Clara.net has a competitive VPN product equipped with MPLS and supports a range of local access technologies. Yet, with only two service classes, limited VoIP capabilities and coverage reduces its ...

T-Systems' IntraSelect VPN product is a feature-rich, MPLS VPN product offering four CoS, strong domestic coverage and global reach. Yet the lack of in-country coverage could impact the competitiveness of ...

ISS continues to offer solid examples of executing on the enhancement of its security portfolio, including expanding its compliance offering. The company shows no signs of allowing competitors to ...

Paradyne's 4200 IP ADSL2+/ReachDSL MiniDSLAM offers flexibility in network interfaces and an option for longer subscriber loops, but it lacks VDSL support. Paradyne began shipping IP DSLAMs 18 months ago, ...

The Merlin U530 is now the leading 3G data card in Europe, with a long list of reference customers such as KPN Mobile, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM, O2 and 3. ...

ECI's Hi-FOCuS MiniCAB solution has come to market at the right time (as carriers worldwide deploy DSL via FTTN platforms), but it remains to be seen if MiniCAB will generate ...

As the eventual adoption of IMS-based architectures will move SBC configurations toward a distributed model, Nortel stands to reap the benefits of its decision to throw support behind a distributed ...

WatchGuard continues to change its platforms to better meet the blended security defense requirements of the small and mid-market enterprise customer with a combination of strong features and aggressive pricing ...

Symantec has delivered new hardware offerings and a major new software upgrade for its Symantec Gateway Security platform, boosting performance and improving enterprise functionality, but Symantec still needs to grow ...

Orange Wirefree Extension targets mid-to-large enterprises seeking to bring satellite offices and home workers into a common wireless VPN ecosystem. This solution is still very much a work in progress. ...

Colleague Call is a low-end, voice mobility solution with a transparent cost-saving proposition for SMEs. Colleague Call's simplicity is its key marketing strength, but there are still one or two ...

MCI's ATM service is no longer a focus for further product development due to the carrier's strategy to migrate customers to the company's MPLS service (Private IP). Existing customers benefit ...

TIBCO's BusinessConnect B2B product has a wide range of features and broad vertical support options. However, the product can be expensive, and the firm has no internal catalog for ...

Cable & Wireless' ATM product is vulnerable in the pan-European market due to reduced business momentum outside of the UK. On the plus side, Cable & Wireless ATM is supported ...

The BT takeover has strengthened BT Infonet's EMEA DIA proposition, but there is a lot of integration work to do and the pace of development is too slow. BT ...

Verizon Wireless had the first commercially deployed 3G data service, and it is closing in on its goal to cover 150 million PoPs; now, it needs to launch more compelling ...

With the recent GlobeTrotter Mobility Manager enhancement, the Option COMBO is a highly compelling WLAN/GPRS solution for added fixed-line connectivity management. This report contains insight and analysis of the ...

The Sony Ericsson GC79 is the data card behind Vodafone's WLAN service, and offers a forward-looking solution with easy-billing, EAP-SIM support and the go-faster GPRS CS-2 and CD-4 coding schemes. ...

As the first dual-mode UMTS/GPRS PC card commercially available in multiple European markets, Option's 3GlobeTrotter, exclusively re-sold via Vodafone, changed the competitive parameters and priorities in the enterprise mobility market. ...

Time and technology have overtaken the GPRS/GSM card, and Option's former star solution now looks outdated, over-priced and painfully slow in comparison to the new breed of UMTS and WLAN-enhanced ...