Blogging has been a bit light the past few days, as I have been caught up in a lot of work, office move, and a trip to Supercomm. Speaking of which, a lot of announcements were made during the first day of the show, including, among others:
- Cisco, announcing its DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection offering, which is now a part of the company's NGN IP architecture.
- Juniper giving demos of its newest software upgrade (5.0) to its Secure/Remote Access SSL VPN appliances; the company also unveiled its new E320 broadband services router, the industry's largest capacity broadband router. The E320 is a pretty good platform for delivery of services such as IPT, VOD, and IPTV.
- ADC, Lucent, Nortel and Tellabs all revealed their new products targeting the emerging FTTX / "triple play" markets. Lucent announced a collaboration with Polycom geared towards delivering IP voice, video and collaboration solutions. Nortel introduced next-gen features for its optical network solutions. These features will allow service providers to deliver high bandwidth content and application-based services in a much faster fashion.
- Sonus unveiled its GSX4000 compact gateway which caters to the lower end of the VoIP market.
- On the M&A front, Ditech announced it was acquiring Jasomi, in a marriage of SBCs and voice processing technologies (I will attend Ditech's dinner on Wednesday evening and learn more about synergies, and the rationale behind the purchase).