The Ethernet Alliance has launched, providing vendors, end users, component manufactures, and others with yet another standards-like organization that they can join. With so many to choose from, how ...

Signing up Tech Data promises to expose Mitel products to a wider range of resellers, perhaps improving sales throughout North America. However, with the VAR recruitment drive still pending, the ...

BSNL has a $5 billion expansion plan to grow its market share in the retail segment, but it leaves gaps in the carrier's enterprise portfolio, while competitors are quickly scaling ...

MASERGY provides innovative network-based WAN traffic analysis service for users of its IP solutions. The service provides performance information without external instrumentation and is available through a simple Web-based service ...

ITC^DeltaCom halts a long string of reversals with a full territory rollout of its new IP MPLS network. The regional CLEC can now offer number of new services, but has ...

Apptix launched an archiving and monitoring service with partner Global Relay Communications; while its SMB market positioning could help, it is following competitors into this space and it will need ...

Axiom and Wipro announced that TeliaSonera will use the AXIOSS provisioning suite at thousands of IP VPN sites and to design, create, and deliver multiple services, including IPTV, VoIP, and ...

Mercury Interactive, a testing and business performance optimization vendor, purchases Systinet, an emerging leader in the UDDI registry space. This is a strange combination given Mercury's current problems and Systinet's ...

Actuate announces the acquisition of performancesoft. The company gains needed corporate performance management capabilities, although it now has to differentiate its overall capabilities with respect to those of its competitors. ...

Verizon officially closed its merger with MCI, creating a large and powerful carrier able to challenge AT&T for the top of the U.S. telecom market. But the news was ...

With the addition of Vonage to its roster of customers, Sonus Networks has firmly established itself as the leading supplier of packet telephony equipment to non-facilities-based voice over broadband service ...

Genesys acquires GMK to expand into Brazil with plans for it to grow into a regional sales and support hub for all of South America. GMK more than pays for ...

Symantec has announced plans to acquire IMlogic in order to build out its secure messaging solution, which will include anti-virus, anti-spam, IM, and archiving, as well as, later, additional real-time ...

Symantec maneuvers to acquire IM security partner IMlogic, becoming the envy of MSSP competitors striving to keep up with Symantec's growth, as well as the need for comprehensive security protection ...

Trillium Software releases the latest version of its data profiling solution, TS Discovery 5.0. The company has enhanced a range of features and offered a variety of new capabilities, making ...

Lenovo will soon embed modules in its laptops to access Cingular's new BroadbandConnect service - another deal that should spur on adoption of WWAN access in the business world. ...

BigBand, with multiple new enhancements to its Cuda CMTS solution set, is looking to regain double-digit market share in the CMTS sector, but it may need more than technical elegance ...

Laptop-embedded HSDPA opens up a menagerie of new business models for wireless operators and OEMs alike. The "seamless convergence effect' will be hot property in 2006. ...

Nortel announced its intent to acquire access router vendor Tasman Networks; this will boost Nortel's ability to compete in the secure, converged access routing market and give it a stronger ...

It's d??j? vu all over again as networking services firms consolidate and strive for some semblance of corporate stability. Black Box may become a powerhouse in the market - ...