Matt Hamblen

In an attempt to help companies reduce overspending on licensing costs, two software vendors separately announced products last week that track software license compliance.

Nortel Networks Corp. named Malcolm Collins as its president of the enterprise networks division in December, two months after launching a renewed effort to win enterprise customers for networking products. That new direction came after layoffs and revenue declines for Nortel amid a stormy market for network gear makers. Collins spoke with Computerworld's (US) Matt Hamblen.

Brampton, Ontario-based Nortel Networks Corp. named Malcolm Collins as its president of the enterprise networks division in December, two months after launching a renewed effort to win enterprise customers for networking products.

In a move aimed at unifying factory-floor networks with the ones in corporate back offices, Cisco Systems Inc. has unveiled a ruggedized line of switches based on IP and Ethernet.

Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced Version 5.0 of its Application and Content Networking System (ACNS) software, saying the upgrade offers greater scalability to companies that use video and other high-bandwidth applications for internal training and communications.

Testers recently found a vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an emerging standard used for connections between devices in IP networks such as voice-over-IP phones. But several vendors and analysts say they have heard no reports of significant problems from users.

NetVmg Inc., one of a group of vendors in the emerging market for route-control appliances, this month unveiled software designed to let network managers create what-if scenarios for comparing the costs charged by different wide-area network service providers based on their real-world IT needs.

As XML-based Web services continue to evolve, a new category of XML-aware data routers is emerging that could smooth out Web services transactions.