The SIP Forum announces completion and release of its first SIP test suite, called the SIP Forum Test Framework

Nortel Networks declares preferred share dividends

Dell'Oro Group predicts worldwide router market to grow to $9.2 billion by 2008, propelled by service provider purchases

BellSouth files shelf registration statement for $6.95 billion of debt securities

Verilink announces closing of Larscom merger following shareholder approvals

American Fiber Systems strengthens its metro optical solutions with the acquisition of Marietta FiberNet

Telindus posts break-even operating income in the first half of the year, before €6.1M restructuring charges, on revenues of €260M

Nasdaq puts Sonus delisting on hold pending a final decision on the company's request to keep its listing

Riverstone will supply Ethernet equipment to the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) for FTTP

Losses hit $9.7M, 96 cents per share, on revenues of $2.6M, compared with losses of $7.4M on revenues of $4.5M the previous quarter

The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) is ready to roll after closing on $85M in bonds

Reports revenues of $9.7M and net loss of $623,000, compared with revenues of $9.2M and a loss of $1.5M the previous quarter

CEO of Charter Communications and CEO of Extreme Networks have joined the board of RGB Networks

Metalink reports highest revenue of $6 million recorded in the last 12 quarters

Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency will use firewall/VPN appliances from CyberGuard to enable secure payment of bills

ADVA Optical Networking delivers revenue growth and record operating income in second quarter 2004

Vyyo reports Q2 results; reports sales of $2.4 million and net loss of $3.7 million

Cox Communications announces Q2 and year-to-date financial results for 2004; focus on profitability results in 12% revenue growth

China Mobile awards Ericsson IP backbone network expansion contract

Siemens announced a new US business combining wireless and wireline infrastructure, devices, and IP convergence applications

BT slashes cost of telephone calls with VOIP

Ciena Corporation CFO Joseph Chinnici named to Brix Networks' board of directors

Communications equipment spending is rebounding, says S&P equity analyst in new study

e.Biscom comments on the WSJE article; clarifies its position regarding indefeasible rights of use (IRU) transactions

LanOptics Ltd. today announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2004

Brian Rich will be appointed as senior vice president and CFO of Golden Telecom, replacing David Stewart

Net loss fell from $27.3M or $0.12 per share in 2Q03 to $7.4M or $0.03 per share

Revenues were up by 70% year on year to $689.6M; gross margins came in at 25.4%, compared to projected gross margins of 27% to 28%

Demand for advanced video services helped earnings increase by 48% percent to $70.2M or $0.45 per share in Q4

'New wave' turnover, including ICT, broadband, mobility, and managed services grew by 32% to £936M

Newport Networks releases its 1460 Session Controller for laboratory trials with service providers and channel partners

Siemens confirms management changes; merges its IC Networks and IC Mobile groups to form the Siemens Communications Group

KVH Telecom deploys Atrica’s Optical Ethernet Systems to support its new Ether-MAN Plus next-generation Ethernet service offering

Siemens to upgrade voice network Global Crossing uses to deliver fully managed services to more than 110,000 public sector personnel in the UK

German giant reports net income of €815 million, a near 30% increase compared with a year ago

French giant posts higher revenues, gross margins and profits compared with a year earlier, but profits are down sequentially

At long last, new numbers for 2001 through 2003 get reported, along with numbers for Q1 of 2004. Oh, and the CFO has resigned

AMCC's CFO Steve Smith is to retire; search is underway for successor

JDS Uniphase announces 2004 fourth quarter and fiscal year end results; reports third consecutive quarter of revenue growth

OCP posts 3Q04 financials; reports $1 million net income for 3Q04, 50.8% increase over 3Q03

Digital Bazar announces Bitmunk, a legal peer-to-peer network for music and movies

Tropic Networks announces close of its Series D round; raised $33M from Alcatel and current investors

Comcast reports second quarter 2004 results; cable revenue increased 10.4% to $4.839 billion

Alliance Fiber Optic Products awarded contract by Alcoa Division, AFL Telecommunications to supply passive optical components for FTTP

Level 3 reports second quarter results; reports communications revenue of $391 million

Ethernet switch market strong, reports In-Stat/MDR; shift expected as L3 and Gigabit Ethernet take hold

Cisco, Huawei, and 3Com resolve lawsuit, filing an order of dismissal

RAD Data Communications and CableMatrix team up to show T1 over Docsis with guaranteed QOS at CableLabs Summer Conference 2004

8x8 Inc. reports Q1 results; total revenues were $2.1 million and net loss was $2.6 million; releases new features for VOIP products

New UK local loop unbundler targets 100 exchanges before the end of 2004

S&P reports that TeliaSonera share buyback does not affect its ratings

Entanet makes affordable leased line options available -- with no limits on distance between the connection point and exchange

Avonline PLC selects Encore Networks to deliver end-to-end satellite broadband VPN solutions throughout the UK and continental Europe

Motorola names Ron Sommer, former CEO of Deutsche Telekom, to its board of directors

Nortel Networks awards certificates of compatibility; adds industry leaders to carrier VOIP, multimedia developer program

Sonus Networks provides update on status of financial review

Telco success in the video market will ride on DSL rather than fiber to the home, new study by Heavy Reading finds

MCI introduces new SLAs including stringent network performance guarantees for latency and additional packet delivery guarantees

Huawei has won a contract to construct the national IP backbone network for Callmate Telips Telecom in Pakistan

First half net income increased to SEK 6.5B from SEK3.1B; TeliaSonera appoints CFO Kim Ignatius as executive vice president

Telefonica boosts its profitability in H1 with an EBITDA margin of 44.5%

Revenues for the second quarter were £21.3M ($38.8M), in line with management expectations

Alcatel provides BT with SIP-based solution for BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger

Pandatel introduces its new 2-/4-wire G.SHDSL modem for data transmission via copper lines

Pedestal Networks earns RUS acceptance for its UBS product line

Industry leaders announce multisource agreement for 2.5-Gb/s cooled transmitter optical sub-assembly

New Zealand VOIP provider ihug launched its residential offering based on VocalData's application server

LastMile releases new transponder module for its DWDM WavePilot system

Northwest Open Access Network extends delivery of advanced services to rural communities with Ciena

Jaring launches nationwide commercial deployment of SOMA Networks' wireless last-mile solution

Calix ships ADSL2+; ultra-broadband DSL line card expands video stream support

Opnext extends into the electrical domain with CX4 module

Vitesse single-chip transceiver IC enables next-generation 10-Gbit/s applications

Nortel Networks Corporation provided a status update pursuant to the alternative information guidelines of the Ontario Securities Commission

Alcatel announces investment in Tropic Networks; Alcatel will represent on Tropic's board and will market and distribute Tropic

Seednet selects Multimedia Communications solution from Nortel Networks to deliver next-generation VOIP

Verizon Communications reports 6% 2Q revenue growth, led by wireless revenue growth of 25%

CT Labs verifies that Acme Packet supports 1.62M BHCA and 50,000 concurrent calls using Empirix Hammer test tools

Service provider CapEx to turn around this year, reports In-Stat/MDR

Worldwide cable modem services market is to reach 69.4 million subscribers in 2008, IDC says

Batelco signs agreement that provides a landing station for FLAG Telecom's Falcon cable system in Bahrain

Citizens Cablevision selects Optibase's MGW 5100 carrier-grade streaming platform to deliver advanced TV services to its subscribers

Skype launches version 1.0, including pre-paid SkypeOut calling to phone numbers around the world

CLECs have taken advantage of UNE-P pricing to deploy more than 17M but availability at current pricing is in jeopardy, says Fitch

Terayon posts revenues of 42.8M, an increase of 40% compared to $30.6M for the second quarter of 2003; apponts Jerry Chase as CEO

Perfisans launches ACC-1001 system-on-chip Ethernet accelerator targeting the $1B SOHO and entry-level enterprise markets

Motorola launches cash tender offer for its $300M outstanding 7.60% notes due 2007; plans to redeem all $1.4B of its 6.75% notes due 2006

France Telecom reports first half in line with objectives; revenues were up 1.4% and ADSL revenues in France grew 48.5% year on year

eEye Digital Security eliminates the threat of zero-day attacks with Blink, its new end-point security solution

Paradyne signs agreement to acquire Net to Net product portfolio and assets

EM4 expands product line with acquisition of PowerNetix IP

Accton Technology Corporation of Taiwan and Sandburst Corporation today announced the availability of the MetroBox, switching platform

Symantec unveils Symantec Network Security 7100 Series, its new intrusion prevention line

Ascent Media Network Services selects Broadwing Communications for real-time video and file transfers

MagiQ Technologies marks five years with demonstration of quantum private network, testing its 75km secure link

Cypress samples industry's highest-performance NSEs with dual LA-1 interfaces

Data393 has selected Inkra's 1504GX virtual service switches

Radware Ltd. announces record results -- record quarterly profit of $3.0 million or $0.16 per diluted share

Check Point reports Q2 results; achieves 24 percent license revenue growth over 2Q03

ADVA signs to acquire the remaining 70% ownership stake in Metro Packet Systems Inc., an Ethernet start-up company

Provo, Utah deploys World Wide Packets for FTTP network

Juniper Networks leads Asia-Pacific market in core routing

Western Illinois Video deploys the Myrio IP video platform to eight independent operating companies

Alcatel will deploy a digital microwave radio network for Tunisian broadcasting office

Fujitsu Access and Metalink announce commercial availability of 100 Mbps VDSL plus platform; trials are underway in Japan

Nayna Networks expands line of multi-network, multiservice Ethernet in the first mile access products

BellSouth announced 2Q04 earnings per share from continuing operations of 51 cents, a 4.1 percent increase from 2Q03

Sprint announces availability of Sprint Complete Access, providing flexible bundles for businesses

One month after ratification of IEEE standard for Ethernet-in-the-First-Mile, Actelis announces its 25th EFM-compliant system is in operation

Revenues were $493M, up 131% from $213.7M in the year ago quarter; net income was $17.7M or $0.11 per share, up from $7.6M or $0.08 per share

Revenues for Q2 were $126.9M, an increase of 20 percent compared to $106.1M in 2Q03; net income was $63.3M, or $0.24 per share

Ixia introduces Encryption Load Module offering sustainable gigabit line rate performance testing

Revenues increased 20% in 1Q05 to €936,000 and Highwave finalized its restructuring

Teleglobe's VOIPLink service is selected by Skype for international long distance

Telmex has completed its acquisition of MCI's equity stake in Brazilian telecommunications provider Embratel Participacoes

Lucent Retirees Organization claims uncovered document is proof Lucent improperly eliminated benefit for surviving spouses

Wave7 Optics today announced an additional $6M in funding, raising their total amount of venture capital investment to $68.5M

Pre-press company NewsStream replaces ISDN with Ethernet circuits from Exponential-e

Ethernet is gaining acceptance as a wide-area solution, says Yankee Group

Deltathree agrees to provide consulting, management, and integration services for Verizon's new VoiceWing consumer VOIP service

Increased shipments to cable and satellite customers resulted in net sales of $57M, up from $41.7M in 2Q03

Verizon launches VoiceWing broadband telephony service for residential customers

Revenue was up 46% from 2Q03 to $15M; net income was $0.8M, or $0.02 per diluted share

VeriSign reports revenues of $256M including Jamba!, net income of $22M, and earnings per share of $0.09

Tekelec's next-gen switching equipment helps boost revenues to $95.6M, up 52% year over year

Tut Systems reports revenue of $5.1M, down 35% year on year and 17% sequentially; net loss was $3.6M or $0.18 per share

Genesys announces availability of its Gplus Adapter for Microsoft Business Solutions CRM

Skype signs agreements with COLT, iBasis, Level 3, and Teleglobe to provide call termination services for its SkypeOut service

Continues its trend of narrowing losses, dropping them to $3.1M, or 3 cents per share, versus $4.8M in the previous quarter

Revenues hit $97.8M versus $97.5M a year ago, while profits drop to $15M, 11 cents per share, versus $16.8M, 13 cents, a year ago

Reports net loss of $1.8M, 2 cents per share, on revenues of $57.0M, compared with loss of $11.7M, 19 cents, on revenues of $41.7M a year ago

Reports a GAAP net loss of $4.6M, 2 cents per share, on $60.4M revenues, but a pro forma net income of $3.5M, 2 cents per share

Reports net income of $3.5M, 6 cents per share, on revenues of $26.8M, versus net income of $2.5M, 4 cents, on $20.0M a year ago

Broadcom reports its net revenue for the second quarter of 2004 was a record $641.3 million

Infonetics reports that worldwide metro Ethernet equipment revenue totaled $3 billion in 2003; projected to grow 157% to $7.7 billion in 2007

Juniper Networks builds sales and channel organizations with three new executive appointments

Packeteer's net revenues for the second quarter 2004 were $21.6 million, compared with $21.5 million for the first quarter 2004

Telstra is to deploy mobile broadband network upgrades using 3G solution from Nortel Networks

Global Crossing and Telmex sign bilateral voice agreement

VocalTec's revenues for 2Q04 were $1.9 million; net loss in 2Q04 was $3.0 million

AT&T announces 2Q04 earnings; will stop investing in traditional consumer services and concentrate efforts on business markets

Gross revenue increased 23% year over year to $12.1M; net loss fell from $11.3M or $0.92 per share to $6.3M or $.050 per share

LambdaNet receives 12-month contract from ITellium to provide broadband IP/MPLS-based data transmission services

NTT announces it will open an office in Mumbai by mid August to support its Arcstar Global IP-VPN service in India

Second quarter net income was $233M compared to $7M last year, on revenues of $6.9B compared to $6.5B last year

Digital Lightwave announces Mini-OTDR as its first product for the FTTP optical market

Core revenues increased 30% year over year to $22M; net loss for the quarter was $2.1M, or $0.20 per share

Moscow CableCom announces progress of its ComCor-TV (CCTV) subsidiary; expects Q2 revenues to be 103% higher than 2Q03

Revenues increased from $55.3M in the first quarter of last year to $56.2M; net income was $3.3M or $0.05 per share

KT standardizes on Redback's SE800 SmartEdge service gateway platform to manage broadband subscribers and services

Revenue increased 8% sequentially to $46.6M; net income was $5.5M or $0.10 per share, up from $2.4M or $0.05 per share in Q1

Bookham sells JCA Technology to Endwave for $6M to focus on its core optical business

Broadvox selects Telica PLUS compact softswitch to enhance capacity of its VOIP infrastructure and provide SS7 interconnect capability

Elcoteq plans to build new plant to provide more production capacity for mobile phones and communications network equipment

Revenue was $21M, up slightly from $20.5M in 2Q03, for a net loss of $7.4M, compared with a net loss of $6.5M the previous year

Revenues increased 14% sequentially to $971M; net income almost doubled from $55M to $108M

Foundry Networks announces support for Network Access Protection (NAP) technology from Microsoft in its network security architecture

Nortel claims Arbinet-thExchange is 'infringing copyrights and misappropriating trade secrets'

Net loss increased from $484,000 in 1Q04 to $800,000 in 1Q05

Year-over-year net income increased more than 29 times from $122,000 in 2Q03 to $3.6M, or $0.10 per share

Nortel hosts Capitol Hill policy luncheon on VOIP policy challenges

Carlos Slim and his family receive approval to increase stake in Global Crossing from 9.975% to between 10% and 20%

Write-off of intangibles leads to loss of $5.4M, or 6 cents per share, on revenues of $121M

Redback Networks announce fourth consecutive quarter of revenue growth

Photonic Bridges has selected TranSwitch’s EtherMap-3 mapper for four new Ethernet-over-Sonet/SDH (EOS) platforms

Extreme Networks reports net revenue for the fourth quarter was $92.2 million, up 4 percent from $88.9 million in last quarter

Motorola Inc. reported sales of $8.7 billion in 2Q04, a 41 percent increase from sales of $6.2 billion in the 2Q03

Ericsson reports solid performance for Q2; orders grew by 17% year-over-year and were flat sequentially at SEK 33.1(28.3)b

New member states create strategic opportunities for telcos across Europe, says IDC

Asset InterTech Inc. appoints Spirent veteran Alan Sguigna as vice president of marketing

Agere reorganizes and reports revenues increase 9 percent over the year-ago quarter, 7 percent sequentially; company is profitable

New Edge Networks wins $6.5 million network bid from AT Systems

Zarlink Semiconductor releases 1Q05 results; returns to profitability; first quarter revenue up 9% sequentially

Nortel Networks joins Texas A&M research project on E9-1-1 for VOIP

Marketing and technology partnership teams VoiceGenie's VoiceXML-based framework with Data Connection's MailNGen messaging solution

Sonus Networks appoints Steve Edwards chief marketing officer and general manager for Europe, Middle East, and Africa

Ace Hardware eliminates downtime with Radware application infrastructure solution

Cable and Wireless plc reports revenue of £798 million and a net cash balance of £1,430 million

Lucent records net income of $387 million or 8 cents per diluted share; posts revenues of $2.19 billion for the quarter

Revenue of $304M was up 30% from Q2 of last year; net income was $50M, or $0.12 per share

Second quarter revenue jumped from $39.1M last year to $61.2M; debt refinancing charges brought net loss to $5.9M compared with $5.5M in 2Q03

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave introduces 'flexible' 100% dry indoor-outdoor ribbon cable

Cisco president John Chambers applauds House of Representatives for 'the importance of broad-based employee stock option plans'

Adesta breaks ground on construction of a Network Operations, Data and Control Center (NOCC) for Regional Backbone Initiative (RBI) in Virginia

Revenue for Q2 was $28.7M, up from $25.5M in 2Q03, for a net income of $1.8M, which was down from $2.8M in 2Q03

Copper Mountain Networks records flat Q2, with revenues of $2.1M and net loss of $5.7M level with the previous quarter

S&P's ratings for France Telecom remain unchanged in spite of the European Commission's tax claims

Telstra announces appointment of Donald McGauchie as chairman

Moscow CableCom announces agreement with Columbus Nova Capital for $51M in financing to expand its cable network in Moscow

Bell Canada tables final Offer for Settlement for a new collective agreement to the CEP, which represents its 7,000 technicians

COLT Telecom reports disappointing Q2 despite increasing revenues by 8% on a constant currency basis to £301.2M

Net-O2 launches Attest LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) test suite to verify conformance to IEEE 802.3-2002–Clause 43

VoiceGenie and Data Connection offer Service Providers VoiceXML-based Unified Messaging solution on commodity hardware

ECI Telecom receives $6M order from major carrier in the Philippines to supply its XDM converged optical network solution

Fabrinet signs agreement with Opnext to manufacture Opnext’s 2.5 and 10-Gbit/s transceivers

SupportSoft to acquire Core Networks to advance VOIP, video, and broadband service automation

AFC reports its revenues for the second quarter of 2004 were $118.6 million on a generally accepted accounting principles basis

Minus the $145 million 3Ware acquisition, AMCC squeaks out a $2.1 million profit on revenues of $67.4 million

Tropic Networks Inc. announces David L. Grimes as president and Robert Lane as VP of sales and marketing

ASIP introduces extended temperature laser for 10Gb/s optical transceivers

Sleepycat and MontaVista announce new open source platform for communications industry

IP Dynamics entered into a strategic agreement with one of the leading European ISPs, T-Online

France Telecom will lodge an application for annulment against the recent European Commission decisions

Verizon selects Lucent to increase capacity of nationwide ultra-long-haul optical network

Commission rules that France Télécom received illicit aid and orders that it be paid back to the state

Pandatel and Uptime sign distribution agreement to maximize data movement, management, storage, and security

Globix Corporation is to merge with NEON Communications Inc.

snom technology has announced the release of their SIP NAT solution, the snom 4S NAT Filter

Alcatel supplies communications equipment for OTE's network infrastructure for the Olympic Games

Two thirds of companies are planning to shift applications to converged networks within the next five years, says Nortel-sponsored study

Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT) will trial VOIP and multimedia services with Alcatel's next-gen networking solution

Initiates a new program to tie all services and media to packet-based access, Ethernet in particular

Agilent introduces new memory options for its Infiniium 54830 Series of digital storage and mixed-signal oscilloscopes

SIP Forum plans first SIPit interoperability event Asia

eDial launches SIP-based feature server Advanced Communications Server 5.0 for control, management, and reporting

Sonus Networks completes review of its financial statements for fiscal years 2003, 2002, and 2001; will restate results

Octante Consultores will resell Sandvine's traffic management and worm mitigation products to service providers across South America

Revenues of €1.9B were up 14% from Q2 and 30% year on year; net loss was €56M, compared with net income of €39M in Q2 and loss of €116M in 3Q03

Teledata Networks wins $2.3 million tender issued by Kazakhtelecom, one of several agreements totaling $12 million

RPO raises AU$2.5 million in Series A round for new manufacturing plant and development of its polymer optical waveguide technology

Electronic toll road in Melbourne deploys TDM-over-IP products from RAD for emergency voice services over an Ethernet-enabled ATM backbone

Second-quarter losses total $7.2M, or 8 cents per diluted share, on revenues of $8.7M

Verizon poised to deliver first set of services to customers over its fiber-to-the-premises network

Peribit grows bandwidth to speed applications for Seminis with six-month ROI

OnFiber Communications announces that it is to acquire Portland General Broadband assets

Major VOIP investments planned as carriers migrate to next-gen voice, according to Infonetics Research

VegaStream announces distribution partnership with distributor DCM UK

NewStep Networks introduced its Calling Service Node, a unique IP service control solution

Mangrove Systems and Ahead Communications partner to expand opportunities for multiservice network customer base

TippingPoint's UnityOne IPS delivers secure Internet connectivity to Charter high-speed Internet customers

Blue Coat is to acquire URL filtering provider Cerberian

KeyEye supports the IEEE 802.3an Task Force's development of the industry standard for 10-Gigabit Ethernet over copper cabling

Telewest Business is chosen to provide IPVPN to the Elliott Group

Uralsvyazinform posts 24% revenue growth for 2003 compared with the previous year; EBITDA increased 26%

Bookham launches new class of high channel count, scaleable mulitplexer/demultiplexer solutions

Wind signs agreement with DivXNetworks to launch a secure, DivX-powered video-on-demand service through Libero.it, Wind's web portal

Nortel will deliver a multiservice packet-based transport infrastructure as part of a military satellite network for the UK government

Diatem releases Ethernet ServiceController 2.0 software platform, to enable broadband network operators to generate new revenues

Lucent has completed a voice over DSL project for KPN

T-Networks launches LLIM100 series wavelength-locked, four channel tunable transmitter

Huawei signs contracts with operators including Telemar, China Telecom, and China Netcom to provide optical core switch solutions

Masergy builds foundation Infranet with M-series routers from Juniper

Avanex announces filing of two registration statements with SEC

Little Optics launches solid-state tunable filter modules

Anritsu Company develops MEMS-based technology that delivers OSA module benefits in performance, size, and price

Riverstone Networks appoints George McClelland to board of directors

ElectroniCast study shows the global consumption of multifiber transmit link components will rise to $407 million in year 2008

Time Warner Telecom delivers largest US VPLS deployment with Juniper Networks

Diatem releases Ethernet service controller 2.0

University of Tokyo and Fujitsu succeed in world's first single-photon emission in data transmission wavelengths

Companies partner to deliver shorter systems integration lifecycle

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, honored at Buckingham Palace for services to development of the Internet

BT announces results of Project Bluephone tests; teams with suppliers and operators to develop open standard for fixed-mobile convergence

Spirent wins Customer Value Enhancement Award for the Communications Test & Measurement Industry from Frost & Sullivan

BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger allows consumers to manage all their home communications in one place on their PC

Sprint expands its OEM business communication system portfolio with release of IP key system Sprint i4

Telewest completes financial restructuring, reduces debt by around £3.8 billion, or more than 65%, to approximately £2.0 billion

Krone introduces CopperTen, a structured cabling system capable of carrying 10-Gbit/s Ethernet over 100 meters

Telemar Group selects Alcatel to upgrade and extend its optical transport network

SpeedNet Services retains Carreden Group to raise minimum of $6 million in equity funding

EdgeView element management system simplifies delivery and maintenance of hosted VOIP services

Telstra will provide MPLS-based, managed services platform linking Hyatt’s headquarters with hotels in Europe, South America and Asia/Pacific

Adding to its optical portfolio, Emcore snatches up a parallel optics vendor and 13 employees for $1.2M cash

Pacific LightNet Communications deploys Movaz's RAY product suite to create inter-island optical network

PMC-Sierra reports second quarter 2004 results; net revenues grow 9% sequentially and 42% year-over-year

Telefónica Móviles consolidates leadership in Peru, launching 3G services using technology from Nortel Networks

OCP introduces 10km Gigabit Ethernet Bi-Directional SFP transceivers for EFM market

France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom signed a Memorandum of Understanding

Qosmos receives a first round of financing from Sofinnova Partners

FLAG Telecom appoints Mathew Oommen as chief technology officer

Allied Telesyn introduces intelligent IP telephony application for enterprise-class voice over IP

KPN selects Alcatel's 5530 Network Analyzer to facilitate delivery of higher bandwidth services

NewCross acquires full commercialization rights and a perpetual license to Telcordia's softwswitch patent portfolio

MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance and ATM Forum plan to form a single organization

IDT appoints Julian Hawkins, recently North American sales VP for Infineon, as vice president of worldwide sales

Sales from continuing operations were better than expected at £339 million, up 4% on constant currency basis from 1Q03

US District Court rejects trustee motion requiring immediate repayment of $131.7 million in outstanding bonds

NVC selects Scream broadband service delivery platform for VOD deployment; Astel picks Promina system for civil aviation application

Entone Technologies joins the CalixCompatible program for IP television solutions

KDDI selects Corrigent's CM-100 Packet ADM (add-drop multiplexer) for its packet-optimized transport network build

Telus offers Ethernet private line services using Nortel Networks optical technology

ECI Telecom achieves TL 9000 quality certification

HeLi NET will deploy Marconi's next-generation multiservice optical platform for its metro network

Shaw Communications selects Siemens to support the Launch Of its digital telephony service for broadband cable network

Chuxing Optical Fiber announced the introduction of a new lensed fiber with polished taper

OCP announces SFP transceivers for 120km Gigabit Ethernet CWDM and single wavelength applications

World’s leading telecommunications operators form alliance to market fixed-mobile convergence products to 145 million customers

Chairman claims BT leads 'in building a customer-centric, 21st century communications business'; announces EPS up 19% to 16.9p

Banverket Telenät selects optical transmission and access equipment from ECI Telecom to expand its data traffic capabilities

HP awards five-year, $125 million agreement to MCI for advanced communications services

MCI begins trading again on Nasdaq, under the symbol MCIP

AboveNet Communications UK announces completion of a new London-wide DWDM network connected to IXEurope and IBM facilities

LambdaNet provides Handelsblatt Group with 34 Mbit/s MPLS data link to carry print data

IBM Korea will market, sell, and support Meriton Networks solutions in the Korean market

Optical Internetworking Forum approves new multi-source agreement for integratable tunable laser assemblies

A management shuffle puts Charlie Giancarlo at CTO, while former optical head Jayshree Ullal takes over security

Telewest Business wins Stroud and Swindon Building Society contract to supply IP/VPN

RAD Data Communications has announced the launch of the Optimux-T3LR E1 or T1 to T3 point-to-point multiplexer

Juniper Networks is the first North American IP routing vendor to receive TL 9000 certification; reports Q2 results

Xspedius Communications LLC secures $20 million credit facility; Xspedius migration to MPLS on track for 3Q completion

SupportSoft announces new broadband service automation solution for small businesses

Video Internet Broadcasting Corporation appoints Jon Moore as chief technical officer

Texas Instruments outlines industry's most comprehensive security framework for voice over IP product portfolio

Copel selects P-Cube for IP service control platform

Pannaway is to unveil industry’s first 10-Gbps routing device at Opastco’s summer convention and tradeshow

Verizon Wireless awards $5 billion contract to Lucent Technologies for next-generation network expansion

Lucent Technologies to build intelligent optical network for Hubei Unicom

Nortel Networks provides status update following the alternative information guidelines of the Ontario Securities Commission

BCE Capital leads oversubscribed equity round for NexTone, raising $10 million in financing

Ethernet service provider Exponential-e begins recruitment drive for resellers and integrators

Leucadia National Corporation seeks clearance to acquire at lesat 50% of MCI's stock

Anders Gustafsson, senior executive vice president of global business operations at Tellabs, resigns to become CEO of Spirent

Cox Communications and BellSouth selects SupportSoft’s VoiceAssist to help resolve technical issues for broadband subscribers

Menlo Logic launches an SSL VPN client for Windows, AccessPoint Virtual Passage, and an HTTP reverse proxy with full JavaScript support

Hutchison Global Communications selects Alcatel's service router to to meet demand for VPLS and Virtual Leased Line (VLL) services

Adtran reports second-quarter sales of $120M versus $90.4M for the same quarter a year ago

Company announces the immediate departure of general counsel Charles R. Morgan

Vapps has released its VOIP-based Conferencing Bridge 1000 for service providers and next-generation telcos

Northwest Open Access Network of Oregon deploys the Lucent Metropolis WSM to upgrade statewide optical network

Juniper Networks optimizes Zhejiang Telecom Network for enhanced revenue-generating services

American Fiber Systems and KC NAP LLC provide network access point at 15% below area tariff rates; UEN picks American Fiber Systems

Wave7 Optics wins FTTP contract in Australia

StarGen announced that it has secured $8.5 million in a fourth round of venture funding

Lumics introduces the LU0975M004 laser module with up to 4W output power from a multimode fiber

ECI Telecom names Rafi Maor chief operating officer

VocalTec expands Essentra VOIP product suite, allowing service providers to quickly roll out voice-over-broadband and long distance VOIP apps

ADC introduces Ethernet Test Access Panel, a non-invasive method to test and monitor delivery of critical data services over Ethernet

Under an extended agreement, Huawei will sell and market LightPointe Flight optical wireless products as part of its OptiX product family

Keymile adds Ethernet functionality to its UMUX multi-service access platform

Arbinet-thexchange files for initial public offering; number of shares and price range have not yet been determined

Partnership combines BT's audio conferencing services and Microsoft's Live Meeting Web conferencing service

HOT Telecom awards Lucent three-year, $35 million contract for network integration and security services

eBiscom reports consolidated EBITDA of over €52M in Q2, up from €19.4M last year; H1 EBITDA was over €98M, an increase of over 167%

Claims to take the guesswork out of IP network capacity planning

NetTest announces the addition of the CMA 5400 PMD 160 module to the CMA 5000 multi-layer test platform

NetLogic Microsystems Inc. announces IPO of 5,775,000 shares of common stock

Cisco helps to create a broadband wireless network for the city of Slupsk in Poland

Equant announces its first half results and confirms the outlook provided on April 28, 2004

Fibernet Group plc is awarded GMB's UK network contract

Corning sells its frequency control business to Vectron International

Tut Systems reports preliminary results, expects revenue for the second quarter to be in the range of $5.0 million to $5.2 million

Riverstone Networks has the potential to challenge Cisco as the top carrier Ethernet technology vendor, says Heavy Reading report

MCI completes acquisition of its Belgian joint venture, MCI Belgium-Luxembourg; will combine operations with its UUNet subsidiary

Nortel supplies products from its Succession VOIP communications portfolio to alternative operator Thus

Oki Electric Industry claims first single channel 160 Gbit/s optical transmitter and receiver

SSL-based VPNs energize the VPN market, according to Infonetics Research

Saudi Arabian carrier modernizes telecommunications network with next-gen optics technology from Siemens

NTT announces that operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning information added to LSI for 10-Gigabit Ethernet

Alcatel optical and routing solutions selected for German research project

Navtel's latest InterWatch upgrade integrates extensive SIP testing solutions

Cardiff Council has implemented a networking infrastructure for delivery of IT systems with Nortel Networks, Unified Networks

NTT Communications to launch a service package combining voice and video communications under its Arcstar Global IP-VPN service

Woori Cable selects ARRIS Cadant C4 Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) to serve 110,000 customers in Uijeongbu, South Korea

Pandatel's multi-access connectivity system MACS4000 for carriers integrates and monitors modems, converters, and multiplexers

ZTE will provide a ZXA10 system to help Indonesia’s Telkom build an NGN-DLC network in Jakarta for broadband and narrowband integrated services

Photop Technologies will display its series components for FTTP, mini size DPSS green laser, and optics products at InterOpto'04

Siemens announces 'generation change' in its top management

Finisar releases version 1.2 of its NetWisdom SAN and LAN monitoring solution

Kasenna, provider of broadband video solutions, has raised $15 million in private equity financing

KeyEye Communications appoints Fred Lancia as vice president of sales and product marketing

ETSI says there is a lack of speech quality specifications and that industry needs testing standards

VOIP Inc. plans exchange offer to acquire working control of Internet America Inc.

Phyworks appoints Cisco senior vice president, Paul Mountford, to its board

BroadLight, the PON chip company, adds to the funding round announced in March, bringing the total to $17.9m

LastMile releases its new Time Division Multiplexer, the TimePilot TDM 2-1

NTT debuts a 10-Gbit/s network processor, the Wspeed, at the heart of a classification and forwarding board

Fujitsu Limited selects IDT network search engine to accelerate packet processing in its IPCOM S2200 network server

AMCC's nP3700 integrated network processor and traffic manager is now sampling

FTC grants early termination of waiting period for Tellabs’ proposed merger with AFC

Converged IP network from Extreme Networks enables the state of Florida to deploy intelligent highway system

Nasdaq grants Global Crossing an extension to comply with exchange listing requirements

Robert Seebold, recently president of InfoVista, joins Ipsum Networks as vice president of global sales and services

CommVerge Solutions has deployed the Arris C4 Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) at Korea’s Woori Broadcasting Corporation

Emerson increases its network power capability to serve telecom customers with $375 million purchase of Marconi's power business

Company adds VPs in finance and product engineering, and bids goodbye to one in operations

T-Mobile International selects Nortel Networks for content-based billing solution

Pandatel announces North American release of Fomux C100

C-COR signs final agreement to purchase Stargus

Lynx adds intelligent photonic switch that protects long-haul wavelength services for carriers and service providers

NetTest introduces the first field portable 10 Gigabit Ethernet tester

Conexant lowers third fiscal quarter outlook

Ericsson signs Ethernet DSL access delivery contract with Finnet Logistics

OnFiber Communications secures new financing

Cisco 7600 series routers power BellSouth premium metro Ethernet network services

Occam Networks' BLC 6000 broadband loop carrier is now available on the USDA's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) list of materials

Alcatel's service routing management solution has been selected for BT's 21C PSTN transformation trial

Ofcom emphasizes importance of local loop unbundling and appoints Peter Black as independent telecom adjudicator

Releases a transponder module targeting 80 km distances and beyond, per the 10GBASE-ZR standard

BT selects Siemens' Surpass hiG 1200 Trunk Gateway and Juniper's IP/MPLS routing technology for its 21C trial

New FleXport release includes simultaneous support for TDM and ATM based services, using separate uplinks

Princeton Lightwave adds switched, multi-port capability to line of Optical Channel Monitors that it purchased from OFS in April

Cable & Wireless introduces fully managed IP Voice service for businesses, with potential savings of 25%

BT announces plans to double availability of its SDSL serivces by rolling out 150 additional exchanges

Lambdanet wins contract to provide IP/MPLS data links connecting up RTL Nord’s studios and RTL’s broadcasting center in Cologne

Solid releases version 4.2 of its Autonomic Data Management Platform, adding "1-Safe" hot standby option

Alcatel-Thales III-V Lab will research optoelectronic and microelectronic components for optical fiber transmission

VoIPal, its new session border controller, combines advanced signaling and interworking functionalities

Startup developer of optical transmission monitoring technologies bought by manufacturer of optical and electrical test equipment

OIF World interoperability demonstration was a complete success and of 'vital importance', say carriers

Consolidated net income was 9.2% to $40.6M, driven by traffic growth, stronger competitive position, and settlement system reform

T-Systems appoints Juergen Graf to head its International Carrier Sales and Solutions (ICSS) division

Draka and Alcatel complete combination of their global optical fiber and communication cable activities in a joint venture

Zhone completes acquisition of Sorrento

Aventail announces version 7.2 of its SSL VPN platform

Bharti Infotel selects Tellabs' integrated solution for its nationwide network in India

Appia Communications expands to Chicago market; Dean DeGrendel heads office

S&P reports that Colt ratings unaffected by profit warning

WatchGuard announces appointment of Edward J. Borey as chairman and chief executive officer

Interoute launches Internet central policy-based routing service

Vyyo announces completing the acquisition of Xtend Networks

Cogent announces new president and chief operating officer

Cisco Systems sets Guinness world record with the world's highest capacity Internet router

Colt Telecom Group plc reiterated today that market conditions continued to be challenging

BT launches broadband with price cuts of up to 25%; confirms timetable for broadband rollout

Acterna introduces portable solution with bit error and jitter/wander tests for 10-Gig Sonet/SDH and 10.7 Gig OTN systems

Smart-SS7, developer of fixed-mobile convergence technology, closes $2.5 million first round led by Magnum Communications Fund

District Court magistrate announces intention to enjoin New York Public Service Commission from regulating Vonage as telecom carrier

ZTE has been chosen by OTE to supply broadband Internet access systems services during the Olympic Games in Athens

Tánaiste announces €69 million R&D investment programme between agreed Bell Labs, IDA Ireland, and Science Foundation Ireland

Cable modem connectivity dominates DSL by 2 to 1, but DSL connectivity will close the gap by 2009, says Probe Group

Servega appoints Simon Davidson as vice president of business development to expand its strategic relationships