ntl Telewest has installed more than 152 kilometres of ADC KRONE TrueNet Category 5e STP shielded cabling and over 15,000 network points in 73 points-of-presence (PoPs) country-wide as part of its multi-million pound investment to bring TV-on-demand (TVoD) services to its customers.

CA has joined a working group that is drafting a new specification to consistently express how computer networks, applications, servers and other IT resources are described—or modeled—in extensible markup language (XML) so businesses can more easily manage the services that are built on these resources.

Gartner believes that Microsoft's tie-up with Citrix will change the selling dynamic for WAN optimization controllers, branch office boxes and, to a lesser degree, application delivery controllers.

Cisco has announced that it has made an investment in Nuova Systems, Inc. to accelerate next-generation product development in the data center. As a result of Cisco's financial commitment, Nuova Systems will become a majority-owned subsidiary of Cisco.

Sun's re-hosting business, part of its Mainframe Migration offerings, was set up to help customers move their mainframe applications over to Sun's Unix-based hardware.