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NEC Unified Solutions jumped on the unified communications bandwagon on March 12 with the introduction of a wide-ranging product update focused on the roles users have within their businesses. The new products, which NEC introduced in advance of VoiceCon March 17 to 20 in Orlando, Fla., are built around NEC’s Univerge360 strategy, which integrates users’ […]

Nortel Networks on March 12 will advance the state of the art for high-performance optical networks with the launch of new 40G-bps technology. Nortel is claiming a first with its Nortel 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine because it can provide both 40G bps and 100G bps of network capacity. At the same time, the technology allows […]

Microsoft and Nortel Networks on March 11 will continue to move their Integrated Communications Alliance ball forward with the launch of four more joint offerings. In advance of the spring VoiceCon conference March 17-20, the two vendors took the wraps off a joint unified communications suite, multimedia conferencing, branch office routing integrated with UC services […]

3Com continued its Open Services Networking drive to integrate best-of-breed functionality into its Multi Service Router line on March 10 with new policy-based configuration management. 3Com added automated configuration management provider LineSider Technologies to its growing list of companies that provide integrated services on top of its MSR routers. To date, 3Com has partnered with […]

DANA POINT, Calif.-Juniper Networks is raring for a fight in the enterprise networking market, now that it has a line of LAN switches to sell. But whether the company can get past its roots as a network equipment supplier focused on the service provider market with a not-invented-here mentality remains to be seen. Juniper officials, […]

Veteran project and portfolio management provider Primavera Systems on March 6 will advance the goal of helping IT executives make the right decisions for their IT investments with the introduction of a new release of its ProSight portfolio manager. The Web-based ProSight, considered a leader in the portfolio management space according to Gartner, includes a […]

Despite the wow factor in the QuantumFlow processors Cisco Systems used in its new ASR 1000 Series routers, the real value Cisco added to the next-generation aggregation routers is in software. Although Cisco claims the new ASR 1000 provides a five to 10 times performance improvement for a 30 percent price premium over Cisco’s existing […]

Cisco Systems on March 4 will go back to its roots and reassert its dominance as a router provider when it launches a new line of aggregation routers for both enterprises and service providers. Cisco’s first midrange router in years took $250 million and five years to develop. But the new Aggregation Services Router 1000 […]

IP telephony provider Siemens Communications on March 3 shifted its focus from voice to unified communications applications with the launch of a new software platform and UC applications suite. As a part of its transformation into a software and services company, Siemens introduced at CeBIT its new OpenScape Unified Communications Server and the first new […]

Cisco Systems has jumped from fifth to second place in market share in the worldwide enterprise telephony market, according to Infonetics Research’s latest survey. In its “Enterprise Telephony” report, released Feb. 28, Infonetics found that Cisco had climbed over Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel and Siemens to grab the second-largest market share behind leader Avaya. “Cisco took a […]