Jim Duffy

Sprint Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have entered into a co-marketing and joint sales alliance designed to attract subscribers to the packet telephony services the two are building out as a result of last November's billion-dollar supply contract.

Juniper Networks Inc. and Ericsson Inc. last month unveiled the fruits of a joint development agreement initiated 15 months ago.

Cisco Systems announced extensions to its routing software that enable service providers to provision Layer 2 VPN services to enterprise across a range of the company

Juniper Networks and Ericsson rolled out a Gateway General Packet Radio Service Support Node (GGSN) for mobile wireless operators, which will enable the migration of voice-centric mobile wireless infrastructures to multimedia-capable 3G networks.

Lucent Technologies refreshed its line of access routers with three offerings intended to let service providers deliver customer premises equipment-based IP services.

Lucent Technologies Inc. Monday named a former executive as its new CEO, ending a long search that began with the removal of CEO Rich McGinn in October 2000.

Nortel Networks Corp. announced Tuesday a system designed to increase performance in network security by enabling faster processing of information requiring security checks.

Juniper Networks Inc. announced Monday a definitive agreement to acquire privately held cable modem maker Pacific Broadband Communications for US$200 million in stock.