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Nokia Siemens to tap into Ruckus for service-provider Wi-Fi

Ruckus Wireless will announce two deals at the CTIA Wireless show this week which reflect service providers' growing interest in the unlicensed wireless technology.
Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G Ethernet to core switches

Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.
Tech firms make poor showing in Sunday Times Rich List

Technology entrepreneurs made a poor showing in this year's Sunday Times Rich List, with individuals and families in the ?computers, telecoms and internet? category making up just 65 of the top 1,000 richest people in Britain and Ireland.
Avaya SME switches to rival Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent products

Avaya has unveiled low-end Ethernet switches for small and midsize enterprises and remote branches that include features usually found in higher-end enterprise-class switches.
Alcatel-Lucent's OpenTouch Conversation unifies communications on iPad

Alcatel-Lucent's OpenTouch Conversation software will allow enterprise users to switch among different ways of communicating - including instant messaging, voice calls and video conferencing - without interrupting their conversations. The software will first be available on Apple's iPad, the company said on Monday.
7 ways Alcatel-Lucent hopes to change the conversation

A favorite marketing tagline for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is "Change the Conversation."
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6450 to challenge Cisco and HP

Alcatel-Lucent are set tp unveil a new Ethernet switch - the OmniSwitch 6450 - for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier.
Dell jumps into network virtualisation market

Dell this week is throwing its hat into the virtual networking ring with an architecture that initially is long on vision but short on specifics.
Nokia Siemens hopes data use growth can aid recovery

Nokia Siemens Networks CEO Rajeev Suri believes that by 2020 the average wireless network user will generate 1GB of data traffic on wireless networks every day, and this will require networks 10 times as fast.
Wi-Fi specialist Ruckus expands into hybrid mobile networks

With Wi-Fi poised to become a much bigger part of mobile networks, the leaders in wireless LAN and cellular technology are converging on the same space from opposite directions.

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Network virtualisation and next generation network architecture

As IT leaders try to get the best performance and efficiency out of their virtualised environments, they're realising the need for virtual networking, and often a whole new networking architecture that's designed for virtualisation from the ground up.
Wi-Fi, small cells could disrupt mobile

The rise of mixed mobile networks of Wi-Fi, small cells and traditional base stations, a major theme of this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, may change the competitive landscape of both service providers and equipment vendors.
Retailers' IT infrastructure gets a Christmas boost

With Christmas a few days away, many of us are now finally starting to get into the festive spirit, but for most high street shops and online retailers, preparations started months ago. Not only have they had to prepare their stock and take on extra staff to maintain service levels during the Christmas period, but they have also had to prepare their IT infrastructure for the busiest time of the year.
Fabric wars: Cisco vs. Brocade vs. Juniper

The past three years have been very noisy on the data center fabric and architecture front. Every quarter seems to bring about a new convergence blueprint from another vendor - and a variety from one or two.
Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011

A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year.
Top 10 Cisco rivals

Competition is only getting tougher for Cisco as it continues to expand in 30 or so new markets while attempting to maintain growth in its core routing and switching businesses.
All about Avaya

Avaya has made news over the past few years by going private, buying up Nortel's enterprise division and revamping its channel partner system. Here are some frequently asked questions about Avaya.
A guide to Network Access Control access control

To understand how access control is done in NAC products, you have to look along three dimensions: where access controls are enforced, how access control is communicated, and the granularity of access control.
A guide to Network Access Control endpoint security

One of the main promises of network access control is that you can ensure that endpoint security tools are up to date and that non-compliant machines can be identified or blocked. As regulatory compliance has grown in importance, NAC vendors have reacted by building strong feature sets aimed at endpoint security and compliance. In our NAC testing, we had good, and sometimes great, results across the board when it came to endpoint security.
A guide to Network Access Control authentication

In the network access control products we tested, authentication varies from very strong to very weak, and every point in-between. When starting down your path of evaluating NAC products, decide very early what kind of authentication mechanism you want, if any.

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