The rapid growth of online video is forcing service providers to upgrade their networks to deal with the increased Internet traffic and broadband demand. Companies that provide infrastructure for the Internet are seeing their products sell at a rapid rate and are turning healthy profits.

Carl-Henric Svanberg, CEO of telecom hardware maker Ericsson, said his company has no interest in acquiring Juniper Networks.

The French communications hardware maker Alcatel will mercifully end Lucent Technologies unfulfilled expectations and position the company to better face Cisco in the marketplace.

And as if you needed any more convincing that Microsoft wants to own your home …

Alcatel shares fell 8% after the company reported fourth-quarter results with operating and net profits not living up to expectations.

NetLogic Microsystems announced that it is delivering data plane products for Alcatel’s highest-performance multi-service switching and routing product, the 7670 Routing Switching Platform (RSP).