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The Linux company last week introduced its OpenLearning Courseware for Linux, a curriculum of Linux education designed to enhance Linux administration skills for both servers and workstations, with a focus on large enterprise networks, the company says.
Nortel Networks Corp. Tuesday released new security hardware and software aimed speeding up encrypted traffic and improving Web server performance in enterprise networks.
Enterprise adoption of IP telephony is on the upswing, as the U.S. market for voice-over-IP handsets hit the US$1 billion mark in 2001, according to a recent report.
Gigabit and Fast Ethernet switches released recently from Puredata Inc. could help small businesses or small branch offices move from hubs to a switched and managed network with Gigabit Ethernet, for under US$1400.
3Com's losses for the third quarter of fiscal 2002 were slightly less than expected, as the network vendor continues to struggle back to profitability.
Avaya last week week announced a new unified messaging server that integrates support for wireless clients and voice recognition into the company's integrated voice mail/e-mail and conferencing server.
While Jumbo Frames technology remains in standards limbo, those who have used the technology for years continue to extol the virtues of stretching out the standard Ethernet frame size to boost Gigabit Ethernet throughput.
Foundry Networks Inc. last week updated its NetIron router with the goal of recasting the product as a core metropolitan-area network box instead of a competitor to the likes of Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. in the Internet core.
Avaya announced yesterday that it has eliminated 1900 jobs while lowering its revenue projections for the second quarter and announcing the sale of a minority stake in the company to Warburg Pincus Equity Partners.
While IDC predicts that the market for Ethernet LAN and routing gear will rebound this year from a 2001 slump, sales figures for the fourth quarter of last year show the road to recovery could be long.
Allied Telesyn International Corp. recently released a 24-port Layer 2 switch aimed at making LAN switch stacking easier.
A recent movement to make Linux a "carrier-grade" operating system could help all Linux users by boosting the reliability and scalability of the open source operating system.
MiLAN Technology this week released a 24-port switch aimed at allowing businesses to roll out policy-based and application switching on a LAN at lower price than competing Layer 3+ switches, the vendor says.
Cisco Systems at the ComNet 2002 trade show here this week announced a supervisor module for its Catalyst 4000 modular switch that the company says can expand the box's reach from enterprise wiring closets to the network backbones of smaller businesses.
While Linux technology has increasingly become a cost-saver in enterprises, the open-source operating system has proven a lifesaver in some ways for IBM Corp.'s server business, said William Zeitler, senior vice president of IBM's server group in his keynote here at the LinuxWorld Expo.