Jeff Caruso

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Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World. Contact him.

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Recent articles by Caruso

Bad guys learn a lesson about disaster recovery
Jul. 02, 2009
It didn't take long for spammers to learn their lesson. About seven months after the McColo shutdown took out their command-and-control operations, a similar shutdown last month was anticipated and routed around.

Better than your average blog
Jun. 29, 2009
One of the best resources at Network World for network architecture and design is celebrating his second anniversary with us, and it's worth taking a look at the wealth of advice he has created in his blog.

Nortel's problems were Bay-sic
Jun. 24, 2009
As Nortel goes through its last stages, there are a lot of people analyzing what went wrong, particularly in the time since the dot-com bust. But for me, the watershed moment was just before then, when Nortel bought Bay ...

Google issues call to make the Web faster
Jun. 24, 2009
Google Tuesday called on the Web development community to improve the speed of Web pages, posted its own list of performance best practices, and declared that protocols such as TCP/IP and HTML need to be updated or even ...

TV over Ethernet part of larger trend
Jun. 17, 2009
On one hand, it's really just an incremental advance - but on the other hand, LG shipping TVs that gets their content directly from an Ethernet connection to the Internet heralds a revolution.

An exciting time for data center networking
Jun. 15, 2009
All kinds of vendors are getting into the data center networking game, trying to be the one-stop shop for all of your data center needs. But what will that mean for you in the long run?

The shadow network architecture
Jun. 10, 2009
We live in an age when the networks we have created give us so much access and so much power. Naturally, there are those who have taken that beautiful thing and twisted it for their own evil ends.

Vyatta refuels for race against Cisco
Jun. 08, 2009
Open-source router maker Vyatta has raised $10.1 million in its third round of venture funding, according to reports, as it continues to push its view of routing as a commodity.

Router market expected to take a rare dip
Jun. 03, 2009
The Dell'Oro Group recently released some gloomy projections for various segments of the networking market, with IP lines for the PBX market expected to decline for the first time ever and the router market expected to ...

Nortel exec: Bay Networks glory can return after some "chemotherapy" | NetworkWorld.com ...
Jul. 01, 2009
Nortel's John McHugh on Bay Networks

Ethernet Alliance tests Data Center Bridging
Jun. 01, 2009
The Ethernet Alliance last month held a series of interoperability tests for IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging (DCB), with vendors ranging from Cisco to Intel.

Nortel looking to sell stake in joint venture
May. 27, 2009
Nortel this week confirmed that it is looking for a buyer for its majority stake in a joint venture with LG Electronics.

Buzzword compliance is making things a little, um, cloudy
May. 26, 2009
Network equipment vendors are getting a little buzzword-crazy when it comes to one of the biggest buzzwords today - "cloud computing" - and suddenly all of their switches and routers have "cloud" capabilities. Give me a ...

Motorola introduces Passive Optical LAN
May. 21, 2009
Motorola this week introduced its Passive Optical LAN technology for enterprise networks. At the Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Motorola unveiled POL, which brings gigabit passive optical networking, or GPON, to ...

Next HDMI to have Ethernet built in
May. 18, 2009
Several Web sites last week came forward with details of the next version of the HDMI cable specification, one that will have Ethernet capabilities built in - but the group responsible for the spec isn't verifying any ...

Nortel is certainly taking its time
May. 13, 2009
Outside Nortel, the scene is one of press and analysts glancing frequently and impatiently at their watches. Inside, Nortel says it's tearing itself to pieces. And then there are the vultures.

PoE without the PoE switch
May. 12, 2009
If you have lots of Ethernet switches that you want to convert to PoE switches, the place to turn may be a midspan.

Could this technology accelerate the shift to wireless?
May. 07, 2009
The Wireless Gigabit Alliance formally launches Thursday with a vision of wireless networking in excess of 1Gbps.

The culture has shifted
May. 05, 2009
In 2003, I speculated that wireless LAN technology could at some point become the preferred option for connecting to networks - that we would see wireless trump wired connections in many cases. In 2009, it looks like we ...

Broadband stimulus funds are coming soon
Apr. 30, 2009
Within the massive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, there is about $7.2 billion set aside for building out broadband infrastructure, and the process of getting that funding into carriers' hands is under ...

802.1Qay closes in on standardization
Apr. 28, 2009
The IEEE last week said that its 802.1Qay specification for service-provider networks has entered the final phase for ratification as a standard.

Society created to save the Internet
Apr. 23, 2009
A new group will meet next month to start tackling a truly herculean task: solving the Internet architecture crisis.

The network is the computer is the network
Apr. 21, 2009
It's so strange to see HP and Sun in such hot competition with Cisco in their server announcements. But this is our new reality.

D-Link unveils more 'green' products
Apr. 16, 2009
If there is any vendor that is taking "green" network technology to an extreme, it's D-Link, which recently introduced a managed switch and a PowerLine adapter kit that both claim to save energy.

Breakthrough enables Terabit Ethernet
Apr. 14, 2009
A year ago, we talked about reaching for Terabit Ethernet, the next power-of-10 increase in speed over the state of the art today. Now, researchers have demonstrated one way to do that.