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http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=67885 Colubris Networks, a Waltham-based provider of multi-service WLAN systems, and Beacon Wi-Fi in Wilton, Conn., completed deployment of the Colubris Multiservice WLAN System at more than 100 marinas in 2004. Remote monitoring and voice services will be deployed over the existing Colubris Multiservice WLAN System in 2005. No financial details of the arrangement between Beacon and Colubris have been released. According to Chris Reitz, co-founder of Beacon Wi-Fi, his company uses the Colubris Multiservice WLAN System for its ability to carry multiple applications over Continue reading →

Two representatives from Cisco this week for the first time attended a meeting of vendors and service providers brought together by rival Juniper to push for a secure and profitable public IP network. Cisco sent Monique Morrow, a consulting engineer, and Suraj Shetty, director of marketing for Cisco’s routing technology group, as observers to the Juniper-organized Infranet Initiative Council meeting held in Paris during the MPLS World Congress ’05 conference. Cisco was there to try to push the council’s efforts more towards the standards organizations, Continue reading →

Boosts breadth of project management skills beyond storage environments

Momentum Positions Company for Success in 2005 Company Completes Participate and Quelsys Acquisitions; Extends Global Presence, Expands Management Team and Grows Customer Base

Risk management software firm CXO Systems Inc has launched a new executive dashboard system that it claims will break traditional “siloed” approaches to risk management. The CXO Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) delivers a one-touch visibility and monitoring of risk across the entire enterprise through an integrated view of risk indicators and exposures. CXO officials say the product is differentiated from other executive dashboard offerings in the market by its comprehensiveness and its integrated stack. “Many large companies have already invested a great deal of money Continue reading →

A technology partnership announced today between Ember and Tendril Networks will enable companies to quickly and easily build applications that draw information from ZigBee™ networks. ZigBee is a wireless, standards-based radio technology that addresses the unique needs of remote monitoring and control, and sensor network applications. Tendril is developing the industry’s first Web Services-based technology for ZigBee networks, called a “service broker,” using Ember’s ZigBee-ready semiconductor and software platform. Tendril’s new service broker will shield developers from having to learn new programming skills or master Continue reading →

Tendril's Ember-enabled service broker uses Web Services technology to link sensor nets to business applications

OfficeTiger is the sort of young technology company that once created thousands of high-paying jobs in the USA, fueling sizzling economic growth. The 5-year-old business employs 200 in the USA. Yet it employs 2,000 more in southern India, with plans for hundreds more performing tech-heavy financial services and other tasks. None of those jobs got there through traditional “offshoring.” They were never in the USA to begin with. Nearly 40% of start-ups in a new USA TODAY study employ engineers, marketers, analysts and others in Continue reading →

VeriWave’s WaveTest is used to conduct Voice over IP performance validation of Colubris’ multi-service wireless LAN systems

Sources close to Juniper Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR – message board) say the company is still on the prowl for a wireless LAN switch vendor to acquire. They say the firm may be examining switch startup Trapeze Networks Inc. as a possible acquisition target. “They’re doing more than sniffing around,” notes one industry source. A spokesperson for Juniper refused to comment on “rumors and speculation” about acquisition possibilities. No one from Trapeze has returned calls about this matter yet. Unlike the majority of its major Continue reading →