Juniper this week reported fourth quarter and full year 2006 earnings in line with analyst expectations, but cautioned that expenses in building its enterprise product portfolio and channel will squeeze 2007 margins.
Publicly owned information infrastructure is the key to healthy competition, universal access and nondiscriminatory networks, according to a nonprofit firm that promotes "environmentally sound" economic development strategies.
Cisco has a number of significant extensions to its venerable 7600 Ethernet edge router, which were previewed in December at ITU. Among the more important was Broadband Remote Access Server (B-RAS), making the six-year-old workhorse Cisco's strategic -- for now -- aggregation platform for video. Cisco Senior Vice President Mike Volpi shared his thoughts on the ripened router, its ever increasing roles and its competition with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy.
It's been a little more than a year since Mike Zafirovski left Motorola to take the reins at Nortel. In that time he has remade top management, raised the profile of Nortel's enterprise business, focused product development, slashed costs, instituted quality and ethics principles, and established sales and profitability targets. Zafirovski shared his thoughts with Jim Duffy on how things have gone and what's next.
Redback Networks is taking shots at Cisco's 7600 edge router, just when the 6-year-old product is ready to become a more direct competitor to Redback's offerings.
Juniper Networks this week rolled out enhancements to its service management system and router software designed to enable service providers to more efficiently and reliably transport video services throughout the IP network core.
Businesses and consumers are willing to pay a premium for high-speed mobile data services such as VOIP, interactive video and video sharing, according to research conducted by Lucent.
Nortel will enhance a proprietary technology for improving the performance of Ethernet as part of its emphasis on becoming a leading supplier of metro Ethernet systems for carriers.
Juniper is about to put carrier Ethernet switch speculation to rest.
Even though the second quarter of 2006 saw the steepest drop in DSL prices in four years, it was also the quarter with the lowest broadband growth rate ever.
Cisco Monday announced carrier equipment designed to ease deployment of Ethernet-based business and consumer services.
Verizon Business this week said it signed a new five-year, US$100 million agreement with Johnson Controls to provide a range of global managed IP services.
Juniper Networks this week announced a series of enhancements to its E320 Broadband Services Router designed to improve the router's IPTV and "multiplay" service capabilities.
Nortel this week said it has partnered with Follwap, a developer of presence and instant messaging technology, to provide personalization, mobility and security for Nortel's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) product portfolio.
UBS Warburg has downgraded the stock of Redback Networks, citing "industry contacts" indicating that Redback has lost an edge router deal at Verizon.
