ADC, Andrew to merge
By: By Dan O'Shea
Vendors ADC and Andrew Corp. are planning to merge in a stock-for-stock deal, the companies said today...
Sycamore out of places to cut
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks has cut about as much of its operating costs as it can, the company said today during its April quarter earnings call...
A look inside Nortel's locker room
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks CEO Mike Zafirovski last week offered what he called some discussion of his progress in overhauling the equipment vendor...
IP, carrier Ethernet gear defies seasonality
By: By Ed Gubbins
The only switches and routers to see increased spending in the first quarter were those based on carrier Ethernet and Internet protocol technology, according to Infonetics Research...
Embarq born tonight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
At the stroke of midnight, Sprint will once again be two separate companies. Unlike the release of its PCS tracking stock last decade, though, Sprint is keeping its long-distance and wireless assets together and spinning off its local business instead...
Nortel talks R&D, margin strategy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks and its CEO Mike Zafirovski (above) gave an update on its plans to overhaul its business today, including how it will distribute research and development spending and how it will raise operating margins...
Alcatel, Redback put Cisco, Juniper on edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel and Redback Networks made significant gains in the multiservice edge router market in the first quarter, threatening the long-held leadership of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, according to Dittberner Associates...
Extreme CEO to step down this year
By: By Ed Gubbins
After 10 years as CEO of Extreme Networks, Gordon Stitt will retire within in the next few months, the Ethernet equipment vendor announced today....
Adva’s U.S. push cools in Q1
By: By Ed Gubbins
About six months after promising “dramatic” investment in the United States to expand its presence here, German equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking reported tepid momentum here in its first-quarter earnings...
Wireline spending up in broadband ‘land grab’
By: By Ed Gubbins
North American spending on wireline equipment surged in the first quarter, even as wireline service revenue declined, according to Ovum-RHK....
Generation gap hits equipment side
By: By Ed Gubbins
vendor success depends on ramping up next-gen sales legacy declines...
Broadwing goes adjusted EBITDA positive
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadwing declared positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) on an adjusted basis for the first time today...
BellSouth up, industry down in J.D. Power study
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth reclaimed its position atop the J.D. Power and Associates rankings of business voice service providers in both local and long-distance, a year after finishing third in both categories...
Tellabs cashes in on wireless transport
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs reported strong top-line growth for the first quarter, defying predictions that its traditional crossconnect business has peaked. "There's still a lot of life in this business," said CEO Krish Prabhu (above)...
Extreme sales force under pressure
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ethernet equipment vendor Extreme Networks reported what it called a disappointing fiscal third quarter (ended March 31), blaming its problems partly on a shortage of sales staff and vowing to fill that vacuum as soon as possible....
Lucent expects 2006 revenue decline
By: By Ed Gubbins
After having previously anticipated no revenue growth this year, Lucent Technologies now expects its fiscal 2006 revenue to be down from the $9.4 billion it reported last year...
Low legacy sales drag Zhone’s revenue
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies missed its revenue and earnings expectations for the first quarter following a drop-off in sales of its legacy equipment that the company attributed to a combination of seasonality and a customer migrating from Zhone’s legacy to next-generation gear....
Nortel’s new management infusion continues
By: By Ed Gubbins
Upper management changes at Nortel Networks keep coming under Mike Zafirovski, who became chief executive of the equipment vendor last November with plans to turn it around...
Adtran lowers full-year guidance
By: By Ed Gubbins
A month after lowering its revenue expectations for the first quarter of 2006, Adtran lowered its expectations for the year by the same amount: $20 million....
Sycamore acquires its way to the edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Optical equipment vendor Sycamore Networks has agreed to acquire Eastern Research, a New Jersey-based vendor of edge networking equipment. The move gives the optical core vendor a portfolio of products at the network’s edge...
Extreme lowers revenue guidance
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ethernet equipment vendor Extreme Networks this week lowered expectations for its fiscal third-quarter earnings, citing revenue shortfalls in the United States and Japan....
Megamerger could open doors for rival vendors
By: By Ed Gubbins
The merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies will dwarf competing vendors, likely pressuring them to form their own corporate combinations soon. But it may also create some opportunities for rival equipment vendors that play their cards right, analysts say...
Competitive operators look on the bright side
By: By Carol Wilson
A burst of activity among competitive service providers is primarily a good sign, according to both the competitors themselves and to some industry analysts...
Vendors prepare for M&A
By: By Ed Gubbins
The proposed merger of Lucent and Alcatel is sure to kick off a massive wave of consolidation among equipment vendors of all sizes...
Adtran gets Luminous RPR for ‘next to nothing’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran has acquired the intellectual property and product rights of Luminous Networks, a defunct vendor of resilient packet ring (RPR) equipment...
