NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JIM DUFFY WITH VIEW FROM THE EDGE 11/23/04 Today's focus: Struggling Avici ousts CEO
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For the latest on spam click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88678 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Struggling Avici ousts CEO By Jim Duffy Router vendor Avici Systems sacked its CEO after a 65% drop in third-quarter revenue. Steve Kaufman, Avici's CEO since July 2001, has been replaced on an interim basis by board member William Leighton. Leighton retired recently from AT&T, Avici's largest customer. Kaufman's ouster comes less than four weeks after Avici recorded third-quarter revenue of $3.7 million, down from $10.5 million in sales for the third quarter of 2003. Leighton spent 27 years at AT&T Labs and Bell Labs, where he led the design and development of AT&T's IP and data networks and services. <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1115avici.html> SBC entered the residential VoIP market by announcing plans to launch a service early next year for its DSL customers. SBC is currently conducting residential VoIP trials in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and San Antonio. The service will deliver voice calling and other features, such as a Web-based portal and call-management capabilities. In residential VoIP, SBC joins Verizon, which rolled out a service in July; and Qwest, which turned up a service in Minnesota last year. BellSouth has just begun trials in Florida. <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1116sbcvoip.html> Cisco has unveiled new and enhanced optical products designed to help service providers provision and manage new and existing telecom services. The products span the edge of service provider networks to the core. They include the ONS 15310-CL SONET Multiservice Platform and enhanced Cisco ONS 15302 and Cisco ONS 15305 SDH multiservice customer access platforms for the edge; Ethernet and high-density DS-3 capabilities for Cisco's ONS 15454 metro platform; and an "any-service, any-port" line card for the ONS 15600 at the core. <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1116ciscoptical.html> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Jim Duffy Jim Duffy is managing editor of Network World's service provider equipment coverage <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/>. He has 18 years of high-tech reporting experience, including over 12 years at Network World. Previously, he was senior editor at Computer Systems News and associate editor/reporter at Electronic News and MIS Week. 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