How we did it
How we compared the various voice over IP products.
Other VoIP traffic-analysis options
In addition to the voice over IP traffic analysis products tested, other vendors also now offer products featuring various
VoIP-analysis capabilities. We've assembled information about those products here as provided to us by the vendors.
Wireless woos doctors
Healthcare network executives are discovering that wireless access to data can have a dramatic effect in boosting the number
of patients served, improving quality of physician diagnosis, and speeding payments and billing cycles.
Low-end servers gain power, features
Memory-mirroring, fault-tolerance features aim to satisfy users who want more for less.
Analysts question Level 3's intentions
Level 3's plan to purchase Genuity should concern Genuity's enterprise customers, according to industry analysts.
Net management software: Rip and replace?
As systems age, users face decision to squeeze more out of old packages or toss them.
Special Focus: Companies saddle up for NT's ride into sunset
In 12 months Windows NT will leave the ranks of supported software, and network executives must decide now what to do with
the platform.
IBM shells out $2.1 billion for Rational Software
With its $2.1 billion acquisition of toolmaker Rational Software, IBM says it hopes to become its customers' single source
for building, deploying and managing business applications.
Microsoft looks to address licensing flap
Microsoft has begun tweaking its licensing programs to address the confusion and financial burdens it has admitted creating
with its new Licensing 6.0 plan.
Waveset pushes user management reach
Waveset to release an extension to its user management product that will tie together extranets
Analysts weigh in on security, content
With 2003 around the corner, consider these New Year's resolutions: Better secure your networks, more efficiently manage your
company's content, and rethink how to exploit the Internet.
Expand aims to prioritize bandwidth
Compression gear now enforces app priorities
Supreme Court might hear UNE case
Supreme Court might hear UNE case; PC demand to rise; pop-up purveyor gets hit with lawsuit
Show attendees see few limits for Linux
Linux show attendees think outside the box with open source
Carrier news briefs
Cogent rolls out a data center service for those with low bandwidth requirements; AT&T offers more security to its European
customers
Insurance giant taps start-up to manage domain names
Nominum, a 3-year-old start-up specializing in Internet name and addressing technologies, last week announced its first enterprise
software licensing deal.
Infrastructure news briefs
HP rolls out two new ProLiant boxes; IBM debuts a new Linux-ready server
Gold Wire device locks down network
Gold Wire is scheduled to announce an appliance that could help operators of large multivendor networks get a better handle
on configuring and auditing changes made to infrastructure gear.
NetScreen embraces SSL with SafeWeb pact
NetScreen Technologies is joining other IP Security VPN vendors that recognize customers want a simpler, less-expensive, secure
remote-access method to supplement their VPNs.
Sygate CEO outlines security strategy
A Q&A with Sygate CEO John DeSantis, who talks about the company's plans for partnering with big names and improving its name
recognition.
Applications news briefs
IBM releases a tool to voice-enable corporate mobile apps; Sun issues Version 2.0 of Mobile Information Device Profile
Equant to keep an eye on apps
Equant says it will launch an application-monitoring service for data customers around the world by year-end.
