BigBand showcases the media processing and gigabit networking capabilities of the company's BMR platform with the Time Warner Cable deployment in Houston. The latest win shows BigBand continues to ...

The answer to who will acquire Pivotal is CDC Software. While there are some expansion opportunities for Pivotal, there also will be challenges as the joint companies seek to create ...

Landing a multimillion dollar telephony account with high-profile Clark County School District provides Alcatel with cash, validation of the efficacy of its Verizon relationship, cash, displacement of a large number ...

PSINet Europe is partnering with Dutch Web consultancy Lost Boys to offer Web outsourcing and application management solutions, helping to raise the company's profile as a recognised provider of managed ...

Start-up ROADM vendors challenge the experience and future of incumbent metro WDM vendors with positioning of technology and promises of better TCO. Both attributes are important, but market mindshare will ...

T-Com has launched a new 3Mbps ADSL connection for business customers. Having a first-mover advantage, the challenge will be to sell-in services to its business customers and roll out the ...

AT&T has formalized a sales and marketing alliance with Cisco. It looks good on paper and both companies can conceivably benefit. But with similar agreements between Cisco and other service ...

P-Cube, as one of the "technology leaders" in the emerging IP service control market, has unveiled the Engage 2.0, which strengthens P-Cube's competitive differentiation as it looks to penetrate the ...

The FCC approved Qwest's long-distance application in Arizona, and the company can finally fully capitalize on the synergies of an RBOC/IXC merger it had originally envisioned when Qwest and US ...

Network Associates has released a beta version of its patch management profiler tool. System Compliance Profiler will be a welcome addition to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. ...

Although it has created little industry buzz, the shipment of J2EE 1.4 is an important event. Vendors and particularly users will find improvements in Web Services, integration, and management crucial ...

Plumtree Software announced an add-on to its EDK for creating interactive portlets using Microsoft .NET Web Controls. While the add-on should be attractive to a segment of Plumtree's users, ...

Clara.net has unveiled a new ADSL product suite for SOHOs and small enterprises. While attractive features and low entry prices are pluses, the company will be hard pressed to upset ...

Mirror Image provides some early holiday cheer to customers looking for additional network control with the addition of a Real-Time Traffic Monitor. While not alone in the market with this ...

Sprint launches Video Mail, the ability to send 15 second video clips between compatible handsets via e-mail. The cool factor is high, but will anyone really pay money for a ...

The Spanish government has struck a last gasp deal with Xfera Moviles, postponing the operator's UMTS investment commitments until mid-2004. Spanish competitors are now at liberty to demand the same ...

The enhancements made by Siemens to the HiPath 4000 with the release of version 2.0 revolve around IP networking capability and, while commendable, mostly serve to bring the platform in ...

The new version of Nomadix's NSE software continues a trend of improving the product and addresses key PWLAN requirements such as improved security and wholesale roaming. Multiple software versions, ...

ADC expands its CMTS portfolio with the new Cuda 3000, a 4U-high platform designed for smaller markets. While the Cuda 3000 may enable ADC to win new accounts and revenue ...

Advent Networks unveils its 1U rack-mountable USR 4400 product, a compact version of the USR 8800, designed to address spectrum-limited HFC plant and thereby bolster Advent's ability to further extend ...