The deal will give Cisco access to PipeLinks' Sonet/SDH router technology, which handles circuit traffic and IP traffic at the same time, enabling service providers to offer integrated voice and data services to the edge of a network.
The software giant's plans to protect Windows and Office applications against piracy through compulsory registration has been criticised by beta testers as over-elaborate, and a waste of time. Microsoft tried to allay fears that staff will spend...
The advent of its fatter version is opening up the transfer of WAN data from ATM, frame-relay or packet over SONET/SDH to a potentially more efficient and cheaper method. Even Andrew Rufener, ambassador to the ATM Forum and director of technology...
Nothing here, it would seem, to challenge the incumbent technologies, most notably Sonet/SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy), a transmission standard used by most of the world's carriers today. The cost to the carrier of installing a Gigabit...
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...
In a brief security lapse, early testers of Microsoft software had access to discussions on all of Microsoft's forthcoming products, rather than just the programs they were testing. For about 36 hours this week, registered beta testers could view...