Briefs: Westell updates Shade products

AURORA -- Westell Technologies Inc., a provider of convergence gateways, broadband access solutions and conferencing services, announced the latest addition to its Westell Shade line of environmental enclosures. The line, which is 30 percent smaller than previous models, combines compact size with a patent-pending cooling system to significantly reduce maintenance and operating costs for wireless and wireline network operators.

Worknet to service The Youth Campus

NAPERVILLE -- Worknet Inc., a provider of IT consulting and managed services, announced that The Youth Campus, a private, nonprofit agency serving children and families throughout the area, has gone live with a suite of outsourced IT services hosted from Worknet's data center. Worknet provides organizations a reliable computing environment to host its applications, improving its operating efficiency and laying the foundation to realize other technology visions that provide a benefit to the children and foster families. It allows employees to better access the systems externally.