Alcatel this week announced a definitive agreement to acquire TiMetra, a privately held maker of edge routers, for $150 million in stock. Alcatel says the TiMetra acquisition will allow it to fill out ...

An IPv6 CE Router is a customer edge router intended for use in a home or small office environment. The router connects the end-user network to a service provider network and forwards packets not ...

Organizations today are too dependent on the Internet to experience any downtime when upgrading from IPv4 to IPv6. But help is on the way. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined ...

Edge router design begins with requirements similar to those of core routers, while adding a range of complex requirements. The big difference is that while core routers are designed with one purpose ...