Wednesday, November 24, 2010
China Internet 'hijack' overblown, says researcher The diverted traffic was nowhere near the claimed 15 per cent, according to Arbor Networks
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Cisco's 'borderless network' strategy explained Q&A Ross Fowler makes a visit to Toronto where he talks about the network equipment giant's ambitious product collection, how it is changing the way its business units work together and the role of the CIO vs. the network manager
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Cisco patches bug that crashed part of Internet A Duke University experiment inadvertently uncovered a bug in Cisco Systems Inc.’s Internetwork Operating System XR, which is used on carrier grade routers such as CRS 1. A Renesys Corp. official said it affected 3,500 prefixes and caused some Cisco routers to corrupting Duke’s experimental data
Friday, August 13, 2010
How to build solid, reliable networks Gigabit fibre or 10 G, Fibre Channel or iSCSi, networking hosts and Power over Ethernet: A guide to best practices for making sure the network isn't your organization's weak point
Monday, August 09, 2010
Are new IETF switching, routing specs needed? Changes would address spanning tree limitations and load balancing issues for organizations working with multiple ISPs. But Cisco and Juniper say they either do that now or are about to 
Friday, September 11, 2009
The one-box network Instead of having three to four different networking products, small to mid-sized businesses today can get one appliance that provides routing, voice, data, firewall and other security functions. 
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Fragapalooza sets up an instant network ProCurve provides 1,000 nodes in two days for Canada's biggest LAN party and computer gaming tournament. Also, who needs a distribution layer?
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Juniper adds security services to branch routers Juniper takes another step to unify all of its operating systems under one roof
Monday, January 14, 2008
Telus connects with Nominum Canadian telecom selects Nominum’s IP-application routing directory to help its move from TDM network to IP
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Rescuing routers by eavesdropping Network administrators looking for more precise insight into the behaviour of their routers can dig deeper by tapping a relatively new technology called route analytics. 
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Virtual routing serves up subnets Features will find appeal with high-end enterprise networks, analyst says
Thursday, May 25, 2006
TD switches centres to IP Toronto-Dominion Bank Financial Group (TD) revealed late last month it has partnered with Bell Canada, Cisco Systems and IBM to convert its contact centres across the country to IP. 
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Cisco aims to simplify switch management Cisco is upgrading software on its Catalyst 6500 switches so individual processes on the devices run separately, allowing customers to reboot processes without taking the entire switch offline. 
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Global VPNs get a hand An industry standard to facilitate corporate VPNs that cross multiple carrier networks could be ready for a vote by year-end.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Allstream helps Praxair gas up MPLS During peak business hours, Canadian employees at Praxair had to deal with a sluggish single-pipe frame relay network for large file transfers to Praxair’s offices in the U.S. The frame relay network did more than merely annoy Praxair’s network users. It also affected the industrial gas company’s pocket book. 
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Versatel Networks boosts its IQ1500 It’s hard to imagine what else could be done to improve Versatel Networks’ IQ1500L media gateway. When I looked at the previous version several months ago, it was already a very capable product. Now it’s been improved, expanded and beefed up. Indeed, it’s better on almost all counts. 
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
More details emerge on Telecom NZ's NGN network Details of Telecom New Zealand Ltd.’s “Next Generation Network” are starting to emerge as customers enter into negotiations to use it. 
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Are you ready for the VoIP plunge? There is no doubt that IP telephony is the way of the future, but the technology is still adolescent and poses a number of adoption challenges for enterprises. Here's a look at some of the key issues CIOs should be aware of. And some sound advice on determining whether your organization is ready to take the VoIP plunge.
Monday, August 02, 2004
BEA, Cape Clear, and Oblix eye streamlined SOA creation Easing the assembly and integration of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) is the aim of products rolled out from BEA Systems Inc., Oblix Inc., and Cape Clear Software Inc.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Cisco drops suit against Huawei Cisco Systems Inc. this week dropped its copyright lawsuit against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. after confirming that the China-based network vendor stopped sales of disputed products and changed the look of its software and user manuals.
Friday, June 13, 2003
Nortel aims to make big VPNs a little easier In an attempt to make large-scale VPN deployments easier, Nortel Networks Corp. has added access, management and security features to its latest Contivity Secure IP Services Gateway, the Contivity 5000. Industry observers say the vendor is on the right track, although one analyst questions Nortel’s prospects with this most recent device.
Friday, May 16, 2003
Briefs 
Thursday, April 17, 2003
Startup unveils WLAN router Just when you thought you were starting to get a handle on wireless LAN (WLAN) switches, a new company introduces a WLAN router.
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Dan McLean: Enterasys still trying to forge non-Cabletron identity Does a sensible second choice to Cisco gear exist in today's world of high-end enterprise communications infrastructure equipment?