That dish collapsed in November 1988. The new telescope detected its first signals from space on 22 August. The Federal Communications Commission has delayed its planned 29 November auction of wireless bandwidth in order to allow large wireless firms to prepare bids. A final date for the auction has not yet been set. By acquiring MMC, Applied Micro, which produces high-speed chips used for optical networking equipment, will immediately gain the expertise and facilities for making the network processing, traffic management, and switch fabric technology equipment essential to translating optical signals into the electrical signals that are the province of switches and routers.
Analysts note that the companies' product offerings are complementary.
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