Infonet and Cisco Systems have announced that they are working together to expand Infonet`s global IP backbone for the delivery of high-performance, secure global IP VPN service over the Internet. [Local rep: EDS Afrca]
Open Workstations and Servers (OWS), part of the Maxtec Group, has secured a R6 million contract with Shoprite Checkers to provide it with network appliance filers designed to improve its storage capabilities.
D-Link announced it has added pre-boot software DFE-550TX to its latest 10/100 network interface card.
Recent ISP start-up NNet looks set to score from CiTEC subsidiary Internet Office Park`s (IOP) provisional liquidation. As CiTEC MD Jason Berry keeps mum about the proceedings, new NNet clients profit from the changeover.
Gryphon Asset Management has outsourced its network management to Dimension Data (DiData) Networking, following DiData`s design and implementation of a managed desktop networking environment.
According to Malcolm Bayes, regional director: Africa for the wireless division of Nortel Networks, third generation networks will trigger application developments which will increase people`s entertainment options and productivity.
Networking vendors must see the value of the channel in order to deliver products and services to an expanding customer base, says the International Data Corporation.
Increasing competition in the VPN market and the potential for using the Internet to provide VPN services has fuelled interest in the VPN market, says BMI-TechKnowledge.
MediSwitch, USKO`s medical e-commerce division, says that EDI functionality, which forms part of its virtual private healthcare network, has been incorporated into the ExACT Dental Software package.
Nortel Networks has appointed PQ Networks as its first convergence solutions partner in Africa and Europe. The partnership, branded as Unified Networks, aims to provide customers with voice and data convergence applications.
Cisco Systems has developed an open Internet Home Platform for building home networks that support services such as integrated data, voice and video.
PSG Investment Bank, a proprietary investment banking group, has appointed Dimension Data Networking Western Cape as its technology partner.
Inverse Network Technologies, an independent benchmarking organisation, has found that Internet service providers using the Total Control access platform from 3Com have recorded the highest ratings for connection speed.