VoIP hubbub heard over ComNet din
The voice-over-IP development machine was running full bore last week at ComNet 2001, with a slew of companies cranking out services and products for enterprise and carrier networks.
The voice-over-IP development machine was running full bore last week at ComNet 2001, with a slew of companies cranking out services and products for enterprise and carrier networks.
The purchase of Alteon WebSystems Inc.'s Gigabit Ethernet adapter business last week by 3Com Corp. will instantly make the latter a player in the Gigabit network interface card market.
On Monday, Cisco Systems Inc. announced its Internet Mobile Office initiative, intended to give mobile workers secure broadband access to an enterprise network in such places as hotels, conventions centers, airports and even coffee houses.
3Com may be rounding the corner in terms of its restructuring program, but its low stock price and market value will continue to pose a problem for the company, some observers claim.
A new network equipment company recently emerged with a familiar name, an old logo and two new products for corporate network customers.
3Com CEO Eric Benhamou last week announced he will step down from his post in a move seen as the end of a tumultuous, year-long restructuring campaign.
U.S. Robotics Inc. announced a new 56K modem last week that lets users make phone calls over the Internet with a regular telephone.
3Com Corp. may be rounding the corner in terms of its restructuring program, but its low stock price and market value will continue to pose a problem for the company, some observers say.
Convergence is an important issue to many network professionals as the technology begins to take hold in enterprise call centers and even traditional phone networks. Avaya Inc. - the former enterprise network group of Lucent Technologies Inc. that was spun off as a separate company on Oct. 2 - hopes to capitalize on the convergence push. It brings several new voice-over-IP offerings to the table, and a whole catalog of established telephony, call center products from Lucent. The firm also has some not-so-established LAN and WAN products inherited from Lucent.
Allied Telesyn International unveiled a low-cost router for connecting branch offices to a main corporate site.
Low-cost, high-speed 10-Gigabit Ethernet technology capable of sustaining networked applications, such as VPNs, IP telephony, LAN services and e-commerce, is the wave of the future, according to a number of users, analysts and standards body representatives.
3Com Corp. this week announced new IP telephony gear that could speed the delivery of IP-based Centrex services for small and midsize businesses.
Quintum Technologies Inc. will release two gateway devices aimed at bringing IP telephony to remote and branch offices that have access to only analog phone connections.
Avaya is building six new IP telephony hardware and software products intended to help voice-over-IP technology make the jump from smaller businesses to large-scale enterprises.
Riverstone Networks Inc. Monday announced a service provider switch that is aimed at bringing manageable, Internet core-level bandwidth to customers of metro area service providers.