Alcatel said last week that it plans to buy some of Nortel Networks' wireless access infrastructure equipment for US$320 million in an effort to beef up its 3G wireless business in Europe and Asia.
Alcatel and Lucent Technologies shareholders approved Alcatel's $11 billion acquisition of Lucent on Thursday, ticking off another hurdle in the companies' plans to consolidate their businesses.
Nortel is attempting to revamp its image with a move into software.
Enterprise-grade Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hardware vendor ShoreTel formally opened its doors in Australia today, with at least one significant local customer win already under its belt.
Nortel Networks was disappointed to miss out in Telstra's recent round of billion dollar networking hardware contracts, but last week warned the winners they had better shape up or face being shipped out.
There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.
A new set of standards announced by the International Telecommunications Union could make it easier for telephone and Internet service providers to offer Ethernet services over their existing networks.
Businesses were abuzz about voice over Internet Protocol technology in 2003, announcing new deployments almost daily, but the reality is that the actual work is only just beginning.
Voice over Internet Protocol, in some way, shape, or form, is a standard inclusion now with most business telephony systems. We review the latest offerings.
A high-speed voice/data network takes lots of planning and patience. Hear how one IT manager set about tackling this task.
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