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Turnstone Systems last week announced the availability of programming interfaces that facilitate the integration of Turnstone's ONYX Automation Software with carrier operations support systems.

The company also announced an application module designed to assist network operations center personnel in the testing of telecommunications services. Turnstone's products are targeted at the provisioning and maintenance of unbundled network elements. About 10 million phone lines in the U.S. today are delivered through UNE circuits, Turnstile says.The Turnstone UNE management system is designed to reduce or eliminate the labor-intensive steps associated with the delivery and troubleshooting of wholesale services, the company says.

Turnstone's software will be available in the first quarter of next year.

Ciena last week said Brocade Communications had verified its online transport platform as interoperable with Brocade's storage-area network switches.

Testing was conducted at the Brocade interoperability labs, which support end-to-end interoperability and performance testing of SAN products in large, multivendor SAN environments. Since 2000, 40 companies have certified interoperability with Brocade's SAN gear.

Cisco last week posted first-quarter 2003 earnings one cent per share better than expectations, although flat compared with fourth-quarter fiscal 2002. For the period ended Oct. 26, earnings were $1 billion, or 14 cents per share, on revenue of $4.8 billion. Earnings have more than tripled and revenue is up 9%, from the same period a year ago, but flat compared with fourth-quarter 2002. Analysts expected the earnings to be 13 cents per share on revenue of $4.8 billion. Cisco says sales in the service provider market continue to be challenging because of capital expenditure reductions.