The New York Times is changing its address, with a moved planned for next spring to a new state-of-the-art facility in Times Square. Along with glass-and-steel architecture, desks without coffee stains and crumbs in the keyboards, the 3,500 or so Times employees plan to move to an all IP data, voice and video network, all humming along on a single Nortel-built infrastructure.
Allied Telesis this week unveiled a new series 10G Ethernet wiring closet switches, promising customers high port density and fast uplink connections, but at a lower cost than its larger enterprise switch competitors.
Cisco this week announced it is buying Orative Corporation, a maker of mobile phone software that ties mobile phone users to corporate IP PBXs and messaging systems.
When a former server/storage executive takes over a networking company, you can expect things to change. This process is happening at Extreme Networks, where Mark Canepa began working as CEO in August after a stint as the executive vice president of Sun's data management group. He spoke with Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth about his plans for Extreme, how the company will compete with Cisco, and the convergence of data center technologies.
Cisco this week launched network access-client software that gives users a single-logon interface for attaching to wired, wireless or remote-access networks.
A broad range of enterprise IP telephony gear, software and management tools for VOIP networks hit trade show floors at two IP telephony conferences this week.
Black Duck Software recently released a new version of its open source license compliance and management tool. It's aimed at companies that develop products where multiple pieces of open source code are blended together. The tool can also help large enterprises or corporations that are writing their own internal or customer-facing applications using open source code.
A tool that is being used widely by the embedded Linux community for creating mobile phone and other small-device operating systems could also be adopted as a way for Linux IT professionals to archive and store old data and records.
Alcatel this week launched a smaller version of its OmniSwitch 9000 series chassis, intended for businesses that do not want to deploy larger, more expensive core switches in the middle tier of a network.
Chemical manufacturers must operate a serious network of plumbing: pipes, ducts and valves to process, produce and transport millions of gallons -- and billions of dollars -- of valuable product.
As open source router startup Vyatta is scheduled to formally launches its first appliance this week, one early adopter is using the Linux-based gear to replace Cisco technologies.
BlueNote Networks this week has launched a version of its IP telephony and voice application development package that enables customers to weave Web services into their voice networks.
Cisco wants to bring the YouTube phenomenon to enterprises with the launch this week of its Digital Media System -- a product set designed to let businesses create, manage and publish IP video content.
A pair of new Cisco switch products released this week - an eight-port, 10G Ethernet core switch module and a Gigabit Ethernet blade server switch - are targeted at high-traffic enterprise data centers that require large network pipes and low traffic latency, the company says.
The convergence of desktop and mobile phones into a single, go-anywhere gadget that works on multiple wireless networks may seem just around the corner; however, real, large-scale deployments are still a long way off, according to IT professionals and vendors at Interop.