
Swan Labs swoops in on Pivia assets
The company has acquired what remains of layer 7 caching vendor Pivia. Both are focused on application delivery, and Swan gets hold of a decent customer list, but integration with a layer 5 proxy will prove tricky.

Market Development by Steve Coplan, 7 December 2004

BroadLogic closes third-round funding but remains mum on technology details
It claims to have PHY-layer silicon that can provide a fivefold increase in capacity for existing cable operators, allowing them to fend off competition from satellite, phone and wireless players.

Impact Report by Greg Quick, 7 December 2004

Broadcom attacks high-end audio/video segment with latest offering
The company's BCM7411 video processor is a third-generation video decoder/audio processor that supports the latest standards and is designed to facilitate the growth of high-definition digital media over established networks.

Market Development by Greg Quick, 6 December 2004

Ikanos takes leap into VDSL2 market prior to technology standard being set
The company has developed a programmable chipset that it says will support the emerging VDSL2 specification and is backward-compatible with older standards, including VDSL and ADSL.

Market Development by Greg Quick, 6 December 2004

Provigent emerges from stealth mode with funding and product announcements
The developer has already raised $19m in three rounds of funding and has its first product, a system-on-chip offering designed to consolidate wireless backhaul, available for sampling.

Impact Report by Greg Quick, 3 December 2004

Chipcon readies its first integrated ZigBee/802.15.4-compliant chipset
The move comes just weeks after the company announced a joint development alliance with NEC to develop ZigBee modules, signifying that Chipcon is positioning itself for the finalization of the ZigBee standard.

Market Development by Greg Quick, 2 December 2004

Riverbed cuts its teeth in CAD file sharing

Expand Networks' application delivery story starts coming together

IBM, Sony and Hitachi reveal some details of the Cell, with full disclosure in 2005

WildPackets reports critical enterprise sales, but rivals are on their way

Citrix finally makes its SSL VPN move with the purchase of Net6

As goes intrusion prevention, so too goes TippingPoint?


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