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In a mixed quarter, Cisco reported flat revenues, but it beat earnings estimates and had a bright spot in software and security sales.

Ciena's Jamie Jefferies could not have picked a more interesting time to move back to the UK. After an eight-year sales stint for the optical equipment maker in New York, the British executive returned home in October 2018 to run Ciena's EMEA business. Two months later, a US campaign against Huawei went into overdrive with the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the Chinese vendor's chief financial officer, in Canada. Since then, the normally staid telecom industry has been rocked by geopolitics as Europe stumbles into 5G. Throw in a seemingly interminable health crisis and there is no shortage of excit...

Telekom Deutschland, for an undisclosed fee, has chosen the Finnish vendor as a "long-term strategic partner" to transform its optical core network into a "service-centric platform that can easily scale to meet Industry 4.0 demands." According to the official statement, Nokia's kit will enable "optimized performance and a consistent customer experience" across Germany. Telekom Deutschland, it adds, hopes to simplify and streamline operational tasks through automation and make more efficient use of network resources. At the heart of this planned transformation of the optical core network and s...

And what might Amazon's LEO satellites mean for 5G operators? "I think there are partnerships to be had for Kuiper," said Darren Achord, head of public policy for Amazon's Project Kuiper. "We look forward to partnering with a lot of the providers out there." Achord's pitch for Project Kuiper (pronounced "ky-per") was mainly targeted at members of the incoming Biden administration. Achord spoke about the company's satellite broadband initiative at the Incompas Policy Summit this week, a trade association that represents communications and technology companies, including Amazon. Achord explain...

Bezos says move will let him pour more energy into projects such as the Day 1 Fund, The Washington Post and the space-faring Blue Origin program.