Lucent Technologies is set to buy International Network Services (INS) for $3.7bn (£2.3m), according to reports in US wires. The purchase of INS, which designs and implements corporate networks, is expected to strengthen Lucent's data networking...
Existing metro networks have used Sonet/SDH, an expensive but reliable network designed to carry voice traffic reliably on ring networks. Until now, metro networking has come at the cost of of a major step change from Ethernet to more expensive...
European service providers are currently caught in the grip of unprecedented belt-tightening that means, by and large, they are indeed looking at how they can transport IP traffic over everything. This hybrid approach will become more common as...
In the challenging economic environment of the past few years, whenever organisations have looked at reinvesting in their telephony solution, anything that reduces cost has been compelling. At the same time we are starting to see the re-emergence...
Technology from Sheer will be used to develop Cisco's next-generation management products for service providers and large businesses, Cisco said. Sheer has a similar philosophy and parallel architecture which will accelerate our delivery of Cisco's...
According to a study from Infonetics Research, broadband internet, metro ethernet and IP VPNs are the technologies causing the highest growth in IP traffic for telecoms carriers in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America - and thus should be...
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