Avaya readies product roadmap

A month after closing a $915-million deal to buy bankrupt Nortel's enterprise business unit, Avaya is preparing to unveil its integrated road map, reports eWeek.

Avaya officials have been relatively quiet about what they will do with the Nortel products they bought. The company has brought on about 6 000 Nortel employees, with Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy telling Bloomberg in December that the Nortel business had "held up better than we comprehended" after Avaya announced the deal.

The ex-Nortel salespeople will help Avaya gain business in sectors such as government, and also in emerging markets such as Asia, says Kennedy.

Cisco Systems has unveiled a network line card based on a services-oriented architecture that offers four different functions for storage area networks (SANs) that can be licensed separately and deployed regardless of the back-end storage hardware, says Computerworld.

Cisco's Storage Services Node-16 (SSN-16) line card contains four controller chips, each delivering a different function to the SAN: a fibre channel over IP engine; a data encryption engine; a data erasure engine; and an engine for compressing and accelerating replication and backup data across MANs and WANs.

The SSN-16 line card can be used in Cisco's line of MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors and its MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch.

Security experts are urging service providers to be more proactive in tracking infected machines and taking them off their networks, after new statistics showed that many computers remain infected for months on end, states Computing.co.uk.

New figures from security vendor Trend Micro suggest the UK suffered over three million infected host IPs last year, a quarter of which belonged to businesses.

The statistics refer only to IP addresses and not individual PCs, but could mean that a lot more that three million devices in the UK were hit last year, according to Trend Micro CTO, Dave Rand.