AVS is to distribute a rebranded version of the eSoft InstaGate EX2 firewall/ VPN to small companies locally. With software vendors subsidising the hardware, AVS hopes its box will soon feature on retail shelves.
Touted as the "next killer app" for the Internet, peer-to-peer is maturing from the file-sharing Napster model to a computing paradigm that can decimate IT costs by "unwasting" massive amounts of storage and computing capacity.
Nortel Networks says it wants to transform metropolitan networks into reliable optical Ethernet networks.
Enterasys Networks has announced the User Personalised Network.
Telkom has designed a communications solution to improve internetworking between higher education institutions locally and abroad.
Novell is licensing Preboot eXecution Environment technology from PreWorx to add additional value to its ZENWorks administration solution.
Internet Virtual Private Networks (IVPNs) are playing an increasingly important role in businesses, says Martin May, regional director of Enterasys Networks, sub-Saharan Africa.
Wireless local area network (LAN) solutions keep employees productive and responsive, believes Gary Boniface, services operations manager at 3Com SA.
Environet has received Molex Premise Networks Certified Installer status.
Wolfgang Held, network consultant at 3Com SA, believes wireless local area network (WLAN) solutions are enabling mobile workforces to be more productive.
Quality of service (QOS) has established itself as a networking term, but with the advent of storage area networks, Veritas hopes to bring the concept to storage.
Sun International has standardised on Nortel Networks Campus Switching technology for all its casino complexes.
Siemens Telecommunications has signed a co-operation agreement with I-Fusion under which both companies will utilise each other as the preferred partner in data networking projects.