IoT

U.S. city and county governments are embracing Wi-Fi technology to provide high-speed data service to public safety agencies and Internet access to citizens, and now Bernalillo County, N.M., has adopted the technology to support Internet access for judges, lawyers and jurors in its courthouse.

James Wiedel didn't purchase a product specifically to manage the wireless LAN infrastructure at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Rather, the director of networking at the university's information services unit relies on the Aprisma Spectrum software already in place to monitor a wired infrastructure of 1,000 switches, 50 routers and 44,000 endpoints.

Siemens AG is merging its mobile and fixed communications businesses into a single group called Siemens Communications, adapting itself to a changing market in which wireless and wireline technologies increasingly overlap.

Nortel Networks Corp. has sued a client, Arbinet-thexchange Inc., alleging copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets through the unauthorized use of Nortel Networks proprietary software, Nortel announced.

Nortel Networks Corp. predicted Tuesday that a restatement of its 2003 financial results would substantially wipe out all of its net earnings for the year, with one-third of the reductions impacting the second half of the year.

With wireless LANs becoming a major component within an enterprise network, a new class of vendor offering distributed wireless monitoring and management is coming to the fore.

Cisco nudges into a new market with its mobile network solution

Ford Motor Co. says it has deployed WhereNet Corp.