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The subplot of the routing vs. switching debate was the fierce competition between Cisco and enterprise rivals Bay, 3Com and Cabletron. Over time, Cisco also deepened its focus on the service provider market, where start-up Juniper Networks, with the financial backing of several Cisco rivals in data and telecommunications, was becoming a formidable router alternative.

A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.

With its business already firmly entrenched in the e-commerce marketplace, online retailer Amazon.com is now looking to leverage its massive and capacity-rich IT infrastructure by renting out storage capacity to independent and corporate software developers.

Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Microsoft's software for accessing e-mail from phones and other wireless devices.

The deluge of announcements about new Web services from Microsoft continued Monday, when the software giant announced it would offer help tools and other Internet services to users of its Office XP desktop software from within an application.

With hosting capacity at application service providers (ASP) growing by leaps and bounds, ASPs are having to be creative to attract new users to their data centres. Despite this oversupply, ASP pricing appears to be holding firm.

Cisco yesterday announced that it is buying PipeLinks of San Jose, California. PipeLinks makes Sonet/SDH routers capable of simultaneously transporting circuit-based traffic and routing IP traffic.