On a day when Cisco Systems Inc.'s stock hit a 52-week low of US$45 in intraday trading, company President and CEO John Chambers delivered a message to an audience of 500 financial and industry analysts that Cisco is on track both financially and technologically as the networking powerhouse moves into 2001.
Coca-Cola last week confirmed that it had completed the design of a new network that will link its 289 facilities in 87 countries.
Lucent Technologies said it is restructuring management in a push to integrate its sales and service organisation. As part of that restructuring, the company plans to cut 240 jobs.
The Internet is in need of an architecture that handles more addresses, increased reliability and quality of service (QoS) standards that Internet service providers can agree on, according to a report about to be released by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.
On Jan. 1, Bruce Claflin, now president and chief operating officer of 3Com Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., will become the company's president and CEO. Claflin will replace Eric Benhamou, who will continue serving in his post as chairman. Wednesday, Computerworld asked Claflin how his management style and vision for 3Com differ from Benhamou's.
While copper cable remains the standard for connecting PCs to LAN hubs and switches, optical fiber may soon be the preferred way to make 10M and 100M bit/sec. Ethernet connections to corporate desktops, according to a recent study completed in July by The Tolly Group in Manasquan, N.J.
John Shelest was disappointed with the absence of a "technical presence" when he attended the spring Networld/Interop exposition and conference in Las Vegas in May. "There were mostly sales and marketing people giving out a lot of business cards, and many of my technical questions were not being addressed," Shelest said.
When a large earthmover, bulldozer or other piece of heavy equipment breaks down on the other side of the world, contractors often don't have the luxury of reverting to a backup and may not have on-site engineers who can troubleshoot the problem. That's one of the reasons Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Ill., relies heavily on videoconferencing to bring experts together in an instant.
When a user at a Porsche car dealership hits a computer key to check on parts availability, he has to wait a good 10 seconds for anything to happen. That isn't the sort of speed record Porsche's 200 dealerships in North America want to achieve.
Sensing an opportunity to profit from caching, Web content management vendor Inktomi Corp. [Nasdaq:INKT] and a group of other information distribution companies have announced an alliance designed to speed the delivery of Web content by pushing it closer to end users.
Serving up applications from a central data center to terminals at remote offices is standard operating procedure for Kyle Duke, a senior systems analyst at CHD Meridian Healthcare in Nash-ville. But that doesn't mean it's painless.
Internet access providers that freely serve up information that content producers use to make money may soon have a system that reimburses them for their efforts. The same system promises to give content providers (companies that create commercial Web sites) a way to collect usage information and increase the performance of their sites.
Sending data over optical fiber for long distances normally requires electrical amplification along the way. But that regeneration hurdle and the costly maintenance associated with it may finally have been overcome.
Enterasys Networks, a subsidiary of Cabletron Systems Inc. in Rochester, N.H., announced Monday that it would purchase Indus River Networks Inc. in Acton, Mass., for US$170 million in Cabletron stock.
Two lawmakers have asked U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt to wait a little longer before approving the rollout of SuperMontage, the updated electronic-trading system proposed for the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
