Radware had said when the suit was filed that it believed that the claims against it were without merit. The company continues to take that stance, as it fights to disprove the validity of F5's suit, said Jon Rabinowitz, a spokesman for Radware. Neither company would provide an update on the suit. Radware is suing competitor F5 Networks for infringing on one of its patents, four months after F5 filed its own suit. Radware, which makes networking products that balance traffic between servers, announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against competitor F5 Networks for infringing on a patent that was awarded to Radware in April 2004.

The suit alleges that F5 Networks' three-DNS load-balancing product infringes on U.S, Patent No, 6,718,359, The patent awarded to Radware only a few months ago is for technology that determines the proximity of devices within a network when making load-balancing decisions, The technology is used in Radware's flagship product, the Web Server Director, Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic, We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read, Discussion iphone xs max protection collection - clear / black threads can be closed at any time at our discretion..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. The Yankee Group recently surveyed 278 large companies that subscribe to Ethernet services. About 75 percent used Ethernet for Internet access. Roughly 55 percent said they used Ethernet to connect offices in the same city or metro network. And about 40 percent said they were using Ethernet to connect offices between cities. Carriers like MCI are starting to offer new services and differentiate their services from one another to win customers, analysts said.

To date, MCI has sold its Ethernet private-line service only to large companies linking offices within the same city, Beginning in August, it will offer the service to customers connecting offices nationwide, The idea is to enable customers to build a single virtual Ethernet network throughout the country iphone xs max protection collection - clear / black so that employees in New York, Boston and San Francisco will feel as if they're right down the hall from one another, Other carriers are also offering Ethernet LAN (local area network) services over long distances, Earlier this month, Time Warner Telecom announced that it has service available in 44 cities in the United States, Last week, Verizon announced plans to offer it in 35 domestic markets, And AT&T claims that it has been offering long-distance Ethernet services across its network nationwide for a long time..

"Carriers are starting to offer these services, because it's what customers want," Parks said. "As enterprises become more familiar with Ethernet services in the metro, they want it extended to their offices in other cities.". MCI plans to expand its offering internationally later this year, said Ralph Monfort, director of Internet access products for the carrier. MCI already offers metro Ethernet services in parts of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. MCI also announced enhancements to two existing Ethernet services. First, it increased data rates for its metro private-line Ethernet service, which provides connectivity between two locations. Beginning in August, the available speeds will include 10mbps, 40mbps, 100mbps and 1GBps. And the company is adding storage protocols to its offering, including Fibre Channel, FICON (Fibre Connection) and ESCON (Enterprise Systems Connectivity).