News

• 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  If at first you don’t succeed…

• Juniper to license Radware tech for data center?

  Juniper Networks is negotiating a deal with Radware to license application delivery controller technology from the company, according to investment firm Oppenheimer & Co.

• Cisco offers API to fight call fraud

  LAS VEGAS -- Cisco this week at Interop 2012 released an API for its branch routers designed to enable third-party developers to write applications to enhance the security of phone calls over the router network.

• Cisco Linksys routers bring the cloud home

  Cisco has rolled out a new line of home Wi-Fi routers that embed application intelligence for managing devices connected to the home network.

• Not-so-magic monitor, tiny routers and a kick-ass gaming headset

  The scoop: MIMO MagicTouch 10-inch touch-screen USB monitor, by MIMO Monitors, about $300.

• Investment firm warns of delays, performance issues in Juniper products

  Is Juniper experiencing longer product delays and performance issues than the company has disclosed?

• Juniper targeting 7 key market segments

  Juniper is aligning its product development, sales and marketing strategy in seven "domains" that reflect challenges their customers face, executives said this week from the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona.

• Cisco buys optical company for $271 million

  Cisco this week said it intends to acquire privately held Lightwire, a developer of optical interconnect technology for high-speed networking applications, for $271 million.

• Diagnosing DSL. Again.

  In the last 11 years I have moved house three times. Each time I have purchased Internet service from AT&T and each time AT&T has managed to make establishing service an epic struggle that consumes hours of my time, leaves me without service for days or weeks, and drives me to the edge of homicidal despair.

• Juniper buys web security company for $80 million

  Juniper said this week it has acquired Mykonos Software, a provider of website and web application security software, for $80 million.

• Full visibility into high-performance nets: Demand 100% packet capture

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• New Juniper routers converge the access net

  Juniper Networks this week has unveiled access routers designed to provide an on-ramp to the service provider network from residential, business and mobile networks.

• Juniper's financial challenges continue

  Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.

• Cisco expands smart grid portfolio

  Cisco this week expanded its smart grid portfolio for utilities with a reference architecture, products and services intended to modernize the electric grid.

• Cisco sending enterprises to the Cloud

  In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid Clouds, Cisco - in the coming months - will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products.