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Cisco profits fall 77 percent; releases weak Q3 results
May 8, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsCisco Systems Inc. saw its net income drop 77 percent, or $770 million, during its third quarter, and showed a 4 percent decrease in net sales. Actual net loss was $2.69 billion or 37 cents a share, compared with actual net income of $641 million or 8 cents a share a year ago, it reports. Sales reached $4.
Spike lands $335 M fixed wireless deal
May 7, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsSpike Broadband Systems Inc. will supply Danish network operator SONOFON with more than $335 million in fixed wireless equipment to deploy what the two bill as the largest fixed wireless deployment thus far. The equipment allows broadband services to be deployed in the 3.5 GHz frequency band. The service, which is expected to deploy over the next five years, will reach 95 percent of Denmark's p...
Motorola seals trio of deals
May 7, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsMotorola Inc. has several deals and coups in the hopper. It entered a marketing agreement with Next Level Communications Inc., where Motorola's global sales division will help sell Next Level's integrated multimedia broadband access systems to international telecom customers, Motorola reports. The agreement is intended to help Next Level's Nlevel3 Unified Access Platform gain worldwide momentum.
TW Oceanic taps S-A for fiber optic upgrade
May 7, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsTime Warner's Oceanic Cablevision division installed Scientific-Atlanta's Prisma II bdr baseband digital reverse fiber optic system in its system in Hawaii. Oceanic used the system to upgrade the "Big Island of Hawaii" with a digital headend and a single hub with associated optical transition nodes, says Oceanic Cable Transmission Systems Director Metod Lebar in a statement.
TollBridge to deploy two global gateways
May 6, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsTollBridge Technologies will deploy two VoIP gateways, the TB300 and TB200, to support global standards across all major access media, the company reports. The new ETSI V5.2 solution has been successfully tested and deployed using the PacketCable Network-based Call Signaling specification, the ATM Forum LANE implementation and the ADSL Forum Broadband Loop Emulation Service (BLES) for access to...
IDT ups its interest in Teligent and ICG
May 6, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsIDT Corp. will up its investment in both Teligent Inc. and ICG Communications. Under an agreement with IDT's subsidiary IDT Investments Inc., affiliates of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. will receive shares of IDT Investments' Series B Convertible Preferred Stock in exchange for the affiliates' stakes in Teligent and ICG.
Lucent combines units, replaces CFO
May 6, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsOut with the old, it appears. Lucent Technologies' CFO Deborah Hopkins will pursue other opportunities and will be replaced by Frank D'Amelio. The company also combined its Switching Solutions and InterNetworking Systems Group units and assigned Janet Davidson to head it. D'Amelio was group president of the Switching Solutions Group and once was DFO of Lucent's Network Systems business, Lucent ...
Wind River sees slowdown, cuts jobs and pay
May 3, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsWind River Systems yesterday announced a "significant slowdown" in near-term customer spending, and new cost-control measures, including job cuts, executive pay cuts, and a week-long shutdown during July in its North American offices. "We are seeing customers postpone investments for new projects, which brings down their short-term spending in research and development," says President and CEO T...
CableLabs launches CableB2B program
May 3, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsCableLabs has launched its CableB2B program, designed to create specifications for automation of everyday business communications between cable system operators and Internet content providers. The specifications will cover parts of the business interface between cable operators and providers of services deliverable over the cable plant, through cable modems, advanced set-top boxes and other tec...
Defunct PathStar object of Lucent case
May 3, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsThree men charged yesterday with conspiring to steal source code and software from Lucent Technologies allegedly wanted to build their own version of Lucent's PathStar Access Server. According to excerpts from the complaint, filed in a U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., the PathStar, which Lucent discontinued in February, is a system that lets ISPs provide voice and data over IP packet networks.
New bill to battle Tauzin-Dingell
May 3, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsU.S. representatives Chris Cannon (R-Utah) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) lobbed a return volley yesterday to Tauzin-Dingell bill proponents, with the introduction of two bills of their own. The Cannon-Conyers Package would block the Bells from entering the long-distance data market and would increase penalties for the Bells' failure to open their networks to competition.
Charter shows Q1 results, eyes cable exchange
May 2, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsDespite a $280.7 million net loss in first quarter 2001, Charter Communications Inc. saw revenue and cash flow increase, it reported yesterday. The broadband communications company also reiterated its annual and second-quarter 2001 guidance, and noted a cable systems agreement with AT&T. Charter's reported net losses of $1.
Lucent scientists charged with stealing secrets
May 2, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsTwo scientists from Lucent Technologies were arrested and charged today with conspiring to steal proprietary source code and software from Lucent. Lucent employees Hai Lin and Kai Xu were arrested at their homes by the FBI. Also arrested was Yong-Qing Cheng, a naturalized Chinese-American and vice president of Village Networks, an optical networking vendor in Eatontown, N.
TI tech ups upstream capacity by 50 percent
May 2, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsTexas Instruments Inc. launched an advanced TDMA technology that enables a 50-percent increase in upstream cable plant capacity, TI reports. Two chips — a dual-channel receiver at the headend and a "newly certified device" at the customer location — combined with the company's increased capacity ingress cancellation technology, allow three times the upstream bandwidth per channel.
NCTA: So you say you want an evolution …
May 2, 2001 8:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsWhat's in a name? Try $45 billion in industry overhauls in three years. National Cable Television Association completed its name change to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, as announced in February. The change reflects cable's transformation from a one-way video provider to a medium for two-way services, such as digital video, high-speed Internet, cable telephony and ITV,...
