Stories about: Verio

The worldwide router market declined by as much as 32 percent in 2002, according to recently released market share data.

We're sick of it, sick of it all. Sitting at the semiannual Storage Networking World conference last month in the hellhole commonly known as Orlando, Florida, one of us (Mario was working in the lab) realized a few things -- we're sick and tired of hearing about SRM (storage resource management) software, standards, and anything that reeks of interoperability.

Juniper Networks Inc.'s latest router line, which bowed in April in the form of the T640 router for the core of service provider networks, moves toward the edge with the smaller T320 platform announced Tuesday.

Antispam activist Ron Guilmette was just trying to make the Net a little less friendly to unsolicited e-mail. But when he added hundreds of Verio Inc. Internet addresses to his Monkeys.com list, he roused the ire of the Web-hosting giant.

Internet Multifeed Co., a Japanese Internet content distributor, has begun trial service of its new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Internet exchange point in Tokyo.

Juniper Networks Inc. Monday unveiled its long anticipated next generation core router, a 640G bit/sec device that, for now, raises the bar in terms of 10G bit/sec density and is intended to scale to multiterabit throughput levels.

Japanese telecommunication company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) posted a consolidated net loss for the first half of its fiscal year of 261.8 billion yen (US$2.2 billion as of Sept. 30, the last day of the period being reported), the company said in a statement Thursday. By contrast, last year NTT reported a consolidated net profit of 175.3 billion yen for the same period a year ago.

Various IT companies are donating technical assistance and equipment to businesses affected by last week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C.

IBM Global Services, considered by some analysts to be a sleeping giant among the struggling managed hosting services provider market, announced a set of 30 new service offerings for its Web-hosting customers on Tuesday.

NTT Communications Corp. is considering a revaluation of Verio Inc., the U.S. Web-hosting provider it acquired last year, that could lead to a write-down amounting to billions of dollars, the Financial Times reported in its Thursday morning Asian edition.

Alarm bells are ringing in the Internet engineering community over an obscure statistic that indicates the 'Net is growing - in size and complexity - at a faster rate than today's routers can handle.