Archive for July, 2009
AlcaLu CEO Pitches Recovery Story
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Alcatel-Lucent is getting stronger, says CEO Ben Verwaayen, who predicts big things in North America and with LTE
Topics: North America
Ex-Cisco Exec Now an Ex-ADVA Exec
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Ron Martin, hired to beef up ADVA’s cred with North American carriers, has moved on
Topics: North America, carrier
Accessing Obama’s Broadband Billions
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The final payoff may be worth it, but cable operators that apply for a piece of the $7.2B Recovery Act funds had better be ready to lawyer up
Topics: broadband
Small Cablecos Weigh Digital Options
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Moto and the Comcast Media Center are leading with deals, but other suppliers and integrators are also making hay with Tier 2 and 3 MSOs
Topics: Comcast
Ericsson Delivers Knockout Blow to NSN
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It’s back to the drawing board for Nokia Siemens Networks’ North American strategy as Ericsson flexes its financial muscle in the Nortel wireless auction
Topics: North America, wireless, Nortel, Nokia
BigBand Pushes IP Video Convergence
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Vendor claims ‘Converged Video Exchange’ will let cable ops deliver and manage video services to IP-based boxes and to more screen types
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Broadcom Anticipates Docsis 3.0 Push
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Between Docsis 3.0 (next year, anyway) and the shift to HD programming, the chipmaker says cable’s a good place to be…
Topics: Docsis 3.0
Who Makes What: GPON & WDM-PON Equipment
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This Who Makes What installment is an update to Light Reading’s August 2008 Who Makes What: GPON Equipment, so it uses the same product categories.
Topics: fiberoptic, WDM-PON, GPON
Comcast: Wideband Build Is Nearly Half Done
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Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) said it’s nearly halfway done with its national rollout of Docsis 3.0 after completing a deployment in its hometown of Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs.
Topics: Docsis 3.0, Comcast, Philadelphia
AlcaLu Lands GPON, 3G Deals in China
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AlcaLu gets commercial GPON contract from China Mobile and bolsters its position as a TD-SCDMA infrastructure supplier
Topics: China, 3G, TD-SCDMA, CDMA
Who’s Waving Their Wad at Nortel’s MEN?
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Who are the nine buyers reportedly interested in the Metro Ethernet division? Here are a few guesses, good, bad, and ugly
Topics: Nortel, Ethernet
China Set for DSL, FTTH Boom
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Broadband connections will double by 2014, driven by DSL and aggressive FTTH rollouts, according to a new report
Topics: China, broadband
Nortel: We’re Winning New Biz in APAC
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The head of Nortel’s Carrier Networks Asia group talks new business, customer concerns, and the big sell-off
Topics: Nortel, Asia, carrier
Ericsson Names New CEO
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Current CFO steps up to the top job as Carl-Henric Svanberg accepts the chairman role at oil giant BP
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Huawei, Ericsson Get a Piece of Comcast’s IMS Action
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Ericsson’s been considered an IMS lock at Comcast, but Huawei’s emergence may have knocked Nokia Siemens Networks out of the running
Topics: Nokia, Comcast
