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News & Views Most Popular Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 5/23/2017 Genband & Sonus to finally merge, as exclusively predicted by Light Reading a year ago. Post a Comment \| Read (12 comments) Latest Comment: Kevin Mitchell And so it is Ribbon Communications Nortel would have been better with all... Mitel to Offload Mobile Unit to Xura for $350M+ By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 12/19/2016 Less than two years after buying its mobile unit, Mitel is selling to Xura, the messaging and UC business owned by Siris Capital. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Ray@LR I think that qualifies as the most concise analysis of the year... Light Reading Beyond By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 7/28/2016 Light Reading today starts a new voyage as part of a larger Enterprise. Post a Comment \| Read (34 comments) Latest Comment: freehe Light Reading has great expertise and offers great expertise to the IT community.... Advertisement Leading Lights 2016: There's Still Time By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/29/2016 There's still time to enter this year's Leading Lights awards -- here are the details you need. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Activist JDSU Shareholder Now Stalks Viavi By Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com, 9/8/2015 A JDSU shareholder who once wanted JDSU to sell now wants JDSU spinoff Viavi to do the same. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: nasimson Technology landscape has always been very active when it comes to merger &... CEO Chat With Doug Suriano, Oracle By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 8/10/2015 Steve Saunders met up with Oracle's Doug Suriano, who talked about why Oracle bought Tekelec and Acme Packet, how it's creating tailored cloud services for different vertical industries, the state of virtualization, why Oracle won't get into systems integration and more. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: mhhf1ve Oracle doesn't just do database software anymore -- it does whole datacenter... ADVA Clocks an Acquisition, Eyes 2 More By Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com, 8/3/2015 ADVA's timing unit absorbs a specialist in small form factor clock technology, but ADVA may have more deals in mind. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DOShea To be clear about the usage, these acquisition targets would be companies small... Advertisement Farewell to Longtime Tellabs Chief Birck By Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com, 7/13/2015 Mike Birck guided Tellabs for more than 30 years over a span of five decades. Post a Comment \| Read (0) BTE 2015: Virtualization Goes Commercial By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 5/29/2015 Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Jim Hodges sees new network virtualization deployments on the horizon in 2015. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli Already, companies like ThingWorx are boasting that their app-based platform... Leading Lights Finalists 2015: Company of the Year (Private) By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/18/2015 Find out more about the players that made it onto our awards shortlist for company of the year (private). Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights Awards: It's Now or Never! By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/30/2015 Deadline extension means there are still a few more days to submit those winning entries, but don't delay -- April 10 is the final deadline and then the judging begins. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Mitch Wagner Sonus Stock Crashes on Lost Orders By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 3/24/2015 Order fallout prompts slashing of revenue projections by 33% and trading is halted as Sonus shares tumble. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights Awards: Only Days Left to Enter! By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/19/2015 The deadline for the 2015 Leading Lights awards is March 27, so get your skates on if you think you could be a winner! Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Ray@LR Here is a tip for anyone entering the awards. Do not cut and paste press reelases... BTE 2015 Is Bigger & Even Better By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 2/25/2015 This year's Big Telecom Event (BTE) in Chicago is going to provide more opportunities than ever for networking, getting to grips with key industry challenges and opportunities and, equally as important, having some fun. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: nasimson Thats much bigger and much better. Sounds like there'll be many exciting moments... MWC: Let the Madness Begin By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 2/23/2015 Are you all strapped in? Then let's talk 5G, NFV, IoT, security and anything else that rhymes with LTE… oh, and tapas… Post a Comment \| Read (11 comments) Latest Comment: Susan Fourtané nasimson, I didn't save those articles. I'll see if I can find them again.... CEO Chat With Doug Ranalli, NetNumber By Steve Saunders, Founder, Light Reading, 2/2/2015 Light Reading founder and CEO Steve Saunders talks with Doug Ranalli, the founder of signaling specialist NetNumber. Post a Comment \| Read (8 comments) Latest Comment: JustTheFaxMaam Let's take a good honest look at Mr. Ranalli and his past. Fax International... Mavenir Spends $20M on Ulticom for Signaling By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 1/13/2015 Mavenir to acquire Ulticom for its NFV-ready signaling business, while its partner Radisys announces an important new contract with Nokia Networks. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: sarahthomas1011 Mavenir's acquisition is timely in light of the NetNumber article published... NetNumber Decrees the End of Signaling Silos By Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 1/13/2015 As operators deploy NFV, NetNumber says it becomes more important to have a single interface for dealing with all flavors of signaling. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Kevin Mitchell NetNumber has good people and good product. The concept of a centralized routing... What China Mobile Wants From 5G By Joanne Taaffe, 9/30/2014 With 4G still to deliver so much, the world's largest mobile operator wants more than just another industry standard when it comes to 5G. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: danielcawrey Most of its high-margin subscribers are based in the cities, however. Offering... What's With AT&T's Capex Dip? By Dan O'Shea, Analyst, Heavyreading.com, 6/2/2014 Analyst George Notter says that AT&T slowed its capital spending this spring. Post a Comment \| Read (5 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym Yes, it would seen that the DirecTV deal would certainly be a large influence... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Virtuapedia Indexes The Future of Virtualization Index project provides CSPs with a clear and concise set of benchmarks to measure their progress in the migration to virtualized networks using a series of surveys involving more than three dozen of the world's most important CSPs. Message Boards JustTheFaxMaam, 12/27/2017 4:23:27 PM CEO Chat With Doug Ranalli, NetNumber Re: Reality Check Let's take a good honest look at Mr. Ranalli and his past. Fax International ("FI") --> ran dry in the early-to-mid-1990s --> assets, employees, intellectual property mysteriously bought up for pennies on the dollar... Kevin Mitchell, 11/1/2017 9:04:45 AM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Nortel would have been better... And so it is Ribbon Communications Nortel would have been better with all the 80s and 90s nostalgia zeitgeist. Kevin Mitchell, 11/1/2017 9:04:44 AM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Nortel would have been better... And so it is Ribbon Communications Nortel would have been better with all the 80s and 90s nostalgia zeitgeist. kq4ym, 6/8/2017 8:13:49 AM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Well at least "Soband" or "Genus" will get some savings along the way as noted "Genband and Sonus also share some significant customers, notably AT&T Inc." Looks like there's lots of possibilities for the new name on... DanJones, 5/24/2017 5:41:08 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Woah! yeah, interesting idea. Kevin Mitchell, 5/24/2017 5:34:28 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? If Sonus office is the new HQ, it's moving north. The name Nortel could be brought back. Or even Northern Telecom! DanJones, 5/24/2017 5:30:55 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Genous! Kevin Mitchell, 5/24/2017 5:25:44 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Definitely could spawn a new curse: Son of a Gen! DanJones, 5/24/2017 1:07:56 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? GenSon? Bandus? SonBand? They all sound a bit like "Side effects may include..." OldStyle, 5/23/2017 5:09:18 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Where is the Old LR When You Need It? The LR of days gone by would be providing some much-needed comedic relief here. Like, what do you get when you combine two, 21 year old companies that have never posted one quarterly profit? Or, Help, someone... softwizard, 5/23/2017 4:20:44 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Norqua? DanJones, 5/23/2017 3:25:22 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Re: Name? Good question! Kevin Mitchell, 5/23/2017 2:54:10 PM Sonus & Genband Finally Combine to Form $745M Company Re: Name? The press release states that "Sonus and GENBAND will combine under a newly formed holding company." What's the resulting company's name? Time for a new LR contest? suerudd, 1/27/2017 3:36:34 PM The New Strategy for Broadband Re: Full Report available here with Registration Multi-billion dollar market opportunities may be lost unless Next Generation Broadband meets Seven Key Challenges Snapshot Strategy Analytics lays out seven challenges that could be 'show stoppers' for the major markets... freehe, 12/30/2016 6:42:42 PM Light Reading Beyond Re: Light Reading Light Reading has great expertise and offers great expertise to the IT community. 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