IT executives shouldn't worry about bringing IPv6, 3G or 64-bit computing to the desktop until as late as 2007 or 2008, Gartner Inc. analysts advised this week at the the company's Symposium/ITxpo conference in Cannes, France.
After focusing on the service boundary for Frame Relay and ATM, Visual Networks Inc. is adding private network-based IP capabilities to its flagship WAN management solution.
Sprint Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have entered into a co-marketing and joint sales alliance designed to attract subscribers to the packet telephony services the two are building out as a result of last November's billion-dollar supply contract.