Nortel working on new security routers: "Another ongoing effort comes at security from the desktop, making sure individual machines meet security standards before they can send traffic on the network. F5 Networks and Nortel last week announced they have joined Cisco, Extreme Networks, Juniper and others working with Microsoft to support the software giant's Network Access Protection (NAP) architecture. NAP is designed to create a broad security infrastructure that embraces servers, switches, routers and desktops. As NAP is gathering a long list of partners, Microsoft is preparing its first release for next year."—NetworkWorldFusion