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Articles tagged with: Cisco and Bt
BT to Integrate BlackBerry's Within its Office Service Platform
British Blackberry users will soon be able to roam on to office-based Wi-Fi networks for making voice calls - after the UK landline operator, BT inked a deal to integrate the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS) with its cisco supplied BT Communications Complete platform. more
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Ericsson To Buy Redback Networks For $2.1 Billion
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Ericsson has agreed to buy Redback Networks for US$2.1 billion in cash to gain expertise in IP-routing technology and more directly challenge cisco Systems. more
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Alcatel, Ericsson Share Spoils In Telstra Upgrade"
PARIS -(Dow Jones)- Alcatel Tuesday said it has won a EUR2.2 billion order from Australia's Telstra Corp., the latest in a spate of major network upgrades that are fueling fierce competition among telecommunications equipment makers. more
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Marconi Plays Straight Bat On Takeover Talks
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Marconi Corp. PLC (MRCIY), the U.K. telecommunications equipment company, Monday confirmed its is in takeover talks with third parties but didn't comment on press speculation that it has entered talks with China's Huawei Technology (HWI.YY). more
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Communications Firms Organize To Confront Hacker Attacks
NEW YORK -- A group of 18 global communications services providers and network operators have banded together to confront large-scale hacker attacks. more
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UK to get nationwide WLAN network
BT has unveiled a new mobility strategy to re-enter the wireless market less than a year after it exited the field by demerging its wireless division. The company is planning, as has been widely expected, to become an MVNO, using capacity on the mm02 GSM network. BT made a commitment when demerging its wireless division, not to use any other network for MNVO services for the next couple of years, so that decision was not a major surprise. However, the company has also announced plans for a nationwide WLAN network, offering 3G comparable data speeds in up to 4,000 hot spots. It is not immediately clear if that will include a roaming facility for 3G users of the other networks, although the MVNO contract does provide BT with access to mmO2's 3G network when it goes live. more
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