Scott Tyler Shafer

On the official second day of one of the largest annual communications and information technology conferences in the U.S., exhibitors were receiving a less-than-optimal amount of foot traffic through their booths. Attributing it to the down economy and a lack of service provider customers attending the show, many exhibitors think this year's SuperComm isn't so super.

Nearly a month after Alcatel SA announced new technologies that virtually eliminate packet loss on IP core networks, Cisco Systems Inc. has countered with its own IP-reliability technology.

In a move to bring voice-like reliability to IP networks, Alcatel SA last month introduced a new technology that will be added to its family of IP core routers and switches later this year.

Nortel Networks Corp. on Tuesday introduced a set of software enhancements and an add-on application that extends its IP (Internet Protocol) telephony platform to include support for wireless VoIP (Voice over IP).

In a move to give enterprises a better handle on their remote access services, WorldCom Inc. Wednesday introduced a slew of new software applications.

Determined to bridge the interoperability gap and ease user frustrations, storage equipment vendors are rallying around the Distributed Management Task Force's CIM (Common Information Model).

Eleven years after the initial introduction of service based on frame relay, WorldCom has repackaged the service in order to attract small to midsize business customers and keep existing customers.

As important as virtual private networks are, they aren