Data networking and security solutions
We offer a broad range of data networking (packet switching and routing) and security solutions for our enterprise customers. Our packet switching and routing systems include data switching systems, aggregation products, virtual private network gateways and routers, including:
•Our data switches, secure routers and associated security products provide data switching designed to allow our customers to provide Internet data security and IP services including IP routing, virtual private networks, deep packet inspection, firewall applications, policy management and data traffic flow management. These products also enable our customers to manage and prioritize the Internet content that is provided to
•Our Ethernet switch portfolio is a series of high performance packet switches for our enterprise customers’ small to large local area networks that use the Ethernet, a standard computer networking protocol for local area networks.
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•Our portfolio of WLAN service switching products is designed to provide secure and efficient transmission of WLAN data and voice traffic for mobile users. Our WLAN voice products integrate with our communications servers and gateway products to provide a wireless voice over IP solution for our customers.
•Our portfolio of optical network switching products is designed to extend the range of storage area networks to enable our customers to consolidate their data servers. Our products enable enterprises to deploy these storage area networks in alternate locations, providing geographic redundancy as part of their business continuity strategy.
Product development
We are currently focused on developing products that support the continuing evolution of voice and data communications systems toward converged or combined data, voice and multimedia networks, including:
•The continued development of our multimedia communication server for enterprise, a product that provides the capability to deliver converged data, voice and multimedia applications and enhanced networking capabilities.
•Additions to the applications in our communications server products to allow integration of voice over IP, voice extensible markup language, new operating systems and servers, and voice recognition speech products.
•New developments in data networking products that will deliver resiliency, enable increased data network traffic and provide suitable service levels and network connectivity and power to devices over the same line.
•The development of the next generation web platform, which will feature higher performance, scalability (that is, the ability to grow a service or capability with incremental cost) and integrated applications.
•Enhancements to our security portfolio including the new secure sockets layer, or SSL, and switching products and a new
•Updates to our customer
Markets
We offer Enterprise Networks products to enterprises around the world. With the growth of data, voice and multimedia communications over the public telephone network, the public Internet and private voice and data communications networks, there is an increasing opportunity to converge disparate networks towards a single, high performance network that can support various types of communications traffic and applications.
We believe that in order to meet the growing demand for increased capacity at lower
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