Stories about: Alteon

First Command, a financial services firm with US$18.6 billion in managed assets and nearly 300,000 clients across the United States, saw the promise of the Internet as early as 1998. It quickly Web-enabled its core applications to support not only its own employees and individual customers, but also its far-flung network of financial advisors and their staffers.

Aspiring entrepreneurs can only dream about a track record like Selina Lo's. First there was Centillion, a networking startup that Lo co-founded, and Bay Networks purchased for US$100 million in 1994. Lo's next act was Alteon, a maker of Gigabit Ethernet adapters that Lo joined in 1996 and transformed into Alteon WebSystems, a maker of content-aware switching hardware, before helping to sell Alteon to Nortel at the apex of the dot-com craze in July, 2000, for US$7.8 billion. It was a master stroke of good marketing and good timing that made Lo very wealthy.

With its US$6.9 billion purchase of cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta, Cisco is straying from CEO John Chambers' oft-stated strategy to acquisition success: buy small and buy local.

Executive power starts with personal integrity. Who has it? That's one question I posed to a group of venture capitalists and executive recruiters recently when I asked them to help me build an ultimate network industry "Dream Team."

With Cisco, Enterasys Networks, Extreme Networks, Foundry Networks and Force10 Networks having introduced switches this year that provide full-duplex 10G Ethernet throughput - and switching capacities in the T-bit/sec - Nortel has remained quiet. While the vendor was among those leading the charge toward 10G Ethernet several years ago, its product turnout has since cooled.

Revenues are booming for the state's premier collection agency which has had an 800 per cent growth in electronic business in the past 12 months.

Nortel, which makes both IP Security VPN and Secure Sockets Layer remote access gear, has added features to its SSL software that make it possible to ensure the security of remote PCs trying to access corporate networks.

There are hundreds, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of IT training and certification courses.

Nortel recently announced the first of its Design Expert Certifications for IP telephony pros specializing in the IP Convergence Meridian 1 IP Enabled 25.40.

Nortel Networks Corp. next week will unveil the latest updates to its secure networking lineup, including new remote-access management software, a higher performance Contivity VPN (virtual private network) platform and software that expands an enterprise's ability to ensure every remote connection is safe.

A pack of startups in the US is racing to create a new generation of wireless LANs based on wiring-closet devices that connect to wired backbones and control up to hundreds of access points and thousands of end users.