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Channel News Roundup–Week of April 26
Thursday, April 29 Crossbeam Security Switch Fills Out Product Line CONCORD, MA — Crossbeam Systems, expanded its C-Series line of security switches with the Crossbeam C10, a product designed for remote and branch offices. The 1U-high $9,995 switch is designed to deliver 2Gbps of firewall throughput (large packet size), or 150 Mbps of throughput when…
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Cisco, Ericsson Team Up for IP
Cisco Systems Inc. and L.M. Ericsson have agreed to integrate equipment and service offerings to spur telecommunications carriers to offer a wider range of data, voice and video services over IP. Under a strategic alliance announced today, the companies together will provide IP-based services and consulting to telecom carriers. The move comes as equipment manufacturers…
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Nortel Fires CEO
Nortel Networks Corp. fired its president and CEO, Frank Dunn, today as well as its chief financial officer and controller. The termination of the top executives comes in the wake of mounting accounting trouble disclosures at the Toronto telecommunications equipment manufacturer. Nortel named William Owens, who has been a director of the company since February…
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Wireless Technology Comes to Theme Parks
I’ve been known to investigate Disneyworld’s latest technologies during my annual pilgrimage to the Mouse House. But maybe it’s time to book a trip to Legoland Denmark instead, to explore a rather interesting Wi-Fi/RFID application used in the theme park. Indeed, Bluesoft Inc., KidSpotter A/S and Legoland have deployed a combination Wi-Fi/RFID child-tracking application within…
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Dell, SAP Expand Support for Each Other’s Products
NEW YORK—Dell Inc. and SAP AG are extending their eight-year alliance via enhanced services and support offerings, the chief executives of both companies said Wednesday at a press conference here. Talking to about 60 reporters and analysts, Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell said that software products from enterprise applications market leader SAP offer the…
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MCI to Offer Managed Security Services
MCI Inc. on Tuesday will announce a new set of managed security services, many of which involve partnerships with vendors such as VeriSign Inc. and MessageLabs Inc. In addition to traditional services offerings such as mail scanning and managed firewall, the companies plan to offer enterprises the option of a managed intrusion prevention system (IPS),…
