America's Network articles from July 1 2001

America's Network archives from July 1 2001

Global garage sale?(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... The ideal of the global network is more appealing today than ever. Growth rates in many foreign countries outpace those of the US. Immigration patterns have created a ready market for international calling and data connectivity. And...

AT&T by any other name : A rose is a rose. If only telecom carriers smelled so sweet.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Few carriers seem to grasp one of marketing's most basic concepts these days. That is, your company lives or dies based on your brand name and reputation. Huge corporations seem more interested in earning a short-term buck these days...

Satellites stick it out.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Despite industry concerns about overspending on fiber, a lot of undersea construction is still going on. All this has satellite operators a little nervous, now that the capacity of a single undersea cable system (640 Gbps) has clobbered the...

Qwest will do LD alone.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio is no Rocky Mountain native. In fact, with his New York-ish inflections, he could easily do voice-overs for any of the male leads on "The Sopranos." There is no mistaking, however, his firebrand approach to getting...

How quickly they forget!(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... And you thought professional wrestlers were bad. Several telecom companies have gone by no less than three different names in the last five years. Others have changed their name at least once in that time. Can you match the current...

International traffickers meet deadly gridlock.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Primus Telecommunications figures the only way to puncture the gloom pervading the emerging international carrier market is to stick with a simple script -- exploit growth among small-and medium-sized businesses, maintain prudent global...

Linux lives! The underground favorite may be the mainstream blockbuster of the wireless Internet.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... This time last year, America's Network explored the nascent field of wireless information appliances, examining a number of companies sidestepping the patent game by developing strains of the controversial Linux OS. Heavyhitters like...

Jeffords switch may be a bonanza for CLECs.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Sen. Jim Jeffords' decision to leave the Republican Party and become an independent -- and thus shift control of the Senate to the Democrats -- may be good news for CLECs. Until Jeffords made his landmark announcement on May 25,...

Across america's network.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... ENGLEWOOD, COLO. ASP, Agilera is selected by the State of South Dakota to integrate and host its Lawson software human resources applications. Agilera will host the State's Lawson applications, including human resources, payroll and Web...

The battle of the ads : Legislators making morning news rounds.(Government Activity)
July 1, 2001... Many things have taken some getting used to since I relocated to Washington, D.C. from Chicago -- the horrendous traffic, the sticky heat from June until September, and shutdown of the entire region after just a few flakes of snow. And then...

VOIP in CRISIS : If IP telephony is the way of the future, why are VoIP providers performing so poorly?(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... While telecom stocks overall have suffered over the last 12 months, one of the hardest hit areas is VoIP service providers, some of whom have seen their values drop by over 90%. Yet many continue to believe that IP telephony is the way of the...

The Cuban connection : Even foreign companies are coy about their investment in the US foe -- especially when it comes to profit figures.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... The Cuban government announced in 1997 that it would invest US$900 million in its telecommunications infrastructure by 2004 -- a spur to its effort, begun in 1993, to bring telecom capital and expertise into the country. Capital and expertise...

Unassigned territory -- L-band, S-band and S-plus : Opening new frequency bands.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... Every year, it seems, a new technique emerges for further leveraging the capacity of the existing fiber plant. First, there was wave division multiplexing with Pirelli and Lucent leading the charge in the mid- 1990s with four- and three-wave...

Retiring into the broadband fray : Maybe it's time to turn a deaf ear to AOL Time Warner.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Dirty tricks are not totally the realm of regional Bell operating companies. Although, some might say they are the most accomplished tricksters since the Nixon White House. But over on the Internet side of the telecommunications market,...

PacketVideo: STREAMING IN PRIVATE -- Don't mention "IPO" unless you really mean it.(Company Financial Information)
July 1, 2001... PacketVideo, a San Diego-based wireless streaming media company, may well be the envy of every communications start-up that went public and discovered the menacing scrutiny that accompanies "shareholder interest." CEOs at such firms...

The life and death of a merger.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Whoever said that only the entertainment industry has its scrumptious scandals was wrong. The telecom industry also has lived its moment of flair. In this story, two telecom players had the entire world glued to their computer monitors,...

AT&T completes $135M acquisition.(of Northpoint Communications)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... AT&T has completed its $135 million acquisition of Northpoint Communications. The acquisition includes Northpoint's colocation facilities, certain network equipment, system and support software-related assets and two leased buildings in...

Chordiant acquires assets of ASP Outfitter.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... CRM applications provider Chordiant Software has acquired ASP Outfitter. While terms of the deal were not revealed, Chordiant receives intellectual property assets and server technology. The remaining assets of ASP Outfitter are merged with a...

Citrix acquires Sequoia.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Application server software and services provider Citrix Systems Inc. has acquired Sequoia Software Corp. for about $184.6 million in an all-cash transaction. Mark Wesker, Sequoia's founder and president, joins Citrix as vice president of...

DT pays $318M to Sonera.(Deutsche Telekom)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Finnish mobile operator Sonera has sold 17.4% of its shares in VoiceStream to Deutsche Telekom for $318 million. Sonera will gain $62 million from the sale and says it will use the money to cut its $4.9 billion debt load.

Ignition closes acquisition of TeraSpan.(Ignition Point Technologies, TeleLink Communications)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Ignition Point Technologies Corp., formerly TeleLink Communications Corp., has completed its acquisition of 60% of the outstanding shares of TeraSpan Networks Inc., a provider of final-mile fiber-optic networks. The shares-and-cash deal...

Redback acquires Merlin for $57M.(Redback Networks, Merlin Systems)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Redback Networks, a developer of subscriber management systems for broadband and optical networks, has acquired Fremont, Calif.-based Merlin Systems in a deal worth $57 million.

WorldGate acquires GigaRed.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... WorldGate, an interactive TV solutions provider for the cable television industry, has signed an agreement with GigaRed S.A., to deploy interactive television (ITV) services throughout Argentina.

BT splits itself up.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... British Telecom has announced plans to break itself up with a full spinoff of its wireless business and additional breakups are a possibility in the future. BT will spin off BT Wireless to shareholders as a separate, publicly traded...

Cadant receives new funding, welcomes new CEO and lays off 15% of its workforce.(Company Operations)
July 1, 2001... Things were shaky for high-speed cable networking products provider Cadant in this round of financing. The company closed a new round of funding from World Associates and existing investors. The company also welcomed Charlie Walker, founder...

Core receives $10M.(Core Networks)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Core Networks, a developer of network management and activation solutions, has received follow-on financing to its Series B round, in which it raised $10.5 million in March. The amount of this additional investment was not disclosed. Return...

HyWire gets $5M in first round.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The venture capital unit of Infineon Technologies, formerly Siemens Semiconductor Group, is participating in a $5 million first round for HyWire, an Israeli startup that develops chips and subsystems for Internet and communication...

InfoMove closes a $6.2M round.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... InfoMove, a developer of personalized, location-based applications and wireless services, has raised $6.2 million. The round was led by previous investor ComROAD, and a number of undisclosed individual investors participated. The funds will...

Info Talk nabs $12M.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Speech recognition technology developer InfoTalk Conversational has closed a $12 million round of financing. New investor imGO led the round, with participation from other new investors Accenture Technology Ventures and HSBC Private Equity...

KAL raises $3.5M.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... KAL, a software company developing asynchronous transfer mode applications, has closed its $3.5 million first round of financing. The round was co-led by Royal Bank Ventures and Scottish Equity Partners, with additional participation from CA...

Pegasus invest $3M in Core SDI.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Pegasus Venture Capital, a Latin American investment fund, has led a $3 million round of financing for Core SDI, a provider of security products and services for information systems. Pegasus contributed $2.5 million, while individuals...

Spotwave raises $1.9M in series A.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Voice and wireless data service provider Spotwave Wireless has completed a $1.9 million first financing round, co-led by Venture Coaches and Primaxis Technology Ventures of Toronto. The company plans to use the funding for product...

Trendium closes $25M round.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Operations support system developer Trendium has closed a $25 million round of funding, led by Mellon Ventures. Mellon was joined by other new investors Vertex Management, Crossbow Ventures, GKM Venture Partners, as well as individuals from...

WorldCom begins bond offering.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... US long-distance phone company WorldCom has begun the sale of its $11.8 billion bond offering. WorldCom launched $1.5 billion of 3-year notes, to be priced at 215 basis points over US Treasuries; $4.0 billion of 10-year notes to be priced at...

Phil Koen steps up at Equinix.(Company Operations)
July 1, 2001... Phil Koen joins Equinix Inc. as its new president and COO. In this capacity, Koen oversees the company's IBX operations, IBX development, information technology and engineering. He maintains his CFO duties on an interim basis. "Phil has...

Synchronizing with TrueTime.(NTS-150 network time server)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... TrueTime Inc.'s NTS-150 network time server is a Stratum 1 network time server that lets users synchronize enterprise servers, workstations, routers and other networked devices to within one to 10 milliseconds. The device secures time...

AC DATA SYSTEMS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... The SPECTX MTS-ATS is a surge protected energy center/transfer switch with a field upgradeable transfer switch. The UL 1008 listed integrated load center features switching technology from Electric Equipment & Engineering Co., that lets an...

ADVANTECH CT.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... The MIC-3377/M is an all-in-one computer pack that features a 6U high, one-slot wide package. The device is used for today's flexible, scalable computer telephony integration. It supports applications such as VoIP servers, ACDs, UnPBS,...

Crescent Networks.(VRX-1000 Service Edge Router and the C-View Services Manager)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... The VRX-1000 Service Edge Router and the C-View Services Manager deliver carrier-provided routed network services to medium and large enterprise customers, and service partners, including application service providers, Web hosting providers...

Mockingbird Network.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... The Impresaria multiprotocol server (MPS) provides a gateway interface between Mockingbird's Nuvo and NuvoStream media services gateways and any H.323 or SIP-based (Session Initiation Protocol) VoIP network, letting carriers originate or...

Travelogue : Around the world with the Beehive Phone Co.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
July 1, 2001... On reading my reflection of a Utah PSC guy talking about flying with Art Brothers in that little plane with pliers holding the dash board, Dallas-based Conley Cathy took exception to Ingo Henningsen's remark. Con said they were vise grips!...