System vendors are welcoming new technologies for carrying Ethernet over synchronous optical networks (SONET), a development that will enable additional services on their previously SONET-only ...

Force10 Networks this week is expected to launch its first packet-over-SONET blade, aimed at large companies that need to connect to legacy WAN infrastructures but want to avoid deploying stand-alone ...

Many companies have made large investments in dense wavelength division multiplexing technologies to meet growing data and storage requirements. DWDM systems provided the first basic connectivity for ...

Two key issues are driving today’s strategic-industry customers: the need for cost reduction and increased efficiency from their business operations in light of limited funding and the need to provide ...

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PHOENIX & WOKING, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) today announced the deployment of a new nationwide Hypercom-based electronic payment network in the Czech Republic.

San Jose, Calif., May 12, 2003— Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the availability of INTEC Systems' SONET/SDH intellectual property (IP) cores through the Altera Megafunction ...

Metropolitan-area networks (MAN) built on Ethernet over fiber promise to deliver faster, cheaper and more flexible bandwidth than ATM/Sonet-based technologies. But IT professionals contemplating the ...

We live in a virtual world where most of us have network access in our homes -- the Internet -- which is a virtual network. We access the virtual network with some form of TCP/IP connection that is ...

Internet Protocol (IP) traffic is a primary driver of theexplosive growth of the Internet. The Internet has been growing atan exponential rate over the past several years. This growth hascreated an ...