Jim Duffy

A branch office connectivity system to eliminate the need for local IT resources, a security service to control application access and a server system for hosting, Web serving or outsourcing applications are among the new products

Big Blue moves deeper into data centre networking with purchase of Blade Network Technologies. An industry analyst is surprised it took IBM so long

The networking company outlines a strategy to stimulate growth through internal and third-party application development on its Junos operating system.

"The objective is fast fail," says CTO. "This is not a research lab where people are going to spend 10 years developing some fundamental science."rn

Router chassis has at least twice the 100G Ethernet density of Internet core routers from Cisco and Juniper. An industry analyst says the move keeps the company up with competitors

Anonymous sources working for wireless vendors claim they heard from some little birdies that Juniper Networks Inc. has decided it wants to acquire Trapeze, whose products include wireless local-area network controllers and access points.rn

A report from Oppenheimer & Co. predicts Dell Inc. might break into the storage area networking space by acquiring Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Compellent Technologies Inc. or CommVault Systems Inc. Find out about the speculation on some possible future storage mergers and acquisitions

Changes would address spanning tree limitations and load balancing issues for organizations working with multiple ISPs. But Cisco and Juniper say they either do that now or are about to