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News Analysis: Verizon Foes Ground & Pound in New York - 8/27/2008 5:56:00 PM
Verizon says it will credit some FiOS customers in New York who were 'inconvenienced' by its now two-year-old grounding controversy
News Analysis: AlcaLu Selling Bell Labs Site - 8/5/2008 4:30:00 PM
A pending sale would keep the Bell Labs building alive, although it might go condo
News Analysis: Cisco/Brocade Rumors Pop Up - 8/21/2008 5:50:00 PM
Stuck for near-term growth, could Cisco make a run at buying Brocade?
News Analysis: Verizon Strike Averted (for Now) - 8/1/2003 5:55:00 PM
Talks continue, but 'key issues remain unresolved' UPDATED 8/4 9:30 AM
News Analysis: Carrier Scorecard: Broadband Blues - 8/14/2008 5:45:00 PM
Our latest quarterly tally finds AT&T, Qwest, and Verizon showing some of the weakest broadband growth seen in years
News Analysis: Who Makes What: GPON Equipment - 8/15/2008 4:40:00 PM
GPON is starting to take off worldwide. We list the who, what, and wherefore
News Analysis: Cisco: Economic Troubles Aren't Over - 8/5/2008 5:45:00 PM
Slow growth will continue through the next two quarters at least, CEO John Chambers says
News Analysis: WDM-PON Faces 10G Challenge - 8/20/2008 5:00:00 PM
Some believe WDM-PON is the FTTH endgame, but AlcaLu isn't convinced
News Analysis: Nortel Buys Pingtel - 8/13/2008 7:00:00 AM
Pingtel changes hands again as Nortel acquires the SIP-based unified communications software specialist for an undisclosed sum
News Analysis: Cisco Strikes Olympic Gold - 8/6/2008 9:50:00 AM
Cisco has landed a contract with NBC to supply its video encoding products to allow the network to deliver video to TV, PCs, and mobile phones
News Analysis: Freescale Doesn't Fear Broadcom - 8/19/2008 5:45:00 AM
Broadcom's approach won't have much impact on the market today, Freescale contends
News Analysis: Doink! JDSU Hits Capacity Ceiling - 8/21/2008 9:10:00 AM
The company will see $10M of revenues delayed by a quarter because its manufacturing can't keep up
News Analysis: Genband Unloads BayPackets - 7/30/2008 5:30:00 PM
Genband says it has divested itself of BayPackets, the IMS specialist it acquired two years ago
Slide Shows: Exclusive Photos: Fire to the Node - 8/10/2007 5:01:00 AM
More exclusive photos from AT&T's equipment cabinet meltdown in Houston
News Analysis: Avago IPO's a Go - 8/22/2008 1:45:00 PM
Having gotten back to profitability, the former Agilent division is filing to go public
Slide Shows: Raising a Ruckus With U-verse - 7/18/2008 7:00:00 AM
We take a not-yet-released wireless networking system and add it to an already-running IPTV installation
News Analysis: Foundry Plays PBB Card - 8/26/2008 2:30:00 PM
The NetIron family gets a little brother in the form of edge switches that play up Provider Backbone Bridging
News Analysis: Verizon: Labor Strike Won't Affect FiOS - 8/6/2008 1:30:00 PM
Even if its union workers end up on strike, Verizon says it's got a plan to keep FiOS rolling
News Analysis: Verizon Hits 2M FiOS Subs - 7/28/2008 9:30:00 AM
Verizon says that since the close of the second quarter of 2008, it has surpassed the 2 million mark in FiOS Internet subscribers
News Analysis: GPON Merger Bets on Interoperability - 8/22/2008 3:40:00 PM
By merging, TXP and Cambridge Industries Group hope to create a GPON ONT powerhouse
News Analysis: Embarq Embarks on Worker Cuts - 8/22/2008 5:55:00 PM
Embarq intends to cut as many as 700 workers from its network services group as competition, costs rise and economy issues mount
News Analysis: Avanex Misses Hard - 8/21/2008 5:41:00 PM
A Q4 miss and a weak Q1 forecast send Avanex shares spiraling after-hours
News Analysis: Health Care Could Loom Large for Qwest, CWA - 8/11/2008 1:50:00 PM
As Qwest tries to avoid a labor strike with the CWA, health care could be a major sticking point of the negotiations
News Analysis: Reliance Globalcom Beefs Up Its Metro - 7/28/2008 5:15:00 PM
Reliance Globalcom will use Juniper's MX-series routers and M120 edge routers to increase metro capacity tenfold
Slide Shows: IPTV Forum North America 2008 - 7/24/2008 1:00:00 AM
Some pics and quips from a tiny show about a potentially huge industry
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Alcatel-Lucent (5491), AT&T (1682), BellSouth (837), BT (1132), Cablevision (402), Cisco (4806), Comcast (1249), Cox Communications (607), Deutsche Telekom (743), eBay (Skype) (329), Ericsson (1351), France Telecom (893), Google (448), Huawei (835), Intel (1113), Juniper (1878), Microsoft (1004), Motorola (1221), Nokia Siemens Networks (2419), Nortel (3719), NTT (117), Siemens (1352), Sprint (1014), Telefonica (379), Time Warner Cable (619), Verizon (2274), Vodafone (463), Yahoo (325)

Broadband
Access equipment (1926), Access technologies (2127), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (350), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (878), Cable TV chips (172), DSL (1883), DSL chips (188), DSLAMs (648), Free-space optics (31), FTTx (1758), Gaming consoles (34), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (10), Municipal networks (100), PON (934), PON chips (185), Satellite (335), WiMax (761), Wireless LAN (337)

Cable Digital
Cable Modems (321), Cable/MSO equipment (2549), CableLabs (250), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (166), DOCSIS (550), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (119), Head-ends (101), PacketCable (93), QAM (199)

Chips, Components & Subsystems
ASICs & FPGAs (79), ATCA (390), ATM chips (13), Comm chips (2181), Dispersion compensators (140), Lasers (871), Modulators (149), Mux/demuxes (294), Network processors (849), Optical amplifiers (329), Optical channel monitors (90), Optical components (2587), Speciality fiber (77), Switches & OADMs (371), Transceivers (1139), Transmission fiber (405), Variable optical attenuators (138)

Ethernet
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1322), Access devices (224), ATM switches (334), Circuit emulation (15), Converged access (90), Ethernet chips (497), Ethernet equipment (1632), Ethernet over copper (198), Ethernet PONs (141), Ethernet services (1528), Ethernet technologies (438), Multipoint (119), Multiservice edge equipment (119), Multiservice provisioning platforms (607), Multiservice switches (379), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (186), Point-to-point (124), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (121)

IP & Convergence
B-RASs (222), Cell/WLAN (76), Compression equipment (9), Core routers (1169), DNS (50), Edge routers (1481), ENUM (50), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (472), GMPLS (75), IMS (965), IMS Control Layer (28), IMS Service Layer (27), IP equipment (1009), IP software (333), IP technologies (1347), IPv6 (65), Layer 3 VPNs (137), MPLS (677), MPLS (1660), Multicast (29), P2P (224), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (121), QOS (332), SIP (357), Traffic managers (745), Wireline/Wireless (54)

Mobile/Wireless
3G Evolution (134), Carrier WiFi (176), CDMA (3G) (239), Core Network (136), EV-DO (99), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (70), GSM/EDGE (334), HSDPA/HSUPA (269), IMS Core (39), Mobile/Wireless (4822), Packet Core (42), Radio Access Network (180), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (34), Transmission (33), UMTS(3G) (264), Voice Core (18), WiMax (761), Wireless Backhaul (158), Wireless Chips (156), Wireless LAN (337)

Optical Networking
40-Gbit/s transmission (364), Core optical switches (747), CWDM (277), DWDM (1719), Long-haul WDM equipment (543), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1100), Metro WDM equipment (687), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (361), Optical equipment (1615), Optical switches & crossconnects (390), Optical technologies (338), Sonet/SDH (975), Sonet/SDH chips (315), Wavelength services (243)

Security
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Test & Measurement
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Video (Sponsored by Ericsson AB)
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VOIP
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