Jim Duffy

RouteScience Technologies Inc., a two-year-old company developing policy- and performance-based routing products, Monday unveiled its first offering.

Cisco Systems Inc. rolled out enhancements to its optical portfolio designed to increase the channel count on its metro and long-haul transport platforms, at the National Fibre Optic Engineers Conference last month in Baltimore.

Vendors advocating optical Ethernet and mesh topologies in the metropolitan area did not do themselves any favours at last month's National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference.

At the National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (NFOEC) in Baltimore last month, start-up Akara Corp. unveiled a switch designed to deliver managed wavelength services to enterprises.

Nortel Networks Corp. said last month it has discontinued its OPTera Packet Core (OPC) terabit router for the Internet core, citing lack of demand and the distraction of its internal restructuring as it seeks to regain profitability.

Nortel Networks Corp. said Friday it has discontinued its OPTera Packet Core (OPC) terabit router for the Internet core, citing lack of demand and the distraction of its internal restructuring as it seeks to regain profitability.

In the latest of a string of high-level departures, Anil Khatod has resigned as Nortel Networks Corp.'s chief marketing and strategy officer after less than three months on the job.

The forum concept is a thinly veiled public relations campaign to promote vendor ambitions and expose "non-member" competitors.