French telecoms manufacturer Alcatel is to buy Packet Engines in a cash deal estimated to be worth $315m including incentive schemes for employees. A spokesman for Alcatel said it believes Packet Engines has a lot to offer and by joining together...
It will also be included in a line of IBM combination switch/routers and server interconnect devices, which will allow users to link and load balance high-capacity servers. It will also handle Ethernet and packet-over-Sonet traffic and serve as a...
Some think the year 2000 problem was nothing compared to the switch to IPv6. Therefore routers can process packets faster. But routers still need time. The reasons are the new mobile technologies: GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and...
Ordinary Power5 chips have dual processing engines, called cores, but the p5-575 chips have only one core active. IBM sells its own switch to link computers into a high-performance computing cluster. That switch won't support the p5-575 until the...
Cisco, meanwhile, has its GSR and CRS routers running on a centralised switch fabric architecture. Procket relied on a shared-memory architecture for its routers. Cisco Systems announced on Friday it plans to acquire Nemo Systems in a $12.5m cash...
While the mobile maker is taking a 'never say never' stance on the issue of cellular connectivity, it maintains there are no tablet devices that can connect to mobile networks in the pipeline. Among the possible new additions are new interface...
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