Stephen Lawson

Enterprises can secure their network traffic at higher performance and avoid proliferation of devices with a series of security hardware modules announced Tuesday for the Cisco Systems Inc. Catalyst 6500 Series switches.

Enterprises can secure their network traffic at higher performance and avoid proliferation of devices with a series of security hardware modules announced Tuesday for the Cisco Systems Inc. Catalyst 6500 Series switches.

Intel Corp. Tuesday moved to slash the cost of integrating 10-gigabit Ethernet into servers and storage devices by unveiling a 10Gbps transceiver designed for the standard PCI interface.

Service providers have to start using incremental technologies to try out services and find out what customers want before they try to roll out long-anticipated offerings such as third-generation (3G) mobile telephony, Nortel Networks Corp. Chief Technology Officer Greg Mumford said Wednesday in a keynote address at Opticon 2002 in San Jose.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) this week used the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco as the platform to announce several additions and enhancements to its Linux offerings.

The market for large service-provider core routers probably has bottomed out, but is unlikely to see any growth again until 2004, a network market researcher said Tuesday.

Roaming between a wide-area mobile data network and high-speed wireless local area networks (LANs) may get easier to set up after a recent successful demonstration by a Canadian mobile operator.

Roaming between a wide-area mobile data network and high-speed wireless LANs may get easier to set up after a recent successful demonstration by a Canadian mobile operator.