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Cisco to roll out branch office networking gear Enterprise branch offices increasingly need the same IT tools that the head office has, and Cisco Systems is set to unveil branch networking gear Wednesday to help fill that need. SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore.  August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco muffles Linksys death knell The saga of Cisco Systems and its Linksys consumer and small-business division continued last week as Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers hinted at the companies' future branding strategy. July 30, 12:26 p.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Marc Willebeek-LeMair Dr. Marc Willebeek-LeMair, CTO of 3Com, is used to wrestling with weighty problems. After all, the man spent a decade at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center working on so-called intelligent infrastructure technologies and has done research on everything from distributed computing and high-speed networking technologies to network processors and management systems. So when Willebeek-LeMair talks about the problems facing the enterprise networking industry, people tend to listen. June 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Nortel plans major enterprise product launch Nortel will soon unveil significant additions to its enterprise arsenal, including its initial entré into the WAN acceleration market. May 14, 8:06 a.m. PDT Startups class of '06: Where are they now? In 2006, InfoWorld uncovered 15 startups that emerged after the nuclear winter that followed the dot-com bust with cool, useful technologies. Well, another year has brought a new crop of startup darlings, such as the companies we're profiling each day in May for our Month of Enterprise Startups (MOES) feature. But MOES got us thinking about last year's startups. In the year that has followed, how have these innovators fared? May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT US military plans to put Internet router in space The U.S. military plan to test an Internet router in space, in a project that could also benefit civilian broadband satellite communications. April 12, 7:59 a.m. PDT Cisco adds 3G to branch router 3G (third-generation) wireless will grow up at the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando this week, finding its place in Cisco Systems business routers. March 27, 5:06 a.m. PST More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Drive-by Web attack could hit home routers If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, do so now. That's what researchers at Symantec and Indiana University are saying, after publishing the results of tests that show how attackers could take over your home router using malicious JavaScript code. February 15, 5:02 a.m. PST Mike Volpi, head of Cisco's routing business, resigns The departure of Mike Volpi as the head of Cisco Systems Inc.'s routing business "coincides" with a reorganization of that part of the company, but is not the reason for his resignation, a Cisco spokesman said Thursday. February 8, 10:29 a.m. PST Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco discloses three router security problems Cisco Systems is warning of three vulnerabilities within its Internet Operating System (IOS) software that could allow a denial-of-service (DoS) attack or let a hacker run arbitrary code on an affected switch router. January 25, 5:38 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco injects old 7200 with new power It’s not terribly often that hardware vendors are so forward-thinking that they can retrofit a whole new class of hardware into an existing chassis. Cisco Systems, however, seems to be able to do this with ease. The new Cisco 7200 router is a perfect example. January 11, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco to buy IronPort for $830M Cisco Systems said on Thursday it is buying privately held IronPort Systems for $830 million in cash and stock. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco buys e-mail security firm for $830m Cisco Systems Inc. said on Thursday that it was buying IronPort Systems Inc. of San Bruno, Calif. for $830 million in cash and stock. January 4, 5:15 a.m. PST Technology of the Gods January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Ericsson scoops up Redback for $2.1 billion LM Ericsson has agreed to acquire Redback Networks Inc., a maker of carrier edge routers, for US$2.1 billion. December 20, 4:08 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Review of reviews It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.) December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST Cisco plans high-tech ballpark for A's Cisco Systems Inc. plans to make a new ballpark for the Oakland Athletics (A's) baseball team a showcase for its wireless networking technology. November 14, 3:15 p.m. PST Motorola to acquire Netopia for $208 million Motorola plans to acquire Netopia, the maker of DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) user equipment, for $208 million, the companies announced on Tuesday. November 14, 8:52 a.m. PST Juniper releases Version 2 of NAC product With all the hype and anticipation that has surrounded the NAC (network access control) space in recent years, you can forgive IT administrators for assuming that full-featured NAC solutions were just around the corner. But progress on client screening and NAC has been agonizingly slow since the first NAC products hit the market in 2004. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Juniper unveils branch-office strategy Enterprises have done wonders in recent years consolidating their IT operations into efficient and tightly managed datacenters. That trend has been a godsend for system administrators and IT workers, who no longer have to spend long hours on the road, in transit to far-flung branch offices to reboot servers and take care of other mundane tasks. One population that hasn’t benefitted from centralized IT operations: the poor souls who have to work in those branch offices and live at the mercy of their WAN connection. And that’s no small population. By one estimate, as much as 80 percent of employees at many companies now work outside of headquarters. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Redefining innovation Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Caspian Networks up for sale Caspian Networks, a one-time core router startup that today makes devices to improve network performance, is on the block. September 18, 7:05 a.m. PDT More players announce NAC plans Microsoft and Cisco Systems played the role of proud parents on Sept. 6. But with so many questions about when NAC-NAP, as it’s been called, will be available, and how it will work with non-Windows clients and non-Cisco infrastructure, it’s been hard to figure out what the companies created. September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco's CRS-1 router drops a size Cisco launched this week the smallest version yet of its biggest router -- a four-slot Carrier Routing System-1, intended to extend 40Gbps from a core network to regional carrier POPs, Cisco says. September 5, 1:26 p.m. PDT Nortel sets up design center in India Nortel Networks is setting up a product design, development and testing center in Bangalore, India, in a move to take advantage of lower staffing costs in the country. August 23, 7:20 a.m. PDT Juniper to restate earnings The shadow of the options-backdating scandal lengthened over Juniper Networks Inc. with the company's announcement Thursday that it will restate some past financial results. August 10, 3:57 p.m. PDT Linksys small-business Wi-Fi grows up Small businesses will get some of the wireless LAN bells and whistles enterprises already have as Cisco Systems' Linksys division expands its product lineup on Monday. July 31, 4:18 a.m. PDT Hardware vendors are missing the opportunity of open source Enterprising hardware hackers managed another coup last week, having successfully installed a version of the open source DD-WRT firmware on the latest revision of the Linksys WRT54G wireless router. The WRT54G became something of a fan favorite a few years ago, when Linksys released the source code to the router's Linux-based firmware. Since then, a number of custom variations on the original have appeared that add features Linksys never intended, of which DD-WRT is arguably the best. July 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Samsung ready to take on Cisco Samsung Electronics has started shipping a router designed for corporate users, part of a planned assault on a market long dominated by Cisco Systems, executives said Wednesday. June 21, 6:11 a.m. PDT Chambers to become Cisco chairman John Chambers, who has run Cisco Systems Inc. as president and chief executive officer (CEO) since 1995, will become chairman in November while remaining CEO, the dominant networking vendor announced Thursday. June 8, 11:38 a.m. PDT Slow progress for 802.11n standards The IEEE 802.11n standard has been three years in the making, and from the looks of it, it has at least another year to go. That’s a shame because it offers a lot of benefits, including higher throughput than the current Wi-Fi standard -- about 120Mbps in the real world -- and 50 percent longer range. Plus, because it uses multiple antennas that can stitch together a fractured signal, it eliminates a lot of spots where there might be drop-offs indoors. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25 The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward-looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as many of this year’s top 25 CTOs can tell you, technology leaders must also focus on understanding the business goals of the enterprise -- and then craft technology strategies to meet those objectives. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Wind River releases device management suite Wind River Systems is enhancing its embedded operating system with a suite of management products designed to allow companies to monitor software on remote devices, it announced at its user conference in Orlando this week. May 18, 9:23 a.m. PDT Tech startups to watch Startups are back! or at least, startup fever is back. Scan the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and you won’t find any hockey sticks -- the level of investment in enterprise-related technology startups has actually remained fairly flat, hovering between $1.5 and $2.3 billion per quarter from 2003 through 2005. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT CA execs cop a plea, Sun's McNealy set free Some stories do have happy endings. D-Link and Net timekeeper Poul-Henning Kamp have settled the dispute detailed in last week's screed. Current D-Link routers will continue to access Kamp’s NTP servers, while future routers will ask elsewhere for the time; neither side would provide further details. D-Lightful. Next, we’ll tackle that niggling Israel-Palestine problem. May 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco pushes collaboration, video Collaboration is the key to enterprises both moving quickly and dealing with the demands of globalization, Cisco Systems Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers told attendees Tuesday at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas. May 2, 12:57 p.m. PDT Cisco delivers service-stuffed routers Not that long ago, a small-office router handling a single T1 was more or less fully consumed by that task. Throwing more features into the software to support services such as VoIP or firewalling just wasn’t practical, given the cost of CPU and RAM available for the smaller units. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Router maker Avici to slash workforce Avici Systems Inc., a maker of large routers for service providers, will cut 45 percent of its workforce and focus on a few core features in a bid to achieve a profit. February 17, 12:47 p.m. PST Cisco appoints ex-MCI chief Capellas to board Cisco Systems Inc. has appointed Michael Capellas, former president and chief executive officer of MCI Inc., to its board of directors, the computer networking company said Tuesday. February 1, 4:42 a.m. PST Juniper posts gains but weak forecasts Juniper Networks Inc. on Wednesday posted year-over-year gains in its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2005 but disappointed analysts with its forecasts for the first two quarters of this year. January 26, 4:27 a.m. PST CES tech news and gossip -- from Google to Stevie Wonder Attending the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is like spending the week with 130,000 former college roommates. It's great on the first day, reliving old times and laughing about mutual acquaintances. But by the weekend, you start remembering all the times they stiffed you for beer, and the time they promised to get you a job at their company but gave it to the pretty girl down the hall. January 11, 11:15 a.m. PST IT will give up control of the network As we look at all the changes taking place on the Internet during the past several years, I think we can boil it down to two simple observations. First, the volume of traffic is increasing exponentially: E-mail, IM, and RSS all mean more connections. Second, each connection is moving a great deal more data, including multimedia, voice, and video. January 10, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco cable deal passes legal milestone Network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems has passed a critical milestone in its planned acquisition of cable TV technology company Scientific-Atlanta after the U.S. antitrust waiting period passed on Friday without regulators taking any action. January 4, 4:35 a.m. PST Traffic optimization takes center stage in networking show In many ways, 2005 was a "so what?" year for networking. After all, anyone who expected major breakthroughs on a number of key issues ended the year sorely disappointed. There's been little progress on IPv6 adoption, the United States is still claiming it owns the Internet, wireless networking made little progress on fronts political or technical, and IP telephony remains hot -- though whether VoIP's future lies in hardware, software, or both is still a topic that will drive a conference panel, or three, for years. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Top technologies of the year Welcome to our first issue of the year. For those of you who took a break, re-entry into the heady universe of work may be a bit discombobulating. Fortunately, last Saturday, the world’s ever-considerate timekeepers saw fit to give us an extra sliver of time -- a leap second-- to prep for the new year. And now, with the pop of the cork (or was that the buzz of a pager?), we’re ready to herald 2006, a potential banner year for the enterprise. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Nortel acquires Tasman Networks Nortel Networks Corp. announced Tuesday it will acquire Tasman Networks Inc., a provider of enterprise-level routers, for US$99.5 million. December 27, 6:18 a.m. PST Juniper sues over message-board posts Juniper Networks Inc. is suing 10 unnamed defendants over comments posted to a networking news message board that Juniper charges are libelous. December 22, 4:27 a.m. PST 3Com's European HQ damaged in oil depot blast 3Com said Sunday that an explosion at an oil depot in Hemel Hempstead, England damaged the headquarters of its regional operations for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The company said there were no injuries among its employees as a result of the blast. December 12, 4:23 a.m. PST Update: Cisco pushes for bigger network role Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday staked a wider claim on enterprise IT as it kicked off its Worldwide Analyst Conference, introducing an ambitious plan for services-oriented infrastructure and a new application acceleration initiative. December 6, 2:34 p.m. PST Hardware isn't enough IT buyers live in a golden age of commodity hardware. Processors, servers, networks, storage, you name it: Every segment of the IT stack keeps getting faster, cheaper, and more commoditized. No surprise, then, that IT managers often resort to a checkbook-waving strategy, throwing hardware at every IT problem, from a balky WAN to an application speed bump. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Let’s give thanks for the cool, whizzy future By the time you read this, you’ll be stuffed on T-day leftovers -- hope you still got some cranberry and gravy left! While leftovers may get old, IT never does; at least it doesn’t seem so from a peek into Gartner’s crystal ball, entitled “Predicts 2006: Emerging Trends Drive New Opportunities.” November 25, 3:00 a.m. PST Juniper to double technical staff in India Juniper Networks announced Wednesday that it is doubling the number of technical staff at its center in Bangalore, India. November 23, 4:14 a.m. PST Update: Cisco buys Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire Scientific-Atlanta in a deal valued at $6.9 billion, it said Friday. November 18, 7:14 a.m. PST Cisco may buy Scientific-Atlanta, say reports Cisco Systems is planning to announce the acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta for as much as $7 billion, according to news reports published on Friday. November 18, 4:15 a.m. PST Cisco expands carrier Ethernet lineup Cisco Systems is getting ready to sell more gear into the burgeoning market for Ethernet services from carriers, preparing to introduce new switches and hardware modules at the Telecom 05 show in Las Vegas this week. October 25, 4:29 a.m. PDT Wireless broadband's long and winding road First, the good news: for companies planning to deploy broadband connectivity to their mobile workforces, the options have never looked better. Initial rollouts of 3G (third-generation) cellular data technology are fulfilling the technology’s promise. Sales and field forces can connect to the Internet and corporate applications from virtually anywhere, network speeds are reasonable, and deploying the technology requires only minimal IT investment. September 22, 1:00 p.m. PDT Vodafone offers device to share mobile data card Why pay for five mobile data cards when one will do? A new device launched Monday in Spain by Vodafone Group, Europe's largest mobile phone operator, allows up to five people to share one card. September 13, 7:50 a.m. PDT Cisco IOS vanishes down another security hole Cisco Systems has warned that its IOS router operating system software is vulnerable to another serious security flaw, affecting the authentication system for FTP and telnet connections. The flaw could allow attackers to take over or repeatedly crash devices running the widely used operating system. September 8, 5:52 a.m. PDT Cisco's new IOS brings true process modularity to the core Cisco Systems' upgrade of its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) software for the Catalyst 6500 core switch is a major step in core-switching redundancy. The new IOS can separate core processes to reside within their own memory space, permitting traffic to flow through the switch even when certain subsystems are offline. If successful, this release will be a watershed event in the core-switching industry. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT Living in an all-Internet Protocol world Hossein Eslambolchi is a man of many titles. He is president of AT&T Global Networking Technology Services and AT&T Labs, as well as CIO and CTO of AT&T proper. When Hossein talks, I listen. And what he talks about in late August is the inevitable move to 100 percent IP networking. August 30, 4:00 a.m. PDT Lucent gets subpoenas from US regulators Lucent Technologies has received subpoenas from U.S. federal agencies in relation to two separate investigations, the company disclosed Friday in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. August 5, 4:09 p.m. PDT Researcher agrees to silence on Cisco flaws A security researcher who gave a presentation on vulnerabilities in Cisco Systems routers at this week's Black Hat USA conference has agreed not to further discuss the issue under the terms of a permanent injunction issued by a U.S. federal court. July 29, 4:34 a.m. PDT Linksys to buy Danish entertainment gear vendor Cisco Systems' Linksys division is set to make a leap into networked entertainment devices on Friday with the acquisition of Horsholm, Denmark-based KISS Technology. July 22, 6:18 a.m. PDT NEC develops speedy 3G-WLAN handover tech NEC is developing a technology that allows users to flip back and forth between wireless LAN and mobile phone networks even when they are moving at race car speeds, the company said Tuesday. July 19, 5:12 a.m. PDT The dumb remote office Management, compliance, and security concerns have made consolidation all the rage in large organizations, which have increasingly moved their applications and data from globally dispersed servers to a few centralized, tightly secured data centers. With the trend toward intelligent networks, we may one day see remote offices with very little intelligence of their own. July 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Building the intelligent network The days of the fat, dumb pipe, are over. Servers applications, and storage have been shouldering the intelligence and security burden for too long. It’s time for the network infrastructure itself to add some smarts. After all, when it comes to intelligence, the real beauty of the network is that it touches everything. July 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Patches issued for Kerberos flaws The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has issued patches for three serious flaws in Kerberos v5, a widely used security authentication system. The worst of the flaws could allow an attacker to gain access to an entire authentication realm, according to MIT. July 13, 9:08 a.m. PDT Intel creates $200M investment fund for China In a move intended to strengthen Intel's commitment to China's IT industry, the company announced Monday it has established a $200 million fund to invest in Chinese technology companies. June 14, 4:41 a.m. PDT Nortel issues patch for router VPN flaw Nortel Networks is offering a fix for a vulnerability that could let an attacker crash a VPN (virtual private network) router with a single malformed packet. June 1, 4:29 a.m. PDT Some WAN things you just can't control In the quest for ultimate performance, IT folks tweak TCP stacks, strip out unnecessary services, and manage traffic flows. But where the WAN is concerned, some things are in the hands of the ISP rather than IT. That’s a sad fact of life: As link speeds and round trip time increase (latency), overall throughput degrades tremendously if router queues aren’t sized accordingly. May 30, 5:00 a.m. PDT Cisco buys app accelerator Cisco plans to acquire privately held FineGround Networks, a Campbell, Calif., maker of bandwidth optimization appliances, for $70 million. May 27, 5:37 a.m. PDT UPDATE: Cisco reports Q3 revenue, earnings gains Cisco on Tuesday cited gains in its service-provider equipment business as it reported a more than 10 percent rise in revenue in its fiscal third quarter from the same period last year. May 10, 6:30 p.m. PDT Chambers emphasizes innovation and security at Interop Cisco Systems unveiled a new integrated security product shortly after the company's CEO, John Chambers, delivered the opening keynote address for Interop. May 3, 1:58 p.m. PDT Cisco adds routers for branch-office apps Cisco Systems at the Interop conference in Las Vegas on Monday will expand its line of wireless-enabled routers that provide advanced security functions and support data, voice and video traffic. May 2, 3:30 p.m. PDT Cisco to buy VoIP gear maker Sipura Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) vendor Sipura Technology for integration into its Linksys Group division, the networking giant announced Tuesday. April 26, 4:45 a.m. PDT Industry reels from IP flaw The U.K.'s National Infrastructure Co-Ordination Centre (NISCC) has warned of a flaw in Internet Protocol (IP) that could allow significant attacks on a wide range of products, including routers and Internet software from Microsoft, Cisco Systems, IBM, Juniper Networks, and others. April 13, 8:49 a.m. PDT Nortel names former Cisco executive as new CTO Nortel Networks has a new chief technology officer (CTO). The Brampton, Ontario-based telecommunications infrastructure company on Thursday announced that it had appointed former Cisco Systems Chief Science Officer Gary Kunis to the post, effective next Monday. March 31, 4:04 p.m. PST HP's ProCurve adds routers Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve Networking unit today introduced a line of branch-office routers designed to provide secure communications with a headquarters site and unveiled "virus-throttling" technology aimed at stopping the spread of malicious code over a network. It also rolled out the ProCurve Switch xl Access Controller Module, designed to provide secure access to mobile users seeking to connect to a ProCurve switch at the edge of a network. February 22, 1:20 p.m. PST Dell'Oro: Fast switches, routers roar ahead Large enterprises are starting to deploy more Gigabit Ethernet than Fast Ethernet to employees' desktops, a generational shift that was about eight years in the making and driven by progressively lower prices, according to market research company Dell'Oro Group. February 18, 4:16 p.m. PST Update: Cisco meets expectation in Q2 Cisco Systems made $1.4 billion in net income in its fiscal second quarter ended Jan. 29, achieving earnings per share of $0.21 on revenue of $6.1 billion, the networking equipment giant reported Tuesday. February 9, 4:29 a.m. PST US-CERT warns of Cisco product vulnerabilities The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) warned that Cisco Systems' Internet Operating System (IOS) contains several vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to use specially crafted traffic to cause Cisco routers running the software to restart, creating a denial of service attack. January 27, 1:57 p.m. PST Three more flaws discovered in Cisco IOS Cisco Systems this week warned of several vulnerabilities in its IOS software that could be used by attackers to bring down routers in enterprise and service provider networks. January 27, 9:16 a.m. PST SAP launches two security initiatives SAP AG has launched two new initiatives aimed at helping customers secure their SAP software systems. January 25, 6:43 a.m. PST Supercharge your WAN It wasn’t so long ago that calling a telco to order frame-relay circuits was the only feasible way to securely connect remote offices to headquarters. The typical frame-relay network consists of T1 and fractional T1 circuits connected via a frame switch located in a telco CO (central office), with all these circuits aggregated on a central circuit in the corporate datacenter. The recurring fees are costly, leaving IT directors little choice but to severely limit the bandwidth to remote sites. If 128Kbps circuits can do the job, albeit slowly, then up they go. January 21, 3:00 p.m. PST The best products of 2004 Hardware and Software Platforms December 30, 3:00 p.m. PST Cisco donates $2.5 million for tsunami relief efforts in Asia Cisco Systems and its employees have donated $2.5 million for humanitarian relief and reconstruction projects for those affected by the earthquakes and the subsequent tsunamis that ravaged coastlines across South Asia, the company said Thursday. December 29, 11:08 p.m. PST Lucent sets up a Bell Labs center in India BANGALORE, INDIA - Lucent Technologies announced Wednesday that it is setting up a research and development (R&D) operation in Bangalore, India. December 22, 10:25 a.m. PST > Hardware > Network hardware > Networking > Network hardware > Networking |
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