A $100 investment in Cisco in July 1997 would have been worth $133.50 in July 2002; the same amount put into the S&P 500 would be worth $102.23. Chief Executive John Chambers joins Apple CEO Steve Jobs and former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale to be among tech executives to see a $1 salary. Chambers also did not receive a bonus and gave back 2 million of the 6 million options he was granted for the period. The options he gave back, along with those he retains, range in strike price from $16 to $20.53 a share.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Overture Networks announced Monday uag metropolis iphone xs max rugged wallet case - magma reviews it received a $15 million second round of funding, led by Morgenthaler Ventures, Armada Ventures, Intersouth Partners and previous investor Gray Ventures also participated in the round, The Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based company has now raised a total of $18 million, Overture Networks supplies networking equipment to telecommunications carriers to enable them to offer services over metropolitan Ethernet/IP (Internet Protocol) networks..

OBSAI comes at a time when the telecommunications sector is in a freefall after two years of growth. Telecom carrier revenue is sinking because the price of a phone call is being driven down by competition. Network equipment makers are suffering because the carriers don't have as much money to expand. And the number of handsets sold worldwide is expected to decline in 2002. Whether OBSAI's standards are adopted by others in the industry remains to be seen. OBSAI is open to all cellular network infrastructure makers, but so far just four companies--Nokia, Samsung, LG Electronics and NEC Networks--have joined. Heavyweights like Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks or Ericsson haven't signed up.

Initial industry reaction has been mixed, Lucent Technologies said Wednesday that while it's not an OBSAI member, it'll be "exploring that option.", On the flip side is Nortel Networks, Spokesman Jay Barda said the equipment maker doesn't plan to join OBSAI, preferring instead to follow standards from more recognized bodies, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, which have hundreds of members, A new alliance of telephone equipment makers is working uag metropolis iphone xs max rugged wallet case - magma reviews on a standard way to build cellular base stations, a change that could save manufacturers money..

The group, calling itself the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI), has begun drafting a blueprint that maps out the basic elements of base stations. Products based on the designs are expected to debut in 2005, Nokia spokeswoman Ritta Marda said. Base stations--antenna towers and refrigerator-size boxes that ensure calls wind up in the right place--are the workhorses of any cellular telephone network and cost millions of dollars each to build and implement. Manufacturers generally have their own base-station blueprints and either make the equipment themselves or assemble parts bought from suppliers.