Opened last December and run by Lucent's Bell Laboratories unit, the facility is working on passive optical networking equipment. Diagrams of clients' network layouts can be produced in about two hours. The partnership extends beyond marketing hardware and related software to customizing high-throughput communications networks for clients and maintaining and managing these systems. These services are locally supported in close to 50 countries. The New York City company bills itself as a one-stop shop for communications services on the Internet.
Activation is instant.
The various components allow information technology managers to set, enforce and track automated rules that govern such network operations as security, bandwidth and quality of service. The first component rolled out in Japan involves policy-based networking to address security and QoS for LANs and WANs. The Boise, Idaho firm claims to be the first to develop infrared LAN drivers for the Windows CE platform. For office settings, it has a high-speed mode that provides data transmission rates equivalent to those of wired Ethernet LANs. Interest in enabling the networking of PCs and other digital devices in the home continues to gather momentum.