Michael Martin

When people picture libraries, they often conjure up images of musty old tomes guarded closely by unsmiling, curmudgeonly librarians.

If there was any doubt remaining that Cisco is a lot more than a networking hardware outfit, company executives dispelled it at last month

Networks keep getting smarter. Every new network management product on the market promises more intelligence and more automation. Vendors always put a happy face on the intelligence increase, asserting it will make life easier for network managers, freeing them up to do more important tasks.

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Late last month, Nortel Networks quietly restructured its operations into two product groups and four regional sales groups. Included in the restructuring was the departure of Malcolm Collins, who had headed up Nortel

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Hewlett-Packard laid down one of the cornerstones in its strategy to push intelligence out to the network edge last month when it introduced the ProCurve Interconnect Fabric Switch 8100 series.