Some areas of communications equipment spending stabilized or increased during the quarter, including sales of wireless equipment and packet-based enterprise products such as routers and switches, according to the study. But with sales to traditional communications carriers such as SBC Communications and AT&T continuing to fall, the overall market for communications equipment won't rebound in 2002, and maybe not even next year, said Joshua Johnson, an industry analyst with Synergy Research Group.

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CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. iConverse announced Monday that it closed a $6 million third round of funding. Previous investors Advanced Technology Ventures and Prism Venture Partners led the round. iConverse, based in Waltham, Mass., has now raised a total of $30 million. The company develops middleware applications that allow companies to connect corporate data with their mobile channel. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion.