Here come the super-ISPs
They're not just bandwidth providers any more. 9/28/98.

Burnt Ciena
Lessons from a failed merger. 9/21/98.

Market gyrations and you
What the globalization of networking vendors means. 9/14/98.

Market gyrations and you
ast week's roller coaster ride on Wall Street may have been bad news for investors. 9/7/98.

A chip in his shoulder
How much is convenience worth to you? 8/31/98.

Investing in a start-up
You may not think that's what you do, but every time you buy gear from a start-up, you really are. Here are the issues to consider before handing over those valuable networking dollars. 8/24/98.

Close that door!
They may not have built a truly hacker-proof encryption system yet, but that's no reason to just throw up your hands and do nothing about protecting corporate data. 8/17/98.

Blue-light specials?
Why networking gear is more resistant to price cuts than PCs, even in the face of declining demand. 8/10/98.

Bell Gigantic
Why the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger is not so hot for users. 8/3/98.

Taking stock in IT, part II
More on IT purchasing ethics. 7/27/98.

Taking stock in IT
The fine line between impartiality and good advice when it comes to analysts and their vendor suggestions. 7/20/98.

Lucent, LANNET and the Kinks
Lucent is going to pay a mere $117 million for the reborn LANNET organization. In a continuation of its best-of-breed strategy, Lucent has coughed up the networking equivalent of a few nickels to purchase a firm that was all but comatose a few years ago. The question remains: Why? 7/13/98

Bay tries new route around Cisco
With all that's been happening of late - AT&T buying TCI, fires in Florida, floods in the Northeast, and probably locusts somewhere - most people overlooked a relatively quiet announcement from Bay Networks, Inc. last week. 7/6/98

Remember Centrix?
Whatever happened to Centrex phone service? 6/29/98

Oh no, Mr. Bill, part 2
Based on the response of email and letters this past week, you'd think that my last column was about things like "Why school vouchers will ultimately create a two-class learning society" or "Seven simple ways libraries can censor your Internet access". 6/22/98

Oh no, Mr. Bill!
Why Clinton is dead wrong on two key technology fronts - and why he should stop playing into the hands of the other Bill: Gates. 6/15/98.

Food-chain frenzy
What all the mergers and acquisitions in internetworking means. 6/8/98.

Internet chess game
What MCI's decision to sell off its backbone business means, plus a recap of McClimans' prediction that one Big Four internetworking firm will disappear by year's end. 6/1/98.

Oh, what a week!
From the pager collapse to the end of Carol Channing's marriage. 5/25/98.

SLAs - Who needs 'em?
Remember when "SLA" triggered thoughts of Patty Hearst? Today, networking people think of AT&T, MCI and Sprint when they hear the acronym, which has become a hot topic of discussion following last month's AT&T frame relay outage. 5/18/98.

Best of show
A look at the most significant announcements at NetWorld+Interop. 5/11/98.

Gambling in Vegas?
Used to be a time when you could count on some pretty big stakes down in Vegas. You know the type. Double down. Split that pair. Roll the dice. Try and draw that inside straight. A look at what to expect at N+I. 5/4/98.

The router is dead. Long live the router!
Cisco's new 8500 was supposed to be a switch. It's really a router - but that's OK, as long as you're in a big shop with that old-time Cisco religion. 4/27/98.

Cellular None
Wireless vendors should stop babbling about futuristic new features and start working to fix their existing billing systems. 4/20/98.

Cisco's token effort
There's not much future in token ring - unless Cisco gets back into it. 4/13/98.

Reed's resignation
Craig Benson faces some challenges at Cabletron. 4/6/98.

Networking slowdown
The industry's beginning to cool off - maybe even Cisco. 3/30/98.

What a tera-ble idea!
Terabit Ethernet? Now cut that out! 3/23/98.

CLECs and ISPs: A love story?
Why you'll start to see them merging. 3/16/98.

Seven deadly sins
How not to be a good IT manager. 3/9/98.

Those blasted ads
What's wrong with advertising on Web sites. 3/2/98.

Intelligent life at the FCC
A ruling to protect the privacy of your telephone records should be extended to the Internet. 2/23/98.

Trademark this
Why Internet domain names still might make you put some money into the legal budget for trademark protection. 2/16/98.

Can free be too expensive?
One of our clients got a month's free service from its local carrier. But, oh, what they had to go through to get it. 2/9/98.

Paradyne DSL is a winner
Why Paradyne could be the company to move DSL into the big time this year. 2/2/98.

Why Microsoft won't buy BT
Gates wants to get into content, not distribution. 1/26/98.

It's in their nature
Internetworking vendors can't help it - they've just got to merge and acquire. What's it all mean to you, though? 1/19/98.