* Welcome to the afternoon edition of Network World Daily News.
Breaking news
DOJ, telecom reach settlement on cable competition
A telecommunications carrier cannot enforce agreements with two cable television carriers that prevent them from offering competing voice services in parts of Pennsylvania, according to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice
From the blogs and forums
Folks from Morrisville State College are online to answer your questions about how (and why) they’re moving their campus to a draft-802.11n wireless network.
Brad Reese wonders why Cisco network-design questions rarely get answered in technical forums. Jeff Doyle considers EIGRP vs. OSPF. Tyson Kopczynski explains how to grant access to a shared mailbox in Exchange 2007.
Paul McNamara posts a video showing lawyers discussing how to avoid hiring Americans. Denise Donohue asks: What’s the killer app for VoIP? Keith Shaw discusses why stand-alone GPS devices are doomed. Mark Gibbs asks whether you know what your kids are doing online. Greg Royal writes why Motorola could never have come up with the iPhone.
One user says a 1-TB disk from Mempile is a good start toward new computing paradigms, but wonders when we get rid of keyboards. Users debate Cisco’s “phase II” of telecom. Users consider the drawbacks of water-cooled data centers. Can you believe the secretary of defense doesn’t do e-mail? Users – and Novell – discuss what Novell got out of Linux. Users also ponder Gartner’s allegedly bad advice on iPhones.
In depth
Rise of the machines
When Marvin Stone, CIO at New Century Title Insurance in San Diego, needed to improve the workflow for his company’s residential refinance transaction process, he turned to automation software from Opalis, which enabled his staff to stop writing code and start putting their service-oriented architecture applications to use.
Review
Is Microsoft Office Communications Server your next IP PBX?
When run in combination with the Office Communicator 2007 client and Exchange 2007 at the back end, Microsoft’s new Office Communication Server 2007, aims to deliver a formidable voice communications platform.
How to
Ron Nutter explains to one user why he probably doesn’t want to delete the loopback interface on one of his Cisco routers.
More news
HP has designs on IBM in software battle
HP and IBM, both strong in many markets, set their sights on software as the category that will define their market leading positions.
Palo Alto Networks launches next-generation firewall
Next-generation firewall start-up Palo Alto Networks integrates a Layer 3 firewall with an intrusion-prevention system to screen applications and peer into SSL traffic.
United Airlines works storage smarter, not harder
Airline uses virtualization and SAN management tools to enable fewer staffers to manage more resources.
A push to standards for network forensics
Digital forensics is still a young science. That newness, coupled with the fast-changing world of computer technology, has resulted in a taxonomy and methodology for digital forensics that are poorly defined and confusing to computer security experts and law enforcement alike.
