Enterprise chief says Nortel customers hit 'pause button' Nortel enterprise customers have pressed "a pause button" in purchasing gear from the company, the chief of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions group acknowledged this week. Expand targets TCO with new WAN client Expand Networks is to help large centralised enterprises adopt a more distributed structure, after announcing a mobile accelerator to cut the cost of deploying small branch offices, as well as roaming users. Expect more from WAN optimization than just optimization WAN optimization is becoming just an element of larger application-delivery schemes that vendors are approaching quite differently, Interop attendees were told this week Fibre channel over Ethernet a hot topic, so hurry up and wait FibreChannel over Ethernet is considered an initial step towards a converged data center switching fabric, and it was a hot topic at this week's Interop conference. Femtocells key to speedy LTE services To get the most out of upcoming mobile broadband networks based on LTE (Long Term Evolution), the use of femtocells is a key ingredient, according to industry organization the Femto Forum. Cisco unveils a grab bag of wireless LAN products Cisco unveiled a grab bag of wireless LAN announcements at Interop Tuesday, including much of what you'd expect in the form of new hardware. But there's a somewhat surprising twist: the equipment vendor's wide-ranging emphasis on software applications. May Giveaways Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31. |
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