Stephen Lawson

L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. and router vendor Juniper Networks Inc. have teamed up to create a router designed to help mobile operators migrate from traditional cellular voice and dial-up data services to emerging higher speed data offerings.

Service providers that want to offer multiple services over a single infrastructure instead of maintaining parallel networks will get more horsepower for the job from Nortel Networks Corp. in the second quarter when it rolls out its largest multi-service switch yet.

Wireless LANs that use the IEEE 802.11b and 802.11a standards stormed the market in the fourth quarter of last year, with revenue worldwide growing 21 per cent sequentially from the third quarter, market research company Dell'Oro Group Inc. reported Thursday.

Wireless LANs using the IEEE 802.11b and 802.11a standards stormed the market in the fourth quarter of last year, with revenue worldwide growing 21 per cent sequentially from the third quarter, says market research firm Dell

Moving to help its customers manage their security architectures and help those systems keep up with traffic, Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced new software for its Pix Firewall platform and the availability of new hardware models to join that line.

Moving to help its customers manage their security architectures and help those systems keep up with traffic, Cisco announced new software for its Pix Firewall platform and the availability of new hardware models to join that line.

Looking to smooth service providers' paths toward offering advanced services based on IP (Internet Protocol), Unisphere Networks Inc. on Monday announced a new series of routing switches for the edge of service-provider networks.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants to move quickly to upgrade regulations so that service providers can accelerate the construction of broadband networks, FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin told telecommunications industry executives Wednesday at the Supernet trade show in Santa Clara, Calif.