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Alcatel-Lucent posts first ever annual profit

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Franco-American PBX maker finally gets in the black six years after merger

10 Feb 2012

Where next for Cisco?

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The networking giant used its recent techie get-together in London to discuss where it will place its bets in the coming years

10 Feb 2012

ShoreTel breaks into hosted space with $150m M5 buy

A briefcase full of cash

IP telephony vendor reaches into its pocket to acquire cloud comms specialist

02 Feb 2012

Cisco CTO: Software is becoming a core competency for us

Padmasree Warrior talks up vendor's software, server and switching skills in opening speech at Cisco Live event

31 Jan 2012

HP Networking: Our time is now

Vendor's new UK&I boss discusses why now is the time for the firm to become channel challenger-in-chief for Cisco

27 Jan 2012

Meraki plans Euro assault as it enters the switching market

Cloud networking vendor looks to put the cat among Cisco's pigeons with product launch and regional expansion

24 Jan 2012

Butt heads for Avaya exit doors

Jeremy Butt’s role, and the channel organisation he leads, will become part of Avaya’s GMT organisation after he leaves in March

23 Jan 2012

WAN optimisation players scramble for Expand base

Riverbed looks to bring customers and resellers onside but rivals and former partners blast vendor's approach and offer migration packages of their own

17 Jan 2012

Riverbed plays hardball with Expand customers and partners

Vendor ditches products, negates support contracts and tells partners to take their queries elsewhere

13 Jan 2012

ShoreTel hunts enterprise A-team to help double EMEA sales

Vendor issues RFP for pan-EMEA distributors and looks to deepen ties with handful of tactical resellers

13 Jan 2012

Riverbed gets sweet deal from Expand pick n' mix

WAN optimisation vendor confirms it has won race to acquire the IP of embattled rival, while being saddled with none of the liabilities

11 Jan 2012

G3 nabs Avaya channel boss to drive services

Niall Anderson follows Lee Shorten to London-based Avaya partner

09 Jan 2012

Cisco UK channel boss eyes video and server growth

Recently appointed Richard Roberts tells ChannelWeb about his plans for 2012

22 Dec 2011

Mitchell beds in to role as Brocade UK channel boss

Vendor tasks former Juniper man with providing big growth in the networking channel

15 Dec 2011

Juniper "places bets" on top UK partners

Networking vendor brings in back-end rebates for the first time as it siphons discounts and MDF towards channel's leading lights

09 Dec 2011

Sales up and losses down as Daisy cools shopping spree

Publicly listed comms provider boosts H1 sales by almost 50 per cent but still runs at a 3.5 per cent operating loss

30 Nov 2011

Margin-rich Avaya tops buoyant PBX market

Telephony space looks in solid shape in Q3 but Cisco has to swallow ASP decline to keep pace, according to Infonetics

29 Nov 2011

Embattled Expand aims to settle on right suitor by new year

Partners offer full support to WAN optimisation vendor, which claims to have several offers on the table to buy or invest in it

25 Nov 2011

Wick Hill and Panasonic square up to video alpha males

As former Computerlinks man Kevan Reade joins as UK sales boss, distributor gears up for big videoconferencing push

24 Nov 2011

HTC slashes sales forecast and rethinks S3 buy

Smartphone vendor expects no growth this quarter as it loses patent battle with Apple

24 Nov 2011

Wick Hill kicks off hosting push with Fiberlink signing

VAD to set up dedicated team after signing on to distribute mobile device management vendor's kit

21 Nov 2011

Avaya looks to unite and conquer

Sam Trendall went along to the vendor’s partner conference in Berlin to find out how the divisions of the past are being bridged - and discovered a company getting its mojo back

21 Nov 2011

Apple reseller Solutions Inc sells ISP unit to Gradwell

Top-level Mac partner offloads £435,000-worth of annual sales to Bath-based comms outfit

14 Nov 2011

M&A veteran joins Six Degrees

Former Vodafone director Peter Bamford says newborn managed data services outfit has compelling vision

14 Nov 2011

Cisco boosts sales but eats margin decline

Networking monolith grows top line but operating profits slump six per cent as restructure nears completion

10 Nov 2011

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CRN Partner Connect 2012

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CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

One of the fights from CRN Fight Night 2010

Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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