http://www.telecomweb.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2008 Fri, 5 Sep 2008 21:53:10 EDT In what may go down as "Black Thursday" in Ciena history the company reported a 59 percent plunge in quarterly profits despite a 24 percent increase in sales, mainly due to one time charges, but the big news was that spending by the company's big carrier customers has stalled - news that sent Ciena... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261389.html Fri, 5 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Protus has spiffed up its virtual IP PBX service, adding a series of features based on customer feedback from the first three months it has been on the market. The Ottawa-based company, which markets the PBX service throughout the United States as well as in Canada - and markets its other service of... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261393.html Fri, 5 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Dublin-based telecoms carrier software and services vendor Prime Carrier Ltd. has bought New York-based F-Line Technologies, in a deal that gives Prime a far firmer footing in the U.S. to serve its North American customers - a group that includes Verizon, the former Bellsouth, Alltel and Nortel. Value of the... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261385.html Thu, 4 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Nortel has scored a pair of major North American showcase wins for its 40 Gb/s technology, bringing 40 Gb/s to Alaska for the very first time and linking Canada's biggest cities with the United States. The first win is at Alaska Communications Systems, which has chosen Nortel's Optical Multiservice Edge 6500... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261386.html Thu, 4 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Samsung, with virtually no public notice, has reportedly agreed to sell its stake in Symbian, giving Nokia the last piece it needs for 100 percent ownership in order to proceed with its scheme to turn Symbian into an open source operating system. The Symbian plan is designed to counter both the market... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261376.html Wed, 3 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT VoIP enterprise phone maker snom Technology AG has signed up to have its phones certified as compatible with open-source phone-system provider Fonality Inc's IP PBXes. The move is the latest in a continuing stream of such by snom, as it - in common with pretty much all of its competitors - compete for the... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261380.html Wed, 3 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Bidding to build a massive nationwide broadband network in Australia re-opened this morning, with a new deadline of Nov. 26 for bids, pushing the start of construction of the $7.9 billion network, and the anticipated gold rush of vendors looking for a piece of the action, well off into next year. Bidding on... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261381.html Wed, 3 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Former BT Group chief Ben Verwaayen took the helm at Alcatel-Lucent today, replacing embattled CEO Pat Russo who as Lucent's CEO co-engineered the "merger of equals" that has led the company to six quarters and $7 billion in the red; International media group Lagardere Co-Managing Partner Philippe... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261362.html Tue, 2 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT The board of the Thus Group PLC, facing total defeat in its attempt to keep the company independent or attract a better bid - with AT&T said to be the bidder - has thrown in the towel and withdrawn its opposition to a hostile $656 million takeover attempt by Number Two U.K. carrier Cable & Wireless... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261365.html Tue, 2 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Nortel has gone to market with what it is calling a Secure "Office On A Stick" - essentially a system for enterprises to squirt a virtualized desktop to their employees over a virtual private network (VPN). The key to the new offering, whose formal name is Secure Portable Office (SPO), is a USB... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261367.html Tue, 2 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Nortel and its partner LG Electronics, in a key first-ever demonstration for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology that's expected to dominate the 4G wireless market, said they have successfully tested and demonstrated hand-off between LTE cells. Without the ability to do hand-off, the technology would... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261346.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Shareholders of infrastructure software provider Iona Technologies PLC have approved the $162 million sale of the company to Progress Software, setting the stage for closing of the deal within the next couple of weeks. Both Progress and Iona use service oriented architecture (SOA), which has turned into a... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261349.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT BCE and Telus will jointly build a high speed packet access (HSPA) 3G network, spending an estimated $1 billion and essentially abandoning CDMA, according to reports circulating north of the border. Predictions of such a deal have been swirling for at least a month, with UBS Investment Research last month... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261350.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Cisco is buying privately held startup PostPath, which claims to be the creator of the industry's only e-mail and collaboration server that offers enterprises a drop-in alternative to Microsoft Exchange, for $215 million in cash. The plan, Cisco said, is to meld PostPath with WebEx, which it bought last year... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261340.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. has decided to recast its telecommunications business as a separate company, the better to compete globally for IP and next generation network (NGN) carrier and enterprise business. The new unit, to be called OKI Networks Co., Ltd, will sprint to life on Oct. 1, Oki said, with... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261342.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The number of GSM/HSPA subscribers in the Western Hemisphere surged by 115.4 million in the 12 months ended June 30, giving GSM a 67 percent market share, according to new numbers released by GSM wireless industry trade association 3G Americas. The Western Hemisphere group went on to cite industry research... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261344.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Genband, slicing off a piece of the pile of assets it has acquired over the past few years, has sold off its M6 Communication Applications Server product line, and possibly even more importantly the M6 customer base, to BroadSoft. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The M6 is a platform to deliver... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261328.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT According to the "2007 Global ICA Contact Center Report," T3i Group LLC's latest "InfoTrack for Converged Applications (ICA)" research report on the global contact center market, CALA led all regions with growth of more than 50 percent, while EMEA and APAC followed, both growing at... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261329.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Alcatel-Lucent has gone to market with a family of gigabit Ethernet (GbE) local area network (LAN) switches, aimed at both the small- to medium-size business (SMB) market and the large scale enterprise market for Carrier Ethernet and targeted at Cisco's offerings for those niches. Alcatel-Lucent's new... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261330.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT BTI Systems inked a development and supply agreement that covers joint research-and-development initiatives with Wuhan FiberHome Networks Co. Ltd. (FHN) and has established a new subsidiary in the People's Republic of China. BTI already sports a base of Asian partners, but the new subsidiary, based in... http://www.telecomweb.com/international/261332.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT