| Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. Nortel wants to speed up $17.65M Alteon sale Nortel Networks wants to speed up the sale of assets of its application-delivery division because it's worried it will get less money from the sale as time goes by, according to bankruptcy court documents filed on Friday. Nortel sells technology for a fraction of original value Nortel announced that it is selling application delivery technology to Radware for $17.65 million, a fraction of the $6 billion-plus price it paid for it in 2000. Network pros decide application performance matters The days of finger pointing between network teams and application groups might be on the way to extinction, according to survey data recently released by BT. In fact 42% of respondents said they are taking a more balanced perspective on the performance of their networks and enterprise applications, while just 28% indicated the same in 2002. Measure your user's experience for good VoIP quality Good VoIP quality requires measuring your user's experience. Why? Because we're talking about talking, not e-mail. A VoIP application's job is to recreate a real event-a conversation between live people who expect a good quality experience. Voice-related traffic needs to be delivered quickly and consistently to achieve a smooth and natural conversation. SolarWinds offers free Cisco IP SLA monitoring tool Lacking budget dollars for new network management tools? SolarWinds says its technology can help. The network monitoring company added to its freeware arsenal with a tool that helps network managers troubleshoot performance problems via a user interface that configures to Cisco routers, switches and other IP devices. Covad boosts wholesale network with MPLS Covad Communications is adding MPLS to its wholesale network to help operator customers deliver the quality of service required for applications such as voice and video over IP. More than bandwidth, carriers and their business customers are demanding that applications run smoothly over IP networks, according to Young-Sae Song, vice president of marketing at Covad Wholesale. MPLS uses tags on packets to distinguish the traffic of one application from another so each can be transported as customers expect. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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