With Nokia Siemens bidding on Nortel's wireless business and Avaya rumored to be grabbing up its enterprise gear, it is all but inevitable that the rest of company will be broken up and sold off in pieces, which raises questions. Here are some of them and the answers.
Henny Penny swapped out its aging Avaya PBXs for Cisco unified communication gear and wound up with a more expensive system that saves money on travel and improves communication with distributors.
SMC Networks will rebrand most of its products and introduce some higher-end gear in North America, expanding the Edgecore brand it has already begun using in some other parts of the world.
Converged Access this week unveiled managed branch-office hardware designed to reduce the number of devices deployed in remote locations and simplify their installation.
Xilinx, which makes a range of chips often used in communications gear, plans to release its first 28-nanometer chips by the fourth quarter of this year to lower costs and attract new customers as the world pulls out of recession.
Massachusetts General Hospital is revamping the video network it set up exclusively for diagnosing stroke victims with an eye toward offering new telemedicine services in other fields such as cardiology.
Avaya tomorrow will reveal a road map that shows how its customers – in particular its newly minted Nortel customers -- can move to unified communications technologies without ripping out existing gear.
Another booming quarter, Apple products in high gear, and a surprise visit from a fired up Steve Jobs made for one heck of an earnings call Monday. "As most of you know, I don't usually participate in Apple's earnings calls," Jobs says, adding, "But I couldn't help dropping by for our first $20 billion quarter."
Avaya's purchase of Nortel is final, and Avaya is promising integrated voice/data branch-office gear and an aggressive integration of Nortel's products and roughly 6,000 personnel.
Cisco this week expanded its Unified Computing System networking portfolio in an effort to improve the scalability and performance of the data center consolidation system.
HP ProCurve GM Marius Haas reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how HP and 3Com came together in a $2.7 billion merger that combines Ethernet switching, security and other data center gear.
NEW ORLEANS -- Cisco this week unveiled two unified communications products optimized for small and midsize businesses, a market Cisco admits it needs to increase share in.
WAN-optimization gear has evolved from one-trick point products – compression boxes, QoS appliances, TCP optimizers, caching devices – into equipment that performs all these functions and saves big money by moving traffic quicker across wide area links.
3Com is kicking off a new integration of security and networking with the introduction in the U.S. of firewall/VPN gear it has sold in China for months.
Royal Caribbean overcame wireless challenges aboard its flagship Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, using a Cisco MPLS network, Cisco wireless gear and even iPhones.
Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., is using 3Com Corp.'s new H3C core and edge switches in a total network upgrade that will replace and expand upon a system based on gear from Cisco Systems Inc.
Continuing product supply constraints at Cisco has some customers waiting months for key Ethernet switches, firewalls and other network gear -- and those who can't wait are turning to competitors.
From disguised video security cams to GPS tracking loggers, personal security is going high-tech. But these gadgets bring up a host of sticky ethical and legal questions.
Three separate companies are steadily recruiting intellectual property holders into patent pools for LTE (Long-Term Evolution) technology, initiatives intended to get more manufacturers building gear for the fast network.
Users of a popular Cisco Systems wireless access point may be setting themselves up for trouble if they leave a WPA wireless migration feature enabled, according to researchers at Core Security Technologies.
Making customer contact centers more flexible and giving call agents more productive tools are among the many features being introduced with a slew of product launches at Voicecon this week.