A year after its closest competitor, Cisco Systems Inc. at the ComNet trade show said it will ship 10G bps capabilities for its Internet core routers in March.
Nortel Networks Corp. is readying a high-end switch for service providers that could improve Web site and network application uptime for firms that outsource their hosting operations.
Lucent Technologies Inc. this week announced a 1.6T bps long haul optical networking system and said that Time Warner Telecom Inc. is the first customer for the new product.
Corporate demand for next-generation telecom services may keep service providers buying new equipment in 2001, despite forecasts that growth in their capital expenditures will slow.
New management software from Cisco Systems Inc. is designed to let users more easily administer quality-of-service policies across large-scale networks.