The company, which makes cans for companies such as Gillette and WD40, has purchased a WAN and telephony solution comprising structured cabling, 3Com LAN Environment, Cisco routers, Leased Line connectivity and SDX INDeX telephone switches.
It seems that cost projections for WAN's made to senior management by networking managers are consistently way off the mark. Gartner Group has produced sobering figures that show most corporate WANs (wide area networks) cost twice as much as...
The survey of 650 European WAN managers found that only 23 per cent pass voice traffic over their private WAN and a further 10 per cent subscribe to a voice virtual private network. IDC's annual WAN manager survey is due out in June.
3Com will this year dispose of its enterprise LAN and WAN corporate business due to lack of growth and the amount of cash needed to bring it in line with the rest of the company, according to Bruce Claflin, president and chief operating officer at...
AT&T has won a E4.8m contract to provide Finnish airline Finnair with a global wide area network (WAN). The WAN uses an Internet Protocol virtual private network (IP VPN) with managed data network services running over a common platform.
And many are waking up to the potential benefits of handing over the running of their WAN. The survey revealed 61 per cent of companies in the UK currently outsource the running of their WAN and that figure is still growing.