This Week on NetworkWorld.com is now The Best of Network World. Here is this week's Editors' Choice; look for Readers' Choice later this week.
EDITORS’ CHOICE
Editor’s Note: On Feb. 27, we’ll be hosting a weeklong online forum on application optimization across the WAN. Cisco, Silver Peak, Citrix and Packeteer will all be available to answer your questions on WAN optimization in general and how their specific approaches to it differ. But you don’t have to wait until then to submit questions. E-mail me (at agaffin@nww.com) with any questions and I’ll forward them to the companies for answering the day the forum starts.
On the front page
Cisco looks to grab broader security rolean RSA Conference news page for you to follow the latest news from the show.
At next week’s RSA Conference, Cisco plans to debut major security products to help bolster its already strong security portfolio. We’ve also set up
Review: Juniper/NetScreen deal bears fruit
Network World’s tests Juniper’s SSG 520, a security and routing platform available this week that is the first new effort from the company’s purchase of NetScreen 21 months ago. Our test results show the device has impressive speed – it supports T-3s and there are plans for Gigabit Ethernet WAN ports – at a relatively low price, a package that could more than adequately meet the firewall, security and routing needs of the branch offices for which it is designed.
Power to the people
San Francisco is one of several U.S. cities, including Chicago and New York, using wireless and other network technologies to empower homeless and low-income people and link them to critical services.
Audio, video and a bit of advice
ITVideo: Achieving operational excellence
How do IT and business go hand in hand to achieve operational excellence? Ed Kamins, chief operational excellence officer at Avnet, shares his secret to success.
Network World Radio: Podslurping revisited
Abe Usher of Sharp Ideas joins the program again to talk about his updated tool – Slurp Audit – that illustrates how quickly an iPod or similar device can be used to pick clean a hard drive of business documents and data. Listen in.
Nutter’s Help Desk: Locking the worms out of your network
Ron Nutter helps a user who wants to make especially sure his network doesn’t get hit with something like Kama Sutra.
How to prepare a network for BPO
A vice president of product strategy offers guide to preparing a network for business-process outsourcing.
Technology Update
OTN offers transparent service delivery
The global migration to IP/Ethernet applications is forcing enterprises to address two major WAN issues – converging TDM and packet networks to reduce expenses, and improving network and service management to support bandwidth-intensive, delay-sensitive applications. A new global standard is addressing these challenges – ITU G.709, commonly called Optical Transport Network or digital wrapper technology.
In depth
The new network switch
The traditional LAN switch is poised for an extreme makeover, and the focus is on brains, not beauty.
More news
Demo 2006a Demo news page for the latest news and product demos from the show.
A look at Demo 2006, the event in Phoenix showcasing technologies that aim to ease the burden for IT managers. We’ve also set up
VMware offers a free ride
VMware is continuing its effort to make it as easy and risk-free as possible for customers to adopt virtualization technology by introducing a free version of its server-partitioning software called VMware Server.
IBM pumps up DB2 lineup
IBM is working to expand the adoption of its DB2 database server, giving users three new options: a specialty processor designed to handle data-intensive workloads on the mainframe, an upgrade of DB2 for z/OS and a free version of DB2.
Nortel re-enters broadband access world
Nearly five years after exiting the broadband access market, Nortel is attempting to re-engage in this hot area through a joint venture with Chinese company Huawei Technologies.
Verizon expands Ethernet service
Verizon last week said it has expanded the availability of its Ethernet access services in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and is offering it as an access option for its Private IP MPLS VPN service.
But wait, there’s more!
Our This Week page will also link you to: New AT&T talks about business focus; Riverbed thinks small with WAN optimizer hardware; Asigra touts remote backup; SAP unveils hosted CRM plans; CipherTrust service protects against nefarious net traffic; Cisco, Microsoft to air net access plans; Virtualization comes to Novell’s Linux; MessageLabs launches e-mail service; Software promises open source management; Systinet software lays down the SOA laws; Start-up looks to lock down code; Rivermine sprcues up telecom software.
