equipment vendors

Position yourself with the top 5 telecom trends for 2010

It's a new year, and in my effort to start it off right, I need to speak some truths:

1. I don't make New Year's resolutions, so I don't have to feel bad about myself when I break them. I consider this a very evolved, non-superstitious position (or else I just have no willpower).

Alcatel-Lucent ranks high in optical survey; Huawei and Nortel make surprising showings

Alcatel-Lucent may be the leader in the optical equipment market, according to a new Infonetics Research optical equipment survey, but its pricing is a bit much for the service provider purchasing decision-makers asked for their opinions. Representing major market change, Huawei stood out in...

New AT&T vendor strategy launches massive procurement process change

AT&T is changing the traditional procurement process for network equipment and software solutions with its new Domain Supplier program, and as a result, some chosen vendors will be...

Alcatel-Lucent’s earnings: Moving to half-full

It’s much harder to see the glass as half-full when you’re used to half-empty -- or completely empty. Enter Alcatel-Lucent’s 2008 year-end financial results and its $6.2 billion loss. So it may not sound like it at first, but there’s something in that glass, and CEO Ben Verwaayen, who took...