Tim Greene

In what will likely be a long migration to an undetermined destination, Verizon Communications Inc. has started using packet switches to carry customer voice traffic in two metropolitan areas.

Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett delivered a sobering message to SuperComm 2002 attendees on Tuesday: The information technology industry is in a period of turbulence and consolidation that will last another year.

Nortel Networks announced at SuperComm 2002 two boxes that deliver Ethernet services and trunk customer traffic into service provider networks via Gigabit Ethernet uplinks.

Cisco Systems Inc. says its gear now supports voice and video over IP running through VPN tunnels, giving businesses the option of securing all types of traffic over a single link to a public IP network.

It won't be flash over substance as the telecom industry descends on Atlanta for next week's SuperComm 2002. Having new customers to brag about might prove more valuable to vendors than any breakthrough product on the show floor.

Marconi will soon roll out upgrades to its multiservice switch routers to support legacy and Ethernet carrier services over a Multiprotocol Label Switching core.

There's been lots of talk about quality of service in LANs, but unless you're running voice, video or other unforgiving applications, you can probably solve congestion by simply throwing more bandwidth at the problem.

ANXeBusiness Corp., the virtual private network-based e-commerce network, is offering an addition to its current IPSec VPN services that enable roaming users to connect securely to an ANX VPN.