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Multi-Homing Branch Office VPN Links

Although providing high availability for remote branch offices while lowering WAN costs have worked at odds with each other in the past, Radware may have found a way to meet both goals. Next week Radware, best known as a leader for high-speed Layer 4 to Layer 7 switching, will address what officials believe is the […]

Dell Will Provide Free Switch

Dell Inc. is prepared to challenge established competitors in the LAN switching arena with the introduction of a network management tool that the vendor plans to distribute for free. Dells OpenManage Network Manager is designed to simplify management of 10 or more PowerConnect Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet switches, according to officials, in Round Rock, […]

Enterasys Enters SMB Space

Enterasys Networks Inc. is shifting its focus to SMBs with a new Layer 2 LAN switch that brings advanced security and traffic classification features to small and midsize businesses. The Matrix V 2 stackable switch provides rate limiting or classification of Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 traffic to ensure that more mission-critical or […]

USi Names New COO

With another quarter under its belt after emerging from bankruptcy in May 2002, USinternetworking Inc. is taking steps to further expand what its CEO characterized as a healthy business. Tomorrow the Annapolis, Md., ASP will announce that it has appointed former Scient Inc. CEO Stephen Mucchetti as its new Chief Operating Officer. The once ailing […]

New Tools Streamline Testing

Spirent Communications has unleashed a flood of new and enhanced testing tools designed to work in concert to test protocols and networking equipment implemented at the edge of the network. The Rockville, Md., wholly owned unit of Spirent plc., introduced 10 new or enhanced testing tools for three of its performance-analysis platforms that are intended […]

Getting Down to the Roots

System Management Arts Inc. is planning its first step toward complete end-to-end root-cause analysis with tools that track performance from device-level management through applications that deliver business services. The White Plains, N.Y., company, which built a solid fault management business on its root-cause analysis of network problems, plans to release next month InCharge ACM (Application […]

Sun Incentive Programs Reinforce Good Behavior

Sun Microsystems Inc. is hoping to help customers help themselves and at the same time improve system and network performance through a series of incentive programs tied to product and services pricing. As part of the price of some products, the Santa Clara, Calif., company will include credits for training and other services and will […]

Light Sniffer Targets Smaller Businesses

The sniffer technologies division of Network Associates Inc. is set to address the small and midsize business market with a light version of its Sniffer protocol analyzer. The new Netasyst Network Analyzer is a software-based protocol analyzer designed for more cost-conscious SMBs with IT generalists on staff, according to Steve Finegan, product manager at Network […]

Dell Giving Away Network Management Tool

Dell Inc. on Tuesday will throw down the gauntlet to more established competitors in the LAN switching arena when it introduces a new network management tool that it is giving away for free. The new Dell OpenManage Network Manager is designed to simplify management of 10 or more PowerConnect Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet switches. […]

Enterasys Offers SMBs a More Stable LAN Switch

Enterasys Networks Inc. on Tuesday will shift is product line refresh focus to the midmarket with a new Layer 2 LAN switch that brings advanced security and traffic classification features to small- and medium-sized enterprises. The new Matrix V 2 stackable switch provides rate limiting, or classification of Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 […]