Avaya has announced a profit of $US8 million for its third fiscal quarter yesterday on revenue of $US1.07 billion, its first profitable quarter in two years, atop a major customer win. The communications equipment and services provider said Merrill Lynch & Co is purchasing Avaya IP telephony gear to serve 7600 workers at its corporate offices and its Tokyo regional headquarters.
AT&T has announced two new network services: one that connects corporate systems to data backup sites and another that lets IT managers remotely monitor servers hosted by AT&T in its data centres.
Nortel Networks plans to deliver common operating software for its Succession line of IP private branch exchange (PBX) systems and its older Meridian 1 digital voice switches.
3Com plans to expand its line of switches for small and medium-size businesses by announcing five Gigabit Ethernet devices.
Cisco Systems has announced 14 security products and services in the space of a week, including three new products and an important revision to its security management software that supports threat-protection technology gained in the April acquisition of Okena.
Cisco Systems plans to announce new intrusion-protection software and firewall enhancements, next week.
Cisco Systems has reported a 2 per cent fall in second-quarter sales compared with the previous quarter and with the same quarter a year ago. Sales for the quarter totaled $US4.7 billion, compared with $US4.8 billion in both the first quarter of 2003 and in second fiscal quarter of 2002.
Cisco Systems officials have laid out plans for increased development and sales of networking gear to the service provider market, despite a dramatic downturn in recent quarters of capital spending by carriers.
Nortel Networks last week unveiled a marketing strategy focusing on enterprise customers, a move designed to carry the networking provider beyond the still-dreary market for networking gear sold to telecom carriers.
The annual cost for equipment and support for a single handheld device could reach US$3,000, according to a report released last week by Gartner. That's up from the $2,500 per user the researcher reported in 1999.
As more companies turn to buying handheld computers for employees, IT shops will find it can cost as much as $US3,000 per year per user for service, software and hardware, according to analyst group Gartner.
The handheld computer market should grow this year at about the same rate as it did last year, with both years well behind growth in 2000, a report released today said.
Amid dismal technology market forecasts, at least one vendor, Compaq, expects big growth in the leasing of computers and related gear next year.
Worldwide PC shipments dropped nearly 12 per cent in the third quarter of 2001 compared to the same period last year, according to a report released yesterday by Dataquest, a division of Gartner.
Privacy is dead following the terrorist attacks on September 11, according to Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy.
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