Stories by Stephen Lawson

Motorola to keep focus on cost-cutting

Motorola will continue with its aggressive efforts to cut costs this year, focusing its strategy on five key markets and jettisoning more of its semiconductor fabrication plants, President and Chief Operating Officer Ed Breen told financial analysts Thursday.

Nortel boosts multiservice power with new switch

Service providers that want to offer multiple services over a single infrastructure instead of maintaining parallel networks will get more horsepower for the job from Nortel Networks in the second quarter when it rolls out its largest multiservice switch yet.

Joint venture unveils 2.5G, 3G gateway router

L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. and router vendor Juniper Networks Inc. have teamed up to create a router designed to help mobile operators migrate from traditional cellular voice and dial-up data services to emerging higher speed data offerings.

MS/DOJ - Judge will tell Microsoft to give code to states

The worldwide market for enterprise and carrier Ethernet switches grew 16 percent sequentially in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2001, but that rosy news isn't likely to repeat itself in the current quarter, according to market research company Dell'Oro Group Inc.

Dell'Oro: Q4 Ethernet switch sales rose 16 percent

The worldwide market for enterprise and carrier Ethernet switches grew 16 percent sequentially in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2001, but that rosy news isn't likely to repeat itself in the current quarter, according to market research company Dell'Oro Group Inc.

Dell'Oro: Wireless 802.11 LAN demand soars

Wireless LANs that use the IEEE 802.11b and 802.11a standards stormed the market in the fourth quarter of last year, with revenue worldwide growing 21 per cent sequentially from the third quarter, market research company Dell'Oro Group reported Thursday.

Cisco boosts its security offerings

Moving to help its customers manage their security architectures and help those systems keep up with traffic, Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced new software for its Pix Firewall platform and the availability of new hardware models to join that line.

Next-generation IP pioneers learn by doing

The next version of Internet Protocol (IP), years in development and touted at various times as the solution to seemingly every technical problem on the Internet, finally is seeing its first live implementations.

Cisco Q2 earnings beat estimates

Cisco Systems had net income of US$660 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2002, on revenue of $4.8 billion, the company said in a statement Wednesday.

Unisphere unites ATM, IP in one box

Looking to smooth service providers' paths toward offering advanced services based on IP (Internet Protocol), Unisphere Networks on Monday announced a new series of routing switches for the edge of service-provider networks.

SUPERNET - WorldCom's Sidgmore sees hope amid the gloom

John Sidgmore, vice chairman of WorldCom Inc. and chairman and chief executive of its E-Commerce Industries Inc. (ECI2) unit, tried to sound a note of optimism Tuesday at the start of the SuperNet telecommunications conference here.

Sycamore rolls out new switches

Sycamore Networks Inc. on Tuesday expanded its line of service-provider switches with a device that can serve at the core of small and medium-sized metropolitan-area networks.

Nortel losses continued in 4th quarter

Telecommunication equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp. on Thursday reported a pro forma net loss from continuing operations of US$506 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2001, meeting the expectations it had created for the period but continuing a long string of quarterly losses.

Apple revenue up 37 percent in Q1

Compaq Computer Corp. Wednesday posted financial results for the fourth quarter of 2001 that beat analysts' expectations and its own earlier revenue estimates, though revenue still lagged behind its performance of a year earlier.

Compaq turned to profit in 4th quarter

Compaq Computer Corp. Wednesday posted financial results for the fourth quarter of 2001 that beat analysts' expectations and its own earlier revenue estimates, though revenue still lagged behind its performance of a year earlier.