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9 February 2012

Company Analysis in Comms & Networking

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Pachube opens the Internet of things to end users

09 December 2011

Sensor data integration platform's new service allows its customers' customers to access information collected about them

Mining dark fibre

07 October 2011

Discovering an unused fibre optic cable in Mongolia allowed BSO Network Solutions to shave milliseconds from the latency on its London to Hong Kong network

Santander to move call centres from India to UK

08 July 2011

Banking giant says complaints from customers prompted decision to cease call centre operations in Bangalore and Pune

How Cisco plans to spend $500m in East London

06 July 2011

The network equipment vendor hopes to fund entrepreneurs whose ideas can make the capital smarter and more connected. But on what condition?

O2 and 2e2 converge in joint venture

23 February 2011

Mobile telecommunications giant and IT services provide unite to provide 'communications integration' offerings

Government backing helps Russian start-up jump to 4G

15 November 2010

Having friends in high places has helped Moscow-based Yota deploy some of the world's first commercial 4G networks

Fragmented platforms

14 July 2010

As smartphones become more sophisticated, they become an increasingly pivotal pillar of business infrastructure. That makes the fragmentation of smartphone software a strategic concern for IT

ShoreTel runs among the UC giants

01 February 2010

The demise of Nortel has helped unified communications veteran grow marketshare, but there is still plenty of formidable competition in the space

Cisco’s expansion opens new battle fronts

10 December 2009

With recent additions to its portfolio including data centre solutions, office collaboration software and even consumer hadware, Cisco's partnership ecosystem is becoming rather complicated

International relations

10 December 2009

The IT industries of China and the US continued to merge in November 2009, and Gartner acquired AMR Research

Return to normality

19 November 2009

After a brace of mega-deals in September 2009, the following month saw a return to pre-credit crunch normality in the IT mergers market

Vodafone converges with business world

21 October 2009

The business unified communications market is opening up as a new battleground for mobile carriers

Cloud convergence

14 September 2009

Consolidation around cloud computing started to pick up in August 2009, while eBay finally admitted defeat over Skype

Three months ago, many IT companies reported their first financial quarters since the recession began in earnest. But any hope that the drubbing they received back then was a one-off was misplaced, it became clear in July

To the winner the spoils

23 July 2009

EMC and NetApp's battle for deduplication provider Data Domain finally reached a conclusion in July 2009, while Nortel’s dissolution continued apace

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Financial Results in Comms & Networking
Company	Period	Revenue ($m)	Rev Change (%)
Colt Telecom Group Ltd	4Q08	$572.9	1%
Juniper Networks Inc	4Q08	$923.5	14%
Nortel Networks Corp	4Q08	$2,722.0	-15%
Sycamore Networks Inc	1Q09	$15.4	-59%
Riverbed Technology Inc	3Q08	$86.5	37%
Riverbed Technology Inc	4Q08	$92.2	21%

* Figures converted to US dollars

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M&A in Comms & Networking
Acquirer	Target	Price ($m)
Ixia	Catapult Communications	$105m
Carphone Warehouse	Tiscali's UK ops	n/a
Cisco Systems	Tidal Software	$105m
Cisco Systems	Pure Digital	$ 590m
Radware	Nortel's Appln Delivery div	n/a
i3 Group	Fibre Associates	n/a

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