WAN vendors collaborate to guarantee service
Two major WAN equipment providers this week kicked off partnerships to help carriers guarantee service levels all the way to a customer's site.
Stories by Stephen Lawson
Cisco ships DSL router for small businesses
Cisco on Monday began shipping the first in a series of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) routers for small and mid-size businesses.
Forum seeks open systems
A new alliance of several telecommunications carriers and equipment makers could bring the innovation and low prices of open systems to service providers' central offices. Cisco Systems, MCI WorldCom, and Bellcore are spearheading the Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF), which last week presented an impressive line up of vendors and carriers that also included Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and AT&T.
Cisco advances SNA plan
The guaranteed response of Systems Network Architecture (SNA), which users have relied on for years in the mainframe world, may return in standards-based IP networks due to a technology advancement made by Cisco Systems.
Cisco's IOS prioritises ATM, IP data traffic
Cisco Systems has taken a big step toward differentiated classes of service on its own equipment, announcing this week that its routing software now will extend traffic priority across packet-based and ATM networks.
IBM, Cisco Spar Over MPLS
IBM Corp.'s disclosure that it will protect the technology it contributed to a key Internet standard has raised concerns among some vendors and industry observers.
Cisco maps IP, ATM classes of service
Cisco Systems this week took a big step towards offering differentiated classes of service across the range of its own equipment, announcing that its routing software now will carry traffic priorities across packet-based and ATM networks.
Vendors present visions of high-capacity Internet
A Nortel Networks executive has told an Internet conference here that packet routing is likely to converge with optical networking next year, allowing enterprises to set up a direct 10Gbits per second link to the outside world.
Cisco knowledge base to be in user hands
Cisco Systems this week will begin putting its huge product knowledge base in the hands of end users and channel partners.
Novell, Nortel in directory deal
Novell has signed up another networking partner to use its directory technology, formalising a partnership with Nortel Networks.
Newbridge looks to guarantee connections
ATM switch vendor Newbridge Networks will launch a virtual private network (VPN) strategy this week that leverages the existing infrastructure of traditional service providers.
Nortel, Cisco bolster remote-access offerings
Nortel Networks this week introduced its latest offering in a fiercely competitive market for branch office and telecommuter access devices.
The rollout of the Bay Networks Nautica 250 ISDN router follows announcements this week of firewall software for Bay's Contivity VPN device, as well as of an ISDN router from Cisco Systems.