Stories about: Cable & Wireless

When bespoke men's tailor Gieves and Hawkes moved its 25 UK outlets over to IP telephony, it also converged not two but three services onto a single new MPLS connection.

Oracle has agreed to acquire Netsure Telecom, a provider of network intelligence and network data integrity software.

Intec Telecom Systems has completed a performance benchmark of its customer care system, Convergent Billing v6, using Sun Fire E6900 servers running a Solaris10 Operating System (OS).

Enterasys Networks this week agreed to a US$386 million buyout offer by two private investment firms.

A number of telecommunications carriers operating in Asia have formed a group called the Asia-Pacific Carriers Coalition (APCC) aimed at promoting open market policies and improved regulatory frameworks, the group said in a statement Wednesday.

For the most part, hackers break into corporations for one reason: Status. "The hacking community is a strong meritocracy where status is determined by level of competence," says Dr. Max Kilger, a social psychologist for the Honeynet Project.

Phonetrade.com, a business-to-business trading exchange and catalog site for mobile phones and accessories, was looking to expand its online presence. The company, owned by Global Business Link AB in Gothenburg, Sweden, wanted to outsource its e-commerce efforts, everything from software downloads and security to transaction processing and hosting.

You can deploy all of the firewalls and intrusion-detection devices money can buy to protect your network from hackers and malicious code, but when it comes to truly knowing what's happening on your network, there's no substitute for digging through system log files.

You can deploy all of the firewalls and intrusion-detection devices money can buy to protect your network from hackers and malicious code, but when it comes to truly knowing what's happening on your network, there's no substitute for digging through system log files.

Sun Microsystems recently unveiled its Network Computing strategy in the pursuit of its N1 vision. Mark Jones, Technical Director Tom Yager, and Editor at Large Paul Krill sat down with CEO Scott McNealy to discuss blade servers and the impact of its datacenter strategy.

The number of organized hacking syndicates targeting financial institutions around the world is growing at a disturbingly fast rate. And so is the number of banks willing to pay these high-tech extortionists hush money to protect their reputations, according to a security expert at The World Bank.