DALLAS -- The Planet recently introduced OZONE, a security solution that implements an access control list ACL on clients' virtual local area network VLAN interfaces which protects against attacks through unused TCP and UDP ports.
Since the advent of networks, organizations have struggled with how to secure their networks from unauthorized intrusions. While file servers and applications traditionally have a login and password, there was no way to secure all the network resources. A-VLANs are a solution that extends security to the wall plate, forcing...
LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--April 3, 1996 -- Cabletron Systems (NYSE:CS), the leading provider of intranet management solutions, today unveiled SecureFast VLAN Manager -- the industry's first connection-oriented virtual LAN VLAN solution. Designed to provide a cost-effective, simple-to-use interface for assigning users to a VLAN, the new switch management application provides...
PALO ALTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 9, 1996-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announces it has added the inter-switch link ISL protocol from Cisco Systems Inc. to its HP Internet Advisor data-communications test tool. The new enhancement helps network managers of virtual local area networks understand and optimize their VLANs rather than just...
HILLSBORO, Ore.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 4, 1996--Intel Corporation and Cisco Systems today announced plans to work together to deliver enhanced capabilities for virtual local area networks VLANs to help companies reduce the costs and eliminate many of the problems of managing large client/server computer networks.
LAS VEGAS, Nev.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 28, 1995--Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in LAN switching, today introduced a virtual LAN VLAN solution that will give users unprecedented flexibility in designing, modifying and configuring their networks.
The first VLAN crop was a dud. Maybe stepping up the OSI stack will help. Product development almost always occurs in advance of market demand. Network managers are deluged with claims regarding "next-generation" networks, even though p The first VLAN crop was...
NEEDHAM, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 5, 1995--LANart today announced the SegWay port switch, delivering breakthrough price/performance, unmatched traffic management capabilities in switched and virtual LAN VLAN environments, and dramatic reductions in cost of network ownership.
Meganet, XCalibre and TechStructures Leverage New Efficiencies in Virtual Iron's Enterprise-Class Virtualization and Management Platform at One-Fifth the Cost of VMware
BOCA RATON, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 18, 1996--Xpoint Technologies Inc., Boca Raton Wednesday announced its Enterprise Server Solutions for Windows NT Server and NetWare as the latest additions to its growing family of BusBIOSTM acceleration solutions.
When I started writing this column a little over a year ago, I devoted the first three columns to the trend of vendor-specific architectures (see BCR, June, July and August 1994). In particular, I argued that easy-to-categorize "commodity" When I started writing this column a...
MERRIMACK, N.H. -- Metrobility Optical Systems today announced its fourth generation of intelligent optical Ethernet demarcation devices, the Ethernet Services Provisioning Platform ESPP. The ESPP is the first multi-port optical Ethernet demarcation device that delivers EFM/OAM-managed services over VLANs and MPLS in a metro Ethernet network.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 19, 1995--The ATM Interface Processor AIP for the Cisco 7000 family of high-end routers is being enhanced with new software features that boost the effectiveness of ATM deployment in production networks, facilitate such emerging applications as multimedia, and provide the first solution for internetworking between virtual...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 29, 1995--3Com Corporation (NASDAQ:COMS) today unveiled Transcend Virtual Networking, a virtual networking implementation strategy for networks built with 3Com's High Performance Scalable Networking HPSN architecture.
One of the major reasons for interest in Virtual LANs VLANs is to ease configuration hassles associated with workstation moves, adds and changes. However, a totally different scheme - developed by a systems software vendor instead of a networking v One of the major reasons for...
Big Blue faces off against Cisco with a host of new products and partners. With most of the internetworking world fixated on four companies - Cisco, 3Com, Bay Networks and Cabletron - why would anyone care about IBM? After all, the conventional w...
Among the Gigabit Ethernet startups - both those who have been swallowed up by bigger vendors and those still on their own - the early lead in meeting shipping dates and selling into real-live accounts belongs to Foundry Networks (www.foundrynet.com) Among the Gigabit Ethernet startups -...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 14, 1996--Shomiti Systems, Inc., a leader of the rapidly expanding Fast LAN management market (switched Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and other Fast LANs), today added three new protocol decode suites to the Century LAN Analyzer product family.