HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Colubris Networks Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based, privately-held global provider of intelligent wireless networks for enterprises and service providers.

By Hochmuth, Phil New switch products add high-speed Ethernet ports and Power over Ethernet support.

HP last week announced new policy-based network security and bandwidth management software, as well as upgrades, that the company says will let its ProCurve LANSwitch customers better control end- user access to network resources and bandwidth.

Hewlett-Packard Canada Ltd. of Mississauga, Ont., under its ProCurve line of networking products, has released three gigabit Ethernet solutions in an attempt to increase the adoption of the technology in the enterprise.

NETWORKING Company hopes to gain on 3Com, Cisco with low-cost GbE speed HEWLETT-PACKARD'S networking division this week will unwrap a slew of new switches, in the hope of driving adoption of GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) in the enterprise and leapfroging 3Com in market share.