Petrosky is an independent technology analyst in San Mateo, Calif. E-mail her.
Infrastructure Insights
By Mary Petrosky
Ethernet reaches into the MAN - and beyond May. 01, 2000 If I offered you twice the bandwidth of your current metropolitan-area network (MAN) at half the cost, would you be interested?
Want an Internet-based existence? Get a life! Jan. 24, 2000 As we step into the 21st century, I'm having a paroxysm of Luddite-ism. Maybe it's millennium fever that has me feeling so philosophical. Maybe it's the AOL/Time Warner megamerger, which promises even further ...
IPv6: This is your wake-up call May. 14, 2001 IPv6 announcements from Cisco and NEC are a wake-up call to enterprise IT managers and service providers, particularly those with business operations or partners outside the U.S. IPv6 is real and is happening now.
Metropolitan technologies will benefit providers and users Jan. 22, 2001 Service providers in the metropolitan-area network arena are in the midst of a technology explosion that promises to bring customers lower bandwidth costs, more flexible service provisioning and a wider range of service ...