HP promises massive LAN offerings

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will shortly make a significant move around its wireless local area network (LAN) products, an executive promised Canadian reporters, reveals IT World Canada.

“You should be expecting some pretty big announcements where we're going to establish ourselves as a market leader in this area very shortly,” Marius Haas, senior vice-president and general manager of HP's Networking division, said.

“Some of the things we'll be announcing around some of our wireless technology is going to put HP in a leadership position,” he said. He wouldn't offer any details, including whether it would be a new product or an acquisition. HP expanded into wireless networking with its 2008 purchase of Colubris Networks. But he did say that “there's a lot more news to come this year.”

The traditional enterprise network pays for routers that are then typically managed via the corporate LAN or VPN, reports Wi-Fi Planet.

Wi-Fi networking vendor Meraki is now aiming to challenge the traditional model of management and acquisition of wired routers with a new cloud-based subscription service for router management and hardware.

The new Meraki cloud-managed MX50 and MX70 routers include application firewalls as well as traffic-shaping features. As opposed to traditional router deployments, the MX50 and MX70 routers are managed via a cloud service deployed by Meraki.

Enterprise WAN-maker Talari Networks has debuted the Mercury T750 appliance to its Adaptive Private Networking product line for WAN virtualisation, says Channel Partners.

The T750 is designed for mid-sized enterprises with up to 24 remote sites. Deployed in an enterprise's data centre, the T750 uses public WAN links, a method that Talari says can cut monthly WAN service costs by 40 to 90%.

The approach further offers greater reliability and applications-performance predictability than private WANs that use Frame Relay or MPLS services from one provider, Talari says.