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HP, Avaya, Cisco expand network offerings
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Monday, 03 May 2010, 21:57 IST |
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Bangalore: Major networking vendors HP, Avaya, and Cisco are adding to their product portfolios with an eye to becoming one-stop shops for next-generation infrastructures whether through acquisition or home-based offerings, Interop Las Vegas 2010 attendees learned at Monday's opening keynote presentations, reports Paul McDougall from InformationWeek.
HP plans to add 3Com's network switching, routing, and security products to its ProCurve line of networking gear. The company ultimately wants to offer customers an 'edge-to-core' network fabric. "The network needs to be the glue that brings together all the different infrastructure components to support advanced architectures like virtualization and cloud computing," said Marius Haas, SVP and worldwide GM for HP Networking.
HP isn't the only tech vendor that's bulking up its offering through acquisition. Avaya last year bought out Nortel's Enterprise Business unit for $900 million. Avaya president and CEO Kevin Kennedy, another Interop keynote speaker, said the merger gives his company the opportunity to develop a full range of 'fit for purpose' IP telephony and networking solutions.
Avaya added four new products that integrate Avaya and Nortel technologies and services - the Ethernet Routing Switch 8800, the Wireless LAN 8100 Series, the Unified Communications Management, Configuration, and Orchestration Manager, and the Advanced Gateway 2330.
Cisco also used the Interop stage to announce a significant product launch.
The networking giant's new CleanAir technology, built into its just-launched Aironet 3500 Series Access Points, allows users to sniff out and mitigate sources of RF interference - such as video cameras, microwaves, or signal jammers, on wireless networks, said Brett Galloway, senior VP for Cisco's Wireless, Security, and Routing Technology group.
Galloway said the technology adds to Cisco's strategy of delivering products and services that will provide a foundation for the virtual workplace.
