Good MEN are hard to find: Ciena to pay $769M for Nortel’s CE/optical biz

From stalking horse to ponying up more than three quarters of a million bucks, Ciena will be taking home most of
Huawei ascends to optical networking prominence in $3.6B market

<Did you see the blaze of light as Huawei’s streaked past Alcatel-Lucent on its way to becoming the top optical networking equipment vendor for the first time in Q3? Upsetting long-term record-holder Alcatel-Lucent, Ovum reported...
Want to get married in Vegas? There’s an app for that, says NSN

We're hearing a lot these days about how carriers are seeing their average revenue per user (ARPU) go down with the advent of unlimited voice and data plans, so they will have to...
Trouble in paradise: Amazon dumps Sprint for Kindle, falls into the arms of AT&T

Ah, young love. When Amazon launched the Kindle almost two years ago, the company proposed to Sprint Nextel Corporation: Support us! The wireless carrier accepted. They took the solemn vow to be partners in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad.
Although the
Video: Service providers don’t have to be swept away by IP tsunami

While tongues were wagging at Supercomm 2009 about and upcoming decision from the FCC on net...