Our WAN and service provider e-mail news alert.
The 10 largest U.S. telecom carrier mergers/acquisitions, 05/21/07: The $27.5 billion acquisition of Alltel by TPG and Goldman Sachs this week ranks among the 10 largest transactions among U.S. carriers over the past 10 years.
Google proposes ad-like auction for U.S. spectrum, 05/22/07: The FCC has tried and failed to develop spectrum auctions that allow startup companies to get into the mobile service provider industry but now Google thinks it has a better idea.
FAQ: What Alltel’s $27.5 billion buyout means to wireless carrier — and you, 05/21/07: It’s no surprise that Alltel was looking for a buyer to compete with bigger companies with broader coverage, but more people than not expected the purchaser to be another carrier.
Apposite, Shunra optimize testing tools for VoIP, Gigabit nets, 05/22/07: WAN-emulation vendors this week will unveil updates to their testing tools that promise to give network managers more insight into how applications will perform under real-world conditions across the wide area.
Supreme Court ends Baby Bell antitrust suit, 05/22/07: The U.S. Supreme Court Monday said that similar business practices by local telephone companies did not constitute monopolistic activity, ending an antitrust lawsuit.
Citrix extends WAN optimization to laptops, 05/21/07: Citrix is announcing software at Interop Las Vegas this week designed to speed up traffic between individual computers and corporate sites using its WAN acceleration appliances on only one end of the connection.
Nortel’s enterprise push brings branch-office WAN/VoIP and Web acceleration gear, 05/21/07: Nortel will make its expected entry into the markets for unified WAN/VoIP/security routers and application acceleration this week at Interop Las Vegas.
