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Thursday, February 1
--last updated 2:48pm EST
Alcatel
showcases enterprise IP features
By Dan O’Shea, TelecomClick
Kenetec
targets MTU space
Donny Jackson, Telephony
Verizon's
Strigl preaches wireless gospel
By Kevin Fitchard, TelecomClick
Cambrian
targets technoburbia
Fiber network pipeline runs from DC to NYC
By Kevin Fitchard, TelecomClick
Canadian
firms ink distribution deal
Tech Data Canada to help Moby Dark distribute wireless router
By Donny Jackson, Telephony
Omegon
adds VoIP testing
By Toby Weber, Telephony
Concord
offers eHealth for service providers
Product suite provides automated technology management
By Toby Weber, Telephony
Wednesday, January 31
Switching
to Rapid5
Start-up claims to have the answer for next-gen networks
By Kevin Fitchard, TelecomClick
Fighting
for photons
Nortel's Chandron touts photonic switching in keynote
By Susan Biagi, Telephony
It
takes a Village
Village Networks' new offering brings intelligence to optical networking
By Susan Biagi, Telephony
Post-merger
Verizon Enterprise charges ahead
By Dan O'Shea, TelecomClick
AT&T
focuses on the enterprise
By Kevin Fitchard, TelecomClick
Tellabs,
ipVerse announce partnership
By Donny Jackson, Telephony
AdTran
announces new IADs, reseller pact with Jetstream
By Kevin Fitchard, TelecomClick
Unisphere
inks deal with Time Warner Telecom
By Donny Jackson, Telephony
Tuesday, January 30
Riptech,
NetScreen team
By Toby Weber, Telephony
CommWorks
makes most of Comnet debut
By Dan O'Shea, TelecomClick
NBC's
Brokaw speaks out at Comnet
By Susan Biagi, Telephony
Soft control
ipVerse hopes switch helps transition from legacy to modern
network
By Donny Jackson, Telephony
Smooth
ride
Tenor Networks' new Service Migration Center eases the transistion to
packet-based networks
By Dan O'Shea, TelecomClick
Monday, January 29, 6:20pm EST
Bluetooth
for the enterprise
Norwood Systems unveils new product for the office PBX and LAN
by Kevin Fitchard, TelecomClick
BRIEFS
Micromuse introduced version 2.0 Netcool/Visionary, the company’s network problem diagnosis application. The new version allows analysis of specific hardware and software problems affecting servers, workstations and disk utilizations. Also new to the product is the ability to customize diagnostics for proprietary devices and applications and enhanced support for applications and devices such as Frame Relay, FDDI, Cisco Environmental and Bay Networks’ Accelar.
--Toby Weber, Telephony (posted February 1 at 11:22 am EST)
Ellacoya Networks is demonstrating its Service Generation Switch 44000 and Service Creation Manager from its Service Generation System family of products at this week's Comnet show. SGS applications allow automated service creation, subscription and activation, including user self-provisioning. The SGS 44000 will go into trials within the next couple months, and will be available next quarter.
Avaya announced two new enterprise products this week. The Avaya Cajun P882 Multiservice Backbone Switch allows 128 Gigabit Ethernet and 768 10/100 ports on a single switch, and includes CajunRules policy management software. Also, the company announced the Avaya ECLIPS family of enterprise-class IP solutions, including IP communications servers, IP phones and remote office communicators, collaborative video switch, VPN solutions, wireless access solutions and other products.
SME Racks announced the SmartRack, an equipment enclosure capable of advanced Web-based monitoring of all equipment contained in the rack. The SmartRack is available immediately.
RapidStream introduced the RapidStream 8000 VPN/Firewall
Appliance for large enterprises and service provider networks. It delivers 600
Mb/s full-duplex firewall throughput and 360 Mb/s VP throughput. It includes two
Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and two high-availability ports, and provides
simultaneous support for 128,000 firewall sessions and 20,000 VPN tunnels.
--Dan O'Shea, TelecomClick (posted February 1 at 9:20 am EST)
Anritsu and SAN Valley Systems have announced they will provide end-to-end networking that integrates Fibre Channel-based storage area network (SAN) data and LAN data over MAN/WAN links at maximum speeds of 2.5 Gb/s. By using SAN Valley’s SL1000 IP-SAN gateway to transport storage data to Anritsu’s Multiflow 5000 switch family, the solution is designed to allow data to be backed up to remote locations as if the transfer was being done locally, according to Jack Landau, director of marketing for Anritsu.
“The beauty of this is that the customer
is sharing this expensive MAN/WAN infrastructure between the SAN and the LAN…instead
of just using it for the LAN and having to build a separate link for the storage
path,” Landau said.
--Donny Jackson, Telephony (posted January 31 at 3:10pm EST)
MidCore Software, a developer of subscription-based Internet software, is introducing a new release of its MidPoint Internet gateway software at Comnet this week. MidPoint 5.0 includes improved firewall capabilities, and the ability to run with one or multiple types Internet access solutions, including DSL, analog, cable, T1, E1, and others.
The new software is being offered on a basic
subscription service as well as optional advanced services targeted to small and
medium business enterprises. The optional advanced services include Broadband
Line Teaming, VPN and Distributed Web Hosting. David
Wilson, president of MidCore, said software licensing is moving away from
traditional perpetual licensing and toward subscription and term licensing
because it gives users greater flexibility and lowers their cost of licensing
the software.
—Dan O’Shea, TelecomClick (posted January 30 at 9:10 am EST)
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Exhibitors List
A partial list of exhibitors, with booth numbers, contact information
and company descriptions
Comnet website
From the Wires
After Hours
And Then There's Dubya
Visit us at the show in Booth 432
FROM THE WIRES
Larscom
3000 Named COMNET New Product Achievement Award Finalist; Subscriber Management
Platform to Be Demonstrated at Larscom's Booth -- No. 1618 -- at COMNET
Jan 26, 2001, 08:00 a.m. ET, Business Wire
Apogee
Networks Selected as Finalist for COMNET 2001 New Product Achievement Award
Jan 24, 2001, 12:33 p.m. ET, Business Wire
Coriolis
Networks, Inc. Named as COMNET 2001 New Product Achievement Award Finalist
Jan 23, 2001, 12:37 p.m. ET, Business Wire
Quarry
Technologies' iQSMS Service Management Suite Selected as Finalist for COMNET New
Product Achievement Award
Jan 22, 2001, 07:00 a.m. ET, Business Wire
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The Making of a Candidate
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