Jim Duffy

A month after the partnership was announced, the new organization is hiring and preparing for a launch early next year

Cisco now holds about 90 per cent of Tandberg shares, paving the way to an acquisition of the Norwegian video hardware vendors

The switch manufacturer is supporting hypervisors from VMware and plans to let its hardware move virtual machine policies across the network. Why Extreme does not plan to move switching functions to the server

If Hewlett Packard

The San Jose, Calif. switch and router giant wants to expand its video offerings and acquire lower-end desktop conferencing products. But it might not be able to convince enough Tandberg shareholders to sell

The S series includes four models, ranging from an edge switch to a multi-terabit core router. Total switching capacity exceeds a terabit per second

Most likely buyers would be: HP, which could fill out its data centre switching and SAN portfolio with a Brocade acquisition; and Oracle which would emerge a more complete player in the data centre centre arena by purchasing the Cisco rival...

If Avaya's offer is accepted, the company would gain about 10 percentage points in enterprise telephony revenue market share, further extending its lead on No. 2 vendor Cisco