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N+I Atlanta, several Comdex shows biting the dust
Sep. 23, 2002
Key3Media Group is scrapping the NetWorld+Interop conference in Atlanta next year as part of a broader pullback in its North American IT trade show lineup. The company says financial troubles on the part of exhibitors ...
Wireless stars at smaller Interop show
Sep. 16, 2002
I caught up with Proxim for the first time since it became the Big Kahuna of wireless by acquiring Orinoco from Agere Systems in June and asked about the acceptance of 802.11a.
MPLS and IP storage testing update
Sep. 09, 2002
The iLabs MPLS and IP Storage teams will continue testing at NetWorld+Interop in Atlanta.
iLabs team weighs wireless security options
Sep. 09, 2002
In this round of iLabs testing we focused on wireless security, with Global Test Alliance member Joel Snyder, a senior partner at Opus One participating in the testing and gleaning information useful to enterprise ...
Strategy: Wireless security with 802.1X
Sep. 09, 2002
Network professionals in search of technology that melds authentication, encryption and wireless LANs will find the IEEE 802.1X specification is up to the job.
Show planner: N+I Atlanta 2002
Sep. 02, 2002
Here's a look at some of the activities you shouldn't miss at this year's show.
Altiris suite keeps an eye on net assets
Aug. 26, 2002
Management software maker Altiris will next month roll out an upgraded suite of tools designed to help users more efficiently track hardware and software assets across their networks.
Fall Interop succumbs to industry malaise
Aug. 26, 2002
If you've been thinking about going to NetWorld+Interop Atlanta someday, you'd better decide soon while there still is one.
Why trade shows still matter
Sep. 30, 2002
From what I saw, there are huge reasons to keep supporting, attending and exhibiting at trade shows such as N+I:
A cage for the viruses that get in
Sep. 23, 2002
Although the recent NetWorld+Interop show in Atlanta was unusually quiet, one company that made a splash was SentryBay, a newcomer offering software designed to prevent the spread of e-mail viruses.
Wireless, MPLS create a buzz at smaller N+I
Sep. 16, 2002
Kicking things off on Tuesday, Foundry Networks CEO Bobby Johnson and Sprint President Ronald LeMay gave keynotes outlining the futures of wired and wireless networks, respectively.
Foundry chief is fired up over Ethernet's future
Sep. 10, 2002
<I>Atlanta -</I>Bobby Johnson, CEO and founder of Foundry Networks, used his keynote address at the Networld+Interop show here this week to share his vision of the future of his favorite network technology, from Gigabit ...
Sprint's chief touts integrated services
Sep. 10, 2002
Sprint is pinning its hopes on a network that integrates wireless and wire-line, voice and data services in ways that produce eye-popping services, the company's CEO Ronald LeMay said in his keynote speech today.
SmartPipes supports Cisco's PIX firewall
Sep. 10, 2002
SmartPipes says its VPN provisioning software now supports Cisco's PIX firewall, enabling customers to set firewall and VPN policies centrally using a graphical user interface.
Resonate ups its Commander software
Sep. 09, 2002
<I>ATLANTA -</I>Resonate this week will introduce the latest offering from its management software portfolio, which the company says can help network managers rapidly determine the source of problems in Web applications ...
Browser-based wireless security
Sep. 09, 2002
With browser-based authentication, the user must authenticate with a username and password (or other authentication technique, such as a one-time password token) through a typically encrypted browser window before their ...
Security to find spotlight at Interop
Sep. 09, 2002
It seems only fitting that with the country's focus on shoring up personal and national defenses that this week's NetWorld+Interop 2002 Atlanta show will focus on network security products.
Security trio forms Intrusion Prevention Ecosystem to safeguard nets
Sep. 09, 2002
To help enterprises thwart a broad range of network attacks aimed at exploiting multiple parts of an enterprise, Check Point Software Technologies, Okena, and Intruvert Networks announced the creation of an Intrusion ...
iLabs team takes on wireless security at N+I Atlanta
Sep. 09, 2002
In this round if iLabs testing we focuses on wireless security with a brief update on MPLS and IP Storage interoperability.
WEP is bad, but better than nothing
Sep. 09, 2002
The wired equivalent privacy encryption algorithm has a bad reputation because it's relatively easy to crack and it's difficult to deploy. But sometimes it might be your only option.
Wireless IPSec
Sep. 09, 2002
Because IP Security (IPSec) has one of the strongest security models available in networking, using it to secure wireless networks gives even stronger security than offered by wireless security tools like 802.1X.
High-end mgmt. for low-end price
Aug. 26, 2002
Network management software maker NetMon2 next month will debut two products the company says will help small and midsize corporations enjoy some features of a high-end management system without paying high-end prices.
SLAMming service levels into shape
Aug. 12, 2002
Micromuse next month will debut software it says can help companies improve their application performance by identifying all the components of a business process and managing them as a logical unit.
NetWorld+Interop 2002 Atlanta breaking news
May. 09, 2002
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