Out with the old (frame relay, ATM and subscriber lines) and in with the new (e.g., Ethernet or IP MPLS VPN services). That's the latest trend in enterprise networking, according to market watcher Infonetics Research.

Cisco Systems Inc. likes to talk up its seminal involvement with IP-over-dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (IPoDWDM) technologies, which it claims it was first (among big-name vendors, anyway) to bring to market.

You've probably heard Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., and others making a lot of noise, recently, about unified communications (UC). There's a reason for that, experts say: There are profits to be had in UC.

You don't hear all that much about the Carrier Routing System (CRS) 1 from Cisco Systems Inc. Call it a hype deficit, a scenario in which the awareness or discussion of a technology isn't actually commensurate with its game-changing bona-fides.

If surging revenues are any indication, there's opportunity aplenty in the content security space. But established players like Cisco Systems Inc. had better be wary -- non-traditional powers (including Google Inc.) are hip to its promise, too.

This spring, Cisco Systems Inc. announced its Nexus 5000 series of Server Access Switches. Cisco's go-to-market strategy with the Nexus 5000 involves a pair of deployment options.

Requirements for professional security certification for IT workers in civilian agencies, now being readied by the Office of Management and Budget, would have a major impact on how government and industry recruit, train and manage their IT staffs, a security

This week, Cisco pledged to reduce its carbon footprint by 25 percent over the next four years.

At its Cisco Live! customer and user confab held this week in Orlando, Cisco trumpeted its new Learning Network, a Web 2.0 community that facilitates collaboration between and among networking professionals.

On Tuesday Cisco Systems announced three new specialties -- Security, Voice and Wireless -- that can be added on to its popular entry-level certification, the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

It's business as usual in the content security gateway market, where an increase in average selling prices (ASPs) hasn't dampened buyer enthusiasm.

Remember the days when bandwidth was cheap? When service providers (and even many private organizations) purchased hundreds of kilometers of dark fiber and had oodles of capacity to spare? If a new study from Cisco Systems Inc. pans out, they

Networking giant Cisco announced plans last week to purchase Denmark-based DiviTech A/S.

Researchers have found a pair of vulnerabilities in version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol that could allow attackers to gather system data or even change network equipment configurations, according to an advisory issued by Cisco Systems earlier this

Last week, according to a blog post from Microsoft marketing team member Trika Harms zum Spreckel, the Microsoft Learning group introduced the first virtualization-based exam into beta testing.

Microsoft has finally released some information on a new certification that has been in the works for some time, the Microsoft Certified Master certification.

One of the most familiar tropes of the late 1990s dot.com boom was the news that Cisco Systems Inc. had acquired still another networking player.

It might be hard to believe, but Ethernet switch sales actually decreased in Q1, slipping 4 percent over the previous quarter.

For years, ROADM -- that's shorthand for reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexing -- was a long-haul network mainstay. Over the last few years, however, ROADM has started to trickle down into the metro core, thanks in part to an explosion in

Enterprise users are mad about mobility. Thanks to the prevalence of hot mobile accessories ( iPods, iPhones, BlackBerrys and garden-variety smartphones) the next generation of enterprise users is likely to be madder still.