Stephen Lawson

With the market for network processors stalled in the doldrums of slow investment by enterprises and carriers, some vendors of the chips for handling network tasks have turned to one of the few topics that is getting potential customers' attention these days: security.

Long-distance, large-scale data transmissions will become more reliable and easier to control with enhancements announced late last month for Digital Fountain Inc.'s Transporter Fountain.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) said Thursday it will add two seats to its board of directors, a move that may help heal a rift between the group and Sun Microsystems Inc.

A new architecture for the connections between interfaces on a network switch will let equipment makers build platforms that grow with customer needs for seven to 10 years, according to start-up Dune Networks Inc., which unveiled the architecture Tuesday.

Service providers now can always have enough bandwidth in reserve to recover from failures, according to Cisco Systems Inc., which on Monday introduced software designed to deliver on that promise.

Nortel Networks Corp. is shutting down the optical components business it acquired in March 2000 as CoreTek Inc.

Corporate and carrier networks are likely to be transformed by a new generation of processors built using a 90-nanometer manufacturing process, the smallest and fastest yet, Intel Corp. said Monday.

A system that lets companies reduce the number of bits traveling across a private wide area network (WAN) connection, thus reducing bandwidth costs, now can maintain priorities the company has set for different kinds of traffic.