Stories about: Distributed Networking Associates

Is there any innovation in the network marketplace any more? There's a thundering silence as compared with a few short years ago when every time you turned around there was a new protocol, a new product addressing unmet business needs, and a new forum to promote these new products.

It is not just budgetary constraints impeding voice-over-IP implementation but security concerns, according to Webtorial’s recent 2003 VoIP “State of the Market Report” (available for download at www.webtorials.com). In this worldwide survey of end users, about 40 per cent of about 300 respondents cited security as one of the top four reasons why they haven’t deployed VoIP.

Visual Networks is adding a high-speed probe to its line of IP network monitoring gear that will enable users to better verify service level agreements from their IP providers.

We want to issue a warning to anyone who uses long-distance - especially those who believe voice over IP (VoIP) doesn't work: You may already be a VoIP user and not even know it. In fact, some industry sources suggest North American long-distance service providers are carrying nearly half of all long-distance voice traffic over IP.

Someday telecom mergers may achieve the long-elusive goal of one-stop shopping, but all they seem to be doing now is forcing users to deal with more carriers, not less.

National long-distance carrier Qwest Communications International Inc. last week confirmed that its frame relay and ATM users suffered numerous dropped circuits and other disruptions during a recent 11-day period.

Cable & Wireless is moving to solidify its newfound prominence in the enterprise network market with a global managed frame relay service.