its initial launch won't feature tru2way, but still will be interactive, thanks to the box's high-speed IP capabilities

Not Motorola and Cisco, anyway, when it comes to the platform's implications for retail-ready set-tops and set-top-free digital TVs

Technology's fun when you turn it off

Tellabs a big winner out of a lot of losers

Again, not a post about Web servers

JDSU opens its wallet again to buy fiber inspection system vendor Westover Scientific

Deep packet inspection vendor takes advantage of wireless demand for service creation and service provisioning

India's Department of Telecom grants mobile licenses to nine companies, including telcos and industrial conglomerates

CableLabs hasn't awarded certifications to any Docsis 3.0 modems yet, but at least one vendor already has designs on a modem/VOIP combo

UK incumbent won't be force-fed FTTH rules by government

Local reports suggest Chinese government is set to reorganize carrier market to create three giant fixed/mobile operators

The wireless vendor spent its CES trying to jumpstart the market for carrier-managed 802.11n services

After just one year, Stephen Elop is leaving Juniper for an executive post at Microsoft

MSO confirms plans to begin rollouts early next year of network-DVR service/architecture championed by Time Warner Cable

Robotics, regulatory figures, and home networking hubs highlight this photographic look at the CES exhibit hall

Shares fall on speculation it would lose iTunes biz

COO Denny Strigl counters AT&T's statements about a weak economy

Here in Vegas Cisco says its 'any device, any network' content delivery system is in trials

For affordable phone calls

StrataLight's early 40-Gig franchise could get a challenge from the Mintera/JDSU team

It took some looking, but there was a small sampling of digital TVs with new 'tru2way' branding, on the floor at this year's gadget confab

Softswitch vendor gears up for Euro expansion

A sunny day on Junction Ave.

BT is deploying fiber-to-the-home at a new housing development in Southeast England with Huawei

Well, Ed Kennedy. Yes, the former star of Tellabs and Ocular Networks is back on the startup scene

Motorola and friends give WiMax a spin around Vegas to demonstrate its streaming capabilities

Verizon preps 2G femto launch

Commissioner says the agency will investigate claims Comcast is blocking peer-to-peer traffic

Verizon Business becomes the latest major international carrier to receive long distance licenses in India

Aruba acquires multi-vendor network management startup AirWave for $37M

Getting handled

Moderator throws FCC chairman into the chum line, but service provider policy sharks don't take the bait

Kevin Martin is noncommittal about throwing in with cable's 'tru2way' approach or the CEA's competing 'DCR Plus' proposal

Monkeys R Us

More antennas for your streaming pleasure

Smell the magic on the monorail

Wireless startup is closed for business

Everyone's two favorite addictions

Comcast's loosely defined new standard on content volume

Chambers luvs txting

The scene at CES is hard to describe, but fun to photograph

Ciena joins the packet-optical brigade with new modules that add Ethernet switching functionality

The router firm says policy management was at the heart of its latest T-series win

Despite naysayers, XOHM executives are still punchy about the upcoming WiMax service

Verizon has named nine states where it will begin installing GPON in its FiOS network

The Comcast chief says cable is rectifying its closed, proprietary history by ushering in an era of openness in consumer electronics

From the back of a car

AT&T CEO sends stock into tailspin

Belay the Broadcom invasion

Which sure beats a pig in a poke

The MSO starts serving up TV and video directly through the Internet, with community features in the works

Many say 'yes'

Should 21st-century telcos prioritize investment in the best possible infrastructure or the best possible services?

Former UK telecom regulator advises the prime minister

Telecom Italia mulls sale of French unit

So that's what the Media Group is up to

AlcaLu's share price is still on the slide

Fires at competition with 1,000 HD 'choices' by year-end and more than 6,000 VOD titles, including about 3,000 in hi-def, on tap for '09

Sling Media used this week's tradeshow to debut its place-shifting box with a Docsis modem baked in

With the giant World Mobile Congress approaching, former AlcaLu mobile player Marc Rouanne is still an exec sans portfolio

Indian operators are set to benefit from the flotilla of mobile infrastructure sharing agreements announced in 2007

Intel shows no sign of giving up on WiMax at CES

Send your content, well, somewhere else

For those tracking Sprint's troubles

Someone, save us from NBC's Olympics

Daylight Rubbery

It was much-needed, and you'll soon find out why

But you knew that

Take that, DCR Plus!

Nokia Siemens Networks wins five-year greenfield 2G and 3G network contract from Zain worth $935 million

We highlight the big trends and cool gizmos you'll want to see at the Consumer Electronics Show

BT will become the first carrier to offer IPTV services via an Xbox gaming console, and adds Motorola as a set-top box supplier

New gear announcements from Cisco include set-tops, and modems, and gateways. Oh, my!

Standard-def 'AnyPlay' unit hooks into a docking station that doubles as a traditional digital set-top

Bill Gates shares the stage with Slash as he riffs on software's future and hosts a Microsoft VOD-fest

Bill Gates shares the stage with a Guitar Hero and updates on the software giant's video developments

Cisco just can't let go of Charles Giancarlo

Meraki wants to try – once again – to unwire San Fran

Who's got the hi-def lead heading into the monster gadget/media-fest in Vegas?

A few issues went up, but here are the nine that dragged investors down

French sales hit 70,000, while reports put UK at 200,000

Cisco's CES treat: A new name for set-tops

Charlie Dietz is set to retire on January 11, but don't be surprised to see him resurface in some cable-related capacity in the coming months

Here's the list of the 10 stories that most captured the hearts and minds of our readers in 2007

The $3.5M buy of New Zealand-based Esphion adds security to Allot's deep packet inspection products

UK broadband player sees its stock jump more than 8 percent following speculation of a possible takeover bid

Dutch incumbent denies talks with Telefónica

The emergence of the packet-optical transport system will shake up the optical networking market in 2008

A family of set-tops shows off MPEG-4 and MoCA support, while a new eMTA looks to extend Moto's lead

The company gets a jump on CES by showing off its latest gear

No, really?

Adding value the Icahn way

No big surprise, but the Flashwave 9500 reportedly becomes Verizon's second-source ROADM

Private equity firms grab GTS Central Europe, which operates in five key markets in Central and Eastern Europe

Release the exaflood!

Does it belong in the 'school of non-thought' that paved the way for e-anything and i-anything?

From €4.95, surely AlcaLu's share price can only go up?

Leading into CES, Marvell boosts 802.11n throughput while competitors yawn

The company is betting that service providers will want to extend media control beyond the set-top box

Microsoft's Xbox LIVE service experienced major outages for 10 days during the end of December

What got hits in 2007

Will the digital powerstation rawk a million faces at CES?

Right network, wrong idea

2008 is the year this flavor of WiMax will get in gear

World's first WiFi spy kit

CES should deliver more details on Google's new OS

All I wanted for Hanukah was a new TV

Comcast now has full ownership of cable systems in the Midwestern US that pass about 1.2 million homes

Anecdotal evidence from my family

Nokia Siemens Networks is shelling out $206 million to buy subscriber database management specialist Apertio

An à la carte-seeking lawsuit will soon cross swords in the courtroom with major cable and satellite TV service providers

Deutsche Telekom has signed up 100,000 IPTV customers, about half its target

Vodafone's CEO has 45 million reasons to sit tight