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Options for Wi-Fi benchmarking ahead of 802.11.2 May. 03, 2006 There are several factors fueling the need for consistent Wi-Fi performance benchmark testing, a goal of 802.11 Task Group T in its design of an 802.11.2 recommended best practices standard.
Wireless vendors target high-bandwidth gear May. 01, 2006 Wireless offerings set to debut at Interop are targeting corporate customers looking to add high-bandwidth gear to core networks.
Interop 2006 Show Planner Apr. 24, 2006 Our take on the most important sessions you should be watching for at the show.
Network World Video: Interop: The skinny on NAC May. 05, 2006 Senior Editor Denise Dubie talks with Steve Hultquist of Infinite Summit and the iLabs NAC lead about the current state of Network Access Control technologies.
Market mass or open standards? May. 22, 2006 At Interop this month, we heard keynotes from two network vendors who are not only archrivals in a business sense but also in their approach to the market. Cisco represents market power, account control. Juniper ...
Extreme protects Interop network from probes May. 11, 2006 Extreme Networks last week said it protected the Interop 2006 network in Las Vegas, called InteropNet, from more than 350,000 unwanted traffic probes.
The upside and downside of SSL VPN May. 11, 2006 SSL VPN vendors like to point out that their equipment can now equal the functionality of IPSec VPNs for remote access as a way to attract business, but that might not always be a good selling point.
Industry watchers debate performance measurement May. 09, 2006 At Interop last week, a popular subject dominated analyst discussions. With its tracks on application networking and performance optimization, the show covered the area of application performance optimization on local- ...
Industry hones wireless net architectures May. 08, 2006 It's now widely accepted that enterprises will scale very large wireless LAN deployments using thin access points provisioned, managed, and secured by intelligent controllers. But that doesn't mean that the wireless ...
Technology demos outshine gimmicks May. 08, 2006 Rock bands, beer, booth babes - vendors at Interop have used every trick in the book to lure people wandering around the show floor into their booths, but this year the coolness of some of the demos overshadowed the ...
Net access control: Ready? .. Or not? May. 08, 2006 Network companies at Interop last week pushed a clear message about how network security should work: Hardware devices identify users at the network port level, provide virus scanning and authentication services, then ...
Free software abounds at Interop May. 08, 2006 Savvy Interop attendees last week walked away from the show with more than a pocket full of USB flash drives and retractable Ethernet cables - they also took home free software and services.
Interop abuzz with yap about NAC May. 08, 2006 One thing NAC suppliers agree on is customers should get their feet wet today by using NAC to scan mobile and guest devices before they are allowed to attach. Those are primary attack vectors, and limited NAC ...
Seen and heard around Interop May. 08, 2006 We were told that attendance was up and that a number of big-name vendors - Microsoft and EMC among them - had returned to what has long been the industry's premier trade gathering. Yet the show floor seemed somehow ...
WLAN products extend radio and traffic management May. 08, 2006 Wireless vendors at last week's Interop show unveiled products that let network administrators better handle not only different types of wireless traffic but also different types of wireless connections.
Top network technology demos spark Interop May. 08, 2006 From rock bands to beer to booth babes, vendors at Interop have used every trick in the book to halt people wandering around the show floor and lure them into their booths, but this year the coolness of the actual demos ...
Free software flows at Interop May. 08, 2006 Savvy Interop attendees this week walked away from the show in Las Vegas with more than a pocket full of USB flash drives and retractable Ethernet cables -- they also took home free software.
Interop: Massive VoIP tests reveal strengths, weaknesses May. 04, 2006 The good news is that VoIP equipment among multiple vendors is finally pretty interoperable; the bad news is that there are still lots of potholes that can ruin VoIP implementation.
Their take: Network pros at Interop share their thoughts on top issues May. 04, 2006 More than 18,000 attendees were expected at Interop this week, the majority of them IT professionals looking to gain or give advice on their profession and find new technologies to work with. Three of them at the show ...
Foundry introduces Gigabit switches with PoE May. 04, 2006 Foundry this week at Interop 2006 Las Vegas brought out a series of stackable switches to support Power over Ethernet and offer the option to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet to connect to a network backbone.
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