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• Cienas 09 results reflect challenging telecom market

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  Service providers slow exit out of their current spending holding pattern is not helping telecom equipment vendor Ciena as its full year revenues declined 27.8 percent from $902.5 million to $652.6 million. During the fiscal fourth quarter of 2009, Ciena, which is in the process of integrating Nortels Metro Ethernet ...
  4 days ago

• NSN takes another pass at Nortels MEN

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  Ciena may have beat out Nokia Siemens Networks with a $769 million bid ($530 in cash and $239 million in convertible notes) for Nortels Metro Ethernet Networks and optical assets, but NSN isnt giving up that easily. And to prove its dedication, NSN says it will now offer $810 million in cash for the assets. It was ...
  1 week ago

• FastE and GigE WAN Connections

  
  T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer — Authority: 124
  The need for business bandwidth is growing, but corporate budgets are not. So, does that mean that businesses will be stifled for throughput and perhaps lose customers to slow performing ecommerce websites? No. There’s a telecom bandwidth solution available that can give you the extra network performance you need ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nokia Siemens realigns focus on marketshare

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  Following sweeping changes to the companys organizational structure, Nokia Siemens Networks new president Rajiv Suri believes the focus of the company should be on upping its marketshare. "In early 2008 we made a strategic decision to focus more on cash flow and profitability than on marketshare. Now its time to give ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ciena snaps up Nortel’s Metro Ethernet assets

  
  Comm. Decisive coverage of telecommunications strategy — Authority: 117
  Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, announced that it has been selected as the successful bidder in the auction of substantially all of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business. Ciena has agreed to pay US$530 million in cash and issue US$239 million ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ciena becomes victor in fight for Nortels MEN

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  After a three-day auction, a story in Reuters broke this morning that Ciena had beat out the Nokia Siemens Networks to acquire Nortels Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) and optical divisions. A source close to the deal said that Ciena will fund the acquisition with $530 million in cash and $239 million in convertible ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nokia to bid for Nortel assets

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Toronto, Nov 22 (IANS) Dying Canadian telecom giant Nortel has put up its optical networking and carrier ethernet business for auction.Toronto-based Nortel has been selling its businesses bit by bit to pay off its creditors after it sought and got bankruptcy protection in the US and Canada in January after last ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nortel unit auction Friday, NSN reportedly in

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  Nortel Networks announced it has re-scheduled the auction of its Metro Ethernet Networks unit for this Friday, Nov. 20, and it has a new bidder to consider. Nokia Siemens Networks, which had been rumored to be mulling participation in the auction, has joined with One Equity Partners to come up with a bid, according to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nortel stems the bleeding a bit in Q3

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  Its pretty hard to find anything positive to say about the state of Nortel, yet the company managed to narrow its ongoing losses from $3.41 billion in Q3 2008 to $508 million in Q3 2009. Still, the company reported that revenue declined from $1.6 billion in Q3 08 to $1.05 billion. Nortel also had to deal with $52 ...
  4 weeks ago

• A look at the advantages of Metro Ethernet over the T1 line

  
  Pro Press Release — Authority: 142
  If you are a business owner, you cannot help but think about the right type of wide area network technology that should suit your business. Before, you come up with your decision, you are faced with some challenges. Part of the challenge is to familiarize yourself more with the different solutions that carriers may ...
  4 weeks ago

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