Latest LAN news.
Cisco founder brings optics to the router guys, 08/06/07: Cisco co-founder may have another breakthrough product.
Has Cisco founder Bosack again unveiled the Next Big Thing?, 08/06/07: Twenty-three years ago, the husband and wife team of Stanford University computer support staffers Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner founded the most powerful and valuable company in networking: Cisco Systems. This week, Bosack rolls out what he believes is another breakthrough product for enterprise networks that may make as much of an impact as Cisco routers. He shared some thoughts on his new product, the DXM optical transport system, and 16-year-old company, XKL LLC, with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy.
Wireless LAN best practices, 08/01/07: A new Aberdeen Group survey of enterprise wireless LAN deployments shows that successful ones use a set of practices that can dramatically boost flexibility and collaboration.
Cisco’s road to software, 07/31/07: Have you heard? Cisco is becoming a software company. But not in the way it seemed last year.
Communication breakdown: Rethinking wireless LAN packet loss, 08/01/07: We all know that there are trade-offs when using wireless communications. We would never tolerate the quality of our cell phones on land lines and we know that our wired Ethernet connections have better raw throughput than wireless.
Time Warner Telecom passes Ethernet milestone, 08/02/07: Time Warner Telecom this week said it has installed more than 10,000 Ethernet service ports to enterprise customers.
BreakingPoint unveils BPS-1000 network-test appliance, 07/31/07: Start-up BreakingPoint Systems on Tuesday unveiled its first product, a network-performance and -security test appliance called the BPS-1000, designed to evaluate routers and switches.
