Aruba will combine its WiFi technology with Meridian's software platform for smartphones and tablets to create services for use in public venues.

Google Fiber is slowly but surely expanding around the United States. And in the process, it's making companies and consumers think twice about their current services.

Cisco CEO John Chambers said the company's strong architectural play will serve it well in such areas as SDN and the cloud.

The NCP VPN Client for Android 4.x is a full-function virtual private network client. Android natively supports VPNs, although not all hardware manufacturers include the VPN libraries on their devices. Check with your manufacturer first, or try the demonstration version of the client to be sure. This client allows you to create custom profiles, each with multiple options. Creating a profile simply requires you to provide a name and then fill in the options. The client lets you choose the Diffie-Hellman key exchange level, up to 2,048 bits. You can also choose extended authentication (XAUTH), as well as Internet Key Exchange versions 1 (for basic edition) and 2 (for premium edition). In addition, configurations can be imported, by saving the configuration on the SD card first, and the configuration can be auto-deleted after import. Statistics are available at runtime, showing you such information as the total bytes transmitted, and the security mode and full logs are available showing the connections, bytes received and more, along with a timestamp.

IT and business leaders are collaborating more, but despite the importance of IT, there is still a gulf between the two, a Cisco survey finds.

LightSquared's Philip Falcone will pay $18 million for dirty dealings. The Times called the fine "a rounding error to a hedge fund billionaire."

The announcement comes just more than year after ShoreTel, under Blackmore, bought M5 Networks to acquire cloud-based UC capabilities.

The Commission proposes to establish an air-ground mobile broadband service, using a ground-based network to communicate with planes.

The Open Compute Project says it will turn its attention to developing open-standard network switches, news that won't be entirely welcome with makers of proprietary switches, especially Cisco.

Broadcom’s latest StrataGX chips bring greater processing power, energy efficiency and security over current offerings, officials said.

Many Dish Network claims about the synergies a merger with Sprint would create are unfounded, an advisor has told Sprint.

The OCP's switch initiative, like SDN efforts, wants to create ways of making networks fit better in virtualized, energy-efficient data centers.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Range Networks is releasing a standards-based hardware-software cell network that is open source from end to end using equipment and software made in the United States.

The company wants to bring together vendors and partners to help businesses adapt to their changing data centers, officials said.

The company’s Stingray Services Controller brings ADC in line with increasingly scalable and dynamic data centers.