Jim Duffy

An established vendor and startup each unveiled multiservice routing and switching products and enhancements this week for a market that has become white hot.

Cisco Systems Inc. is remaining tightlipped as speculation swirls around the challenges its next-generation core router will face in the market.

Nortel Networks Corp. has yet another IP router play and this time it thinks it has a winner. The Multiservice Provider Edge (MPE) 9000 platform

Cisco Systems Inc. plans to unveil by June its next-generation Internet core router, a key part of the company's bid to retain its sizable market lead in the face of growing competition from Juniper and others.

Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced plans to purchase privately-held Riverhead Networks Inc., a maker of security technology that protects against distributed denial of service attacks, in an all-cash deal worth approximately US$39 million.

Through alliances with three companies, Nortel this week re-entered the broadband access market it exited almost three years ago.

The worldwide router market will grow six per cent over the next five years, while optical transport and mobility infrastructure won't see significant growth until 2005, according to Dell'Oro Group Inc.

On the heels of landing its largest customer, Procket Networks Inc. has lost its COO and perhaps its founder and chief scientist, Tony Li.