Friday, December 1, 2000

Amazon.com Site Crashes Again
800-pound gorilla of e-retailing experiences a brief, second crash affecting its primary site.

   Friday, October 27, 2000

Microsoft Break-In Shows Need for Better Security
Computer security experts say the hacker who broke into Microsoft's internal network is sending a clear signal for all IT managers to step up their security preparations. If it can happen to Microsoft, it can happen to anyone, said John Pescatore, an analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based GartnerGroup.

   Thursday, July 13, 2000

NetSolve Adds VPN Service
NetSolve Inc., a provider of outsourced network management and security services, will begin offering a managed virtual private networking service later this quarter.

   Monday, July 10, 2000

Alcatel Partners With IBM Global Services
Alcatel and IBM Global Services today announced a partnership to deliver networking technology to Internet data centers in North America.

   Wednesday, July 5, 2000

HP Cuts Switch And Hub Prices
Hewlett-Packard today announced it has lowered the prices on some of its switches and hubs.

   Thursday, June 29, 2000

SBC Maps The Enterprise
SBC Communications, Inc. has begun offering its Enterprise Designer, an automated design and performance modeling service for complex enterprise networks.

   Tuesday, June 27, 2000

Justice Throws Wrench in WorldCom-Sprint Merger
Department of Justice files suit to block proposed $129 billion merger, citing anticompetitive effects.

   Tuesday, June 20, 2000

Experts Link Up For Disaster Planning Services
Comdisco and Gartner Group will offer ROI analysis, comparison within industry sectors

Candle Measures End-To-End Response
Candle last week released version 1.3 of its ETEWatch product, which lets IT managers look at the total performance of an application for a single user, a group of users, or for the entire enterprise.

   Tuesday, June 13, 2000

Nortel Helps Mid-Size Business Toward Convergence
Small and mid-sized businesses--who may boast dreams of convergence but now are saddled with the reality of not knowing how to manage blended voice and data networks--are the target of a new IP-PBX platform rolled out Tuesday by Nortel Networks.

Frame Relay Gets Traffic-Shaping
Frame relay gets traffic-shaping capabilities for improved voice and data throughput

   Monday, June 12, 2000

Measuring Streaming Media
Keynote seeks to establish new metrics for delivery and reception

   Tuesday, June 6, 2000

Cisco, GE Tackle Industrial Networks
Cisco Systems and GE Industrial Systems announced today they would form a new company, GE Cisco Industrial Networks, to assess, design and construct network infrastructures for industrial environments.

Cable & Wireless, MS Strike Hosting Deal
Cable & Wireless will host Microsoft applications and deliver those apps to small and medium businesses under a partnership unveiled today between the two firms.

BellSouth Pumps Up Managed Services
As part of its effort to tap the multitrillion-dollar e-business marketplace, BellSouth Monday beefed up its menu of enterprise services, rolling out enhancements to its frame relay, VPN and remote access service platforms.

   Friday, June 2, 2000

Service Overcomes Need To Tailor Web Content
AlterEgo Networks' service uses an XML abstraction layer to let data be delivered seamlessly to wired, wireless devices.

   Wednesday, May 31, 2000

Server Links Reach Your Palm
Palm Inc. delivers enterprise software that provides connectivity from handhelds to NT servers.

UPDATE: Amazon.Com Infrastructure Business Gives HP A Big Boost
Major endorsement from Amazon.com could yield other big dotcom business for computer vendor.

HP Wins Amazon.com's Infrastructure Business
Computer giant supplants Compaq and Sun as key supplier to E-business bellwether.

   Tuesday, May 30, 2000

Google Bets The Ranch On Linux
Free OS plus strong in-house support capability convince search engine firm to bet its business on upstart OS platform. Company will deploy up to 6,000 servers.

SBC Fiber Deals to Fuel Expansion
Carrier signs with Metromedia Fiber Network, FPL FiberNet to deliver telecom services to 30 new markets.

Cisco VoIP Switch Caters to Mid-Size Enterprises
Catalyst 3524 PWR XL geared to companies with 250 to 1,000 users needing integrated voice/data capabilities.

   Thursday, May 25, 2000

Job Sites: Bring On The Traffic
Major resume and employment sites are building out their infrastructure to accommodate seasonal increases in traffic.

   Wednesday, May 24, 2000

Sprint's ION Chief Departs
Key player in Sprint's integrated services portfolio leaves company, citing personal reasons. Duties split between three execs.

   Tuesday, May 23, 2000

Airport Kiosks Wire Business Travelers
Bell Atlantic introduces Internet access for 25 cents a minute in east coast airports.

Qwest Delivers Three Hosted Services
Latest ASP offerings leverage customized templates and applications from SAP, Oracle, Siebel, Captura, PeopleSoft and Ariba.

   Friday, May 19, 2000

Software Brings Order To Queues
Start-up product puts flash traffic 'on hold,' manages user access to transaction servers

   Thursday, May 18, 2000

High Performance Is Now The Fashion At Victoria's Secret
Lingerie retailer's second major online fashion show goes much smoother, according to site performance tracking firm.

Cisco Keeps Directory Users in Suspense
Despite pledging support for standards body, networking kingpin holds back details on plans to support non-Microsoft directories.

   Tuesday, May 16, 2000

Compaq Renews Push For E-infrastructure Space
Marching into what it hopes is a new era of supplying key infrastructure to high-end e-businesses, Compaq took the veil off its line of AlphaServers.

Cisco Aims To Maximize Use Of Existing Fiber
Further expanding its reach in the optical networking market, Cisco Systems said it will shell out $800 million for Stockholm, Sweden-based Qeyton Systems, a developer of metropolitan dense wave division multiplexing (MDWDM) technology.

 Monday, May 15, 2000

Pilot Fortifies Hosted Servers
Hosting provider Pilot Network Services has added a service that adds another layer of security to e-business infrastructures.

   Friday, May 12, 2000

Cisco Forges Ahead With Gig Ethernet
Cisco took major steps forward in its Ethernet product lineup this week, demonstrating for the first time its planned 10-gigabit Ethernet product and unveiling gigabit-over-copper modules for its Catalyst switch lines.

   Thursday, May 11, 2000

Microsoft, Others Eye Cable Opportunities
Insisting that Microsoft's problems with the Department of Justice will pose no long-term difficulties, Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday detailed the company's plans for expanded partnerships in the broadband cable industry.

   Monday, May 8, 2000

NTT Buys Verio For $5B
Japan's telecommunications giant NTT Corp. Sunday snapped up Web hosting company Verio for $5 billion in cash

Will Wireless Access For ION Be Spark For Sprint?
Sprint hopes to draw more enterprises to its ION converged service with a new broadband wireless option that promises to make the service cheaper and easier to access.

   Friday, May 5, 2000

Sniffers Overhauled For E-Biz
Network analyzers keep tabs on app performance

   Friday, March 31, 2000

AT&T Takes Controlling Stake in Net2Phone
Reflecting a growing interest in voice-over-IP technologies, a group of companies led by AT&T today announced a $1.4 billion investment in Internet telephony vendor Net2Phone Inc.

   Friday, March 24, 2000

Carrier Delivers New VoIP Services
GTE Internetworking is expanding its voice-over-IP portfolio with capabilities that service providers can offer to enterprise customers.

   Thursday, March 23, 2000

Analysis
3Com's Enterprise Exit Catches IT Off Guard
Suckered. That's how a disillusioned 3Com customer said he feels about the networking pioneer's decision to abandon the enterprise switching market.

Sprint Steps Up Service Level Pacts
Sprint has boosted its service level agreements and also unveiled a platform supporting interworking SLAs for ATM and frame relay services.

Comdisco Offers High Availability
Whether it's a denial-of-service attack or simply a boom in Web traffic, IT managers face the challenge of ensuring that internal users and customers can access their sites. Enter Comdisco.

   Wednesday, March 22, 2000

Cisco's Wireless Entries Appeal To Corporate Users
Cisco is set to ship its first-ever wireless LAN products for the enterprise.

   Tuesday, March 7, 2000

MCI WorldCom Launches High Speed Wireless Trials
Carrier's fixed wireless strategy gets underway in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.

   Tuesday, February 29, 2000

ATM Advances, But Do Users Care?
ATM users may get more oomph out of the technology with some advances made by the ATM Forum's technical committee, but it's not clear how many customers are listening or care.

   Friday, February 18, 2000

Global Crossing Loss Widens
Global Crossing said costs associated with construction and recent acquisitions led to a fourth-quarter loss more than three times higher than the year-ago period.

   Friday, February 11, 2000

Interliant Puts Together E-Comm Apps, Servers
Interliant has become the second ASP to launch an e-commerce package, following a similar offering from GTE Internetworking last month.

Carriers Landing Customers For Unified Services, But Skeptics Abound
The race to network convergence isn't picking up much speed.

GlobalCenter Partners For Web Consulting
GlobalCenter will begin offering IT consulting services to enterprises as part of a recent deal struck with Tanning Technology Corp.

   Wednesday, February 9, 2000

Manage All Hosted Apps In One Place
Jamcracker and Loudcloud have rolled out application integration and management platforms designed to give enterprises plug-and-play access to multiple applications and technology services.

Vendors Form Alliance To Push 10-Gbit Ethernet
In an effort to advance the acceptance of 10-Gbit Ethernet technology, several vendors launched an alliance that will push for standards and promote interoperability between different products.

   Monday, February 7, 2000

IT Gains Unified View Into Hosted Apps

   Wednesday, February 2, 2000

Workfire.com's 'Genetic Caching' Takes Caching To The Next Level
Workfire.com next week will detail the experiences of some beta customers, who say "genetic caching" is helping them realize substantial improvements in page loading times--anywhere from 45 percent to 60 percent increases in performance.

   Friday, January 28, 2000

Lucent Simplifies IP Management
Lucent has developed what it calls the Internet Protocol Network Configurator (IPNC), software that helps configure and manage IP networks.

With Relaunch, FTD.com Won't Tolerate Downtime
FTD.com wasn't taking any chances when it decided to relaunch its 6-year-old flower and gift site.

Gig Ethernet Reaches Across WAN
In a bid to woo enterprises with bandwidth-intensive Internet access demands, Exodus Communications Inc. has rolled out a new data service based on Gigabit Ethernet.

   Thursday, January 27, 2000

VPNX.com Helps Users Get Access To Apps On The Fly
VPNX.com wants to let IT managers provide secure, on-demand access to applications within and between companies.

Online Florist Blooms With Caching
Proflowers.com had a lofty goal when it first launched into business in late 1998: to handle 250,000 transactions per day. Today, the site is at 50,000 to 75,000 transactions daily and counting. How did the company design its network infrastructure to meet such a challenge? It relies on caching.

AT&T Targeting ASPs, Enterprises With Hosted Services
AT&T said it is targeting application service providers and enterprises with a new set of data hosting capabilities.

   Tuesday, January 25, 2000

BellSouth Adds Security, Consulting And New SLAs
BellSouth has rolled out a managed security service and also struck a deal with Predictive Systems to provide telecom consulting services.

   Monday, January 24, 2000

AT&T Rolls Out New Managed Services
The new services feature applications operations management, a LAN utility service, a network professional service and enterprise networking management.

   Friday, January 21, 2000

New Tools Centralize, Enforce VPN Policies
One of the biggest challenges IT managers face with virtual private networks is management. Plenty of VPN management systems are available, but most don't scale well for large deployments.

Alcatel To Debut VoIP System
Alcatel--primarily known as a supplier of voice communications systems to European carriers--is taking the wraps off its OmniPCX 4400 VoIP system next week.

IT Managers Push Broadband Service To Advance E-Biz
IT managers are taking novel steps, such as building extranets atop consumer broadband services, to ensure their customers have the high-speed links they need for e-business applications.

   Thursday, January 20, 2000

Enron Broadband Plans Network Expansion
Enron Broadband Services said it will spend $350 million over the next two years to overhaul its network.

SBC Taps Infonet For Enhanced Services
SBC Communications will broaden its portfolio of services and extend its reach worldwide through an agreement it struck with Infonet Services Corp.

   Wednesday, January 19, 2000

Slew Of High-Speed Wireless, Web Load-Balancing Products To Debut At ComNet
IT managers are gaining more and more tools for cutting their users loose from the physical confines of their networks.

Uunet Sets Virtual ISP Service
Uunet unveiled a virtual ISP service aimed at smaller ISPs and companies that want to provide Internet access and other business applications to customers.

Cisco Rounds Out VPN Line With Two Acquisitions
Cisco Systems has announced it would acquire privately held VPN companies Altiga Networks and Compatible Systems for $567 million in stock.

   Tuesday, January 18, 2000

Cisco Targets Midsize Networks
Cisco Systems has taken a step back from its usual focus on switching in large enterprises to recognize opportunities in a swelling market: midsize networks with 250 to 1,000 employees.

Altiga Networks Rounds Out VPN Line
Altiga Networks has announced three new models of its VPN Concentrator line.

   Friday, January 14, 2000

Hardware, Management Software Broaden Lucent's VPN Line
Lucent is set to unveil its Secure VPN strategy that integrates its existing VPN gateway line with products from recently acquired Ascend and Xedia, while adding an IP Security client.

Mercury's Load Test App Moves On To The Web
Mercury Interactive is taking its application performance testing package and moving it to the Web.

   Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Foundry Switch Software Delivers For E-Businesses
Foundry Networks is set to introduce enhancements to its ServerIron XL and BigIron switch platforms that will address critical traffic management and performance challenges for e-businesses.

   Tuesday, January 11, 2000

3Com To Extend LAN Telephony To Large Enterprises
3Com announced its would "dramatically change" the way enterprise customers use telephones. The vendor's IP telephony strategy includes plans to grow its NBX technology into non-proprietary applications for large enterprises.

Nortel Partners With Sun-Netscape
Nortel and the Sun-Netscape Alliance announced plans to combine their products and services to develop a platform designed to help ISPs and ASPs offer and manage customized, packaged services.

   Monday, January 10, 2000

Nextlink Bolsters Internet Service Offerings With Concentric Purchase
Nextlink Communications said it will buy Concentric Network Corp. for about $2.9 billion in stock.

Cabletron Boosts WLANs To 11 Mbps
Strengthening its position in the wireless LAN market, Cabletron Systems has unveiled its new High Rate RoamAbout outdoor product.

   Friday, December 31, 1999

Telcos Don't Expect Y2K Network Problems
Major carriers say New Year's Day generally doesn't cause traffic spike, but they advise customers not to test for dial tone.

   Wednesday, December 29, 1999

Proxim Closes Wavespan Acquisition
Deal gives wireless LAN company new 100-Mbps wireless bridging gear.

   Monday, December 27, 1999

Microsoft Lights Fire Under MSN
String of partnerships underscore the software company's renewed emphasis on ISP/portal.

   Monday, December 13, 1999

Nortel Targeting ASPs With New Service
Nortel Networks is taking aim at the budding application service provider marketplace, unveiling agreements with vendors including HP and Software.com to funnel managed applications to small- and mid-sized enterprises.

Qwest, Level 3 Add Capabilities
Qwest Communications has activated its first OC-192 link, enabling the carrier to move traffic at 10 Gbps between Sunnyvale, Calif., and New York.

Friday, December 10, 1999

McDermott Consolidates Messaging Systems Through Outsourcing
About a year ago, McDermott International Inc., the $3 billion diversified energy services company, was having a power failure. The global company's 10,000 employees were experiencing delays of between two days and two weeks in getting some of their e-mail, due primarily to incompatible systems at the four divisions comprising McDermott.

   Thursday, December 9, 1999

Load Balancers Create 'Firewall Sandwiches'
IT managers may purchase load-balancing switches for gigabit performance and maximum uptime, but they're increasingly finding an unexpected benefit: The switches can prevent firewalls from becoming a choke point in the network.

Quintum Sets VoIP 'Guarantee'
Quintum Technologies Inc. next week is releasing a new voice-over-IP gateway that comes with a written 100 percent guarantee that an enterprise's IP calls will go through to completion.

PSINet, FutureLink Beef Up Data Centers
Service providers PSINet and FutureLink have beefed up their data centers, announcing partnerships with hardware and software vendors aimed at helping the providers offer high-availability services to businesses.

   Wednesday, December 8, 1999

Price To Leave MCI WorldCom
MCI WorldCom has announced that Timothy Price will be leaving the company early next year. Price serves as the president and CEO of MCI WorldCom's Communications Group.

3Com Enhancing NBX 100 System
3Com Corp. has taken the wraps off new enhancements to its NBX 100 voice and data system.

Digital Island To Speed Web Content Transmission
Digital Island said it would use equipment from Sun Microsystems Inc. and Inktomi Corp. to accelerate the transmission of Web content to consumers and businesses.

Lucent Ramps Up Cajun Switch Line
Lucent is beefing up the port density of its flagship line of campus switches to meet enterprise requirements for large backbones and wiring closets.

   Monday, December 6, 1999

DSLnetworks Eyeing ASPs
DSLnetworks said it will provide broadband access to small- and mid-sized businesses using hosted applications through an ASP partnership program.

   Friday, December 3, 1999

SBC Boosts Frame Monitoring Service
SBC Communications is set to unveil a new frame relay management service that will enable corporate users to keep tabs on SBC's network performance through their Web browsers.

   Thursday, December 2, 1999

Wausau Insurance: VPN Secures Access To Policies
Wausau Insurance needed an economical but secure way to give its business partners and customers access to policy information.

   Wednesday, December 1, 1999

AT&T WorldNet Service Suffers Outage
AT&T's dial-up WorldNet Internet service experienced a major outage but the carrier has restored service

Procom Speeds Up NAS Data Delivery
Procom Technology Inc. has upgraded software for its NetForce 2000 series of network-attached storage (NAS) filers, boosting them to Gigabit Ethernet speeds and using IP trunking to boost data delivery over enterprise backbones.

Intel Intros Eight New Routers
Intel announced eight new routers in its Intel Express 8000 and 9500 10/100 Mbps branch office router lines.

   Tuesday, November 30, 1999

AT&T, MCI Snag Network Management Contracts
The last day of November has proven to be a profitable one for carriers, as AT&T and MCI WorldCom announced network management contracts in excess of $1 billion.

   Monday, November 29, 1999

Vertical Networks To Add VoIP Capabilities To InstantOffice
The manufacturer of the InstantOffice integrated voice and data server is adding voice-over-IP capabilities, giving enterprises packet switching, circuit switching and secure Internet connectivity through a single device.

Dell's Wireless Handheld, LAN Gear Boost Mobility
Dell Computer has introduced a wireless two-way handheld computing device that features data synchronization with PCs, as well as wireless LAN connections for Dell desktops and notebooks.

Bandwidth Bounty
Most of the major long distance carriers are upgrading their fiber optic backbones to 10-Gbps OC-192 in an attempt to support e-commerce, broadcast-quality audio, collaborative engineering and other applications.

   Tuesday, November 23, 1999

New Edge Networks Aims To Ease Telecommuting Challenges
New Edge Networks, a start-up service provider, recently announced a two-year plan to provide DSL-based high-speed Internet access services in smaller cities and rural areas in all 50 states.