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Juniper to restate earnings due to options timing, 08/10/06
The shadow of the options-backdating scandal lengthened over Juniper with the company’s announcement Thursday that it will restate some past financial results.
Q&A: Masergy CEO discusses taking on telecom giants, 08/14/06
Six-year-old service provider Masergy Communications, which offers global IP VPN, VoIP and Virtual Private LAN Services, can no longer be called a start-up. But it’s still a baby in the telecom industry compared to its main competitors. Network World …
Networking’s zaniest stories: From Bill Gates impersonators to cell tower camouflage …, 08/10/06
Since we kicked off our A Wider Net series of offbeat and oddball stories two-and-a-half years ago, we’ve taken readers all the way from under the tiled floors of their data centers, where devastating but nearly invisible zinc whiskers lurk, all the …
Latest spectrum auction is underway, 08/09/06
Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. ET the FCC opened its first round of bidding for Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) licenses.
Verizon drafted for Army upgrade, 08/09/06
Verizon Business this week said it was awarded a contract to help upgrade the telecommunications infrastructure on U.S. Army posts, camps and stations worldwide.
DSL price drop steepest in 4 years, 08/09/06
The second quarter saw the average worldwide price for DSL entry-level services fall by 9.3%, the biggest price cut in DSL services in almost four years, according to Point Topic Research.
BellSouth unveils metropolitan Virtual Ethernet Service, 08/08/06
BellSouth this week officially introduced its Virtual Ethernet Service (VES), a metropolitan area offering that supports four classes of service for point-to-point and multipoint applications.
AOL search data reportedly released, 08/07/06
AOL has apparently released details of Internet searches performed over a period of three months by hundreds of thousands of its subscribers, raising privacy concerns.
Alcatel, Lucent choose new name, 08/07/06
The couple of the year in the network equipment industry, Alcatel and Lucent, will play it safe with their married name.
Opinion: How to Shrink A Wide Digital Divide?, 08/07/06
The core problem in the network-neutrality debate is an economic one. Once upon a time, ISPs thought they could make money by offering connections to the Internet.
CommScope submits rival bid for Andrew, 08/07/06
CommScope, a maker of cable and connectivity systems for service providers, cable operators and enterprises, this week launched a $1.7 billion rival cash bid for wireless equipment vendor Andrew Corp., which three months ago received a $2 billion …
Citrix buys into WAN optimization, 08/07/06
Citrix is expected to add WAN optimization to its products with the planned purchase of Orbital Data for $50 million.
FCC endorses power line communications, 08/04/06
The FCC has rejected requests by several groups, including amateur radio operators, TV broadcasters and aeronautical companies, to severely limit or completely ban broadband services over power lines because of radio interference issues.
