Paula Musich

Cisco Systems Inc. continued to beat its Enterprise Content Delivery Network drum with the rollout of a new release of its Cisco Application and Content Networking System software and new ECDN appliances. With greater focus on boosting the performance of enterprise applications modified for Web-based access from remote offices, enhancements in ACDN System 5.0 emphasize […]

A startup next week will try to tackle the growing problem of managing complex configurations with new software that tracks frequent changes in Web data centers. Officials of newly founded Collation Inc. will launch the company and its flagship Confignia software at BEA Systems Inc.s BEA eWorld conference in Orlando, Fla. Confignia, configuration and change-management […]

When the keepers of Baton Rouge, La.s, municipal network last year found business-critical traffic being impeded, they had a good idea where the problem was. Eric Romero, project manager for the city, which runs a network serving some 3,000 employees in 20 locations, sensed that unauthorized network use was taxing T-1 access. But despite monthly […]

With Microsoft Corp. due to significantly reduce support for Windows 98 and Windows NT in June, small businesses and enterprises still needing to update their desktops will have to scramble in the next few months. PC migration tool provider Miramar Systems Inc. will be there to help with new releases of both its enterprise-oriented and […]

As more companies roll out enterprisewide, Web-enabled applications or look to save money by using VOIP, theyre likely to find that the strongest barrier to success is the weakest link in the equation: branch offices low-speed WAN connections. Those expensive, latency-prone WAN links are getting greater attention from smaller players in the area of bandwidth […]

Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc.s Enterprise Networks division on Monday will begin to decouple its voice over IP software from proprietary hardware and operating systems when it launches its new HiPath ComScendo communications suite. ComScendo, which runs on Siemens ICNs HiPath 3000 and 5000 IP PBXes for small to medium-sized companies, provides an enterprise-class […]

Management Service Provider (MSP) InteQ Corp. Wednesday launched a new remote management service for publicly available wireless LANs. The Bedford, Mass., MSP provides remote monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting for wireless “hot spots”—wireless LANs that mobile workers can use in public places such as cafes and airports. “InteQ views this as a good opportunity. A large […]

Cisco Systems Inc. today rolled out a wide range of new and enhanced intrusion detection and firewall offerings. Although Cisco generates security-related revenues of about $1 billion a year, it has had an uphill battle in asserting its place among more favored best-of-breed security tools providers, said Jeff Wilson, executive director at Infonetics Research Group […]

Nortel Networks on Tuesday launched another leg holding up its “One Network: A World of Choice” convergence strategy that is intended to minimize the impact of infrastructure boundaries on access to critical business data. The Advanced Business Connectivity launch is about bringing the same security and resiliency to public Internet connections that enterprises are used […]

3Com Corp. on Monday filled in a missing link in its SuperStack line of Layer 2 LAN switches. The new SuperStack 3 Switch 4228G adds a fiber uplink to the 4200 line of Layer 2 managed wiring closet switches. The new 4228G provides 24 10/100 Ethernet ports along with two Gigabit Ethernet ports and two […]