Infrastructure

Savvy business people know that information is every organization

A Winnipeg-based credit union says it has been able to offer customers new interactive communications capabilities at the ATM (automated teller machine), with a little help from session initiation protocol (SIP) technology.

Cisco Systems is rolling out a low-end Fibre Channel switch that supports some features of its larger director-level switches, such as virtual storage area network capability, and makes them affordable to the midmarket.

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Dell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. rolled out a new storage system on Wednesday for file and application data that integrates hardware and software from both vendors.

Cisco Systems announced the addition of "tunnel-less" virtual private network technology and several other improvements to its family of integrated services routers (ISR), which are widely used in branch offices.

IBM Corp.'s India Research Laboratory has developed technology for retrieval and integration of information from both structured and unstructured data.

The question put to a panel of high-level executives at the Telecom World conference in Hong Kong seemed harmless: What, an industry expert from the audience asked, do you think of decentralized networks and the emergence of peer-to-peer (P-to-P) networks on the Internet? Ki-Tae Lee, president of telecommunications business at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., took stab at answering the question.