Jeff Burt

Alcatel is offering a starter kit of new voice and data convergence services for medium-to-large businesses interested in testing IP telephony without spending a fortune or eliminating legacy systems. The kit gives resellers a low-risk convergence option to offer enterprises considering IP telephony for branch offices or a network environment. It contains Alcatels IP-based voice […]

Nortel Networks Corp., of Brampton, Ontario, is rolling out a broadband service node to make digital subscriber lines more attractive to a wider market by enabling security features, including network-based firewalls and business-class virtual private networks. The Shasta 5000 Broadband Service Node allows access providers to offer value-added IP services and allows enterprise customers more […]

Protection in a box Intel Corp. last week launched a broadband router to help protect the security of always-on Internet connections at small and home offices. Fast and simple The Intel Express 8205 VPN Broadband Router takes the processing required to run VPNs (virtual private networks) and firewalls out of individual PCs and puts them […]

Kurant Corp. is adding an application, VirtualApp, to StoreSense, its e-commerce infrastructure offering. Company officials said VirtualApp will give merchants transactional capabilities—fast. The San Francisco-based company is partnering with SurePay LP, a subsidiary of First Data Corp., to offer VirtualApp, a paperless merchant account application and decisioning process. Kurant will market VirtualApp to the 125 […]

Novadigm Inc. recently sought to distance its business from a long-running patent infringement dispute with Marimba Inc. when it unveiled a new inventory management tool. The Mahwah, N.J., company, which last month settled its patent dispute with Marimba, addressed customer requirements to provide a more complete inventory management capability in its software and content distribution […]

Two developers have new technology that will enable large companies to help their smaller suppliers succeed in e-commerce. Metiom Inc. and Saqqara Systems Inc. are rolling out software and services that will help smaller companies build their own storefronts and manage online catalogs. New York-based Metiom last week launched Version 5.0 of its ConnectTrade e-commerce […]