Stories about: Core Networks

Despite some shortcomings, software-based network access control technology that enforces policies on network endpoints is often the first choice of customers who adopt the technology.

Small businesses converging voice, video and data traffic sometimes end up with haunted networks, but you can exorcise the demons. Affordable QoS mechanisms are available to oust the goblins that cause delay, jitter, bit-rate errors and dropped packets.

US federal government officials are confident they will meet a June 30 deadline to support IPv6 on their backbone networks, but they see challenges ahead in transitioning their production networks to this long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

The Communications Alliance today announced two new industry guidelines which have been developed to assist operators meet Quality of Service (QoS) performance objectives when delivering VoIP services and Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence (NICTA) has developed new technology to cut the hefty bills telecommunications carriers face pin-pointing problems in their core network which disrupts traffic and upsets customers.

The Internet is poised on the edge of a content explosion. For years now there has been a group of companies that grew up to help with Internet content delivery with products called (no surprises here either) content delivery networks.

A group of local enterprises and universities have adopted a new form of integrated appliance to simplify the management of fundamental network services.

Juniper Networks announced a 16-slot core router for service providers that boasts bandwidth of 1.6Tbps, more than twice that of the company's previous high-end system.

With a new Media Solutions Group in place and a basket of products coming out at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, Cisco Systems is gearing up for changes in its increasingly important consumer strategy. The company won't -- or can't -- say much about what it will be doing, but with a presence in carrier as well as home networks, it could play a growing role in how people are entertained and keep in touch.

Nortel Networks reached a definitive agreement to sell its UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) business to Alcatel-Lucent on Monday, locking down a nonbinding agreement announced in September.

Nortel this week posted a second quarter profit of US$366 million on revenue of US$2.74 billion.