Scott Tyler Shafer

Yesterday at the annual VoiceCon 2002 Conference and Exhibition in Washington, Avaya Inc. and 3Com Corp. each announced new IP telephony products. For its part, Avaya announced a slew of new products that demonstrate the company's full embrace of IP telephony.

After some massive overhauls of their business models, storage service providers are once again trying to attract enterprise customers. This time, however, everyone seems to have a different approach.

Depending on whom you ask, the Jini networking technology, introduced three years ago January has either stalled or is just now gaining momentum. Sun Microsystems believes it is the latter.

Hoping to steal market share from historically data-centric switch vendors Cisco Systems Inc. and Extreme Networks Inc., Alcatel SA on Tuesday introduced an entirely new line of converged data and voice switches.