Stories about: Adtran

IT infrastructure requirements can shift quite suddenly. Say, for example, your company lands several large new accounts at the same time. The sudden influx of sales and account management staff so quickly outstrips your office's square footage that the only reasonable thing to do in the time available is to look for additional space. That space turns out to be a mile or so down the street. As an IT administrator, you need to get the new location connected to the network as soon as possible.

One year has passed since Juniper closed the books on its acquisition of VPN and intrusion-prevention vendor NetScreen Technologies, but the company has yet to parlay its year-old enterprise security presence into a broader corporate business.

Looking to simplify corporate Gigabit Ethernet and voice-over-IP installations, Adtran is rolling out switches, routers and combination switches with integrated routers that support VoIP handsets and wireless access points -- all offering in-line power support.

As long as Cisco Systems leads the router market, competitors will continue to come up with differentiators. With Adtran's new NetVanta 4305 access router, the differentiators are price, price, price.

While every enterprise branch office requires LAN and WAN features, an inspection of the communications closet almost always reveals that separate boxes are implemented for each. Adtran Inc is trying to change that.

Foundry Networks at Networld+Interop this week launched a line of enterprise access router, VPN and firewall gear for enterprises seeking an alternative to market-leader Cisco Systems for WAN connectivity and security.

While every enterprise branch office requires LAN and WAN features, an inspection of the communications closet almost always reveals that separate boxes are implemented for each. Adtran Inc. is trying to change that.

A move is afoot to revive development of an open-source router platform.

Adtran Inc. is planning to announce two modular access routers for branch offices next month in an effort to gain a larger share of the router market now dominated by networking giant Cisco Systems Inc.

Fueled by the trend toward secure telecommuting, a handful of security and networking companies attending the Networld+Interop conference in Las Vegas announced new firewall/VPN (virtual private network) appliances Tuesday.

Intel Corp. aims to give small and midsize business users high-speed Internet access with a new router that can take advantage of traditional telephone lines to access high-speed DSL2 services (HDSL2).