Jim Duffy

 

Netgear Inc., the maker of small office/home office products that spun off from Nortel Networks Corp., has introduced a suite of gigabit-over-copper gear designed to enable users to inexpensively migrate to gigabit Ethernet.

Cisco Systems Inc. rolled out a LAN switch for mid-sized companies in May that is designed to be deployed in IP telephony networks.

Even though the market for Internet core routers will be worth US$10 million in three to five years, only two players will split that pie, according to Juniper Networks Inc. CEO Scott Kriens.

Three leading networking companies hope their latest IP telephony rollouts will give them a leg up in building next-generation converged enterprise networks.

Cisco Systems Inc. earlier this month significantly expanded its voice/data convergence portfolio with 10 new products, including some designed to scale LAN telephony environments to tens of thousands of users.

Cisco Systems Inc. has announced products designed to provide quick delivery of Web and other Internet content across a network.

You know a technology is hot when Cisco Systems Inc. starts throwing serious money at it. Because the company has spent about US$2 billion to purchase wireless data companies in the past year, it's no stretch to say that wireless technology is the next sizzler.