Cisco acquired the Flash technology company as part of its broader effort to sell its Unified Computing System (UCS), which converges networking.
"Nortel, which has been a supplier of optical networking equipment to MCI in the past, is at risk of being left out of the new Verizon/MCI converged network," he noted.
The creation of an innovation niche depends on the interaction of three mechanisms involving: converging expectations, networking among the innovation actors, and learning about the novelty through efficient knowledge creation and diffusion.
The LOOP project, a EUREKA-CELTIC driven initiative, is one piece in the jigsaw by helping European industry to sustain a leading role in telecommunications and manufacturing of high-value products and machinery by delivering pioneering converged wireless networking solutions that can be successfully demonstrated.
EMC big play is in converging its networking, storage and compute into one machine.
But as compute, storage and networking converged more broadly so did the two companies overlap in the marketplace.
Explosive data growth and new transformational technologies such as cloud computing, converged infrastructure, unified networking and big data are changing the way organizations are running their businesses today.
Developments in sensor design, electronics, computer technology and networking have converged to provide new ways of collecting environmental data at rates hitherto impossible to achieve.
In a frenzy of networking, some 3,500 people converged on the UN's Palais des Nations for this year's Assembly.
This is good news for Nokia because its networking business has been struggling partly because Nokia Networks was at risk of becoming marginalized as the telecom industry moved toward converged fixed and mobile networks.
The boundaries between the sellers of hardware, software, networking equipment and even books are now converging on the same problem with roughly the same approach.
