Our WAN and service provider e-mail news alert.
AT&T doubles profit in first quarter, 04/24/07
AT&T Tuesday pointed to high wireless revenue for driving the company to a $2.8 billion profit in the first quarter, twice what it earned for the same period last year.
Internet2 and NLR merger moves forward, 04/24/07
There could be some minor delays, but it looks like Internet2 and National Lambda Rail will really merge this time around.
Vonage wins permanent stay of patent ruling, 04/24/07
Vonage this week received a permanent stay of injunction from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. that would have barred it from signing up new customers.
Vodafone still holding on to Verizon Wireless, 04/20/07
According to a Reuters report, Vodafone says it’s “happy” with its investment in Verizon Wireless, in turn squelching an speculation that Verizon Communications might gain full control of the wireless unit in the near term.
Streamcore adds provisioning, reporting for large QoS deployments, 04/23/07
Streamcore is introducing new software to help guarantee QoS over WANs that have been pieced together using links of varying size and quality.
AT&T to target iPhone to enterprise, 04/23/07
AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers but analysts aren’t recommending that enterprises supply workers with the phones.
Juniper Q1 profit down, revenue up, 04/23/07
Juniper posted a slight drop in first quarter earnings on an 11% hike in revenue.
Alcatel-Lucent sales, operating profit dip in Q2, 04/24/07
First-quarter operating profit dipped at telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent on weak sales of the company’s products for wireless and core networks.
From Cisco Subnet: Cisco business slowdown spewing into its service provider unit?
Cisco has asked its global service provider sales force to pull some sales into its fiscal third quarter, according to Pacific Crest analyst Tim Daubenspeck, reports Barron’s Online. The news comes just a day after another financial analyst warned of a slowdown in Cisco’s enterprise business.
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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