Stories about: Multiplex

It has been a decade since the first version of the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) was launched as an effort to solve the problems posed by the backup and recovery of network file servers. Initial work on the standard was spearheaded by Intelliguard Software (subsequently rolled into Legato Software and EMC), which produced storage management software, and Network Appliance, which manufactures network file servers.

Despite the recently announced US$21 million sale of its assets to Moseley Associates, Proxim intends to introduce an appliance this week that brings its product line in sync with centralized wireless LAN management architectures.

NSC Group has installed a voice over IP (VoIP) network for business consultancy MYOB linking its Sydney and Melbourne offices with branches in New Zealand, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

European plane maker Airbus has successfully completed the first in-flight trial of mobile phones and infrastructure equipment based on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology, the company said Wednesday.

Radware is updating the software for its CertainT 100 SSL accelerator with a version that compresses Web traffic to and from servers to improve response times.

The wireless LAN switch market is facing a major shakeout in 2004, so IT executives shopping for 802.11 gear need to take special care to pick an architecture that suits their long-term plans and a vendor with staying power.

Cisco Systems wants businesses to aggregate storage network traffic and other services over the same wide-area fiber connections, and sees itself moving increasingly into the video post-processing market, a vast consumer of bandwidth.

Agere Systems Inc. on Monday announced a new switching chip for communications equipment that it says switches communication signals four times faster than competing products and delivers dramatic cost savings.

Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, lowered its third-quarter sales forecast on Tuesday, reflecting lower-than-expected demand for mobile communications equipment, but maintained its earnings forecast.

Internet Photonics last week announced the closing of its third round of venture financing to the value of US$31 million from two new investors as well as existing participants.

Cisco Systems Inc. this week unveiled a metropolitan-area networking platform that enables users to aggregate up to 40 data connections over a single wavelength.