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Communications News, Dec, 2000 by Sean Kelly

Sweden-based Telelogic acquired QSS, Mt. Arlington, NJ, for $115 million in Telelogic shares ... Solidum Systems, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Scotts Valley, CA, appointed Richard W. White as its new CEO ... Changing names: ECOLogic, Henderson, VA, to DataZen; Phoenix-based Call Dynamics t o 3rd Wave Solutions; Recovery Solutions, Burlington, MA, to amerivault corp.; and Emerging Technology, Fairfax, VA, to EQUIENT ...

Lightyear Communications, Louisville, KY, received CLEC status in that state... ADC, Minneapolis, reached an agreement to acquire Broadband Access, Westborough, MA, in a $2.25 billion stock swap ... UK-based Baltimore Technologies announced it will acquire Content Technologies, UK, for $992 million in stock ... Band-X, London, UK, acquired TeleGeography, Washington, for an undisclosed amount ... Packeteer, Cupertino, CA, acquired Workfire Technologies, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada ... England-based Spirent acquired InfoSOFT, Ft. Worth, TX, for $4.5 million ... Broadband DSL provider New Edge Networks, Vancouver, WA, received CLEC approval in Alaska, its 49th state.