"A Nokia-Alcatel tie-up could make a potential routing or optical transaction by Ericsson even more likely," Jankowski writes. Ericsson does have routers of its own, from the $2.1 billion ...

We could get into the tactical elements: Nokia is now stronger by acquiring Alcatel-Lucent's router business, possibly its strongest element. But as Simon Leopold, Managing Director of Raymond ...

Nokia has agreed to buy its smaller French rival Alcatel-Lucent in a 15.6 billion ... of optical transmission and Internet Protocol (routers and switches), which are essential components in ...

Fast forward, and Nokia (where Alcatel now lives) has unveiled what it calls the “most powerful internet routing platform” - possibly the one that my contact was working on four years ago. Core router ...

Nokia tried to justify the 28% premium that ... and China Unicom—to provide its 7950 XRS core router. Alcatel-Lucent took advantage of Cisco’s (CSCO) relatively weak position in China.

Alcatel-Lucent is being acquired by Nokia for over $16 billion ... He covers enterprise networking infrastructure, including routers and switches. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and ...

Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent are joining forces in an attempt to create a new global leader in the fast-evolving communications equipment sector, which is still trying to come to terms with the ...

NEW YORK—Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent have "confirmed" that they ... Huawei in China, and (in the router business), Cisco. No terms of a proposed union have been made public. The combined company ...

Shares of Alcatel-Lucent ALU rose another 2.6% in the last trading session, as its integration plans with Nokia Corporation NOK took firmer shape. The board of directors of the two companies ...

It was this same thrive-or-dive atmosphere that led Nokia (NOK-0.37%) to propose a $17 billion merger of equals with Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) last April, a deal the two companies said would ...