Chris Talbot

Two Canadian entities formed an alliance last month to create a new company to focus on optical networking technology.

A lack of corporate capital will create a stronger managed network services (MNS) market, according to one analyst.

Everett, Wash.-based Fluke Networks entered the gigabit Ethernet analyzer market in December with the launch of its Gigabit Distributed Vision Suite (GDVS).

Two Canadian entities formed an alliance last month to create a new company to focus on optical networking technology.

Another boost in communications for the mobile worker sprang forth from Nortel Networks in January, adding another level of complexity to network and telecom infrastructure but giving field workers improved remote connection to corporate applications.

A U.S.-based research analysis group announced in mid-January that it discovered some potentially troublesome problems with the Windows 2000 IP multicasting feature.

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Despite the hype around 99.999 per cent network uptime (generally referred to as