Colin C. Haley

Verizon Wireless will pay $930 million for NextWave Telecom’s New York-area spectrum license, the second key industry development in as many days. The 10 megahertz license covers New York City, Westchester and Rockland counties and parts of northern and central New Jersey. It will be used to expand Verizon Wireless’ network capacity in the area […]

Dipping into its coffers again to bolster its technology, network equipment giant Cisco will pay $9 million for full control of Parc Technologies. Cisco already owned a 10 percent stake in the privately-held London company, having contributed to its $23 million second-round of financing along with NTT Corp. and Credit Suisse First Boston. Parc’s Route […]

UPDATED: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a controversial spectrum swap with Nextel to alleviate congestion of airwaves used by police and fire departments. Under the agreement, Nextel will license 10 megahertz of contiguous spectrum at 1.9 gigahertz that’s currently used by public safety agencies and private wireless licensees. Those users will be relocated […]

Cisco’s Linksys division has introduced a line of “high-gain” antennas to help extend the range of its home and small office wireless broadband network equipment. Some of the new antennas are for use on walls or ceilings, while others replace existing antennas on routers, access points, network adapters or bridges. They are designed for use […]

Unlike most executives, Abe Kleinfeld doesn’t cringe when reading morning headlines warning of the latest IT security threat — he smiles, knowing it’ll be a good day at work. Kleinfeld is president and CEO of nCircle, a maker of network security appliances for large corporations that’s been finding a following amid a plague of viruses, […]

PeopleSoft warned that it will miss second-quarter financial targets, citing the strain of fighting off Oracle’s hostile takeover bid. “Although we have been able to meet or exceed our financial projections since Oracle launched their hostile tender offer more than a year ago, the extensive publicity of the antitrust trial during the last month of […]

BellSouth has deployed Cisco’s 7600 router series to boost its Ethernet service offerings for its business customers, the companies announced today. Cisco regularly competes with vendors such as Juniper Networks and Nortel Networks for business from service providers. And while BellSouth considered other vendors, according to Todd Smith, the company’s spokesman, it settled on Cisco […]

Some versions of Juniper’s JUNOS router software, which helps direct network traffic using the next-generation IPv6 Internet standard, contain a flaw that can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service attack. The vulnerability results from a memory leak within the IPv6 Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) when processing certain IPv6 packets, according to the company, […]

Verizon Wireless will pay $418 million in cash for Qwest’s wireless assets, expanding its coverage in 14 states in the West and Midwest. Pending regulatory approval, the deal is expected to close in late 2004 or early 2005 and includes spectrum licenses in 62 markets, a network switching center, cell sites and related telecommunications equipment. […]

A federal magistrate is poised to issue a preliminary injunction blocking New York officials from regulating broadband telephony upstart Vonage. Magistrate Judge Douglas F. Eaton of the U.S. District Court announced late Wednesday his intent to rule against the New York Public Service Commission (PSC), and he is expected to release a written order shortly. […]

Lucent’s Bell Labs research arm and the Irish government are establishing a new R&D center in Dublin as part of a public-private partnership that will focus on telecom and supply-chain technologies. As part of the announcement, Lucent has also partnered with nine Irish universities and institutes for a joint research program to be run out […]

AT&T added consumer Voice over Internet Protocol service in 10 more states. The company is betting that the technology will help it overcome long-distance losses and regulatory setbacks. The carrier’s CallVantage offering debuted in March and is available in 72 markets in 22 states. AT&T wants to be in 100 markets by the end of […]