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	Agilent electronic test unit assumes Keysight Technologies name 08/01/2014 While the spin out of Agilent Technologies’ electronic measurement business isn’t expected to be ...
Inphi to acquire Cortina Systems' optical transport semiconductor business 07/31/2014
Ethernet switch market worth $25 billion in 2018 says Dell'Oro 07/31/2014 According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the Layer 2-3 Ethernet switch market ...
Windstream plans REIT to own fiber and copper networks 07/31/2014 Communications services provider Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN) says it will create an independent, pub...
	Alcatel-Lucent targets submarine network unit IPO for 2015 07/31/2014 Alcatel-Lucent plans to spin out its submarine network equipment and services business into a sep...
Smart city communications node shipments to hit 55 million annually by 2020 says Navigant Research 07/29/2014 Worldwide shipments of communications nodes for smart city networks will grow from 16.3 million a...
North American businesses want SDN in the data center by 2016 07/29/2014 The majority of North American businesses (87%) intend to have software-defined networks (SDN) li...
FCC blesses Frontier buy of AT&T's Connecticut wireline business 07/28/2014 Frontier Communications’ (NASDAQ:FTR) planned acquisition of AT&T's local wireline, broadband...
	Verizon wireline revenues show rare year-on-year growth 07/22/2014 Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) reported that operating income and earnings per sh...
Huawei's 1H14 revenues jump 19% year-on-year 07/22/2014 Chinese network equipment vendor Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. reports a jump in operating performa...
Telecom, datacom equipment spending will exceed $1 trillion over 5 years says Infonetics 07/21/2014 Worldwide, sales of telecom and datacom equipment and software came to $183 billion in 2013, an u...
Metro optical market worth $9 billion by 2018 says Dell'Oro 07/17/2014 Metro optical transport equipment revenues are forecast to reach $9 billion by 2018, according to...
	Funding innovation remains a challenge 07/17/2014 Delivering the necessary innovation for optical communications applications is one thing. Paying ...
	North American enterprise network spending focuses on the cloud says Infonetics survey 07/08/2014 Respondents to a recent survey of North American enterprise network operators indicate that suppo...
Telecom wholesale services revenue to hit $142 billion in 2019 says Ovum 07/07/2014 Despite price drops among commodity wholesale services, overall wholesale service revenues are ex...

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