Nortel Networks Corp. Friday said it has discontinued its OPTera Packet Core (OPC) terabit router for the Internet core, citing lack of demand and the distraction of its internal restructuring as it seeks to regain profitability.
Cisco Systems Inc. rolled out enhancements to its optical portfolio designed to attract the RBOC (regional Bell operating companies) dollar and increase the channel count on its metro and long-haul transport platforms, here at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference this week.
For those enterprises intrigued by IP (Internet Protocol) VPNs (virtual private networks) but worried about service-level agreements or quality of service, help is on the way.
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s re-entry into the crowded but booming metropolitan-area network market is a necessary move in the company's turnaround, analysts say.
Now that merger talks between Lucent Technologies and Alcatel have broken down, Lucent must do some bellybutton gazing and figure out where it is going, what it wants to be . . . and if it will be.
Cisco Systems Inc. this week unveiled several routing and optical networking enhancements designed to cost-effectively speed delivery of new services to enterprises.
Nortel Networks and Microsoft Tuesday announced a partnership to bring "preconfigured, pretested" managed application services tools to carriers.
ONI Systems Corp. recently launched a low-end edge device designed to deliver wavelengths to end-users.
If fiber is not coming to a building or curb near you, it's time to squeeze more juice out of that copper loop ringing your premises.
The optical transport market -- including metro and long-haul DWDM and SONET/SDH -- declined 22 percent between the fourth quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2001, according to the latest data from The Dell'Oro Group.
The Iris Group, which consists of four start-up companies developing products for different optical network markets and applications, has unveiled an optical network architecture designed to let carriers scale their networks from customer premises to the WAN at 40G bit/sec to 160G bit/sec on existing fiber.
As Lucent Technologies Inc. directors reportedly meet this week to discuss a merger with Alcatel SA, analysts say it's unlikely the two will come together.
Juniper Networks this week announced enhancements to its Internet core routers that add more service intelligence to the devices.
Nortel Networks Corp. and EMC Corp. this week announced an alliance to provide optically networked storage systems.
Juniper Networks continued to gain market share on Cisco Systems Inc. in Internet core routing in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest data form Dell'Oro Group.