* IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN draft fails to advance on initial vote * Trusted Computing Group demonstrates interoperability among vendors * Internap rolls out application assessment service * Full Interop coverage * Q&A: Juniper CEO Kriens touts open systems * Q&A: Microsoft's Muglia chats up management directions * Today on Layer 8
IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN draft fails to advance on initial vote
The draft IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN standard failed to move forward on a vote this week. Adversaries on the IEEE’s 11n task force quickly issued dueling interpretations of what the failure means. Click here for details.
Interop: Trusted Computing Group demonstrates interoperability among vendors
Securely controlling what devices and users gain access to corporate networks is a dominant theme at Interop with the Trusted Computing Group demonstrating interoperability among multiple vendors’ gear and individual vendors announcing mutual compliance with the TCG standard. Click here for more.
Internap rolls out application assessment service
Internap Network Services announced its Application Assessment Service at Interop in Las Vegas Tuesday. Click here for more.
Full Interop coverage
Q&A: Juniper CEO Kriens touts open systems
“The last 10 years have been exactly what we had hoped for,” said Scott Kriens chairman and CEO of Juniper Networks. Kriens, who joined the company at its inception in 1996, talked Tuesday about Juniper’s success at Interop Las Vegas 2006. Kriens also weighed in on the need to move away from “proprietary tech,” what enterprises need from their networks and where Juniper goes from here. Click here for more.
Q&A: Microsoft’s Muglia chats up management directions
At the recent Microsoft Management Summit, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft’s server and tools business, introduced the newest additions to the Microsoft management lineup: System Center Service Desk and System Center Carmine. Muglia sat down with Network World Senior Editor John Fontana for a chat about Service Desk, which pulls Microsoft’s management tools into the Carmine workflow environment used to manage virtual images on a virtual server. Click here for more.
Today on Layer 8, where we wonder how long the security line is at McCarran today:
Why can’t Hollywood ever get IT right?; Microsoft gets in the TV show business; Skype expands in a big way; and virus targets online gamers; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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