Cindy Steinman

3Com Corp. will launch a series of new LAN switches on Monday, and a network management product that will be available as a free download, as the network equipment manufacturer tries to come to grips with a slumping economy.

Policy-based network management can be a powerful tool in the fight for efficient networks

Approximately 50 to 65 per cent of wireless applications deployed during the next year will fail, according to Jack Gold, the vice-president, Web and collaboration strategies, for the META Group in Stamford, Conn.

When Oakville, Ont.-based telecommunications service provider Cannect Communications announced last February it would be going into receivership, analysts predicted there would be more Canadian competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) to follow down the same path.

Amid the hoopla surrounding the arrival of technologies based on the Bluetooth wireless specification, one consensus came out loud and clear at a recent seminar in Toronto: don

Keeping in touch is becoming more and more of a necessity for corporate workers, and research by various analyst firms indicates that the unified communications (UC) market is on the rise. With that in mind, one Mississauga, Ont.-based company launched a new offering to help the mobile workforce keep in touch.

As a part of its ongoing vision, Novell introduced its Novell Portal Services 1.0, software for e-businesses that offers users a "single, unified view of the Net," according to the company.

Acquisition and management news aside, BrainShare 2001 in Salt Lake City last month was an opportunity for Novell Inc. to keep moving forward with its One Net vision and introduce some new products to its customers.