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Nokia Siemens Networks Bids on Nortel’s MEN

As expected, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) officially stepped into the auction ring today to challenge Ciena for the privilege of owning insolvent Nortel Networks’ Metropolitan Ethernet Networks (MEN)...

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Ciena Gets Nortel’s MEN; NSN Faces Uncertainty

Now that Ciena has claimed Nortel’s Metropolitan Ethernet Networks (MEN) business assets, which include optical- and Ethernet-networking products and technologies, questions linger about what exactly...

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Nokia Slashes Jobs Amid R&D Overhaul

On its own and as part of its joint venture with Siemens, Nokia is shedding staff in concerted efforts to reduce costs. Last week, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones cut 330 positions at...

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Nokia Siemens Networks to Focus on Market-Share Gains and Reduced Costs

Even though it struck out twice in auction-ring swings for pieces of insolvent Nortel Networks, joint-venture Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) apparently has devised another plan to improve its fortunes as...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Files Late After-Auction Bid for Nortel’s MEN Assets

When somebody in business tells you it’s not about the money, you’d be wise to take those words with a mound of salt as high as Mount Vesuvius. It’s nearly always about the money, my friends. That’s...

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NSN Applies Full Court(s) Press in Late Bid for Nortel MEN Assets

As bankruptcy courts ponder how best to respond to the curveball that Nokia Siemens Networks threw at them in the form of an $810-million all-cash offer for insolvent Nortel’s Metropolitan Ethernet...

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Ciena’s Tweaked Terms Deliver Victory Over Desperate NSN for Nortel’s MEN Assets

On the surface, it appears that the bankruptcy judge presiding over the kerfuffle between Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and Ciena for the privilege of owning Nortel’s Metropolitan Networks (MEN) assets...

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Dell’Oro Forecasts Growth in Chinese Wireless-Infrastructure Spending in 2010

Primarily as a result of a decrease in 3G deployments in China, the worldwide market for wireless-network infrastructure declined 10 percent in the third quarter on a year-over-year basis, according to...

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Components Shortages Affecting Vendors Worldwide

At the moment, components shortages seem to be pervasive in the technology industry. Vendors large and small, throughout most of the world, have been affected by them to greater or lesser degrees. The...

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Rumor Mongers of Summer

It’s like being in a hall of mirrors this evening. But instead of being filled with mirrors, this hall echoes with furtive whispers about potential acquisitions involving networking-industry notables....

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At NSN, Nokia and Siemens Still Grope for Exit

Let’s say two companies are involved in a joint venture that’s been an unhappy marriage. The relationship isn’t as toxic as the former partnership between Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva, but it...

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For Huawei, U.S. M&A Door Remains Closed

Huawei Technologies felt it would be different this time. Back in 2008, Huawei was thwarted in its ambition to become a minority owner of 3Com, tagging along on an $2.2-billion acquisition bid by Bain...

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Set-Top Box Logic Doesn’t Hold

I’m not that close to the cable market — though, once upon a DOCSIS moon, I worked for a company that sold transceivers to cable-device vendors — so perhaps I am missing a nuance or subtlety that might...

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ONF Board Members Call OpenFlow Tune

The concept of software-defined networking (SDN) has generated considerable interest during the last several months.  Although SDNs can be realized in more than one way, the OpenFlow protocol seems to...

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Tidbits: Cuts at Nokia, Rumored Cuts at Avaya

Nokia Nokia says it will shed about 10,000 employees globally by the end of 2013 in a bid to reduce costs and streamline operations. The company will close research-and-development centers, including...

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Components Shortages Affecting Vendors Worldwide

At the moment, components shortages seem to be pervasive in the technology industry. Vendors large and small, throughout most of the world, have been affected by them to greater or lesser degrees. The...

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Components Shortages Affecting Vendors Worldwide

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Components Shortages Affecting Vendors Worldwide

At the moment, components shortages seem to be pervasive in the technology industry. Vendors large and small, throughout most of the world, have been affected by them to greater or lesser degrees. The...

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