In a move that may catalyze the industry to begin migrating to the new protocol, Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced availability of IPv6 features across products that run the company's IOS operating system software.
Nortel Networks Corp. Friday announced that COO Clarence Chandran, currently on medical leave from the company, has resigned to take additional time to complete his recovery from stab wounds suffered in an assault 4 years ago.
Nortel Networks Corp. at NetWorld+Interop 2001 on Wednesday launched a three-pronged assault on the optical Ethernet market by unveiling enhancements to its Passport 8600 packet routing switch.
Cisco Systems Inc. Wednesday broadened its metro optical portfolio with a new dense wavelength division multiplexing platform designed for high-speed integrated transport of storage and data networking applications.
Nortel Networks Corp. Monday said it will implement Multi-protocol Label Switching as a common signaling protocol across its entire optical, wireless and core IP product line.
Another company has surfaced that claims to be able to shrink eight to 10 racks of functionality into one, and even into one shelf.
Nortel Networks Corp. announced Monday that William Conner, president of the company's eBusiness Solutions group, has left Nortel to become president and CEO of security software vendor Entrust Technologies Inc.
Cisco Systems Inc. last week unveiled software for service providers that could entice enterprises to more readily adopt IP VPNs.
Start-up Equipe Communications Corp. this week will unveil its first and flagship product, a switch for the core of service provider networks designed to transition ATM-based infrastructures to IP and Multi-protocol Label Switching.
No one can argue that Lucent is up against the ropes. While the rest of the networking industry was enjoying healthy growth for most of last year, Lucent Technologies Inc. was floundering, dealing with disappointing sales and earnings and issuing warning upon warning.
Cisco Systems Inc. has discontinued its ONS 15900 Wavelength Router platform for the core of service provider networks, due to slow demand.
Whatever happened to the component shortage? Remember when companies were giving subtle warnings a year ago that they were cautious about upcoming quarters because component availability was spotty? Now we see another new optical component company every other week.
Nortel Networks is in preliminary talks to acquire Lightscape Technologies, which makes optical transport gear and a subsidiary of Israel's ECI Telecom Ltd., for up to US$800 million, according to reports out of Israel.
Cisco Systems this week further expanded its IP+Optical strategy with a product line designed to accelerate wavelength service delivery to buildings in a metropolitan-area network.
To quote from Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." There is perhaps no better way to sum up the volatile nature of the present service provider market.