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Atheros completes Opulan acquisition

SEPTMEMBER 2, 2010 -- Atheros Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR) has completed the acquisition of Opulan Technologies Corp., a privately held fabless semiconductor company specializing in silicon...

Vertical Systems Group names six as tops in business Ethernet

AUGUST 31, 2010 -- Vertical Systems Group placed six service providers on its recently released Mid-2010 Global Provider Leaderboard for Business Ethernet, based on results of the firm's latest...

Nortel receives stalking horse bid for multi-service switch business

AUGUST 27, 2010 -- Nortel Networks Corp. (OTCBB:NRTLQ) says it has entered a "stalking horse" asset sale agreement with PSP Holding LLC, a special purpose entity to be fully funded at...

Court Square Capital Partners to acquire Fibertech Networks

AUGUST 26, 2010 -- Private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners has reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Fibertech Networks, an Eastern and Central U.S. regional provider...

FOSS acquires Ibsen Photonics

AUGUST 23, 2010 -- FOSS A/S has become main shareholder in Ibsen Photonics A/S through a purchase of an additional 73% of Ibsen Photonics shares from existing shareholders. FOSS now owns...

Infonetics Research: Operators look to next-generation FTTH technologies to solve bandwidth crunch

AUGUST 19, 2010 -- Operators are interested in employing next-generation FTTH (fiber to the home) technologies to provide premium fixed broadband services to subscribers. In fact, service...

AppliedMicro to acquire FPGA IP company TPACK to pursue OTN biz

AUGUST 18, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (Nasdaq:AMCC) says it has entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement to acquire TPACK A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark. TPACK...

Pyramid Research: UAE to go all fiber by 2011

AUGUST 18, 2010 -- Pyramid Research says that increasing broadband penetration and to the switch to a nationwide all-fiber network by 2011 will make fixed broadband services a significant source of...

Windstream to acquire Kentucky Data Link, Norlight

AUGUST 18, 2010 -- Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Q-Comm Corp., a privately held regional fiber transport and competitive local exchange carrier...

Infonetics: Region-specific optical market recovery continues in 2Q10

AUGUST 16, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- Coming off a 14% quarter-on-quarter decline in Q1, global optical communications hardware spending rebounded in 2Q 2010, say new figures from market research...