Stories by Jim Duffy

Burton Group: Change Your Infrastructure or Die

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 Ships Metro Optical System

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.

INS Veterans Form Management Company

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 acquires app accelerator company

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.

Nortel spinoff pops gig copper wares

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 Grabs Content-Acceleration Vendor

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.

Nortel enlists Juniper in optical core routing

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.

Showcase User Jumps 3Com Ship

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 Calls the COPS on QoS

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 Beefs Up QoS Wares

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.

Startup to End Carrier Switch-Upgrade Headaches

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.

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