Paula Musich

As more carriers and cable companies dip their toes into the market for bandwidth-hungry IPTV and video-on-demand services, they will have to improve the weakest link in the service delivery chain: the core of the carriers network. Juniper Networks and Intelliden have teamed up to help by bridging the gap between quality-of-service mechanisms and policies […]

Microsoft and Nortel Networks, which have been talking about their Unified Communications Alliance since it was introduced last summer, are now beginning to put products and release dates into the mix. At an event in New York Jan. 17, executives from both companies outlined a series of integrated offerings that are due this year. The […]

Underscoring the 25 percent growth reported on Jan. 18 by IBMs Tivoli unit in its fourth quarter results is a strong push by IBM into portions of the telecommunications market. Coming up close on the one year anniversary of IBMs $865 million acquisition of Micromuse, IBM has seen “incredible growth rates” from that acquisition, which […]

Network analysis provider Fluke Networks continued its expansion in the enterprise network performance management space Jan. 16 with the announced acquisition of Crannog Software. Crannog, of Dublin, Ireland, which markets NetFlow-based network monitoring products, gives Fluke a stronger position in a market that is growing 50 percent annually across the globe, according to Jeff Lime, […]

Microsoft and Nortel Networks on Jan. 17 revealed more about their Unified Communications Alliance, announcing real deliverables and detailing a road map for further products due next year. The alliance, launched in the summer of 2006, has yielded over the last six months a series of integrated offerings due out this year. First of the […]

Systems management platform provider uXcomm on Jan. 17 will launch a new architecture and products based on it that are designed to be to management applications what SOA is to business applications. The new SOMA (Service-Oriented Management Architecture) and follow-on uXcomm XManage Server Edition and XManage Information Appliance Edition products based on SOMA are aimed […]

Cisco Systems is jumping into the growing digital signage market with the introduction of a new Digital Media Manager and Digital Media Player duo. With its entry, slated for Jan. 16, Cisco is declaring that digital signage is an emerging technology market that could represent a $1 billion business opportunity five to seven years down […]

Service level management provider Oblicore on Jan. 16 will seek to capitalize on the growing interest in IT Business Service Management with the release of its Oblicore Guarantee 4.0. The privately held 5-year-old company hopes to carve out a place among HP, CA and BMC as well as smaller BSM competitors such as Managed Objects. […]

For large enterprises using the remote management services of different manufacturers and IT service providers, giving each of them remote access to the data center is fraught with security, complexity and compliance concerns. Remote connectivity software provider Combrio on Jan. 16 will address those problems with the launch of its third generation Virtual Service Infrastructure […]

Cisco Systems rained on Apples iPhone parade Jan. 10 when the networking behemoth said it is suing Apple, accusing it of trademark infringement on the iPhone name. Cisco, which claims it had negotiated with Apple in good faith over permission to use the name, received the iPhone trademark seven years ago when it acquired Infogear. […]

Almost a year to the date that Juniper Networks announced a shakeup of its executive ranks, the networking company has appointed former Macromedia CEO Stephen Elop as its new chief operating officer. Elop, who until early December had been Adobes president of worldwide field operations following Macromedias merger with Adobe, will report directly to Junipers […]

In the networking space in 2007, voice over IP will be less about reducing communications cost on a converged IP network and more about improving productivity and creating new business applications that incorporate voice to generate new streams or enhance customer service. The steady vendor drumbeat in 2006 around unified communications helped lay the groundwork […]