Stephen Lawson

A telecommunications industry looking for the light at the end of the tunnel converged in Atlanta last week at the annual SuperComm conference and trade show.

Carrier network gear vendor Juniper Networks Inc. has agreed to acquire Unisphere Networks Inc., a network equipment division of Siemens AG, in a deal that also will give Juniper access to Siemens' worldwide sales channels, the companies announced Monday.

Carrier network gear vendor Juniper Networks Inc. has agreed to acquire Unisphere Networks Inc., a network equipment division of Siemens AG, in a deal that also will give Juniper access to Siemens' worldwide sales channels, the companies announced Monday.

A seasonal slowdown in enterprise spending was the most likely cause of sales drops for both Ethernet switches and wireless LAN equipment in the first calendar quarter of this year, according to market research company Dell

Cisco Systems Inc. increased its already dominant share of the worldwide router market in the first calendar quarter of this year, as the market shrank from the previous quarter and from a year earlier, market research company Dell'Oro Group Inc. reported Thursday.

Kicking off an initiative to provide for networks that just keep on going, Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday outlined software features it will add to its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) software over the course of this year to make network failures or updates invisible to end users.

Grid computing can deliver the equivalent of an operating system that makes the Internet into a massive virtual computing machine, letting users harness the power of many host systems without worrying about the complexity of the technology, an IBM Corp. executive said here Wednesday.

Web services are a key concern for Cisco Systems as the company plans initiatives over the next year to integrate security more deeply into network infrastructures, company executives said.