The enterprise of the future will need to have a flexible, general purpose infrastructure in order to survive in an economy increasingly defined by electronic commerce, according to Jamie Lewis, CEO of The Burton Group Corp.
Astral Point Communications Inc., an optical networking start-up in New England, is now shipping what it claims is the first of a new class of products for the optical metro access market.
Renegades from INS, the integration services company acquired by Lucent Technologies Inc. for $3.7 billion last year, have formed a new services company focused on providing consultation and other assistance to service providers.
Packeteer on Thursday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Workfire Technologies, which develops software for accelerating the performance of Web applications and content over networks.
Netgear, the maker of small office/home office products that spun off from Nortel Networks, has introduced a suite of Gigabit-over-copper gear designed to enable users to inexpensively migrate to Gigabit Ethernet.
Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Netiverse Inc., a San Jose developer of content acceleration technology, for US$210 million.
As expected, Nortel Networks and Juniper Networks have signed a "memorandum of understanding" to jointly market, plan and implement optical core routing infrastructures for service providers.
Once a high-profile account for 3Com Corp.'s high-end LAN and WAN switches, Widener University has selected Nortel Networks Corp. to replace the gear 3Com is discontinuing as well as products the vendor continues to offer.
Cisco Systems Inc. is not the only one that pays when it acquires a company. Customers apparently do, too.
3Com this week said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kerbango, which develops Internet radios, for $80 million.
Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced it has added a standard protocol to its quality-of-service policy management software that lets users deploy multivendor policy servers in their networks.
Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday announced that it has added a standard protocol to its QoS policy management software that enables users to deploy multivendor policy servers in their networks.
Nortel Networks last week launched a wireless internet strategy that is intended to let mobile users access data and applications as if they were in a fixed location.
Optical startup Equipe Communications Corp. Monday unveiled the software component of its upcoming product designed to enable service providers the ability to offer new services that take advantage of existing edge equipment and high-capacity optical networks.
Nortel Networks has unveiled a voice/data convergence system that enables small and midsize businesses to use existing telephones while migrating to IP telephony.