* Cisco buys Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion * FCC commissioner Abernathy resigns * Cogent network seized by fiber cuts * Video: Cool Tools vs. the Logitech wireless headphone * Today on Layer 8
Cisco Friday said it has agreed to acquire Scientific-Atlanta in a deal valued at $6.9 billion. The combination offers Cisco the fourth component of what the company is calling a quad play – data, video, mobility and voice convergence. Cisco buys Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/111805-cisco-scientific-atlanta.html?net&story=111805-cisco-scientific-atlanta
Cisco Friday said it has agreed to acquire Scientific-Atlanta in a deal valued at $6.9 billion. The combination offers Cisco the fourth component of what the company is calling a quad play – data, video, mobility and voice convergence.
Cisco buys Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/111805-cisco-scientific-atlanta.html?net&story=111805-cisco-scientific-atlanta
FCC commissioner Abernathy resigns
Kathleen Abernathy will resign from the FCC effective Dec. 9, leaving the telecommunications regulatory body with two openings to fill and missing one of its consistent champions of deregulation.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/111805-fcc-abernathy.html?net&story=111805-fcc-abernathy
Cogent network seized by fiber cuts
ISP Cogent Thursday had two fiber cuts in its network from construction mishaps, disrupting service in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the country.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/111705-cogent-fiber.html?net&story=111705-cogent-fiber
Video: Cool Tools vs. the Logitech wireless headphone
Keith Shaw wanders the Network World parking lot to see how far the Logitech wireless headphone’s Bluetooth signal will really reach.
http://www.networkworld.com/video/112105ct-headphone.html?net&story=112105ct-headphone
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