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Stephen Lawson

Stephen Lawson

IDG News Service

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Recent articles by Stephen Lawson

Ruckus attacks enterprise Wi-Fi with pricing

March 15, 2010

Ruckus Wireless aims to lower the cost of entry to enterprise IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi gear with a stepped-down line of access points it is introducing on Monday.

Cisco tries to expand video calling with IME

March 12, 2010

Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard.

3G buildouts push up mobile network investment

March 10, 2010

Mobile networks may not be getting upgraded as fast as some subscribers would like, but carrier spending on infrastructure is expected to rebound slightly this year after falling in 2009.

Cisco unveils next Internet core router

March 09, 2010

Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform.

Navajo Nation may get cutting-edge LTE network

March 09, 2010

If a pending federal grant is approved, one of the first LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless broadband networks in the U.S. will be built across 15,120 square miles of desert.

Cisco quits WiMax radio business

March 06, 2010

Cisco Systems will stop developing and making WiMax base stations to concentrate on the IP (Internet Protocol) networks that sit behind them.

RCN sells out to equity firm for $1.2B

March 05, 2010

U.S. cable operator RCN has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm ABRY Partners for approximately US$1.2 billion, the companies said Friday.

RSA extends security tools to VMware

March 04, 2010

EMC's RSA division is embracing the virtualization trend that its VMware spinoff helped kick off, announcing Thursday that three of its core security products will work in VMware virtualized environments.

NexentaStor adds primary deduplication

March 02, 2010

Nexenta Systems is updating its NexentaStor open-source storage software with in-line deduplication, which increases the amount of data that can be stored on a server by storing it more efficiently, and support for three popular hypervisors.

DVE brings 3-D look to meeting system

March 02, 2010

A telepresence system that uses a transparent screen can make meeting participants appear as if they are in the same room, without the need for 3-D glasses, vendor Digital Video Enterprises says.