| Report: Nortel seeks to sell off more business units Nortel may sell off more of itself than previously announced, leaving very little as a core business if all the speculated sales go through. The company is looking for buyers of its wireless equipment and enterprise telecom businesses, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Interested parties include Avaya, Siemens, Gores Group and Nokia Siemens. Radware makes a play for Nortel's Alteon business Other rivals including Enterasys, Extreme Networks, Juniper and F5 have been making overtures to Alteon customers lately, trying to lure them to their own application delivery offerings as Nortel’s financial situation worsened. But with the intellectual property in house, Radware hopes to make a more compelling case to win over Alteon customers. Nortel wants to unload application-delivery unit to Radware Nortel wants to sell off its application-delivery gear to Radware, but to keep on selling it under an OEM agreement. Nortel sells technology for a fraction of original value Nortel Networks announced that it is selling application delivery technology to Radware for $17.65 million, a fraction of the $6 billion-plus price it paid for it in 2000. Nortel Networks Inc. this month sold application delivery technology to Radware Ltd. for a fraction of the $6 billion-plus price it paid for its developer, Alteon WebSystems Inc., in 2000. IETF to explore new routing technique The IETF is forming a new working group to address scalability issues in the Internet's routing system caused by companies splitting their network traffic over multiple carriers, a practice called multihoming. 7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful The IETF Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching. The Internet’s leading standards body hosted a panel discussion outlining the reasons why the 12-year-old protocol has been so widely deployed and such a big moneymaker for carriers. How do you manage IP addresses? Typically pushed to the backburner, IP address management (IPAM) upgrades in enterprise IT departments might have gotten some attention last year, according to recent survey results Guide to videoconferencing services: Part I "Once the economy begins to recover, videoconferencing will see meteoric growth," BT's Videoconferencing Unit general manager Jeff Prestel told us in a recent interview. In the mean time growth is respectable, experience quality is improving, systems are easier to use, and high-end "immersive" solutions are creating a lot of buzz -- although not making major inroads just yet. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books for grabs (15 copies each): CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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