Stories about: FirstSense Software

Even users of network and application-monitoring tools produced by companies other than Concord Communications Inc. and FirstSense Software Inc. could be hit by a ripple effect from Concord's acquisition of FirstSense, announced last week.

Information technology managers hope the total is greater than the sum of the parts in the acquisition of FirstSense Software Inc. by Concord Communications Inc.

A Motorola Inc. DSL product and a spate of new tools to better manage network and VOIP (voice-over-IP) Web site enhancements were among the many offerings vendors shoveled out today at a snowy ComNet 2000 conference here.

The growth of wireless and digital subscriber line technologies and the potential for broadband cable is creating "a virtual Cuisinart of convergence" that is helping to make the Telecommunications Act of 1996 a success, Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard said last week in his annual start-of-the-year press conference. The resulting "network of networks" is helping the country move through a period of mergers that might otherwise reduce competition, Kennard said. He declined to divulge his personal position on the America Online/Time Warner deal, saying only that the deal "will raise some interesting new issues because it's a different kind of merger." But he promised to speed up the FCC's merger review process, saying he expects the pure telecom megadeals - including that of MCI WorldCom/Sprint - to be decided in the first half of the year.

The growth of wireless and digital subscriber line technologies and the potential for broadband cable is creating "a virtual Cuisinart of convergence" that is helping to make the Telecommunications Act of 1996 a success, Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard said last week in his annual start-of-the-year press conference. The resulting "network of networks" is helping the country move through a period of mergers that might otherwise reduce competition, Kennard said. He declined to divulge his personal position on the America Online/Time Warner deal, saying only that the deal "will raise some interesting new issues because it's a different kind of merger." But he promised to speed up the FCC's merger review process, saying he expects the pure telecom megadeals - including that of MCI WorldCom/Sprint - to be decided in the first half of the year.

In today's fast-paced business environment, business and IT managers continually struggle to increase end-user productivity and improve customer response times. Capturing an end-to-end snapshot of application activity within a given period can go a long way toward arming you with the data necessary to address these challenges.

Options for service-level management will grow this month, with 3Com and two other companies detailing software upgrades to monitor network application performance.