Latest LAN news.
Cellular, WLAN convergence finds rough spots, 10/31/05
While testing a project designed to let handheld users go between wireless LANs and cellular networks, Pradip Patel made a call and walked into a stairwell of a classroom building on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus and was immediately thwarted.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/103105-wlan-cellular.html?nl
Alert Logic takes aim at security threats, 10/31/05
Start-up Alert Logic this week makes its debut with a security service based on its security appliance, which is installed at LAN segments within a corporate network and can help customers monitor for and set up automated responses to security threats.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/103105-alert-logic.html?nl
Force10 bulks up with 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10/31/05
Force10 this week is expected to announce line cards that pack up to 16 ports of 10G Ethernet into a single chassis slot on its flagship E1200 series switches.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/103105-force10.html?nl
Test: Bountiful Router offers plentiful wireless range, 10/31/05
The Bountiful WiFi Router’s claim to fame is its signal strength. The company’s founder, David Egbert, started a company that developed Linksys’ Wireless Signal Booster, an item that is very popular (we often use one in our labs). In testing the Bountiful Router, we found a feature set similar to many other business-class Wi-Fi routers.
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2005/103105-bountiful-test.html?nl
10 years of NetworkWorld.com, 10/31/05
Set the time machine to October, 1995 and jump in. Hardware vendors were pushing 100VG-AnyLAN and token ring. NYNEX, US WEST, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Bell provided local phone service. Novell was proposing a “SuperNOS” to unify NetWare and Unix. Microsoft had just rolled out Windows 95 – which featured its answer to Netscape, something called Internet Explorer 1.0.
http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2005/10thanniversary/?nl
Where’s MIMO?, 10/31/05
There is one great truth in anything high tech — faster is always better. Which is why customers are eagerly anticipating 802.11n wireless LAN products that promise greater throughput, not to mention greater range and reliability, than today’s 801.11a/b/g/ products.
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/103105-mimo.html?nl
Newsletter: Survey: Use of voice over WLANs to triple by 2007, 10/27/05
The number of organizations using voice over wireless LANs will triple over the next two years, according to a study released this week by Infonetics Research.
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/lans/2005/1024lan2.html?nl
Newsletter: 10 Gigabit goes to school, 10/25/05
Foundry Networks continues to roll 10 Gigabit Ethernet out to various organizations. This time the network hardware company has announced that two educational …
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/lans/2005/1024lan1.html?nl
