http://www.networkworld.com/topic/lan-wan.html Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/accel/2009/110209netop2.html IT departments are trying to enable employees to work productively wherever they need to. But being productive requires access to more than just e-mail. Ann Bednarz 2009-11-05T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110409-layer8-cisco-ceo-results.html If you want to be a CEO but not have any of the real responsibilities of one, you could try to play a new online game being offered by Cisco. The company this week posted myPlanNet, a computer game that lets anyone be a broadband executive making network deployment decisions. Michael Cooney 2009-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/wireless/2009/110209wireless2.html Mobile WAN operators are battling in-building coverage and network capacity problems that have generated a spate of unfavorable press. Start-up SpiderCloud Wireless, though, has emerged from stealth mode this week with an alternative in-building wireless platform it says can alleviate these problems for mobile operators' enterprise customers. Joanie Wexler 2009-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/103009-backspin.html Gibbs has spotted a new pandemic sweeping the globe and there's no swine or birds involved; this one is an outbreak of craziness and the Japanese airline ANA appears to have had a bad case of it … Mark Gibbs 2009-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/wireless/2009/110209wireless1.html There are now at least three companies moving enterprise Wi-Fi control functions, management functions or both into the cloud. Joanie Wexler 2009-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/110209-wifi-cloud.html There are now at least three companies moving enterprise Wi-Fi control functions, management functions or both into the cloud. Joanie Wexler 2009-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/accel/2009/102609netop2.html Senior executives at F5 and Riverbed were feeling positive about their respective quarterly financial results and suggested a return to healthier spending on application delivery and WAN optimization technologies is on its way. Ann Bednarz 2009-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102209-anderson-book.html It was July of 1952, and I had accepted MIT’s offer to come to work in their Digital Computer Lab, which at the time was part of the institute's Department of Electrical Engineering. It was widely known at the time that the lab was involved in the development of the Whirlwind Computer. Whirlwind, one of the first stored program digital computers, was similar to the ordvac—which I became familiar with while at the University of Illinois. Network World Staff 2009-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102209-dec-founder-memoirs.html Harlan Anderson, who founded Digital Equipment Corp. with Ken Olsen in 1957, has written a new book on his days as a computer pioneer: "Learn, Earn and Return: My Life as a Computer Pioneer," published by Locust Press. In it, he chronicles his humble beginnings on an Illinois farm up through his first interactions with computers at the University of Illinois; large-scale projects at MIT's Lincoln Lab;, and then founding, growing and watching, from afar, the ultimate demise of DEC. Jim Duffy 2009-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/accel/2009/101909netop2.html Certeon is making a case for virtual software appliances and encouraging a migration away from proprietary hardware for WAN optimization and application acceleration. Ann Bednarz 2009-10-22T12:00:00-04:00