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Charles Giancarlo spent more than a decade at Cisco Systems and was widely considered a likely heir to Chairman and CEO John Chambers before he left last year for investment company Silver Lake Partners. Then Silver Lake orchestrated a private-equity buyout of Cisco rival Avaya, and Giancarlo stepped in as interim president and CEO. In January, former JDS Uniphase chief Kevin Kennedy will take over day-to-day operations as president and CEO, and Giancarlo will become chairman. Stephen Lawson of the IDG News Service spoke with Giancarlo on Tuesday after he delivered the opening keynote at VoiceCon in San Francisco.

Avaya has named a new president and CEO: Kevin Kennedy, currently the CEO of JDS Uniphase, makers of optical communications hardware.

More than 6,500 CNET Networks employees and relatives are being notified of a possible data breach after burglars stole computer systems from the offices of the company that administers the Internet publisher's benefit plans.

Five former Cisco engineers have co-founded a start-up called Rohati Systems whose products take dead aim at traditional perimeter firewalls.

JDS Uniphase (JDSU) is buying optical transceiver maker Picolight to serve the growing market for high-speed data connections in data centers, enterprises and metropolitan-area networks.

No one believes Patrick Grady at first. Why should they? He comes out of nowhere, radiating confidence, claiming his company, Rearden Commerce, has pulled off the IT coup of the new century. His triumph: a working b-to-b marketplace, fronted by an ultracustomizable application and based on SOA (service-oriented architecture). Delivered through the browser, Rearden's EBS (Employee Business Services) is capable of automating the purchase of many everyday services, including shipping, conferencing, meals, entertainment, and even travel.

In its attempt to streamline for profitability, Nortel Networks Corp. has sold parts of its optical components business to a British firm for US$108 million. While the move could see some Canadian employees lose their jobs, it also might help the firm stay focused on its core competencies, according to one industry analyst.

After resetting expectations with an earnings warning that rocked Wall Street, IBM hit its revised numbers for a quarter it called disappointing, posting a 12 percent revenue drop and 32 percent net income decline over the year-ago period.

The list of companies either known or believed to be under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for accounting irregularities is still growing. Here are some examples.

Fibre optic components maker JDS Uniphase Corp. announced Thursday that it is purchasing a piece of IBM Corp. that specializes in optical transceiver technology.

Encouraging forecasts from some of the network equipment industry's biggest vendors are sparking optimism among some observers that the sector's long winter may soon be over.