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Network Infrastructure Solutions and Services

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Alcatel-Lucent profits below expectations

  Troubled comms vendor Alcatel-Lucent has booked a small net profit of €43m for the three months to the end of June, on sales of €3.90bn, up 10% year-on-year at constant currency rates.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  BT sales narrow but profits improve 38%

  BT has reported a pre-tax rise in profit of 38% from £375m to £517m in its fiscal first quarter as 251,000 new customers were introduced to its broadband network, but sales at the UK incumbent comms provider dropped 5% year-on-year to &...

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Virgin Media Business records small drop in sales

  Virgin Media Business has reported a small drop in business revenue for its second quarter.

• July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11

  Solarflare burns for Avnet

  Avnet Technology Solutions is joining forces with low latency, 10 GB Ethernet specialist Solar flare in a new distribution agreement, writes Linda Endersby.

• July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11

  Bradford Networks embraces two-tier channel model

  Network security specialist Bradford Networks has signed a deal with Hampshire-based VAD Siracom as it moves to develop a two-tier channel distribution model for the first time in the UK, writes Linda Endersby.

• July 27, 2011 27 Jul'11

  Juniper shows solid recovery in switching market

  Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson has talked of growing momentum in the vendor's routing business and "a return to solid performance in switching" after the firm booked solid growth in both sales and GAAP net profits.

• July 26, 2011 26 Jul'11

  Radware posts record Q2 sales

  Radware today reported record quarterly revenues of $41.1 million for the second quarter of 2011, writes Linda Endersby.

• July 26, 2011 26 Jul'11

  Redstone to pump cash into fibre development

  Managed services provider Redstone has announced a fundraising valued at close to £2.65m through a conditional placing of 212m new shares in an attempt to improve its financial position and strengthen its growth plans through fibre-optic ...

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Daisy halves wholesale Ethernet costs

  Ethernet wholesaler Daisy Wholesale has slashed the cost of its Ethernet packages by 50 per cent in an attempt to get VARs selling Ethernet and EFM into Britain's SME community.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Judge tells Oracle to rethink Google Java damages claim

  A United States District Court Judge has dismissed Oracle's initial damages estimate for its Java patent case against Google after accusing the company of over-reaching in multiple ways with the "goal of seeing how much it could get away with".

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  Mobile payment market growth slows in 2011

  The mobile payment market is growing slower than expected and the mass market adoption of near field communication (NFC) payments is at least four years away.

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  Griffin helps focus potential data network dealers

  Griffin are launching a new service for resellers in the UK who are looking for other sources of income as their customers cut their costs in an effort to improve margin.

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  Digium and Polycom to offer VARs £1 a day unified comms

  Telephony firms Digium and Polycom have teamed up with asset financing firm Capital Solutions Group to offer resellers the chance to buy Digium's Switchvox UC telephony kit for less than one pound per user per day.

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  Roberts right man to succeed Wightman at Cisco

  Following a series of structural changes to its worldwide channel operation announced yesterday, Cisco has finally broken cover and officially announced the appointment of Richard Roberts as UK and Ireland partner lead.

• July 21, 2011 21 Jul'11

  Cisco shuffles channel execs, holds off naming UK head

  Cisco has made a series of changes at the top of its worldwide partner organisation, shuffling its executive team and reduced the number of theatres it operates in, but contrary to speculation has remained silent over the matter of replacing UK ...