* Network management in Interop spotlight * Federal agencies scramble to meet security deadline * Digging deep into your net with VoIP analysis tools * Switch, router vendors line up products * Can you cut it as an IT consultant? * Buzzblog: A MacChainLetter for charity * Today on Layer 8
Network management in Interop spotlight
Hot technologies, such as VoIP, security and wireless, will get their share of attention at this week’s Interop conference in New York City, but it is the often-overlooked area of network management that could steal the show. Click here for details.
Federal agencies scramble to meet security deadline
Two years ago President George Bush ordered the federal government to be ready by this Oct. 27 to issue a standards-based identity card that federal employees and government contractors would use for computer and building access. Click here for more.
Review: Digging deep into your net with VoIP analysis tools
If you can’t see into the VoIP traffic on your network, then you don’t know whether it’s good or bad. To know whether voice-quality or call-connect issues are related to your VoIP IP/PBX system or are tied to underlying network issues, you’ll need to turn to the evolving class of network monitoring products called voice-over-IP analysis tools. Click here for our full product test results.
Switch, router vendors line up products
Foundry Networks and Citrix are two companies planning to use Interop to launch application acceleration tools. Click here for more.
Can you cut it as an IT consultant?
Perhaps that consultant whom your company hired to implement a VoIP rollout has you wondering: Could you break out of the safety of your corporate IT job and succeed as a consultant yourself? Click here for more.
Buzzblog: A MacChainLetter for charity
Take a white MacBook, have a tech celebrity sign it and pass along to another tech celebrity; repeat many times; auction on eBay; proceeds go to a worthy cause. … There’s something about this Cambrian House fundraising effort — “Follow the White Laptop” — that’s too cute by half. Read more here.
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