Global convergence technology market to boom

3Com estimates that the global market for capital equipment to enable convergence technology in the enterprise will be $15 to $20 billion a year by 2003.

Beating information overload

If deployed correctly, convergence solutions can help deal with information overload, believes Sean Owen-Jones, MD of Lucent Technologies Business Communication Systems.

3Com introduces voice access switch family

3Com has announced a new networking solution for Frame Relay and IP-based wide area networks. The new PathBuilder S200 voice access switch family enables users to add voice to their existing router-based wide area data networks.

Bay delivers strategy for converging SNA and IP

Bay Networks, a Nortel business, has launched a comprehensive strategy for transporting mission-critical SNA data over TCP/IP backbone Internetworks. Bay has developed a series of features and services for enterprises and carriers that are migrating to an IP backbone. Phase one of the strategy addresses the use of the TCP/IP network infrastructure for the convergence of SNA traffic. Future phases include delivering SNA access solutions to address customer desktop-to-data-centre requirements, delivering "host access connections" via reduced cost ATM, and providing integrated management of SNA and IP network resources, Bay says.

Consortium sees network convergence delivering new cost-effective solutions

3COM CEO Eric Benhamou sees converged networks as next major milestone

During NetWorld+Interop keynote, Benhamou outlined growing influence of Internet

Siemens & 3Com to roll out stackable solutions for voice & data