ICANN: New domains coming in 2010 Internet policymakers are forging ahead with a controversial plan to introduce hundreds of generic top-level domains -- such as .nyc, .sport and .food -- next year. Avaya reportedly offering $500M for Nortel enterprise biz Avaya has emerged as the "favored bidder" for Nortel's Enterprise Solutions group, as Nortel is looking to sell off most or all of its assets, having apparently failed in a bid to emerge from bankruptcy as a viable competitor in data networking and telecom. Nortel Finished. What does that mean for Microsoft? The kingdom known as Nortel is falling apart. Regardless of the many conjectures as to why they failed the fact is there won't likely be a "restructured Nortel". Instead, anything desirable will be sold off to the highest bidder and the rest liquidated to cover bankruptcy obligations. Nortel's liquidation could cripple UC relationship with Microsoft Nortel's liquidation of its assets could possibly gut the 3-year-old unified communications partnership the company has with Microsoft. FAQ: What's going on with Nortel? With Nokia Siemens bidding on Nortel's wireless business and Avaya rumored to be grabbing up its enterprise gear, it is all but inevitable that the rest of company will be broken up and sold off in pieces, which raises questions. Here are some of them and the answers. Juniper bests Cisco, others for NYSE upgrade Cisco was but one vendor to lose out on a network upgrade at the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE chose Juniper to outfit it with a low latency 10G Ethernet network to connect data centers in New Jersey and London. New Internet2 CTO pushes multicast, IPv6 Next week, Randy Frank will take over as the new CTO of Internet2, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based consortium of 200 U.S. universities conducting advanced networking research. Study: US sees 'broadband boom' this decade The U.S. government should avoid making huge changes in its deregulatory telecom policies because consumers have seen a "broadband boom" since 2000, according to a new paper released Wednesday. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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