Check Point continues to transition its enterprise security platforms to its newly forged NGX architecture. Check Point's acquisition of Sourcefire is a clear indicator that intrusion prevention will be ...

Lucent, with two consecutive fiscal years of profitability, an increased presence in the global DSL access market and a new flagship broadband access platform, the MMAP, is well poised for ...

Already a powerful GSM/WCDMA vendor, Siemens has overtly stated that it plans to become the number two supplier in the market. Add in early momentum in WiMAX and IMS, ...

Alcatel's three-piece softswitch strategy for next-generation networks appears to be catching on. In Q3 2005, Alcatel moved up to seventh in the worldwide softswitch market and all the way to ...

PacWest has gone through many changes in the past year, selling off its retail business customer base to TelePacific and embarking on a national network expansion in 36 markets. Now ...

Banverket Telen??t is the national railway line alternative in the Swedish wholesale market. While it is profitable, Banverket still needs to increase marketing efforts for more visibility and expand ...

Just when it looked as if Critical Path would exit the identity management market, the company seems to have realized it has some assets to leverage. This report contains ...

Affiniti is a communications integrator made up of Kingston business services and Omnetica. Its portfolio and messaging are spot-on but despite a list of impressive blue chip customers, Affiniti is ...

IBM continues to market a transactional integration product, dubbed DataStage TX, as part of its Information Integration package, but also separately. The products overlap with WebSphere Integration, but have a ...

Granite Telecommunications claims a steady keel in its closely held performance details. The carrier continues to defy gravity by claiming profitability in the dialtone resale business, where UNE-P regulated rates ...

Sprint is a $27 billion giant in wireless services, and the company is working on separating its local wireline division by Q2 2006. When that happens, landline services will ...

KPN Mobile's challenge is to sew together its regional entities into a single, consistent enterprise portfolio with a strong cost-saving proposition. Fixed-to-mobile convergence may be the answer. This report ...

VSNL is a strong contender in the wholesale telecom business with vast network infrastructure, bandwidth capacity, and financial support; however, the carrier is in a nascent stage in terms of ...

ISS takes steps to enhance its security offering, including a new FISMA compliance offering, an enhanced managed vulnerability service, new IDS / IPS features, and a new retail-focused offering as ...

Ericsson is delivering on promised system and application components of the new IP-based MX-ONE platform, injecting new life into the company's portfolio; however, differentiating itself versus competitors remains a challenge. ...

Telewest Business has a strong Ethernet and IP portfolio, its own national network and a core customer base in the public sector. Telewest's merger with ntl should give the ...

Orange NL is working hard to combat falling ARPUs and price pressure in an over-competitive consumer market. Recent efforts to spin the marketing focus towards businesses may be too ...

SFR is the number two mobile operator in France, with a highly aggressive consumer strategy. SFR is expected to outperform the market in 2005, despite new MVNO competition. ...

Terawave goes after the MDU with its TW-300 MDU-T, adding Ethernet switching to BPON for multi-dwelling residential applications while it works on GPON for the coming year. This report ...

Turin wins at Tricom, adds next-gen Ethernet modules for facility and equipment protection, pursues IP-video hungry service operators by positioning differentiation in terms of resiliency, and has a slow-down in ...