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Q&A: What Redback acquisition means to Ericsson, 12/20/06
With its $2 billion acquisition of Redback Networks this week, Ericsson is now in direct competition with some of its biggest partners — Cisco and Juniper — in the red-hot carrier edge routing market. However, the company says the move is more of an effort to obtain IP and Ethernet technology it can use to pull its telecom and mobile infrastructure products forward into the IP-based future of telecom, says Karl Thedeen, vice president of wireline products for the Swedish vendor. But that’s not to say Ericsson isn’t looking to grow Redback’s market share and technology itself.
Carriers submit bids – and thousands of pages – for record $20B federal pact, 12/20/06
The nation’s largest carriers – AT&T, Verizon Business, Sprint Nextel and Qwest – plan to submit today final bids on the main contract under the 10-year, $20 billion federal Networx program.
Wireless service providers assess the year and look to the future, 12/20/06
As the year draws to a close some of the country’s largest wireless service providers spoke of their accomplishments in 2006 and are looking ahead to their goals for the New Year.
Hitting a golf ball with a laser at 33,000 feet, 12/20/06
The European Space Agency announced this week it had relayed optical laser links from an aircraft.
