Latest LAN news.
Gartner analyst: Users wasting $10 billion on Gigabit Ethernet, 05/22/06
An analyst last week told enterprise IT and network professionals they will toss away more than $10 billion on Gigabit Ethernet LAN gear over the next two years that would be better spent on technologies designed to support increasingly distributed …
Foundry adds Snort to LAN switch, 05/22/06
In July, Foundry Networks is expected to make available an upgrade to its LAN switch/WAN router network management software that adds the widely used open source Snort intrusion-detection and -prevention system to the product.
Editorial: Job skills for the new IT, 05/22/06
A Society for Information Management study examining IT workforce trends revealed, among other things, that companies plan to shift more jobs to outsourcers and, for in-house staff, put a higher priority on business knowledge.
Weblog: Foundry brings Mazu into the sFlow, 05/19/06
Foundry Networks made another security vendor partnership this …
Gartner says most networks are over-engineered, 05/18/06
Bigger, faster networks aren’t necessarily better. According to Gartner, businesses will waste more than $10 billion on Gigabit Ethernet for the LAN by 2008. Factor in the cost of Gigabit-equipped phones, larger power supplies, upgraded facilities and …
Enterprise WLANs growing quickly, 05/18/06
The enterprise wireless LAN market grew a whopping 48% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2006, according to a recent report from Dell’Oro Group.
Weblog: Juniper pushes IPv6 how-to for federal agencies, 05/18/06
Federal-sector network professionals worried about the U.S. …
Weblog: Nortel looks to drive Ethernet video, 05/17/06
Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski this week kicked off a new technology …
Nortel updates rebound progress, 05/16/06
Nortel this week announced strategic initiative to focus on driving market share in metro Ethernet networks supporting high-bandwidth video applications.
High-Speed LANs Newsletter: Could 100 Gigabit Ethernet be next?, 05/16/06
With the 10GBase-T standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet over copper expected to be ratified by the IEEE next month, some are thinking big thoughts about the …
Weblog: Juniper’s WAN plan, 05/16/06
Juniper’s 18-month roadmap for its WAN gear is an ambitious plan …
