Our WAN and service provider e-mail news alert.
Sprint Nextel ripe for a takeover?, 04/18/07
It’s no secret that Sprint Nextel has been struggling since its $36 billion merger well over a year ago. One analyst firm speculates that the carrier’s floundering might even make it a takeover target.
Nacchio found guilty of insider trading, 04/19/07
Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest, was found guilty of 19 counts of insider trading Thursday, covering $52 million in stock sales.
Internet2, NLR update their merger soap opera, 04/18/07
Can two research networks find true love and happiness as one?
AT&T is making the most of its newly acquired wireless asset, 04/18/07
AT&T announced on Wednesday that it has launched a handful of new services and capabilities that marry its wireless and wireline assets.
Hatteras lands XO Ethernet contract, 04/18/07
Hatteras Networks, a maker of carrier Ethernet service provisioning equipment, has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract by XO Communications to be the exclusive supplier of “mid-band” Ethernet gear to the competitive local exchange carrier.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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