Our WAN and service provider e-mail news alert.
U.S. ISPs slam into wiretap deadline, 05/15/07: U.S. broadband and VoIP providers on Monday hit a deadline to prove they could accommodate law-enforcement wiretaps.
Web-redirection software debut reignites controversy, 05/15/07: Is the Internet ready for Web redirection? That’s the question that Nominum, a provider of DNS software for carriers, is asking with Tuesday’s announcement of software that enables this once-controversial capability.
Sprint Nextel getting ready to pull plug on legacy nets, 05/15/07: Sprint’s legacy data networks are on life support. Frame relay and ATM customers need to make migration plans now.
Alcatel-Lucent set to offer branch-in-a-box plan, 05/14/07: Alcatel-Lucent is making a push to offer branch offices and small businesses an all-in-one network device that handles WAN connections, phones, local switching and security.
Top ways to protect your online reputation, 05/14/07: If you don’t like what you find or see about yourself on the Web there’s a growing community of companies that can expunge or at least water down the bad stuff and save your reputation — for a price, of course.
Free chapters of MPLS books on Cisco Subnet: FREE SAMPLE CHAPTERS: We’ve just posted sample chapters of two MPLS books: MPLS VPN Security, and MPLS Fundamentals. See the chapters here.
Could improved aggregation practices slow the IPv4 crunch?: From Author Expert: Jeff Doyle blog: One of the goals of CIDR was to slow the “routing table explosion” observed in the early 1990s. Considering that at that time there were around 9,000 entries in the BGP tables and there are now 200,000-plus, CIDR was much less successful in meeting this particular goal.
