Two items of note on this fine Friday, both relating to consumers switching to cable-delivered telephone services.
A report from China says Siemens is acquiring Harbour Networks's telecom router lines
The annual look at the top winners and losers among telecom-related stocks
The year 2005 produced some memorable photojournalism. Not here, but somewhere, we're sure
You know it's going to happen...
Offensive, defensive, hilarious, and pensive -- it's the best posts from Light Reading's blogs
The Euros have launched a rival to GPS. Is this really what the world needs?
Four people and an, uh, object that have helped to shape 2005
Entrepreneurs, visionaries and at least one executive who ought to put a sock in it
Google is being sued by Jews for Jesus
The top ten quotes from the Light Reading message boards
As poll's respondents go over 1,000, the vast majority still say Juniper Networks is making a mistake by suing Light Reading's message board users
We still see positive signs aplenty as the telecom biz goes from survival mode to, well, something else
The S50 will change the way you listen to the radio.
Congress is counting on big spectrum auctions to reduce the deficit. Don't hold your breath
Technologies we expect to see take a long walk off a short cliff in '06
Marc Weisberg joins the ranks of former Qwest executives who have struck up plea bargains
Covad investors rejoice as the company settles its six-year tussle with Verizon
Some of the more memorable lines from the news pages of Unstrung in 2005
Billions and billions of dollars in deals... Did you even notice all of them?
IMS, IPTV, and even some non-acronym topics (hint: Ethernet) topped the Heavy Reading hot 'n' heavy list this year
Ethernet equipment vendor gives pink slips for Christmas
A groundswell of ATCA systems is set to arrive in 2006, according to Comm Chip Insider
Euro security firm pipes up about a Proxim problem
No sentient being with a pulse could fail to enjoy this forthcoming blockbuster
Five undersung technologies and applications that may get their due in 2006
Small house, big lights, mild amusement.
Well, it's about damn time Ellacoya beefed up service control!
Pays $100M for security-focused company that sells routers that compete primarily with Cisco's low end
EarthLink looks to be the early leader in a five-horse race
The top items from the past year's Quotes of the Week
'Reverse outsourcing' poised to make big news in '06.
What Unstrung's editors -- and readers -- got right in 2005, and where we jumped the shark
Carriers have begun the migration to Ethernet, according to the latest Heavy Reading report
Believes it still may have a shot at the IPTV business of the US RBOCs, should the Microsoft/Alcatel solution falter
Stalin found that monkeys have their standards.
LR poll suggests Juniper lawsuit will backfire
Let's get lickered up!
Ultra-short-range wireless gets a fillip with TI's $200M buyout of Chipcon
Not as bad as it smells?
The AOL/Google deal includes a peering arrangement that will connect large pools of VOIP-enabled IM users
A bubble-era lawsuit comes back to haunt Lucent – to the tune of $244M
WiMax providers might hurt for business, but IP lawyers won't – plus more from our crystal ball
Micromuse stock jumps 36% on news of its sale to IBM, as the tech giant moves to put telecom tools into management products
Year-End Review We recap 2005 and look ahead to the new year
File under: Random news links.
Four of BT's eight 21CN preferred vendors sign contracts, but what's the holdup on the lagging quartet?
Yesterday Time Warner Inc. announced a partnership between its AOL division and Google, the stratospherically valued search and advertising technology service provider. So what does this mean for cable? Read on.
UMA has a time limit for fixed/mobile convergence success, according to Unstrung Insider
The telecom world is going to the puppets
Dancing girls? Check. Puppets? Check.
Cisco has rehired Ajaib Bhadare, part of Cerent's founding team, to help the division that now houses optical networking
Telecom subs in India are growing by more than 3 million every month
Networking company sues anonymous Light Reading message board posters for libel and defamation
Wanna see what Juniper's complaining about now?
He brought us good news & bad.
Moving up the R&D food chain, Indian outsourcing firm takes over NewLogic
Siemens breaks into the competitive China IPTV market with a trial service deployment at Shanghai Telecom
The M&A action is never ending in Europe, where private equity players are accelerating consolidation
AT&T plans to tie big-name software applications and per-minute CPU charges in the next year
Thirty companies in the VOIP peering business have answered an RFI from CableLabs to link up the VOIP networks of the cable guys
As Nortel's head marketing honcho leaves the fold, we ask: Latest victim of top table purge, or curse of the CMO ticket?
Joseph Nacchio faces 42 counts of insider trading in an indictment brought down this morning
Pat Russo speaks!
LRTV's exclusive coverage of The Light Reading Telecom Investment Conference features commentary from Redback's Kevin DeNuccio, Verizon's Stu Elby, and telx Group's Hunter Newby
Lucent's CEO accepts her 'Lightie'
The quick way to solve the NYC Transit strike
Airvana moves airliner broadband slightly closer to reality
Hooligans? No. Activists!
Thinking inside the box
The startup is shutting down, yet another casualty of the core-router races
It's iBonus time at Apple.
Carphone cements its position as key rival to BT and cable players as it more than doubles its fixed-line customer base
Company follows Legra and other wireless LAN startups in attempting to sell its intellectual property
VOIP trailblazer's new $250M in debt funding may be the last before it finds an exit
Don't try this at home, kids!
Spirent shrinks, Sunrise is delisted, and Brix targets the video brigade
India-based Ethernet and WiMax vendor Telsima closes $20M Series C round
India-based Ethernet and WiMax vendor Telsima closes $20M Series C round
In a feature yesterday, The Wall Street Journal highlighted efforts by MSOs to build on-demand TV services based on local community and user-created content.
Calendar gives new meaning to 'cheesecake.'
Improvements are coming for voice-over-WLAN, but vendors aren't all singing the same tune
Visto versus Microsoft means good times for attorneys
Software from NextHop could be an early step towards eliminating standalone WLAN switches
The Leading Lights is over, but some photos are just starting to develop
Rumors this week say Microsoft might try to outbid Cisco, but at least one analyst doesn't see it happening
Chip giant is making a bid in the $100M+ range to get a piece of the Juniper Ethernet business, sources say
The guy who invented the mouse and hypertext, and dabbled in videoconferencing.
A recent Heavy Reading report says the broadband remote access server may take on new tasks in triple-play networks
The 11 winners of the second annual Leading Lights Awards claim their prizes at a gala NYC dinner
RBOC to save $175M a year by axing 1,500 managers, about 2.4% of its total workforce, during the next five months
MTV's new online music service appropriates a cultural reference from hippie days.
I've got a friend in Newark.
One of the original wireless LAN switch startups is rumored to be closing down this month
Text-messaging revolution spawns a monster.
Lucent nabbed two awards – and more tales of terror from our second annual Leading Lights dinner
The instant messaging software group adds VOIP to its list of tricks, thanks to a little help from Google
Work is underway on the Google WiFi network in Mountain View, stage one for the firm's public access plans
Here's your publicist -- off his medication.
Launch of new edge product coming and a new team being built for further developments, say sources
IPTV is the future, but the future isn't here yet, says Verizon's VP of network architecture
Call it 'Kansasm.'
More unexpected than the Spanish Inquisition? Nortel is responding to the US GPON RFP, one analyst says
The 11 winners of the second annual Leading Lights Awards claim their prizes at a gala NYC dinner
India's telecom market is entering a new stage of investment, and for the first time home-grown vendors are emerging
Bluetooth moves toward cooperation – and surrenders to reality
Mobile email provider is the third company to license IP from NTP
With this year's Leading Lights Awards set to be handed out in New York City tonight, we look back at the fate of 2004's winners
The indium phosphide startup is winding down operations after giving the triple-play market a go
Lands monster multinational services deal with car giant Fiat and buys IP service provider to do the Italian Job properly
While Google and eBay prepare click-to-talk VOIP applications, one startup says it has been deploying such services for years with very little competition
Are you there, Santa? It's me, Margaret.
The carrier seeks acquisitions in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
After merging with two oil firms, Tropic will remain in optical networking, coming out $8M richer
Get your nominations in!
Silicon startup comes out of stealth, targeting mobile WiMax with Samsung as an early customer
Major ISP to buy VPN provider New Edge for $144 million in cash and stock as it ramps up activity in the SMB market
Thomson bolsters its IPTV capabilities with $155M purchase of Thales Broadcast & Multimedia, pitching it against Alcatel and Siemens
Trip Hawkins thinks mobiles will be the gateways to social connection – and great kissing
A tiff over EPON chip quality has led to a lawsuit for IPO hopeful Passave
St. John's hospital saves millions on data and voice with new WLAN
Comcast casts Cisco and Nortel for starring roles in its new optical backbone
Tropic Networks is looking to merge its way into the oil industry. Yes, that's oil... black gold, Texas tea...
Mommy! Kevin Martin is missing the point (again).
Network operators can now get a view of the global Internet infrastructure, including a look at how their rivals are faring
The international language!
Service provider claims we're on verge of fixed/mobile convergence
Global carriers look to extend their reach into customers' homes, through the Home Gateway Initiative
Fujitsu Senior VP Bill Erickson talks about the opportunities for carrier Ethernet equipment and services
Roughly 80 have their jobs reassigned as Cisco rethinks some of its optical strategy
The company's shares rose 43 percent on Friday following a deal with BellSouth
Vonage: You can take it with you...
Bluesocket pushes voice, but users only have eyes for the security features
NY Times headline of the day
Why hold a telecom investment conference? Scott Raynovich has reasons aplenty
It's still expensive to call Afghanistan.
RBOC can't wait to get its own residential VOIP service up and running, so it's reselling 8x8's service
Another chip startup has emerged in the 10-Gbit/s copper arena as the IEEE wraps up a key standard
Now it can be told.
A lesson for cheeky monkeys everywhere
How does 'Monkey Flu' sound?
Major FTTH project opts for active Ethernet, with wholesale capacity provider bbned and Cisco pulling the strings
BSNL puts off banning Huawei for defaulting on a contract but turns to rival Chinese vendors
Ciena looks ahead to more revenue growth as it continues to focus on optical transport and Ethernet services
Yahoo will soon announce a PSTN-connected version of its VOIP client, a clear statement that it intends to compete with Skype
California dreamin': Bonehead v Loony
Mobile firm finds a new way to make you really, really nervous.
Have you seen the new AT&T logo?
Who's in and who's out in the world of enterprise wireless LAN
Some home truths about US hooliganism.
It's the hottest three-letter acronym in telecom town, but is IMS a villain as well as a hero for today's telecom players?
Insider report says carriers will need both to sell new IP apps
Hype collides with disillusionment as the WiMax rollout begins
The Dutch government is set to give up its 'Golden Share' in KPN, laying the carrier open to takeover approaches
The Dutch government is set to give up its 'Golden Share' in KPN, laying the carrier open to takeover approaches
Approval of the 802.16e standard brings the technology one step closer to reality
Today's approval of the standard brings mobile WiMax one step closer to reality
Have you ever really tested search engines?
The switch-fabric startup launches this week, taking its shot at new technology for the backplane
Handy help for terrorists everwhere!
Another 150 jobs are being transferred to China as the components firm continues its cost-cutting program
Speculation abounds that Cingular is considering capping the use of Sonus VOIP softswitches in favor of Lucent's
But be prepared to become a pillar of salt.
Chipmaker gets cosy with WLAN Forum
A bid to make the network – and Cisco's devices and software – the home for key enterprise apps like security
BT talks up successful VOIP trials using technology from 21CN key vendors, including softswitch capabilities from Ericsson
Koko can't catch a break.
'I can't hear you. But you look fabulous.'
Founder Pete Bonee says it's time to find a seasoned chief exec, possibly to take Sylantro public
Vendor will purchase and license patented WiFi technology
The Bible and the Paint Gun
Infinera comes clean as the buyer for the rest of the transponder company's assets
IMS isn't just for the fixed/ mobile convergence plans of large incumbent operators, says CTO of C&W's broadband access division
Vendor will purchase and license patented WiFi technology
Cable operator NTL offers £817M (US$1.41B) for mobile operator Virgin in a bid to offer quad-play
Find flaws and fixes for 802.11, Bluetooth, 3G, WiMax, and RFID
$14B? What good are phone books anyway?
Will video on demand save AOL's dwindling membership?
The networking giant is slowly moving its gateways and softwitches to IP Multimedia Subsystem interoperability
Coffee can cure you.
Two Craig McCaw-influenced firms lead the Ethernet equipment vendor's latest financing
Adding IP-over-DWDM and a new type of GMPLS, Cisco hopes to bring the CRS-1 closer to the optical core
As expected, Cisco has put a session border controller into a router, but the company didn't do it by acquisition
As RIM moves toward a settlement in its patent dispute with NTP, alternative mobile email services start to look more attractive
Light Reading names the Leading Lights finalists for Best New Product, Private Company
Light Reading names the Leading Lights finalists for M&A Strategy, Public Company
Let's rat out the corporate grinches.
Funk could be Juniper's backdoor into Cisco accounts
Wireless products make big showing in annual Light Reading awards
Buys 25% stake in home gateway specialist for $120M, while AT&T and Telmex snap up another 26% between them
A small tech firm's latest acquisition may have scored it a multimillion-dollar deal with Cox
Test and measurement firm to pay $75M for VOIP-focused network management systems vendor
It's foolproof!
Avanex stock surges, apparently on Corning's share sales, while JDSU gets a boost from a proposed reverse stock split
The former 40-Gbit/s transponder hopeful is selling off assets, part of them to Finisar
The sale of Agilent's semiconductor business is complete. The next goal: multiple IPOs
France's largest mobile carriers in uproar over record €534M fine for collusion
Juniper has no M&A strategy.
BT exec says companies like AOL and Sony need to jump on board to open up application development to third parties
Latest round in patent dispute with NTP only hastens move to open systems for wireless email
Europe's incumbent operators continue to lose market share in their domestic fixed line voice sectors, according to research from InfoCom
