Alcatel this week announced a definitive agreement to acquire TiMetra, a privately held maker of edge routers, for $150 million in stock. Alcatel says the TiMetra acquisition will allow it to fill out ...

Organizations today are too dependent on the Internet to experience any downtime when upgrading from IPv4 to IPv6. But help is on the way. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined ...

Edge router design begins with requirements similar to those of core routers, while adding a range of complex requirements. The big difference is that while core routers are designed with one purpose ...

Wide-area data networks, once the workhorses of e-mail and file transfers, now are expected to do a wide variety of things while being as steady as the old-fashioned phone system. On Tuesday, Cisco ...