Lucent owns the U.S. market for wireless equipment, and its worldwide wireless sales should rise 25% this year.
"The U.S. government plans on being the biggest buyer by far of wireless equipment in the world, " says Lin.
He maintains above-consensus estimate for 2011, 2012 and 2013, reflecting share gains in IP routing and sustained growth in the U.S. wireless equipment market.
At 20 he took over the remains of his deceased father's lone cable-television outpost in Centralia, Wash. and turned it into a national cellular network, fueled with massive debt and loans from wireless equipment makers.
In its WTO accession agreement, China also committed to simplify and streamline the approval process for wireless communications equipment into a single process but has not yet done so.
"Ericsson is maintaining its top position in wireless networking equipment and technology, so the company will not be forced to merge with another player from a purely competitive position perspective, but rather may be forced to merge to reconcile its weak business model and financial condition, " Lesieur said in a note.
The Telecommunication Systems business saw growth both in revenue and operating gains due to an increase in LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless broadband technology equipment.
On a brighter note, sales of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband technology equipment continued gains while revenue from overseas sales of notebook PCs improved.
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Harris makes communications products such as satellite and other wireless networks, transcommunication equipment, air control systems, and mobile radio network systems.
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Take, for example, Andrew Corporation (nasdaq: ANDW - news - people ), a maker of cables, antennas, power amplifiers and other equipment for wireless and fixed-line communications.
Dell still intends to offer customers Fibre Channel switches from Brocade, which has been a networking equipment partner for more than 10 years, and offer Juniper systems for security applications as well as Aruba equipment for wireless networks.
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The system utilizes equipment from Proxim Wireless -- namely the company's 100 ORiNOCO AP-4000MR mesh access points -- and adding CCTV video surveillance cams, VoIP channels, and GPS capabilities are all in the cards.
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" Interestingly enough, the system supposedly relies on "modified software" running on regular WiFi equipment, and wireless access points with the newfangled software can seemingly daisy-chain directional network traffic through "several carefully aligned steerable antennas in order to eventually reach a fiber link connected to the internet.
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Companies involved in emergency medical equipment that elect to include wireless broadband into their products are in line to prosper along with other companies on the periphery of wireless.
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Networking giant Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people), also takes a platform agnostic but bullish view of the broadband market, supplying equipment for cable, DSL and wireless service providers.
In addition, both images and video can be archived to the registered digital equipment such as a PC automatically via the wireless access point (router) at home.
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"The wireless and wireline phone companies that are the customers of these equipment makers have been merging for years, creating a more difficult environment to compete in, " says telecom analyst Jeff Kagan.
Total Equipment Coverage combines the benefits of Asurion's Wireless Protection Plan for lost, stolen, and damaged devices, and Verizon Wireless' Extended Warranty for mechanical or electrical defects after the manufacturer's warranty expires.
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Analysts say Huawei is now one of the leading vendors globally of equipment for Long Term Evolution, or LTE, a wireless standard that allows higher traffic speeds than older networks.
We know, it's still draft-spec equipment, but the fact that Apple has knowingly strapped an 802.11n-compliant wireless card inside its newest refresh of iMacs could certainly be telling of a certain product's future (or not).
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